Will Shaw, FAIA

SPEAKER: POLLY OSBORNE, FAIA

Will Shaw was instrumental in shaping the architectural landscape and the planning and environmental policies of the Monterey Peninsula in the 1960’s to the 1980’s.  He was the 2nd architect on the Peninsula to receive Fellowship from the AIA and the first to win the Stanton Award.  He founded the Foundation for Environmental Design with his friend Ansel Adams to promote architectural design that conformed to the environment.  His buildings ranged from single family houses to Buddhist Temples to the Masterplan for Pebble Beach.  This lecture will give an overview of his work and a comparative investigation of his 1970 Pfeiffer Point House as an evolution of ideas developed at Sea Ranch a few years before.

Speaker

Polly Osborne is an architect who has practiced in Los Angeles and Monterey.  She received her Fellowship largely based on her work promoting environmental and green architecture, and for her pro bono design work in Africa.  Will Shaw was her step father and first mentor in architecture.”

AIA CE 1.5 LU