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Our educational outreach helps build understanding and consensus.
We encourage clients to view our practice as a resource that helps
them to be better informed when they work with us to find the best
solutions to the challenges of their particular project. More broadly,
we make an effort to educate fellow citizens about the benefits of good
architecture and what it brings to our lives and communities. The
incremental result is a better public understanding and appreciation of
design—in homes and places of work, down the block, and throughout
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- The success of our award-winning work on the Argonne Child
Development Center design grew out of educational outreach.
We enabled the local community to better understand the San
Francisco Unified School District's needs. We also provided the
district with enough convincing detail about solar power to
influence its decision to incorporate photovoltaics into the
facility.
- Through our consulting services, we prepared
Sustainable Building Guidelines for San Mateo County as the
centerpiece of its public education campaign to explain in
simple language the benefits of green building. This material
is intended for use by anyone planning new construction and
renovation in San Mateo County.
- We're active on the AIA's Small Business Committee, which
serves as a resource to clients and small architectural
practices in the Bay Area. We're especially pleased with our
leadership of Small Firms Great Projects, a bi-annual
traveling exhibit that features small firms' great projects.
This is among the AIA San Francisco chapter's most compelling
education tools.
- Through the Small Business Network, a coalition representing
more than 19,000 San Francisco businesses, Principal Richard
Parker, AIA, has participated in or moderated discussions on a
wide range of issues and best practices for the small business
owner.
- Principal David Bushnell, AIA, brings teaching credentials to
the studio—earlier in his career, he was an assistant
design professor at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in
Zurich.
- Our design studio believes in mentoring the next generation.
We're working with the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco
on its key objective—to educate primary and secondary
students and youth about architecture and the built environment.
We also lead occasional high school classes—about what
architecture means to our society and about the importance of
green building.
- We hostBay Area Young Architects (BAYA) members for tours and informational meetings. We hire student
interns and also helped organize and now participate in an
active mentoring program through the local AIA chapter. In all
these activities, we encourage questions, interaction, and
dialogue: the heart of education.
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Our education-based interactions are numerous:
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