Women Speak: Four Architects On Design and Urbanism

Join Laura Hartman down at the beautiful Julia Morgan-designed Berkeley City Club at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 13 and be a part of the lecture series "Women Speak: Four Architects On Design and Urbanism"! Each lecture in the series features one Bay Area design leader whose work promotes sustainability, historic revitalization, and urban planning. Be sure to also check out the lectures from three other very accomplished designers featured in this series.

Visit this website for information about tickets:

www.tinyurl.com/B3CWomenSpeak

1908 Shattuck in STRUCTURE Magazine

Subscribers to STRUCTURE Magazine and fans of Fernau & Hartman will notice a familiar project in its most recent issue. 1908 Shattuck - the soon-to-be home of Tipping Structural Engineers, whose office is currently adjacent at 1906 - and its impressive base isolation system superstructure are featured in an article written by Steven Tipping, S.E. 

Click on the images below to read the article on the STRUCTURE Magazine website.

UCSC Hay Barn Photos

Before you scroll through the new gorgeous photographs from the recent photoshoots down at the Hay Barn, take a look at this stunning before-and-after shot:

Left: Before shot (photographer unknown) Right: After shot (© 2016 Cesar Rubio Photography)


All photos below © 2016 Cesar Rubio Photography.

Review of "Improvisations on the Land" in ARCADE Magazine!

The most recent review of our book, Improvisations on the Land: Houses of Fernau + Hartman, appears in ARCADE Magazine. Written by John Parman, a writer, editor, and West Coast adviser to the Architect's Newspaper, the review captures the essence of the firm's practice and history of improvisation and collaboration - from its inception to the office in present day. Parman describes the book as being "a tutorial on how to practice architecture as [Richard Fernau] and Laura Hartman see it, in which place and improvisation provide valid, potent bases for design."

Parman begins the article by referencing the iconic New Yorker cover from March of 1976 - "View of the World from 9th Avenue."

"Far from being provincial," Parman writes, "the tradition in which F+H is situated is wide-eyed about the world around it. To live in the Bay Area is to be immersed in a place that gathers up sense, encourages openness and flow, and discourages anything that seems too predetermined."

READ John Parman's review by clicking here