TAKING PART WORKSHOP OCTOBER 21 - 22
“The Sea Ranch has changed the attitude and the vision of how you can design and build a community in which people can live and be nurtured by a landscape.”
Lawrence Halprin
CELEBRATE & RENEW the SEA RANCH VISIONS & VALUES
“Driftwood Village Community,” Sea Ranch, CA. Experiments in Environment Workshop, July 6, 1968.
Lawrence Halprin Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.
JOIN US & the SEA RANCH community to TAKE PART! Share ideas & inspirations.
Celebrate our community through conversations. Renew our legacy & look forward to a more resilient future.
KEY PRINCIPLES of THE SEA RANCH COMMUNITY
NATURE PREDOMINATES.
THE COMMONS & COMMUNITY ARE ESSENTIAL.
DIVERSITY & ACCESSIBILITY ARE FUNDAMENTAL.
DESIGN STEWARDSHIP SUPPORTS HONESTY & SIMPLICITY.
These principles are as critical as ever. We need to creatively address emerging challenges and opportunities - including climate change, affordability, demographic diversity, strengthening community, transportation, and accessibility. TAKE PART in a creative exchange of ideas through group work, site walks and shared meals. We’ll celebrate community while developing priorities and actions for a dynamic and sustainable future.
We’ll find common ground and connections at this two-day event continuing the tradition of participatory workshops at the Sea Ranch. We will collaborate and coordinate to strengthen our community and the stewardship of our natural resources. We look forward to hearing your voices, ideas, and inspirations. Hope to see you there!
OCTOBER WORKSHOP DETAILS & NOTES
MEET: Knipp-Stengel White Barn Saturday (8:30 am) & Sunday (9 am)
LUNCH Saturday: Knipp-Stengel White Barn
LUNCH Sunday: The Sea Ranch Lodge
LUNCH Options: Vegetarian and GF alternatives will be available for RSVP’d lunch attendees
ATTIRE: Dress in layers for temperature shifts indoors & outside. Wear comfortable walking shoes.
KNIPP-STENGEL WHITE BARN CA-1 &, Wild Iris, Sea Ranch, CA 95497
EVENT SCHEDULE
SATURDAY
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. ARRIVAL: Gathering & Refreshments
9:00 – 9:20 a.m. WELCOME: Introductions & Workshop Roadmap
9:20 – 9:40 a.m. SHARING: Celebrating Legacy While Moving Forward
• Nature Predominates: Stewardship and Resiliency
• Design Excellence: Modesty and Simplicity
• Community and Commons: Participation and Shared Assets
• Diversity: Non-Elitist and Affordable
• TSR Legacies & Principles
• Contemporary Context & Challenges
• Actions & Momentum
9:50 – 12:30 p.m. YOUR VOICES: Identify Challenges, Opportunities & Actions
• Key Challenges in Adaptability & Renewal
• Commonalities & Divergence
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. YOUR EXPERIENCES: Awareness Walk & Lunch
• Curated Walks Highlighting a Range of Landscape Elements and Building Types
• Sensory Experiences to Deepen Our Understanding of TSR Ecologies
• Addressing Vulnerabilities & New Opportunities
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. AWARENESS WALK PIN-UP & DISCUSSION
3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. YOUR REFLECTIONS: Collect, Share & Collage
• Share Your Common & Divergent Themes from the morning session
• Nature Predominates: Landscape Management & Resiliency
• Design Excellence: Scale & Harmonious Materials
• Community & Commons: Accessibility & Shared Spaces
• Diversity: Configurations, Density & Demographics
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. CELEBRATE & SHARE: End of Day Refreshments
• Informal Viewing of Gallery of Observations & Ideas in the Barn
SUNDAY
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. ARRIVAL: Gathering & Refreshments
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. YOUR IDEAS: How We Build & Sustain Momentum
• How do contemporary challenges & opportunities affect the Sea Ranch principles and vision?
• How can we find creative positive & constructive ways to communicate?
• What should we prioritize in the future?
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. OUR REFLECTIONS & ACTIONS
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. LUNCH @ THE SEA RANCH LODGE
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CELEBRATION! LET’S DANCE!
A moving & art making event In the Halprin tradition!
Harvesting the Taking Part Workshop experience with Daria Halprin & Jahan Khalighi on drums.
SIGN UP HERE!
MEET the WORKSHOP TEAM!
In the fall of 1977, Charles Moore, founding Sea Ranch architect and member of the MLTW team that designed the iconic Condo One, joined John Ruble and Buzz Yudell to establish Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners (MRY). In the following decades, MRY collaborated extensively with Lawrence Halprin on a range of projects both at The Sea Ranch and in urban settings. MRY worked with Larry and his long-time colleague Jim Burns on participatory planning and design utilizing the process they coined “Taking Part.”
By expanding their reach beyond community planning and design into a large array of civic and educational buildings they influenced the broader architectural and planning professions to embrace participatory design as an essential part of practice.
Over the years, Buzz Yudell and Mario Violich have deepened their relationship with The Sea Ranch through creative collaborations with founders Donlyn Lyndon, Alice Wingwall, Lu & Maynard Lyndon, and seminal Sea Ranch builder - the late Matt Sylvia. The entire MRY team is delighted to continue using the process to renew the legacy, celebrate the present, and imagine a resilient future the entire community through Taking Part.
Buzz Yudell
Christoper Hamilton
Kaoru Orime
Mario Violich
Roya Chagnon
BUZZ YUDELL, FAIA
Buzz Yudell’s passion for architecture grew out of a synthesis of artistic and social concerns. Collaborating closely with his partners, he has established deep client engagement at all scales of planning and architecture. He’s committed to understanding the social, cultural, and ecological context of each project to create joyful places that are conceived and built in harmony with nature. Buzz’s work in educational, civic, residential, and planning projects has been recognized in global publications and awards. He’s been an Architectural Digest 100 Honoree and received the AIA/LA Gold Medal with John Ruble. MRY was recognized with the highest honor they bestow on an American architecture firm at the National American Institute of Architects Firm Award.
Throughout his career, Buzz’s teaching, writing and community service has informed and shaped his contributions to celebrating place and community. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, University of Texas, Austin, and held the distinguished Howard Friedman Chair as a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley.
Over the last 25 years Buzz has led the design of five houses at the Sea Ranch. After Larry and Anna Halprin’s house burned to the ground in 2001, they asked Buzz and Tina Beebe to design a new house on the extraordinary site.
MARIO VIOLICH
With a background in landscape architecture and architecture, Mario Violich’s professional and academic experiences blur the traditional boundaries between building and landscape. Mario received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the UC Berkeley in Landscape Architecture at the College of Environmental Design (CED) and his Masters of Architecture from the UCLA. He joined Moore Ruble Yudell in 1989. His interdisciplinary background includes teaching at the UCLA Department of Landscape Architecture Extension and CED – including multiple drawing classes at The Sea Ranch with guest collaborators Lawrence Halprin and Al Forster.
For over 30 years, Mario Violich, AIA, ASLA, has been an innovative leader in urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture at MRY. His commitment to design excellence is evident at multiple scales. Across a spectrum of demographic and global geographies, his projects reshape the character of the built environment.
KAORU ORIME
Kaoru came to the United States from her native Japan in 1991 to further her interest in studying the art of colors and materials. Under her mentor Tina Beebe, she received her architectural degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Since working on the rebuilding of Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s residence in 2001 with Buzz Yudell and Tina Beebe she’s grown a profound respect for the harmony of the land and design of The Sea Ranch.The thunder of ocean waves crashing against the cliffs, the intensity of the winds, the scent of fresh cut cedar in the house, and their personal mementos on display altogether awed and touched her deeply.
Since 2000 she has worked with MRY an architectural designer and expert in her field. Kaoru’s design experience covers a wide range of regional and global projects, from single-family residences to cultural/civic work, to large scale town and campus planning. She believes in a hands-on approach in life. She is a weekend contractor for her house and an avid urban farmer.
CHRIS HAMILTON
Chris Hamilton thrives on creative problem solving for projects of all scales, from single-family residences to complex, multidisciplinary institutional projects. He combines flexible thinking with a diligent and organized management approach allowing him to prioritize while adapting to changing project conditions. By paying particular attention to how a project engages its environment his experience spans the entire process from initial programming through the end of construction.
From his early studies at the College of Environmental Design Chris felt a keen affinity for the Sea Ranch environment. After garnering a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture degree from University of Michigan he’s spent countless hours over the last 20 years walking the bluffs, roaming the forest trails, and enjoying the wonders that wash onto the sands of Pebble Beach.
ROYA CHAGNON
Roya Chagnon received Bachelor of Arts degrees from UC Berkeley in Urban Studies and American Studies with a focus on the history of the built environment in addition to a Master’s degree in Architecture and a certificate in Urban Humanities from UCLA. Prior to joining MRY, Roya worked as a transportation planner for the City of Oakland, where her work focused on community-driven design for safer streets.
She has also served on the City of Berkeley’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. While at UCLA, Roya was a researcher at cityLAB, investigating policy and design solutions for more socially just public spaces. At Moore Ruble Yudell, Roya is currently working on master planning and design for Roosevelt Elementary School in Santa Monica.