Architecture and Innovation

Ajla Aksamija, Ph.D. Chair, School of Architecture Director, Transforming Places, Practices and Pedagogies Collaborative Professor at the University of Utah and the Ceraclad guest speaker for the next Architect Appreciation webinar scheduled for October 21st, 2021.

For more information, you can visit: http://www.cap.utah.edu/

Rudabeh Pakravan, AIA and Kristen Sidell, AIA principles of Sidell Pakravan.

Sidell Pakravan is a design intensive architecture studio with a collaborative culture.

They integrate expertise, unique ideas, and experience into exceptional design solutions.

Every project team includes a principal and creative designers working together to craft a vision and deliver your project. 

As a group, they share an unyielding commitment to design.

For more information, you can visit: https://www.sidellpakravan.com/

James Trahan AIA, Troy Vincent AIA, and John Anderson, AIA Partners of 180 Degrees Design + Build.

The firm was founded in 2001, with the intention of designing and building thoughtful and inspiring architecture. 

Their portfolio includes religious, multi-family, commercial, retail and high-end residential projects.

Not only are their design staff architecturally trained, so are their construction superintendents and project managers. 

180 Degrees is also composed of craftsmen building custom concrete, wood and steel components for their projects.

The firm has been recognized twice by the AIA of Arizona as contractor of the year. And have received multiple awards from the AIA for not only their design work but for their service to the profession.

For more information, you can visit: https://www.180degreesinc.com/

Charles M. Salter, PE and President of Charles M. Salter & Associates.

Charles applies his expertise in design, construction, business, and the law to his practice of acoustical consulting.

Currently he manages over 100 projects involving building acoustics and environmental noise analysis.

His accomplishments have included work on the Skywalker Ranch's state-of-the-art Post-Production Studios, which won the National Engineering Award in 1988 and the Allied Professions Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects California Council in 1998.

For more information, you can visit: http://www.cmsalter.com/

Curt Cline, architect and principal at Modern House Architects. Curt draws inspiration from Traditional-Modernist architecture, and innovation, blurring the boundaries between the natural world outside and the created world inside.

Curt's design combines the deep knowledge that comes with over 30 years of experience, and an innate ability to make each space a personal reflection of its inhabitants.

He also masterfully brings these early "green" sensibilities into the 21st century, and his work has been recognized in numerous architectural journals, including Architectural Record and California Home & Design.

Curt's commissions have included Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the renovation of a historical home by renowned architect, Julia Morgan.

For more information, you can visit: https://www.modernhousearchitects.com/

Cliff Chang, architect and principal of Cliff Chang Architecture. 

Chang Architecture designs for the unique dynamic of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, collaborating on workable plans for real-world solutions. 

Whether creating more office space for Synopsys, giving the next revolutionary start-up its first headquarters, or transforming Whiskey Gulch, Chang Architecture takes a vision and gets it built. On time. On budget.

For more information, feel free to visit: http://www.changarchitecture.com/

Ken Lowney is a renowned architect and founded Lowney Architecture in 2003 and is the President of the firm.

Mr. Lowney has worked with small and large companies, non-profits, city governments, communities and private developers in Northern California and throughout the United States.

Project expertise includes grocery stores, retail, multi-family housing, restaurants, offices, parking structures and master planning.

Lowney Architecture has won particular acclaim for its vertical grocery store and prefabricated multifamily housing designs.

The firm has won numerous design awards from professional organizations, including the Golden Nugget Award and the American Institute of Architects.

For more information you can visit: https://lowneyarch.com/

William Hayward is the founder and CEO of Hayward Score as well as the CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer of Hayward Lumber, an over 100-year old California lumber and building materials supplier.

For more information, you can visit: https://www.haywardscore.com/

Richard Pollack, FAIA, founder and president of Pollack Consulting a Sales, marketing, strategic and tactical business consulting for the Architectural, Interiors, Engineering, and Construction professions.

For more information, you can visit: http://www.richardnpollack.com

Cass Calder Smith is the founding principal of Cass Calder Smith Architecture + Interiors with offices in both San Francisco and New York City. 

Cass Calder, earned his Bachelor and Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and has served on the San Francisco Arts Commission for eight years and is currently on the board of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and designed their award-winning Diane Middlebrook Studios.

A native of New York City, he has lived in California since 1972 and now splits his time between both coasts.

As the son of an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and a landscape painter and designer, he grew up among both Greenwich Village intellectuals and rural California artisans.

Cass is also a photography collector and patron to MoMA, SFMoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

For more information, you can visit: https://www.casscaldersmith.com/