On behalf of the Interior Architecture Committee and the Monterey Design Committee of the AIA California Council, we would like to make you aware of a bi-annual Design Conference founded in 1979.
The Monterey Design conference has become the “Renaissance Weekend” for architects. Held in Pacific Grove at the historic Asilomar Conference Grounds founded in 1913 (and designed by Julia Morgan, the 1st woman admitted to architecture at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the 1st woman architect licensed in California) it has been praised as the most prestigious and best attended architectural design conference in the United States.
Every other year over 700 of California’s best-known architects and visiting architects from other states and Canada etc. come together for three days to watch, think, interact, learn and recharge their creative energies along one of the most stunning stretches of coastline in California.
The presenters range from internationally established headliners to emerging practices:
Odile Decq of France
Marcio Kogan, Hon . FAIA of Brazil
Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA of Japan
Jennifer Yoos, AIA
Marion Blackwell, FAIA
Thomas Phifer, FAIA
Anne Fougeron, FAIA
Greg Otto of Buro Happold
Thom Mayne, FAIA (including a special presentation in honor o f his 2013 AIA National Gold Medal Award)
Plus three day’s worth of talks, relaxed conversations with other noted architects, emerging practices, film screening, book fair and receptions etc.
For more information see:
http://aiacc.org/mdc/