Slow Food Nation '08

Architects and Designers

Design Advisory Committee

To prepare for Slow Food Nation, delegates from local design and food communities came together to form a Design Advisory Committee with the intent to build relationships between food and design activists and professionals, to combine pleasure with responsibility, and to inspire a new era of activism that unites agriculture with a revised sense of potential for city life.

• Allison Arieff
  Editor at Large, Sunset Magazine
  Author of “Living Design” Column for New York Times
  Former Senior Content Lead, IDEO
• Larry Bain
  Food Activist and Founder of Food from the Park and Nextcourse
  Co-Founder of Let’s Be Frank
• Hans Baldauf, AIA
  Principal, Baldauf Catton von Eckartsberg Architects
  Chair, Maybeck Foundation
• John Bela
  Designer, SF Victory Gardens
  Co-founder of REBAR, an open-source collective of artists, designers and activists
• Michael Bernard, AIA
  Principal, Virtual Practice
  Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts
• Eleanor Bertino
  Liason, Slow Food USA
  President and founder, Eleanor Bertino Public Relations
• Michele Meany
  Management Team, Ferry Building Marketplace
• Margie O’Driscoll
  Executive Director, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco
• John Peterson, AIA
  Principal, Peterson Architecture
  Founder and Chair, Public Architecture

• Ft. Mason Master Plan Designer: Baldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg Architects

  Baldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg Architects is a San Francisco based design firm known for the diversity of scales at which it works. An interest in the broad approach to a design problem lends itself to the multi-disciplinary character of BCV Architects and to experiences in urban design and planning, architecture, interiors, furnishing, and graphic design. The Slow Food Movement is inspirational to Baldauf Catton von Eckartsberg Architects for its holistic approach to sustainability. BCV Architects combines its understanding of Green Architecture, as articulated by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and its LEED program, with the nuances of Slow Food’s articulation of our place in the ecosystem. www.bcvarch.com

• Ft. Mason Outdoor Space Designer: Boris Dramov & Bonnie Fisher, ROMA Design Group

  Boris Dramov, FAIA is an Architect and an Urban Designer, and is the ROMA Principal who established the current interdisciplinary practice of ROMA Design Group, which focuses on the transformation of the post-industrial city and the design of public spaces, including plazas, parks, promenades and streets. His work has included the planning of 1-1/2 miles of urban shoreline, the reuse of obsolete industrial facilities and the creation of the new South Beach residential neighborhood and the Rincon Point mixed use area. He led the design team for the transportation and open space improvements for the downtown waterfront in front of the landmark Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street. Boris is the Design Principal for the MLK Memorial in Washington DC.

  Bonnie Fisher, FASLA is a Principal of ROMA Design Group. She is a founding Board member of the museum for art and technology at Yerba Buena Center (Zeum), served on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for U.C. Merced and is on the Board of Drew School and CUESA the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. Ms. Fisher played an important role in the planning and design of the San Francisco waterfront, including the design of Pier 7 and prepared the Recreation and Open Space Plan and Downtown Urban Design Plan for the City of Santa Monica. She is the Landscape Principal for the design of the MLK Memorial in Washington DC. www.roma.com

• Welcome Pavilions Designer: Mark Jensen, Jensen Architects

  Mark Jensen received a Bachelor of Architecture from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1986 and furthered his studies in Florence, Italy. He continued his stay in Italy working in architectural studios and for the noted Italian fashion designer Enrico Coveri. Upon his return to San Francisco he worked as a Project Architect in the award-winning firms of Jim Jennings and Mark Mack. He is an Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) where he has taught since 1991. He was Chair of the Interior Architecture Department at CCA from 1994-1998. www.jensen-architects.com

• Civic Center Master Plan Designer & Water Station Architects: SMWM

  Celebrating over 20 years in business, San Francisco-based SMWM and SMWM LLP in New York produce fresh ideas and build innovative, distinctive, and award-winning projects for academic, institutional, cultural, and civic clients. One of the largest women-owned, interdisciplinary design firms in the nation, SMWM makes communities more livable through socially relevant and environmentally responsible architecture, planning, and urban design. Our highest aspiration is for every project to provide a generous, inventive, and enduring framework for human activity. We have structured our practice around a process where design responds to a careful and specific reading of site, program, social and cultural context, as well as the goals and budget of the client. We promote a collaborative design process, giving voice to both design team members and clients while exploring divergent views that yield rich and unexpected results. www.smwm.com

• Civic Center Victory Garden Designer: John Bela, SF Victory Gardens 08+

  John Bela studied drawing, performance and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; plant biology and biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts; and landscape architecture and environmental design at U.C. Berkeley. He works with SF Victory Gardens 08+ to coordinate the backyard garden program and is designing the Civic Center Victory Garden. He also works as a landscape designer with Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture (CMG), and directs Rebar, an active open-source art collective. Bela’s family owns and operates a small biodynamic farm in rural Kentucky that produces a diverse abundance of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and meat for the farm’s CSA shareholders. www.sfvictorygardens.org

• Compost Exhibit

  The compost exhibit will provide a hands-on, educational experience about composting through a four-step journey: gather, chop, wait, return. Highlighting the City of San Francisco’s current compost program, composting at Slow Food Nation will be both interactive and informative and will serve the dual purpose of raising waste-awareness and illustrating compost-science.

• Compost Exhibit Designer: IDEO

  IDEO helps organizations innovate through design. IDEO uses design thinking to help clients navigate the speed, complexity, and opportunity areas of today’s world. Craft. Collaboration. Left-brain, right-brain. Passion. Curiosity. These are words that IDEO people use to describe what they have in common with each other. People at IDEO are broad in their skills and interests and able to work with a wide range of people. They are deep in their knowledge and experience in one or more disciplines. www.ideo.com

• Soap Box Designer: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

  In 1946, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) established its San Francisco office. The current generation of Partners and Directors has built a highly collaborative interdisciplinary office of over 200 architects, engineers, urban planners, and interior and graphic designers. SOM’s practice of sustainable architecture, through integrated design, engineering, and planning, has a history of minimizing the impact on the environment and producing healthier places to live and work. SOM is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council. Close collaboration with this and other research groups enables us to keep abreast of the latest energy-efficient technology. www.som.com

• Slow on the Go Designer: David Baker, David Baker + Partners

  David Baker, FAIA, founded San Francisco based David Baker + Partners, Architects in 1982 and now leads the firm with Peter MacKenzie, AIA, and Kevin Wilcock, AIA. DB+P is known for combining social concern with a signature design. In 1996, he was selected as fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Baker From 1977 to 1982, David was principal of Sol-Arc, a firm dedicated to energy efficient architecture. Before becoming an architect, he was a union carpenter. www.dbarchitect.com

• Slow on the Go Designer: CCS Architecture

  CCS Architecture is dedicated to excellence in architecture and design. Since its inception in 1990, CCS has designed a diverse range of public and private buildings and interiors. The firm has gained international acclaim for the architectural and commercial success of its restaurant projects, while the uniqueness of residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects has met with an unusual degree of owner satisfaction and media praise. CCS seeks to explore opportunities of maximum potential and express them at a scale appropriate to each project. The work is firmly based in the modernist idiom, where innovation and creativity are balanced by common sense and experience. www.ccs-architecture.com

• Food Bill Declaration Designer: John Peterson, Public Architecture

  John Peterson is the principal of Peterson Architects as well as the founder and chair of Public Architecture. Established in 1993, Peterson Architects is a design-intensive practice whose projects include mixed-use development, institutional projects, and private residences. In 2002, the firm’s unorthodox pro bono work evolved into Public Architecture. He serves on several nonprofit boards, including Urban Solutions as well as the South of Market Business Association. He is a mayoral appointed member of the City of San Francisco’s Green Vision Council.publicarchitecture.org

• Beer Pavilion Designer: John Randolph, Randolph Designs

  John Randolph is an accomplished general design practitioner; formally trained in Architecture and Environmental Design, Building, and Furniture design in the United States and in Denmark. He is the founding principal at a San Francisco-based independent environmental design studio, Randolph Designs, which he started in 1998. Randolph also teaches intermittently and is an active guest critic and lecturer in several departments at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Between 1992–94, he taught at Southern California Institute for Architecture (SCI Arc). www.randolphdesigns.com

• Bread Pavilion Designer: Stanley Saitowitz, Natoma Architects

  Stanley Saitowitz is a Senior Partner at Natoma Architects and a Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at numerous schools of architecture, including the Elliot Noyes Professor, Harvard University, University of Norman, Oklahoma, UCLA, Rice University, SCIARC, and University of Texas at Austin. With his firm, he has completed many buildings and projects which have received national and international recognition. These have been residential, commercial and institutional, including houses, housing, museums, a winery, memorial, and urban promenades. Three books and numerous articles have been published on his work. www.saitowitz.com

• Charcuterie Pavilion Designer: Cary Bernstein, Cary Bernstein Architect

  Cary Bernstein opened a San Francisco office in 1995 after receiving an M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture in 1988. Professional work completed to date includes residential, commercial and health care projects in California, New York and Moscow, Russia. Bernstein has taught both the Russian language and jewelry fabrication at Dartmouth College, philosophy at Yale University and architectural design at U.C. Berkeley. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts and serves as Program Chair for the SFMOMA A+D Forum. www.cbstudio.com

• Cheese Pavilion Designer: Mark Macy, Macy Architecture

  Mark Macy received a B.Arch from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1985. He went on to study in Florence, subsequently working for the noted Italian architect Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio). He returned to California and worked nine years for the award winning firm of Fernau & Hartman in Berkeley, eventually becoming their Senior Project Architect. He has taught courses in architectural design at the California State University International Program in Florence and Kent State University’s program in Sesto Fiorentino and has held Lecturer status at the California College of the Arts since 1994. www.macyarchitecture.com

• Chocolate Pavilion Designer: Aidlin Darling Design

  Aidlin Darling Design is a multidisciplinary architecture firm founded on
  the principle that a collaborative process with clients, consultants,
  fabricators and builders allows an open and impassioned exploration and
  enables a clear understanding of appropriate solutions. Partners Joshua
  Aidlin and David Darling have cultivated a team that strives to deliver the
  highest level of design, innovation, service and project management. www.aidlindarlingdesign.com

• Coffee Pavilion Designer: Douglas Burnham, Envelope A+D

  Douglas Burnham founded Envelope A+D in 1998 after graduating from the Cornell University School of Architecture, where he received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Prize for his final thesis work. His range of experience includes residential, educational, commercial, civic and hospitality building and renovation projects as well as exhibition design, product design, furniture and custom lighting fixtures. His work has been published in dwell, Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design, Artweek, Assemblage, and the San Francisco Examiner magazine. Burnham has lectured in the U.S. and in Europe and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the California College of Arts. www.envelopead.com

• Fish Pavilion Designer: Marta Fry, Marta Fry Landscape Associates

  MFLA studio is an urban design and landscape architecture environment that believes the landscape is one of the most potent and lasting forms of cultural expression. Presently, MFLA’s collaboration with Monterrey Fish is an exceptionally exciting curatorial/design relationship precisely because of the clarity of vision Monterey Fish Market and their team brings to the table. Addressing the narrative messages of sustainable fishing practices to the influence of watershed management on marine populations, the studio has conceived of an immersive and experiential environment that, while being informative, also seeks to be celebratory, engaging and sensorially rich.www.mflasf.com

• Honey and Preserves Pavilion Designer: Second Office

  Second Office is a collective of designers based in San Francisco, which began as an alternative forum for an established architectural practice. Its mission is to research and explore new questions about built and social space in an experimental, free and often playful manner. Starting in 2005, the projects of Second Office have concerned acts or spaces that are open to change, left-over, abandoned, or secondary. More recently Second Office has begun its day labor project as an attempt to examine spatial ideals through the arrangement of a determined set of standard construction materials. www.second-office.org

• Ice Cream Pavilion Designers: Doris Guerrero and Jane Chan, J+D Form

  Doris Guerrero, the principal of dForm with 13 years of professional practice, has been a guest lecturer, critic, and educator for more than 10 years. Guerrero has worked as an architect on locally and nationally based projects, including numerous San Francisco infill multiunit housing projects, new neighborhood parks and open spaces, the master planning of Dallas’s Fair Park, the restoration and mitigation of more than 120 acres of open space and habitat in Seattle’s Woodinville area, and the renovation of the Philip Burton Federal Building plaza in San Francisco.

  Jane Chan is the principal of Jane Chan Architecture, a San Francisco Bay Area full-service architecture firm. The firm was founded on the belief that commitment to the client’s needs, comprehensive design, quality, and innovative approach that will shape and move the built environment forward. Chan is a licensed architect with diverse experience including multi-family housing, university master planning and student housing, commercial tenant improvement, and commercial interior design for progressive entities such as Gap, Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Additionally, her breadth of experience includes historic renovation and single-family residential projects.

• Native Foods Pavilion Designer: John Glavis, Organic Gardener and Permaculturalist

  John’s interest in wild food began in 1966 when he met author and forager, Euell Gibbons. As an early environmentalist and student at Kent State University,Ohio, he helped coordinate the first National Earth Day activities in 1970. Following college, his world travels led him to examine indigenous cultures, ceremony, and the spiritual dimension of food. Moving to Bolinas, California in 1979, John began a twenty-five year initiation with Native American elders. He is presently working as an organic gardener, permaculturist, and educator developing programs in contemporary shamanism and sustainability.

• Olive Oil Pavilion Designer: Brett Terpeluk, Studio Terpeluk

  Brett Terpeluk is a designer transitioning from his decade-long collaboration with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop into his own private practice, Studio Terpeluk. A Pennsylvania native, Terpeluk was and educated at both Princeton (BA) and Rice (MARCH) Universities. Since 2004, Brett has been managing the design and construction of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, considered one of the most sustainable projects in the world. He has taught architecture at Rice University, CCA and UC Berkeley as a Friedman Professor. He has contributed to Parametro and Casabella and has lectured extensively throughout the Bay Area. www.studioterpeluk.com

• Pickles and Chutney Pavilion Designer: Sagan Piechota Architecture

  Sagan Piechota is a San Francisco based design firm established in 1999 by designers Loring Sagan and Daniel Piechota to pursue the art of architecture based on their shared aesthetic and collaborative principles. The firm’s primary mission is to provide architecture that is site specific and responsive to clients and their environment. Whether urban or rural – spanning natural, mountain, coastal, urban, and resort settings – their goal is to create exploratory yet approachable architecture which transforms and enriches the quality of the live and work experience.www.sp-architecture.com

• Spirits Pavilion Designer: Min|Day

  Founded in 2000 Min | Day is a multi-disciplinary design practice with studios in San Francisco, California and Omaha, Nebraska. Resisting specialization, their work ranges from institutional projects to residential and furniture design. They seek projects with potential for innovation in methodologies of practice, materials and fabrication and programming. This emphasis on alternative building systems often asserts sustainable materials and practices. They place a particular emphasis on art-related and not-for-profit commissions. Predominant in all of their projects is an attempt to coax specificity out of the generic and contingent identities bound up in the sites where they work. www.minday.com

• Tea Pavilion Designer: Douglas Burnham, Envelope A+D

  Douglas Burnham founded Envelope A+D in 1998 after graduating from the Cornell University School of Architecture, where he received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Prize for his final thesis work. His work has been published in magazines and journals including dwell, Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design, Artweek, Assemblage, and the San Francisco Examiner magazine. Burnham has lectured in the U.S. and in Europe and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the California College of Arts. www.envelopead.com

• Wine Pavilion Designer: David Winslow, Winslow Architecture and Urban Design

  David Winslow has been a licensed architect since 1991 with over 20 years of experience. After receiving his professional degree from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo in 1985, he has worked in architectural offices of Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Vinoly in New York, and Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid in London. He received an Honorable Mention in the “Housing the Next Ten Million” competition in 2000 for proposing alleys be used to provide housing to help solve the pressure of urban expansion and loss of agricultural land in the California Central Valley. Currently he is researching and writing a book about alleys. www.winslowarchitecture.com