10 Strategies for Urban Regeneration
Thursday, October 24th at 5:30 PM
Liljestrand House Foundation
Steffen Lehmann , Ph.D., AIA RIBA AoU, Director of the UNLV School of Architecture and expert on sustainable urbanism will the next Design Conversation Series speaker at the Liljestrand House Foundation. This event is sponsored in-part by SHADE Institute.
Lehmann will present his ten-strategies for urban regeneration. His book, A Manifesto: Regenerating Cities in the Age of Climate Change addresses the impacts of climate change and the process of transforming our cites into more sustainable and livable future cities.
Dean Sakamoto, SHADE Institute Executive Director who also serves on the LHF Board of Directors, is the curator of this series. This event is sponsored in part by SHADE Institute.
For more information on this event: https://www.liljestrandhouse.org/announcements/
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AIA_Advocacy Panel
October 1, 2019
Dean Sakamoto, FAIA spoke on the AIA Honolulu Advocacy panel at the 2019 Pacific Building Trade Expo. The event was moderated by Jason DeMarco, AIA, along with fellow panelists Brent Tokita AIA, Lorraine Minatoishi, AIA, and Melanie B.Y. Islam, AIA. The topic was on what it means to be a “citizen architect” today.
http://www.pacificbuildingtradeexpo.com/attendees/seminars/sessions/?id=b1
DOCOMOMO; IBM Building urban landmark preservation
September 25-28, 2019
Dean Sakamoto was the closing speaker at the IBM Building for the DOCOMOMO US National Symposium in Hawaii: Modern Architecture in a Multicultural Context. Over 200 modern design aficionados attended.
https://docomomo-us.org/resource/files%2Fe7hgyarhk0qx4ga0.pdf
19th Annual Build + Buy Green Conference on Kauai
September 20, 2019
Dean Sakamoto and Chipper Wichman, of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, led a tour of the Juliet Rice Wichman Botanical Research Center for the 19th Annual Build + Buy Green Conference on Kauai. the BRC is Kauai's first LEED-GOLD certified building The conference hosted by USGBC Hawaii and its partners, Hawaii State Energy Office, and DBEDT. MAHALO!
https://www.usgbc.org/event/19th-annual-build-buy-green-conference#program
