Woodbury University School of Architecture Announces Valley Summit II: Designing the SFV
February 12th-13th, 2009

The San Fernando Valley epitomizes suburban sprawl but surprisingly little scholarship exits about the Valley’s archi¬tecture and urban design. Even though the Valley remains Los Angeles’s most notorious suburb, identifying its geo¬graphic and scholarly purview proves challenging. Iconic yet hazy, the valley challenges perceptions to consider it only at a surface level. Following upon the 2008 Valley Summit I—”Shifting Focus: Architecture, Urbanism and Development in the San Fernando Valley”—The Department of Architecture at Woodbury University announces Valley Summit II —”Design¬ing the SFV.” The conference will bring together a group of scholars and community design experts who will present strategies on how we might begin to understand and, poten¬tially, augment the 345 square miles that constitute the San Fernando Valley. What is the Valley’s urban design history? How do the global economy and its shadow economies affect urban form? How might strategies developed by other design communities begin to offer alternative design perspectives? These are some of the questions speakers will address in an effort to engage the Valley’s historical and contemporary role in urban design.

Woodbury University, the Valley’s architecture and design school, serves as a resource and research center for both real and visionary responses to such questions. For further in¬formation contact conference organizers Jeanine Centuori or Paulette Singley at 818 767-0888.
Burbank Campus

7500 Glenoaks Blvd.

Burbank, CA 91510


All events are free and open to the public. 
Parking is available on campus
FEBRUARY 12
THURSDAY: KEYNOTE 5:30 p.m.
Michael Rotondi, FAIA
Principal, RoTo Architects, Inc.
“From the Inside Out”

FEBRUARY 13
FRIDAY MORNING 8:30: STRATEGIES

Dr. Deborah Fausch, Moderator
Assoc Undergraduate Director U of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture

Alfred Willis
Assoc Director Collection Development Harvey Library, Hampton University
“Architectural History and the History of the Architecture of the SFV”

Joel Kotkin
Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures, Chapman University
“The Valley as Archetype”

Dr. Robert Bruegmann
Distinguished Professor U of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture
“Sprawl: The Valley, LA and the World”

Douglas Suisman, FAIA
Principal, Suisman Urban Design
“The Bus in the Orchard: Moving Through the Valley”

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:30: TACTICS
Dr. Pat Morton, Moderator
Associate Professor, History of Art Department
Chair, Urban Studies Program, University of California, Riverside

Director, University of Arkansas Community Design Center
Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies
“Building Recombinant Ecologies”

Greg Goldin
Architecture Critic, Los Angeles Magazine
“Suburban Ruralism: The San Fernando Valley as Open Range”

Marcos Sanchez / IHA
Associate Adjunct Professor SCI-Arc
Mark Wasiuta / IHA
Associate Adjunct Professor GSAPP Columbia
“House Arrest”
Larry Sultan
Artist and Professor of Art at California College of the Arts
“From Parents to Pornography: Some Pictures From the Valley”

Woodbury Univeristy,7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank CA 91510