Agenda: MDC 2024

Monterey Design Conference

Asilomar Conference Grounds

Friday, October 25, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration | Badge Pick-up | Information Desk - Sponsored by AIA Monterey Bay

Surf & Sand

8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Exhibit Setup

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Celebrating Great Work - A Walking Tour

Between Merrill Hall and Nautilus

1 AIA LU

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

CE Session 1: Design for the Future: Integrating Climate Action and Social Response

Fred Farr Forum

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 2: Getting to the Heart of Mass Timber: How Sustainable Forests, Embodied Carbon and Occupant Wellbeing Transform Design

Kiln

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 3: Pier 70, Building 12: Lifting a Piece of San Francisco History Into a More Resilient Future

Scripps

1 AIA HSW LU

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

CE Session 1: 2022 CA Code Breaker - Energy Code Compliance Forms: A Goldmine of Design Insights

Fred Farr Forum

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 2: Local and Resilient: Bio-Based Building in California

Kiln

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 3: Steep Slope Roofing Prescriptives

Scripps

1 AIA HSW LU

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

CE Session 1: Levers of Decarbonization

Fred Farr Forum

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 2: Technology Enablers for the New Age of Productivity

Scripps

1 AIA LU

CE Session 3: Advanced Specification Details of Redwood Lumber & Timbers

Kiln

1 AIA HSW LU

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Box Lunch (included with conference badge)

Crocker Dining Hall

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Visit Exhibitors | MYLR Bookstore | Energy Code Ace VIP Lounge | Book Signing - Pierluigi Serraino, FAIA

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Attendee Meet-up: #culturepledge

Crocker Bonfire + Meadow

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

CE Session 1: Why Masonry? Energy and Embodied Carbon

Kiln

1 AIA HSW LU

CE Session 2: Intelligent, Healthy and Decarbonized: The Design-Build Journey at SFO’s Harvey Milk Terminal 1

Scripps

1 AIA HSW LU

CE Session 3: Zero Carbon Design: What Really Matters and How to Get There

Fred Farr Forum

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

Session 4: A Walking Tour of Asilomar Origins and Design Influences (limited to 25 people)

Social Hall Entrance

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

MDC Conference Welcome and Opening Headliners

Merrill Hall + Chapel

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Headliner - Brad Cloepfil, AIA and Chelsea Grassinger, AIA | Allied Works (New York | Portland) - Sponsored by bulthaup

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Emerging Talent - Valery Augustin, AIA | DNA Architecture + Design, Inc. (Los Angeles)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

.25 AIA LU

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Headliner - Fuensanta Nieto, Hon. FAIA & Enrique Sobejano, Hon. FAIA | Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Spain | Germany)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM

Special Presentation: 2024 Maybeck Award, Paulett Taggart, FAIA

Merrill Hall + Chapel

4:35 PM - 6:00 PM

Welcome Reception sponsored by Swinerton | Visit Exhibitors | Book Signing - Frances Anderton | MYLR Bookstore | Energy Code Ace VIP Lounge

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Dinner (ticket required)

Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Cal Poly Alumni Meet-Up

Surf & Sand Bonfire

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Fireside After Party featuring Bubba's Taxi (rock and blues band)

Crocker Bonfire + Meadow

6:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast (Ticket Required)

Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 AM - 7:45 AM

Sunrise Yoga

Sanderling

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration | Information Desk

Surf & Sand

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

MDC Headliners Continue

Merrill Hall + Chapel

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Celebrating Great Work - A Walking Tour

Between Merrill Hall and Nautilus

1 AIA LU

8:45 AM - 9:45 AM

Headliner - Go Hasegawa | Hasegawa and Associates (Japan)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Emerging Talent - Nick Hopson | Hopson Rodstrom Design (Pasadena)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

.25 AIA LU

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break | Visit Exhibitors | MYLR Bookstore | Energy Code Ace VIP Lounge

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Enabling Abundance - Housing California

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Emerging Talent - ReGroup (Sacramento)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

.25 AIA LU

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Special Presentation: California Architectural Foundation

Merrill Hall + Chapel

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Box Lunch (included with conference badge) | Visit Exhibitors | Book Signing - Dana Cuff | MYLR Bookstore | Energy Code Ace VIP Lounge

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

California Architectural Foundation: Architecture by the Book for Kids

Crocker Dining Hall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Attendee Meet-up: Housing

Crocker Bonfire + Meadow

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CE Session 1: Regenerative Timber Architecture

Fred Farr Forum

1 AIA HSW LU / ZNCD MCE

CE Session 2: Enriching the Built Environment with Integrated Artwork: Approaching Projects with Passion and Purpose

Kiln

1 AIA LU

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Attendee Meet-up: Climate Action

Crocker Bonfire + Meadow

2:10 PM - 2:15 PM

MDC Headliners Continue

Merrill Hall + Chapel

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Headliner - Reflections with Chuck Davis, FAIA | Interview by Pierluigi Serraino, AIA, Ph.D.

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Headliner - Refik Anadol | Refik Anadol Studio (Los Angeles)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

AI + Architecture | Opportunities and Impacts

Merrill Hall + Chapel

.50 AIA LU

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Triton | Nautilus | Windward

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner (Crocker Dining Hall)

Crocker Dining Hall

7:10 PM - 8:10 PM

Headliner - Tatiana Bilbao | Tatiana Bilbao Estudio (Mexico)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

8:10 PM - 9:10 PM

Clarity in Design: An Evening with Architectural Record & Vitro Glass | Wine & Dessert Reception

Social Hall Deck

9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Special Screening: We Start With the Things We Find: The LOT-EK documentary, Produced by Thomas Piper

Chapel

1 AIA LU

Toasting to the Future: Young Professionals S’mores Social

Crocker Bonfire

6:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast (Ticket Required)

Crocker Dining Hall

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Sunrise Walk on the Beach

Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Monterey Design Conference Sunday Headliners

Merrill Hall + Chapel

9:10 AM - 10:10 AM

Headliner - Frederick Fisher, AIA | Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects (Los Angeles | New York)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

10:10 AM - 10:25 AM

Emerging Talent - Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis | Ultramoderne (Berkeley)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

.25 AIA LU

10:25 AM - 11:25 AM

Headliner - Kerstin Thompson| Kerstin Thompson Architects (Australia)

Merrill Hall + Chapel

1 AIA LU

11:25 AM - 11:30 AM

Monterey Design Conference Closing Remarks

Merrill Hall + Chapel

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Box Lunch (included with conference badge)

Merrill Hall

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Modern Home Tour (Ticket required)

Buses Pickup from Social Hall Deck | Circle

1.5 AIA LU

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Behind the Scenes Aquarium Tour (Ticket required)

Monterey Bay Aquarium (886 Cannery Row)

1.5 AIA LU

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