Sim Van Der Ryn to speak at Cody's Thursday

Thursday, 10/27 at 7:30pm
At Cody's Books, 2 Stockton Street, San Francisco:

"SIM VAN DER RYN leapt to the forefront of the green architecture revolution in the midst of the environmental awakening of the late sixties through the nineteen eighties, harnessing his knowledge, ingenuity, and insatiable desire for sustainable living environments to create ever-evolving, ecologically sound projects. DESIGN FOR LIFE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF SIM VAN DER RYN is a full-length monograph illustrating the work and theory of one of the most pre-eminent authorities on sustainable architecture. Appointed California State Architect by then-Governor Jerry Brown, Van der Ryn introduced the first energy-efficient government building projects to California. His vision heralded an age of ecologically sensitive design and resulted in the adoption of strict energy standards and disability access standards for all California state buildings and parks. In DESIGN FOR LIFE, projects like the San Francisco Zen Center, Real Goods Solar Living Center, Ojai Foundation School, Gregory Bateson Building, and others, illustrate Van der Ryn's passion the designing building that encompass their natural surroundings and bring a sense of peace and ease to their inhabitants. Five principals of ecological design - Solutions Grow from Place, Design with Nature, Make Nature Visible, and Everyone is a Designer - inform his projects. Sim Van der Ryn is the president of Van der Ryn Architects; he taught architecture and design at UC Berkeley for more than 30 years, and is the author of six groundbreaking books about planning and design.
7:30 PM at Cody's Stockton Street, San Francisco"

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