Learning from the Lakers

September 20 -  22, 2008
Minneapolis, MN

ABSTRACT

The AIA Minnesota housing committee is a custom single family focused group that has been extremely successful in promoting the services of architects for custom residential design. Using the chapter’s fall home tour event as a catalyst, CRAN will assemble 15-20 residential architects interested adapting the promotion techniques employed by AIA Minnesota and other active components to their local chapter.

AIA funding is available to subsidize the cost of attendance for 10-12 participants. Prospective attendees must complete a brief application and statement of purpose in order to qualify for the travel and lodging stipend of $500.

SCHEDULE   

Saturday, September 20 

5pm: Registration
6:30-7:30: Reception (LB Lobby Bar space)

Sunday, September 21 

8am:Breakfast
9am: CRAN Introduction Session
10:30am: Home Tour Departure from The Hotel Minneapolis
11-3pm: Home Tour
*For additional information on the houses included on the CRAN tour, please visit the Homes by Architects website. 
3:30-5:30pm: Custom Residential Product Panel
6:30-8:30pm: Networking Dinner

Monday, September 22

8am: Breakfast
8:30-12PM: Local AIA Panel Discussion:
- Bruce Knutson, AIA, Bruce Knutson Architects
- Dale Mulfinger, FAIA, SALA Architects, Inc.
- Mark Nesset, AIA, Nesset Architecture, Inc.

*List of Tour Sites/Architects for Sunday Home Tour

#2 Charles Stinson, AIA
21840 Byron Cir., Greenwood

#3 David Samela, FAIA with Carly Coulson, AIA , LEED AP
20505 Linden Road, Deephaven

#12 Dan Nepp, AIA with Charles Witzke
4223 Grimes Ave S., Edina

#14 Jean Rehkamp Larson, AIA
4116 Zenith Ave S., Minneapolis

#15 Bryan Anderson, AIA with Ken Zehoski
5257 Washburn Ave S, Minneapolis

#17 Lars Peterson, Gabriel Keller, Assoc. AIA, Joseph Johnson, Assoc. AIA, Deborah Everson, AIA
602 The Edgewater, 1805 W. Lake St, Minneapolis

#19 Marcelo Valdes, AIA with Joe Metzler, AIA and Chris Bubser
Virtual Tour at U of M Walter Library, 117 Pleasant St, SE, Room 107

#18 Geoffrey Warner, AIA and Scott Ervin
104/105 Whitney Lofts Building, 150 Portland Ave., Minneapolis


GOALS

• Learn how to start and sustain a local Custom Residential Knowledge Community using the experience of AIA Minneapolis and other successful Chapters as a springboard.
• Gain direct exposure to best practices for promoting custom residential architecture at a local level by participating in the AIA Minnesota home tour.
• Develop a community of regional leaders in order to create a support structure for further collaboration.
• Learn how to access and implement CRAN tools at the local level.
• Learn to contribute local best practices, project profiles and other information to the national CRAN knowledge base.

 

SPONSORS

This program is sponsored in part by the following:

Designer Doors

 

 

Pella Corporation

 

 

Marvin Windows and Doors

 

 

 

iLevel by Weyerhaeuser

Subzero

 

Weiland Sliding Doors and Windows, Inc.