Lectures + Workshops
Our lectures and workshops provide an opportunity for expansive, inclusive and ongoing public dialogue about the design of our shared urban environment in Santa Fe.
Organized around provocative and timely themes, these events invite expert speakers—architects, planners, developers, policymakers, academics—to engage the community on important issues of sustainable urban development, preservation, social equity and livability. These are opportunities for both the audience and invited speakers to share knowledge, revise opinions, and participate in creating better design and policy outcomes.
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ReVISION — The Future of Santa Fe Style
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Since 1912, our regional architectural style has been overwhelmingly successful in accomplishing its explicit goals of promoting tourism and economic development. And for all but the last two or three decades, our style project has been oriented towards envisioning Santa Fe’s future, projecting its growth, and creating new urban forms.
Given the unique challenges we face more than a century later, how might we reimagine the Santa Fe Style? Reevaluate its purpose? Reassess its values and audience? Recover its design creativity and vision of the future?
Our 2024 ReVISION Series is an examination of the future of the City Different as it appeared at key moments from 1912 to the present. Together we will explore the invention and rich evolution of the Santa Fe Style and how we might have different conversations with the past about our collective future. Four unique events over the course of the year will provide a myriad of ways to engage in this discussion.
Exclusion: Santa Fe Style 1990S - Present
January 23, 2025 | Lecture + Panel Discussion
6:00 - 8:00 pm // Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave
In the first two sessions of our ReVision: The Future of Santa Fe Style program series, we examined the history of Santa Fe style - the design creativity that launched the initiative in 1912 and its stylistic evolution and design experimentation through the 1980s.
In Session 3, we will turn towards the present to assess our City’s contemporary design practice. A presentation by FASF Board President, Anthony Guida, will evaluate the impact that 65 years of style and preservation mandates have had on the culture, livability, and sustainability of our city.
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Restyle: The Next 50 Years
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Help formulate a revised design agenda for the Santa Fe Stye that leverages our design heritage to address the challenges of housing, climate, cultural equity, and more.
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Lectures Archive:
2022: ReVision Growth Series
To better inform thoughts and conversations around the current challenges housing development, ReVision Growth will examine and attempt to overcome the often entrenched oppositions between conventional thinking of new development and community interests of stability, prosperity, and livability.
2020-21: ReVisioning History Series
To better inform solutions to the contemporary challenges of our shared built environment, ReVisioning History proposes a critical re-examination of the collective values and visions that have historically guided Santa Fe’s plans for the future.
This series consists of public discussions organized around a set of interrelated topics that have, and continue to shape our physical environment, our daily lives and our communities: planning, preservation, housing, and sustainability. Each session will pair contemporary experts in architecture, planning and community development with plans and studies commissioned by the City of Santa Fe over the last 50 years. Analysis and participatory discussions will inform, inspire and animate new collective visions for a more livable, equitable and sustainable Santa Fe.
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