Eric & Silvia Blasen

Linden Tree presentation: May13th (at) 7pm

SEEING THE LAND – Two Contemporary Napa Landscapes

With an unyielding passion for design and its relationship to natural and man-made forms, the husband-and-wife team of Eric and Silvina Blasen practice a progressive blend of landscape architecture, embracing utility while exploring contemporary relevance and innovation in outdoor planning. 

“Our interests are design, art, and the environment. This passion drives our work and our everyday lives. For us, sustainability is not a checklist of techniques to be done but rather a commitment to execute the lightest touch possible on the land. It is this notion of preservation and restoration that is the essence of sustainability.”

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Mark Luthringer

 

Linden Tree presentation: April 8th (at) 7pm

 

HYPOTHETICAL PASSERBY 

 

This talk will examine my personal work for the last 8-10 yrs., wherein my hypothetical passerby is transformed from lyric documentarian of the built environment into conceptual provocateur and suburban road warrior.  

Tangents and subtopics may include:  picture theory; architecture; consumerism; typologies; edge node banality; crimes against typography; photographic reality/photographic process; loss, regret, and hope; aggressive styling; America's obsession with all things Tuscany.

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Bernard Trainor

 

Linden Tree presentation: March 11th (at) 7pm

Bernard Trainor is passionate about designing landscapes that utilize materials and elements that are 'comfortable' within the context of a given site.   “I find that this approach translates into a true sense of atmosphere".   Bernard will be sharing examples of his process, landscape elements + finished projects at Linden Tree this month.

"Ultimately my aim is to design spaces that inspire people.  I have practiced and studied in three countries and this has in turn allowed me to appreciate the regional qualities and cultures of a place.   My favorite art, architecture, and gardens are at one with the place from which it has grown.   For this reason I aim to be versatile, adaptive, and responsive to a each site's given circumstance".

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William Stout

Linden Tree presentation: February 11th (at) 7pm

WILLIAM STOUT "FAVORITES"

Bill Stout is the founder and proprietor of WILLIAM STOUT ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS in San Francisco. For over 30 years the shop has been a premiere resource in the fields of architecture, art, urban planning, graphic & industrial design, furniture & interior design, and landscape architecture.

The origins of the bookstore date back to when, as a practicing architect, Bill traveled often to Europe returning with hard-to-find European architectural books.

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Christopher Vandendriesshe

Linden Tree presentation: January 14th (at) 7pm

DIRT INTO GOLD – The Alchemy of growing and making single vineyard wines

Christopher Vandendriessche was raised on his family's White Rock Vineyards in Napa Valley.  After completing a BA in Physics from UCSC, he spent 3 years studying winemaking in France.  While working and attending classes in Burgundy and Bordeaux he graduated with an Enology degree from the University of Bordeaux in 1996.  For the next two years Christopher worked as Assistant Winemaker at Luna Vineyards in Napa where he worked under a group of legendary Napa winemakers including John Kongsgaard, David Ramey, Dan Baron, Bill Knuttel, Marco Capelli, and others.

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Peter Pfau

Linden Tree presentation: November 12th (at) 7pm

Peter W. Pfau, AIA, principal of Pfau Long Architecture, Ltd. in San Francisco, has earned a reputation as a modernist who balances conceptual rigor with a love for building.  Peter was born and raised in San Francisco and established a passion for design and construction early in his childhood through training in the fine arts, and later, working as a woodworker, carpenter and contractor.  He started his college studies in fine arts at the California College of Arts and Crafts (currently CCA) and earned a B.A. with honors in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.

1n 1985 Peter was one of the founding principals of Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones, a firm that quickly rose to international fame with the Astronauts Memorial at Kennedy Space Center, which was dedicated as the 25^th National Memorial.

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Rene Davids

 

Linden Tree presentation:  October 8th (at) 7 pm

René Davids, F.A.I.A., is a principal of  Davids Killory Architecture . Work includes: Sunrise Place housing for extended families and Daybreak Grove housing for homeless mothers and children, both in Escondido, California; Observatory House in San Diego, Red House in Berkeley, California. The firm is currently working on residential projects in the Bay Area and Southern California. The design work of Davids Killory Architects has been published around the world and honored with numerous awards, among them two Presidential Design Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, three AIA National Honor and Progressive Architecture Awards. 

He was recently awarded (2008) first prize (with Taylor Medlin) out of 733 entries for the 43rd World Heritage Site competition sponsored by Central Glass and Shinkenchiku Corporation Davids was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for research on the hillside elevators of Valparaíso, Chile, and is currently working on a book that examines the relationship between technology, topography and urbanism in selected Latin American cities. 

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Thom Faulders

Linden Tree presentation:  September 10th (at) 7 pm

Thom Faulders, founder of Thom Faulders Architecture, creates client-based projects at a wide array of building scales, exploratory architectural proposals and speculative exhibitions that engage space, perception, and context. The office situates the practice of architecture within a broader context of performative research and material investigations that negotiate dynamic relationships between users and environments. This is an active and opportunistic architecture, articulated through and defined by spontaneous, constantly changing relationships: between functionality and subjective engagement, between optical and haptic conditions, between a building and its surroundings.

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Pierluigi Serraino

Linden Tree presentation:  August 13th (at) 7 pm

Pierluigi Serraino is a project designer in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He holds degrees from the Universita` degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, and University of California Los Angeles.  He is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley at the College of Environmental Design.

On August 13th  Pierluigi will present  "4 + 4"  Four books plus Four projects

Pierluigi's projects and articles have appeared in Architectural Record, Architectural Design, Hunch, ACADIA, Case d'Abitare, and Modernism Magazine among others.  He is the author of several books, including Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, 2000) and NorCalMod (Chronicle Books, 2006).  He has been part of the editorial board of Architecture California and is a former Chair of the Architecture+Design Forum at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Andrea Cochran

Linden Tree presentation: June 11th (at) 7:30 pm

The work of Andrea Cochran translates the narrative of the client into the built landscape.  This relationship is central to crafting landscapes that are site-specific and personally relevant. Ms. Cochrane's work is inspired by individual and architectural narratives, allowing her to create designs with deeply personal meanings---landscapes that both complement and enhance their surroundings.

On Wednesday, June 11th, Andrea Cochran will discuss recent projects as well as the challenge of building a successful relationship beween architecture and landscape, client and designer, and project site and larger environment.

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