7th Annual CRAN Symposium

Starts:  Sep 18, 2014 08:00 AM (CT)
Ends:  Sep 20, 2014 04:00 PM (CT)

7th Annual CRAN Symposium : September 18-20, 2014 | Charleston, South Carolina

Earn up to 18 AIA LUs + HSW

The Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN), a Knowledge Community of The American Institute of Architects, will hold its 7th annual symposium on September 18-20 at the Mills House Wyndham Hotel and Hibernian Hall on Meeting Street in historic Charleston, South Carolina. Entitled ‘The Architecture of Influence,’ the three-day symposium, open to all AIA and non-AIA members, will bring together custom residential architects from across the country to learn, share, and discuss relevant topics in the field of residential architecture. 

CRAN is committed to the promotion of high-quality residential architecture irrespective of style.

Keynote speaker Andres Duany FAIA, founding partner of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., will present the talk ‘We Hate Codes, But…’. Andres and his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, founded their practice in 1980, at the time of their design of the town of Seaside, Florida. Since then, their planning practice has over 200 plans in the process of implementation, and has a particular expertise in writing codes. Andres will discuss the role of codes and their use in mitigating mediocrity in architecture.

Keynote speaker Robert A.M. Stern FAIA, founder and senior partner of RAMSA, will present a history of the planned garden suburb in conjunction with the recent publication of Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City. The book, which he co-authored along with David Fishman and Jacob Tilove, is the definitive history of the garden suburb from its origins in late-eighteenth-century England to the onset of the Second World War, and suggests how the principles of traditional town planning can inform efforts to remedy fraying urban fabric and suburban sprawl in our own time.

In addition to the keynotes, other speakers will include Witold Rybczynski Hon. FAIA, Ellen Dunham-Jones AIA, Robert Adam RIBA, Calder Loth, Alexander Gorlin FAIA, and Sandy Isenstadt.

The symposium will feature three Architect Roundtable Discussions, including panelists Gary Brewer AIA, David Salmela FAIA; Gil Schafer III AIA, Marieanne Khoury-Vogt AIA, and Marc Appleton AIA; and  Julie Snow FAIA, Lorcan O’Herlihy FAIA, and Robert Gurney FAIA.

House Tours of local homes will be offered on two separate mornings. Friday morning will feature homes in downtown Charleston. Saturday morning will feature homes of Kiawah Island, including the historic Vanderhorst Plantation. A further tour of the New Urbanist community I’on will be offered on Sunday, September 21.

This year’s Symposium and Welcome Reception sponsor is Anderson/Weiland. Other sponsors include Graphisoft as our Lanyard/Badge Holder Diamond sponsor; Sematic Mobelwerke USA and Metrie as our Platinum Lunch sponsors; Kohler/Ferguson and Tru-Stile Doors LLC as our Platinum Home Tour sponsors; Kolbe & Kolbe and FireRock Building Materials as our Gold Lunch sponsors; Velux and Sub-Zero/Wolf as our Gold Cocktail Reception sponsors; Versatex, No. 8 Lighting and Unilux as our Afternoon Break sponsors; DeSantana Stone, J L Powell Company, Big Ass Fans, Henselstone, DuPont/Tyvek, Huber and Associates, Smart Vent, Fantech, Tischler Windows, Brentwood Industries, Ludowici Roof Tile, VirocNY, GE Appliances, Enviroshake, and Versatex are our Showcase sponsors.

The CRAN Knowledge Community of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a resource and voice for architects who focus on a collaborative design process with the homeowner. CRAN provides support, advocacy, and education to the profession and the public in matters of custom residential design.

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Location

Mills House Wyndham Hotel
115 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401