{"id":2072063,"date":"2023-05-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/?p=2072063"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:12:10","slug":"talks-tours-show-why-landmarks-are-taking-the-national-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/talks-tours-show-why-landmarks-are-taking-the-national-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks, Tours Show Why Landmarks Are Taking the National Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Historic buildings and places, including modernist works and Brutalist experiments, wield increasing power in discussions of the future of cities. Not only are those landmarks threatened in some places, whether by new development or climate change, they are also being seen as solutions to those very same challenges, according to the national architecture firm Page & Turnbull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming events nationally highlight these ideas. They include a luncheon talk at the City Club of San Francisco on June 8, \u201cResiliency Solutions for Historic Buildings<\/strong>,\u201d led by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Historic Resources Committee and including San Francisco Chronicle <\/em>critic John King and the Port of San Francisco\u2019s Diane Oshima. \u201cWe\u2019re going to talk about the complexities of climate change with sea level rise and the impact to historic buildings and sites on the Embarcadero waterfront,\u201d says Page & Turnbull\u2019s John D. Lesak, AIA, FAPT, principal and vice president. He adds that historical context helps illuminate current projects and potential solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a keynote address this month, Page & Turnbull\u2019s president will discuss \u201creimagining existing buildings, and celebrating communities\u201d at the national conference of the Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) on May 18th<\/sup> outside Chicago. The keynote, “Days of Miracle and Wonder<\/strong>,” looks at how the architecture profession has become more collaborative and is now tackling critical issues, \u201cintent on creating better places and better communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further east on June 21, the Docomomo US National Symposium in New Haven will take on the theme of \u201cComplexities of the Modern American City<\/strong>,\u201d to include a session on arts and cities. Speakers include Page & Turnbull\u2019s James Mallery, associate principal, and Hannah Simonson, cultural resources planner, with related takes on museum reinvention. Mallery will speak about The Cheech, an adaptation of the 1960s main library in his hometown of Riverside, Calif., to become a new center for Chicano art. For her part, Simonson will speak on how redevelopment has shaped San Francisco’s public art.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Board president of the Northern California chapter for Docomomo US, Hannah Simonson leads frequent walking tours of San Francisco\u2019s Modernist enclave of Diamond Heights. For the AIA\u2019s A\u201923 Conference on Architecture, she also helped to organize the Friday, June 9 tour, \u201cWork. Dine. Play: Embarcadero Center in 1970 & Today<\/strong>,\u201d which examines John Portman\u2019s vision for the five-block complex of interior urbanism and Late Modernist architecture. A second tour on June 7 will look at the transformation of Mario Ciampi’s 1970 brutalist art museum at the University of California, Berkeley, into a state-of-the-art life science laboratory: The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub. As preservation consultant, Page & Turnbull supported the team\u2019s conversion to a new \u201cuse that saved a seismically unsafe structure from demolition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also at the A\u201923 conference, acclaimed Page & Turnbull leader H. Ruth Todd, FAIA, has co-developed a tour called \u201cEvolving San Francisco\u2019s Southern Waterfront<\/strong>.\u201d Including visits to major projects, the June 8 tour shows how the former industrial and military southern waterfront of San Francisco has transformed over two decades, much of it with Page & Turnbull\u2019s involvement. Highlights include formerly underserved areas including Mission Rock and the new Chase Center, Pier 70 and the Potrero Power Station in Dogpatch, as well as the India Basin Shoreline Park and Hunter\u2019s Point Shipyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic buildings and places, including modernist works and Brutalist experiments, wield increasing power in discussions of the future of cities. Not only are those landmarks threatened in some places, whether by new development or climate change, they are also being seen as solutions to those very same challenges, according to the national architecture firm Page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4972,"featured_media":2072068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[2811,1853],"tags":[4558,47531,47530,17597,47528,40925,40927,26175,47529],"acf":[],"views":22,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pier-17_Page-Turnbull.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2072068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}