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Book Circle 9 - Women in Green: Voices of Sustainability - Wendy Bertrand

A Maternal Wall? - Wendy Bertrand

IIDP Panel Feb 12 - Esin Karliova

2013 Accessibility Standards & CASp Training - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

Hamilton Family Center Thank You - Susan Aitken

Joint Event Held with NAWIC San Francisco - Cameron White

Joanne Chow Winship Photograph Selected - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

Missing 32% - Equity in Architecture Survey - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

"Alternative Futures" Visionary Architecture - Spring Friedlander

If You Build It - Inge Horton

Two Articles by Sandhya Sood on Julia Morgan - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

Architecture + Women.NZ - Wendy Bertrand

Perkins Eastman's Growing San Francisco Office - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

Keep Your Membership Current! - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

Job Opening: Oakland Heritage Alliance - Jean Nilsson, Ed.

The new steering committee for 2014 began working together in January. Current members are: (clockwise from bottom-left) Esin Karliova, Patricia Haight, Lucia Bogatay, Charlayne Sakamoto, Allison Kinst, Caroline Orazi, and Jean Nilsson. Note that our names above are links to our profiles where you can get to know us and also contact us.

Steering Committee members work together, but also each take on a primary responsibility. Esin will focus on Public Relations, Patty and Carolyne on Programs, Lucia on Information, Charlayne on Membership, Allison on Policy and Procedures, and Jean on the Newsletter. Please feel free to contact us anytime.

A warm thank you to outgoing steering committee members Rosemary Muller, Cammy White, Rachel Slonicki, and Eliza Hart for their service over the last two years and their many contributions to our group.

The OWADP Book Circle invites you all, ecologists, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, professors, construction managers, sub-contractors, engineers, architects, poets and watercolorists to participate in a discussion about many topics presented in the book by Kira Gould & Lance Hosey (Econtone Publishing, 2007)

Co-author KIRA GOULD will be present. Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:00-7:30pm.

The Office of Hamilton + Aitken Architects
525 Brannan Street Suite 400
San Francisco CA 94107 map
www.hamiltonaitken.com

The event is FREE of charge but please reserve a ticket, as this is helpful in planning. If seating is available, you will not be turned away.
Eventbrite Tickets: WomeninGreendiscussionsf.eventbrite.com

Add your voice and ears in a round-the-room-discussion about our role in taking care of the planet. Book Circle members will launch discussion threads via chapter titles, ideas, and specific questions.

As Women in Green authors remind us, spoken and written WORDS are powerful, they can warn us, as Rachel Carson did with Silent Spring, and they can persuade us, like Jane Jacobs did in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. [page 15]

This book is less about the "ascendancy of women" than it is about the growing value of those sensibilities commonly associated with women -- feminine intuition, inclusiveness, responsibility, caring and love. [page 5].

Landscape architect, Lucia Athens runs the office of Sustainability and Environment for the City of Seattle and is one of over 150 voices collected into these pages." It's mind-boggling to think about what a truly sustainable community would require." [page 59].

"Perhaps we will see a different kind of expression coming out of a new cadre of female designers?" [page 49].

Our library has a few copies of Women in Green to lend to members. A review is here.

Hourig Ayanyan, has been very busy these days with giving birth and getting used to mothering (with the good partnership of her husband) working in an architectural office, passing all but one part of the Architectural Registration Exam. and completing all her experience requirements. But it is not easy. This article about financial discrimination against mothers in the work force may be of interest to mothers young and older.

http://shriverreport.org/breaking-through-the-maternal-wall-the-time-is-now-kristin-rowe-finkbeiner/

UC Berkeley Extension's Interior Design and Interior Architecture program, in conjunction with IIDA, present an interactive panel discussion with esteemed UC Berkeley Extension alumni. This free event is open to UC Berkeley Extension students. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 4:15 -- 6 pm, UC Berkeley Extension Art and Design Center, 95 Third St., Room 204, San Francisco.

The members of OWA raised over $600 during the holidays and provided Hamilton Family Center six family passes to the Exploratorium, six family passes to Yerba Buena Ice rink, a dozen movie passes, gift cards to Target and other stores, and an assortment of gifts related to the design field and exploring adventures in the Bay Area.

Debbie Wilber, Community Partnerships Manager, wrote to me, "There's no way we can adequately thank you, but know that families here at Hamilton were delighted with the "Sponsor an Experience" opportunities, and our staff is so grateful for your ongoing partnership ... We couldn't do it without you. Please share our gratitude with everyone who participated!"

We'd like to share their thank-you note and add our own thanks for your donations and your support for these families. Click "more information" below to view their full Thank-You letter.

Hamilton Family Center's mission is to end homelessness for families and individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit
www.hamiltonfamilycenter.org

more information is here

Joanne Chow Winship, architect, architectural photographer, and OWA member, was recently honored by having one of her Mongolian series photographs selected for an exhibition celebrating 75 years of the CCSF Photography Department at SF Camerawork. Photographs were juried by: Sandra S. Philips, Curator of Photography, SFMOMA; Norman Maslov, Agent International; Richard Koci Hernandez, Assistant Professor of New Media at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The show ran from January 8 through February 2, 2014.

Joanne presented a slideshow of her Mongolian series photographs for us at our annual retreat last September, and they are truly extraordinary. Congratulations, Joanne.

More of her work can be seen here.

If You Build It, an award-winning documentary about influential designer-activist Emily Pilloton, will be shown beginning on February 28, 2014 at Opera Plza Cinema in San Francisco and at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.

If You Build It follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and her partner Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows ten teenagers the power of design-thinking to help re-invent not just their town but their own sense of what's possible.

When I watched TEDTalk http://www.ted.com/talks/emily_pilloton_teaching_design_for_change.html of Emily Pilloton presenting her alternative way of practicing architecture and teaching high school students, I became really enthusiastic about having the opportunity to see the movie. Directed by Patrick Creadon (who also directed WORDPLAY and I.O.U.S.A.), the movie was shown at last year's Architecture and the City Festival, and was very well received, as Karsen Maruca of the AIA San Francisco Chapter wrote me.

Please put the date of February 28 on your calendar and plan to see this radically new approach to architecture and take advantage of talking to the filmmakers who will be in attendance at the opening weekend.

Ed. Note: There also is a pending theater showing in Sacramento on February 25, 5:30pm at the Century Stadium 14, to be sponsored by AIA Central Valley and OWA Mountain and Valley (our Sacramento area group), with discussion to follow.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ifyoubuilditmovie.com/
To reserve a ticket in Sacramento, go to:
http://www.tugg.com/events/7884

Architect Jennis Lee (Jasmax of Auckland NZ) and her sister Alex Lee (soon to finish her PhD in Architecture and currently a resident scholar of UC Berkeley) shared their thoughts with Wendy Bertrand over lunch recently.

Architecture+Women had a big New Zealand Exhibition 2013 and they do include members from around the world. You might check it out at www.architecturewomen.org.nz