In case you missed Nathan Wielers’s 4th Wednesday Design Dialogue presentation this month, we’ve uploaded the video to the AIACV’s Vimeo account.  Click on the video, this link, or the Vimeo button under the “Connect with AIACV” tab in the center column of the website.  Check back in the future to see more video content.

“Making a Sustainable Lifestyle Choice: A Retrospective on the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA)”, Second Saturday, September 11th, 6-8 p.m.

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AIA Central Valley is pleased to host a special exhibition highlighting the history of the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) through an exhibition of selected residential apartments and mixed-use projects. In addition to project boards, two short films on the history of CADA will be available for viewing and visitors will be able to watch Leta Wrightsman, former President of Chalk-It-Up, create chalk masterpieces in the AIA Chapter parking lot.

The AIACV Gallery is located at 1400 S Street, Suite 100 in Sacramento. The exhibition will be open to the public from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Second Saturday, September 11, 2010.  Light refreshments will be provided and there is no fee to attend.

photo credit: Todd Quam, www.digitalsky.us

AIA Central Valley was founded in 1942. Today with nearly 800 members, it represents the interests of the architectural profession in 17 Central Valley counties.

CADA is a city/state Joint Powers Authority whose mission is to implement the residential and neighborhood commercial elements of the state’s Capitol Area Plan. CADA helps facilitate redevelopment and new developments within its boundaries as well as directly manages and maintains apartments, commercial/retail properties and parking spaces on state property.
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Please join us once again for this month’s Fourth Wednesday Design Dialogue (FWDD) as we discuss Original Projects with Nathan Wieler.

Topic: “Original Projects”
Date: Wednesday, August 25th
Time: 5:45 – 7:30 PM
Location: AIACV Chapter Office – Gallery, 1400 S Street (please enter on 14th Street)
Info: Free Admisson
Please click on the link to view the flyer

Nathan Wieler, originator of projects like the Dwell Home, Modern Birdhouses, The Greenbelt House, Harvest Farm Community, DevelopmentvSupported Agriculture, and Zoom Culture talks about the stories behind each project, along with lessons learned and applied to his new collaborative venture Original Projects.

Join us this summer as we travel to Oroville for a tour of  the Butte College campus, followed by a social /refreshment hour and brief presentation with members of the AIACV Board of Directors.

Butte College is located an hour and ten minutes north of Sacramento, nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The main campus is a designated wildlife refuge and rests on 928 acres. The campus is a leader in sustainability and has recently
announced it will be the first college in the U.S.
to be ”grid positive” by May 2011.

Attendees will learn about many of these projects during a short presentation, and then have the opportunity to walk the campus and see the several first hand, including the new LEED Gold Certified Arts Center and Student Administrative Services Building (up for LEED Gold Certification) along with the Allied Health & Public Services Center and Learning Resource Center.

Click here for an event flyer with full details.

Date: Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Place: Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Drive ,
Oroville, California 95965

RSVP Online: click here or visit: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/121699

Interested in carpooling to this event? Please e-mail Kim Anderson.

Questions? Contact Kim Anderson or call 916-379-8798.

Join your colleagues at the ACE Mentor Information Night:

Where: SMUD Customer Service Center (Rubicon Room)
6301 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95817

When: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm

For more information please contact Justine Aban, Program Coordinator,  at 916-442-8991  x116 or send an email to sacramentoca@acementor.org. Click here to download a flyer.

Join us Tuesday night!

Join hosts Kris Barkley, AIA, Saxon Sigerson, AIA and Arturo Levenfeld, AIA for a casual evening of discussion centered around the topic of “Anonymous Buildings we Should Love.”

Three examples will be presented with an emphasis on what makes each of these works significant in spite of their relative anonymity. Are buildings any less successful if they are unknown? Do only great buildings get noticed? Is anonymity a bad quality or is it important in defining contrast?
Our open forum discussion is intended to examine the importance of design in those structures that often are overlooked and unnoticed in the world of architecture.

For an event flyer click here.

Date: Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: AIA Central Valley Chapter Office, 1400 S Street, Suite 1 Sacramento
AIA/CES: 1.5 Learning Units
Cost: $10 per person
(+ service fee at Brown Paper Tickets; includes pizza, tap beer and non-alcoholic beverages)
RSVP: Brown Paper Tickets
Questions: Kim Anderson or 916-379-8798

Ecovillages & Sustainable Communities for Architects, Planners, Builders and Homeowners: Where They Are, What They’re Doing, Why They’re Important

With Diana Leafe Christian, author, world class traveler, expert on sustainable communities

With over 400 photos, this slide show demonstrates how ecovillages and sustainable communities worldwide integrate ecological, economic, and social/cultural/spiritual sustainability, through: permaculture design, international peace activism, natural building, service to populations in need, renewable energy/off-grid power, local currencies, alternative technology, on-site cottage industries, sustainable agriculture, participatory decision-making, and earth-restoration projects.

Additionally, it will cover: WHY people are devoted to developing ecological settlements, HOW ecovillages are beneficially influencing the wider culture, and HOW ecovillages will probably affect patterns of human settlement in the near future.

Date: Monday evening, August 16, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7:10 pm /  The presentation is one hour and 10 minutes, with time for questions.
Location: Sacramento Historic City Hall, 901 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Cost: Sliding scale donation of $5.00 to $10.00 (no one will be turned away due to lack of a donation)
RSVP: directly to event organizer: Karen Hansen or call 916 421-1836

Click here for an event flyer.

About the presenter: Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. Editor of Communities magazine for 14 years. Diana publishes “Ecovillages,” a free online publication www.EcovillageNews.org.

Diana leads workshops, offers consultations, and speaks at conferences internationally. Her articles have appeared in Mother Earth News, Cohousing magazine, and Permaculture Activist, and she has been interviewed by Time Magazine, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, AARP magazine, New Dimensions Radio, Peak Moment TV, NPR, and the BBC. Diana is a member of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina. http://www.DianaLeafeChristian.org