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November 8th 2000 - Wednesday at  8:00pm dateline Los Angeles

Alice Fung, Fung+Blatt Architects - FUNG + BLATT’s work is about striking balances in the development of an architectural aesthetic, generated from need-driven structural invention, and from the shaping of spatial experiences that define the patterns of every day life.

November 15th - Wednesday at  8:00pm dateline Los Angeles

William M. Taylor, AIA,  -  earned his Master of Architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1981, with distinction, and his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia  Polytechnic Institute in 1976. William has taught architectural design since 1983, with positions at Harvard University, the University of Houston, and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he developed an innovative new program for basic architectural design.  Most recently, William taught a studio at Cal Poly Pomona dealing with the application of emerging digital imaging / virtual reality technologies.William also has more than 20 years experience in architectural practice in the United States and abroad.  He is currently Director of Design for Morris Architects / Los Angeles office, and is currently involved with a variety of local and international projects.
 

November 29th   - Wednesday at  8:00pm dateline Los Angeles

Randy Brockman, Student Body President of Woodbury University - I am a second year architecture student who also leads the student government as Student Body President of Woodbury University. My position entails focusing upon the needs of the students in order to bring forth positive changes that will have a direct impact of the pride and recognition of my educational institution. "
 

December 6th   - Wednesday at  8:00pm dateline Los Angeles

Eric Boatright,Student Body President of SciArc - I am a third year graduate student at SCI-Arc with an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from Brown University.  I have recently taken the role of student body president (the responsiblities of which are yet to be determined).  The major challenge of this position will be to find ways to continue to bring students together to initiate higher levels of student involvement in SCI-Arc, its development as an institution, and its inhabitation of its new site in downtown Los Angeles

December 13th  2000  - Wednesday at  8:00pm dateline Los Angeles

Laura Cooper

Laura Cooper is an artist and obsessive garden maker whose art work combines both concerns.  Her own garden, a collaboration with husband artist Nick Taggart, is both the source of inspiration and the three dimensional counterpart of their artwork.

Since 1996 Cooper has created exhibit gardens for The Los Angeles Garden Show, held at the Arboretum. These award winning exhibits have combined garden design, installation art and performance in a garden setting. Most recently Cooper and husband, artist Nick Taggart, have  begun creating  an outdoor amphitheater in their own garden, which will become an outdoor salon this Spring and Summer for performance,  readings, and video screenings.

Cooper and Taggart have a garden design business, Cooper/Taggart Designs.

volume5 chatroom transcript with Dion Neutra, son and architect of VDL II, 1966. The house was recently named by the World Monuments Watch on its "100 most endangered world monument list for 2000".  It is one of only five sites in the US, and the only one west of the Mississippi.

 

volume5 chatroom transcript with Mark J. Mazz.
 Mazz started his architectural career at the University of Maryland's Office of Facilities Planning. He incorporated his own firm as Mark J. Mazz, PA in 1992. Mark is involved with no less than seven professional associations, including having chairs on the Maryland Building Performance Standard Advisory Committee and Maryland Society of Architects' Codes Committee. He also served as a member of the Governor's Accessibility Task Force to the Maryland Stadium, the Maryland Alliance of Advocates with the Handicapped, and was an advisor to the Montgomery County Commission for Disabled Individuals. In the ninth edition of AGS, Mark made significant changes on nine pages about standards of accessibility for people with disabilities. He was then asked to help create an entirely new chapter devoted to this issue for the tenth edition.

volume5 chatroom transcript with Dr. Jeffrey S. Haberl
Jeff is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Texas A&M University and the Principal Investigator for the Computer Support and Improved Energy Audit of the Texas LoanSTAR project -- the first large-scale project in the United States to continuously measure and report energy savings in over 160 building energy conservation retrofits. His pioneering work has emphasized statistical building energy modeling, methods for diagnosing operational problems, operator feedback using comparisons of predicted and actual energy use, artificial intelligence, advanced energy usage graphics and prescreening calculations for improving commercial energy audits.
Jeff is a Registered Engineer in the state of Texas and has authored or co-authored 59 publications and 105 reports. He contributed 15 new pages to the ninth editionof AGS on HVAC systems for large and medium sized buildings. Along with Larry Degelman, Walter Grondzik and John Reynods, he was one of the principal  contributors to the "Engineering" chapter in the new 10th Edition of AGS.

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