CAF was proud to partner with Arid Lands Institute on the 2012 Drylands Design Conference, which was held in March of last year and featured the research winners of CAF’s Turnbull Design Competition: Drylands Design. The conference continues to turn the attention of the design industry to water issues, most recently influencing the American Society of Landscape Architects to build the October issue of Landscape Architect Magazine around water scarcity design challenges and solutions. Below is an excerpt from editor Bradford McKee’s introduction: [Read more...]
Arid Lands Institute’s Hadley Arnold looks back at Drylands Design
January 15, 2013 By
Dryland Tactics, by Dr. Ila Berman
July 23, 2012 By
Dr. Ila Berman provides an overview of some of the critical ideas foregrounded in the conference and a potential set of directives through which to frame ongoing and future initiatives. The Drylands Design Conference: Retrofitting the West: Adaptation by Design, a presentation by the Arid Lands Institute of Woodbury University in partnership with the California Architectural Foundation and UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, brought together a high profile, interdisciplinary group of designers, scientists and policy makers to investigate and creatively respond to the ever-increasing environmental challenges facing the cities and regional landscapes of the arid and semi-arid west. The conference, which focused on design strategies to maximize local water and energy resources while anticipating the impacts of climate change, asked us to reconceptualize these challenges in terms of the design and leadership opportunities they might present moving forward. Dr. Berman is the Director of Architecture at California College of Arts. [Read more...]
Drylands Design Conference & Exhibition
March 27, 2012 By
Off the Reservation: A Seed for Change, by Megan Storm, $10,000 Research Award Winner
DRYLANDS DESIGN CONFERENCE MARCH 2012 More than 225 educators, design professionals and students gathered at the conference, where the arid and semi-arid west was re-examined as a vast field of opportunities for water-smart design innovation at a range of scales, from building systems to infrastructure and landscape spaces. [Read more...]
Woodbury University Photography Exhibit
March 27, 2012 By
Woodbury University is the home of both the Arid Lands Institute and the Julius Schulman Institute which presents Pedro E. Guerrero: Photographs of Modern Life, April 5–April 25, 2012, at the Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery (WUHO), curated by Anthony Fontenot and Emily Bills. [Read more...]
