GENERATE 2024: SCHEDULE

Registration Desk Open

Noon – 7 pm

Tech Connect

2 – 6 pm • Castle Peak

Join us for this 1-day event focused specifically on the changing landscapes in artificial intelligence and its rapid impact on our profession.

• How AI Changes Architecture: The productive, ethical and innovative intersection of technology, computation, robotics and the built environment (1 LU|HSW)
  • Randy Deutsch, FAIA, LEED AP, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Building an Image Generator: Principles and Practices in AI (1 LU)
  • Matt Goldsberry, Assoc. AIA, HDR
• Transforming Workplace Design with AI: Insights and Innovations (1 LU)
  • Arjun Kaicker, AIA, NCARB, ARB, RIBA, LEED AP, Zaha Hadid Architects

Tech Connect Happy Hour

6 pm • Shavano Foyer

Tech Connect attendees are invited to attend a happy hour. Drinks and appetizers provided.

Yoga

7 am • Castle Peak

Research shows that yoga and meditation reduce stress, increase focus, and revitalize the senses. Start your day inspired and rejuvenated after attending this wellbeing session designed to move your body and take care of yourself during our action-packed Conference.

First timers welcome! No experience, special clothes or mat required. 

30-minute easy vinyasa yoga (movement plus breath) – come warm up your body and calm your mind with gentle morning stretches suitable for everyone.

Breakfast

8 – 9 am • Longs/Quandary

Member Meetup: Business of Architecture Knowledge Community

8:30 – 9 am • Quandary Peak Foyer

Keynote 1 • Anne Mooney, FAIA

9 – 10:15 am • Grays

Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working (1 LU|HSW)

Breakout Series I

10:30 – 11:30 am • Torreys, Shavano, Red Cloud, Crestone

• Generating Visions: The Technical Moves Behind High Performance Aspirational Architecture (1 LU|HSW)
  • Chris O’Hara, PE, Studio NYL
  • Will Babbington, FAIA, PE, Studio NYL
  • Session Location: Shavano Peak
• All-Electric and Net Zero Energy Buildings: Examples and Lessons Learned (1 LU|HSW)
  • Peter Ewers, AIA
  • Trevor Kendall
  • Elizabeth Gillmor
  • Session Location: Red Cloud Peak
• The 16th Street Mall: The History, Purpose, Innovations, and Challenges Working on the Backbone “Main Street” of Denver’s Downtown Core (1 LU)
  • Matt Schlagader, PE, LEED AP
  • Bill Vitek, FASLA, PLA
  • Tim Springer
  • Molly Veldkamp
  • Session Location: Torrey’s Peak
• The JEDI Committee Presents: If Design Can Be the Source of Exclusion, Can It Also Be the Remedy? Designing Neuro-Inclusive and Accessible Spaces (1 LU|HSW)
  • Elena Sabinson, PhD
  • Kati Peditto
  • Session Location: Crestone Peak

Solutions Showcase & Lunch

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Longs/Quandary

Interact with industry partners in the Expo Hall. Travel the Expo floor to grab lunch from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm.

Mini Seminars, hosted in exhibit booths, will offer opportunities to participate in 15-minute informative sessions and earn CES if you attend four or more sessions.  (1 LU|HSW)

• 12:00 – 12:15 pm
• 12:20 – 12:35 pm
• 12:40 – 12:55 pm
• 1:00 – 1:15 pm

Member Meetup: Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) Committee

11:30 – 12:00 pm • Quandary Peak Foyer

Member Meetup: North Section

12:30 – 1:00 pm • Quandary Peak Foyer

Keynote 2 • Julie Snow, FAIA, NOMA

1:15 – 2:30 pm • Grays

Architecture’s Trajectory (1 LU)

Member Meetup: CRAN

2:30 – 3 pm • Quandary Peak Foyer

Refreshment Break

2:30 – 3 pm • Longs Peak Foyer

Learning Labs

3 – 4 pm • Torreys, Shavano, Red Cloud, Crestone

• Sustainability Beyond the Basics in Lighting, Power & Technology (AE Design) (1 LU|HSW)
  • Andi Walter
  • Brian Johnson, PE, LEED Green Associate
  • Session Location: Shavano Peak
• Advancements in Facades: How Prefabricated Building Envelopes Are Changing Colorado Design and Construction (Wells Concrete) (1 LU|HSW)
  • Dan Stenzel
  • Session Location: Torrey’s Peak
• Designing with Wood (Rulon International) (1 LU|HSW)
  • Meg Whitaker
  • Session Location: Red Cloud Peak
• Overlooked Human Factors Impacting Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and Building Performance (BranchPattern) (1 LU|HSW)
  • Marcel Harmon, PhD, PE, WELL AP, LEED AP O+M
  • Session Location: Crestone Peak

Learning from Leaders

4:15 – 5:15 pm • Grays

AIA CO award winner panel, including WMR silver medalist (1 LU)

Industry Happy Hour

5:30 – 7 pm • Longs/Quandary

Group Run

7 am • Lodge Lobby

Start your morning with an easy or moderately paced run. Fresh air. Beautiful setting. Meet at the Lodge lobby. 

• Keystone River Run – Easy
• Keystone Incline Trail Run – Moderate 

Kindred Construction Tour at River Run (SOLD OUT)

7:30 am • River Run Village, Keystone, CO (1 LU|HSW)

Rebecca Stone, AIA will give attendees an exclusive construction tour of the Kindred Hotel. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the development of this exciting project! This is a separate ticketed event and is sold out.

Breakfast

8 – 9 am • Longs/Quandary

Keynote 3 • Evelyn M. Lee, FAIA

9 – 10:15 am • Grays

THRIVE in ’25. Leading the Institute as the 101st President of AIA (1 LU)

Breakout Series II

10:30 – 11:30 am • Torreys, Shavano, Red Cloud, Crestone

• Mass Timber: Process and Perspective (1 LU|HSW)
  • Joe Anastasi, AIA
  • Session Location: Crestone Peak
• Climate Positive Design: The Next-Generation of Architecture (1 LU|HSW)
  • Tom Hootman, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, CPHC
  • John Nelson, M.S., M.E., LEEP AP, LFA, BEMP
  • Session Location: Shavano Peak
• Neighborhood Data + Community Input: Key Ingredients of Co-Benefit Design (1 LU|HSW)
  • Adele Houghton, FAIA, DrPH, LEED AP
  • Gretchen Armijo, AICP, LEED AP
  • Session Location: Torrey’s Peak
• Generating Innovation in Modern Design (1 LU)
  • Harvey Hine, AIA
  • Session Location: Red Cloud Peak

Solutions Showcase & Lunch

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Longs/Quandary

Interact with industry partners in the Expo Hall. Travel the Expo floor to grab lunch from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm.

Mini Seminars, hosted in exhibit booths, will offer opportunities to participate in 15-minute informative sessions and earn CES if you attend four or more sessions.  (1 LU|HSW)

• 12:00 – 12:15 pm
• 12:20 – 12:35 pm
• 12:40 – 12:55 pm
• 1:00 – 1:15 pm

Member Meetup: Colorado Committee on the Environment (COTE)

11:30 – 12:00 pm • Quandary Peak Foyer

Member Meetup: West Section

12 – 1 pm • Quandary Peak Foyer

Breakout Series III

1:15 – 2:15 pm • Torreys, Shavano, Red Cloud, Crestone

• Leveraging Prefab to Make the Performance Leap (1 LU|HSW)
  • Morgan Law, AIA
  • Jan Pratschke
  • Session Location: Crestone Peak
• Aspen Distillers Case Study / Stewardship of Colorado’s Natural Resources (1 LU|HSW)
  • David Pfeifer, AIA
  • Stephan Hall, AIA, PLA, LEED AP BD+C
  • Luc Bamberger, AIA, LEED Green Associate
  • Lauren McNeil
  • Session Location: Red Cloud Peak
• Preserving and Upgrading Difficult Masterpieces – Resolving Technology and Preservation Challenges at Gio Ponti’s Martin Building and Gordon Bunshaft’s Hirshhorn Museum (1 LU|HSW)
  • Ned Kirschbaum, FAIA
  • Niklas W. Vigener, PE
  • Session Location: Shavano Peak
• GENERAT-ION: Navigating the mutli-generational workforce and the future of the profession (1 LU)
  • Kaylyn Kirby, AIA
  • Kari Lawson, AIA
  • Ken Andrews, AIA
  • Sarah Semple Brown, FAIA
  • Rebekah Wagoner, AIA
  • Session Location: Torrey’s Peak

Refreshment Break

2:15 – 2:45 pm • Longs Peak Foyer

Keynote 4 • Marlon Blackwell, FAIA • Meryati Blackwell, AIA, ASID, LEEP AP

2:45 – 4 pm • Grays

Radical Practice (1 LU|HSW)

Registration Desk Closes

4:30 pm

Path to Fellowship (WMR Session) (1.5 LU)

4:30 – 6:00 pm • Shavano Peak

Immediately following the closure of this year’s Practice + Design Conference, join the AIA College of Fellows Western Mountain Region members for an event to learn about Fellowship, the path to apply, and meet Fellows from Colorado who can help guide you on your Fellowship journey. Panelists include

• Ron Abo, FAIA (2023)
• Will Babbington, FAIA (2024)
• Phil Gerou, FAIA (1993)
• Greg Gidez, FAIA (2022)
• Jon Sparer, FAIA (2018)

Session will take place at Keystone Conference Center and there is no need to RSVP beforehand and no charge to attend.