AIA California (then known as California Council, The American Institute of Architects, or CCAIA) first presented the Monterey Design Conference in 1980 at the Monterey Conference Center. (It moved to Asilomar in 1985.)
The 1984 conference theme, “SECRETS,“ takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to what from time to time is a very real issue: architects’ reluctance to share their ideas, methods, and discoveries. Of course, MDC is all about generous sharing, but in day-to-day practice (we are told) such generosity may be more restrained.
In this season devoted to “Innovation,” we want to foreground generous offerings, such as EHDD’s EPIC Early Phase Carbon Assessment Tool and other open-source resources; while also acknowledging the role that proprietary enterprise may play in advancing the discipline, as considered by Mark Miller, FAIA, in “Architecture and Enterprise: Potential and Pitfalls,” which he wrote for arcCA in 2011 and revisits this season in “Architecture Innovation: the Now-Near-(Again) Frontier.”
At the same time, you might enjoy the program from “SECRETS,” in which . . .
You can find it as a PDF here.
