July 16, 2011
Saturday, 9am-5pm
CES/AIA LU 7 units
Building/renovating your own home is a privileged event in one’s life. A surprisingly psychological enterprise, the process from design through construction can stretch you intellectually, financially, and emotionally. With the critical foreknowledge provided in this program, you will be able to better identify your needs, understand the design process, and visualize how construction will take place. The program will help you make important judgments and critical decisions. Two seasoned, award-winning architects will lead you through the entire process using lecture, case study and workshop formats. You will learn about how to maximize your construction dollar and select qualified professional team members. Perspectives from various experts, including a banker, engineer, realtor and contractor, will give you important practical issues to consider. In total, you will be aware of the pitfalls to avoid, and more important, you will gain a thorough understanding of what you value most before you build your future home.
Coordinators: Click names for more info
Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA founded his practice, LEHRER ARCHITECTS LA, in Los Angeles in 1985. His work, from the intimate to the monumental, is grounded in the idea that beauty is a rudiment of human dignity. He designs for community with a reverence for light and space as the spiritual essence of architecture. Delight and joy are matters of extreme gravitas in the work.
The firm’s work consists of residential, institutional, commercial, , industrial, and urban design projects; it exemplifies the beauty of performance and the performance of beauty. Lehrer Architects LA is steeped in the nurturing of creativity culture in its own work—both process and product–and in finding that spark in all of it clients’ endeavors.
Lehrer Architects LA has won over 60 major design and sustainability awards since 1996, including over 25 honor awards from the national, state, and local chapters of The American Institute of Architects.
Sustainability and beauty are an inseparable couplet in his work. His Water + Life Museums and Campus in Hemet, designed with Mark Gangi, AIA, is the first LEED™ Platinum museums in the world.
Michael’s work has been widely published in books and magazines, nationally and internationally; he is regularly called upon to comment about design matters in national and local broadcast media, print, panels and symposia to explain the public interest from the architect’s perspective. This includes Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, ARCHITECT, Business Week, Azure, Builder Magazine, Metropolitan Home, NPR’s Weekend Edition, All Things Considered, KCRW’s Which Way L.A.?, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Hong Kong’s avant garde Hinge Magazine, among many others. He regularly sits on academic and professional AIA design juries around the country and was a member of the 2009 AIA Institute Honor Awards Jury for Architecture.
Michael is President of Homeless Health Care of Los Angeles. He sits on the Harvard Design Magazine Professional Advisory Board and represents the Graduate School of Design on the Harvard Alumni Association Board of Directors. Mr. Lehrer is deeply engaged in the life of the City. He serves on Mayor Villaraigosa’s Design Advisory Panel. He served as Vice Chairman of School Construction Bond Oversight Committee for over 5 years, overseeing $27 Billion funding for the repair of 700 schools and the construction of almost 150 new schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District. He hosts the monthly Hollywood Design Review Board, which he has been a member of since 1991.
He was President of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles in 1999.
Mr. Lehrer has been an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Southern California since 1986, teaching all levels of design studio from 1st Year through Masters Thesis. Prior to 1985, Mr. Lehrer worked at Frank O. Gehry and Associates and other design offices. Licensed in California in 1981, Michael was educated at Berkeley and Harvard after attending LAUSD public schools.
He holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard University and a AB in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
Gail Peter Borden attended Rice University simultaneously receiving three BA degrees [all cum laude] in Fine Arts, Art History and Architecture, winning upon graduation the prestigious William Ward Watkins Traveling Fellowship, the AIA Certificate for Excellence, the Chillman Prize, and the John Swift Medal in Fine Arts. Receiving a Texas Architectural Foundation Scholarship, Professor Borden returned to Rice for his BARCH, also cum laude. He went on to Harvard University’s GSD to complete a post-professional Masters of Architecture with distinction.
Prior to joining the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, Borden worked in a host of firms including Gensler and Associates, Frank Harmon Architect, and The Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris . As principal of Borden Partnership since 2002, his design work has won numerous recognitions including: finalist in the 99K House competition; the 2004 NY Architectural League Prize; a 2004 AIA award, 4 ACSA Faculty Design and Research Awards; a 2009-2010 SCDF Design Award for “Light Frames,” and a 2010 Residential Design Award for the 99K House. In 2011 he was recognized nationally with the AIA Young Architect Award.
His first book Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics arrived in 2010 [Wiley Press], with his second Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production arriving 2011[Routledge], and Principia: Architectural Principles of Material Form ariving 2012 [Pearson]. In Fall of 2008 he co-chaired the seminal ACSA Fall Conference entitled: Material Matters.
Borden received an artist-in-residence from The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the 2009-2010 Borchard Fellowship and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Residency.
His teaching has been recognized with a 2005 ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award as one of the top emerging architecture faculty.
He currently has an installation at the prestigious Materials & Applications Gallery in Los Angeles entitled Light Frames.
As an artist, theoretician and practitioner, Professor Borden’s research and practice focuses on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture.
- 21st Century House, Jonathan Bell, Abbeville Press, 2006
- Housing / Single-Family Housing, Manuel Gausa and Jamie Salazaar, Birkhäuser Basel, 2002
- New American Additions and Renovations: Innovations in Residential Construction and Design: 25 Case Studies, James Trulove, Watson-Guptill, 2001
- Houses: Modern Natural/Natural Modern, Ron Broadhurst, Rizzoli, 2010
- Modernism Rediscovered, Julius Shulman, Taschen, 2009
- The Place of Houses, Charles Moore and Donlyn Lyndon, University of California Press, 2001
- Chambers for a Memory Palace, Charles Moore and Donlyn Lyndon, MIT Press, 1996
- How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
