April 17, 2025

CiV : : the Center for Architecture + Design

251 Riverside Drive, Memphis, TN 38013

PARKING GUIDANCE BELOW

11:30am Doors Open

12:00pm Program Begins (1 LU/HSW)

$30: AIA Memphis Member & Corporate Partners

$40: Public

Registration is non-refundable.

Sponsorships available:

$500 Keynote

$250 Tabletop Display

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A Right to Nature

featuring:

Matt Wittman

Founding Principal, Wittman Estes

Matt will share Wittman Estes' collection of drawings, architectures, and other works that inspire a healthier human relationship to the natural world. Each site has a unique relationship with the sun, topography, waterways, and streetscapes. We embrace these elements as guiding principles to design long-lasting designs suited to every site’s climate, history, and culture.

4 Learning Objectives

1. Understand the dynamic relationship between architecture and landscape design.
   
   
2. Consider architecture's relationship to nature across scales, through region, city, building, and furniture design.
   
   
3. Learn how different typologies of studios, houses, multifamily buildings, and other structures can embrace site and landscape elements.
   
   
4. Become familiar with off-site fabrication and how to deliver architecture and construction to a wide range of geographic and ecologically sensitive sites.

Matt Wittman is the founding principal of Wittman Estes.   He is best known for innovative housing — single-family to multi-family — that provides a rich experience and is in tune with the natural environment.

Matt is a recognized architecture thought leader -- his work has been published widely and won international design recognition including the AIA National Housing award for Tsuga Townhomes, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies for Othello Gardens, and the 2024 AIA National Small Project Award for Whidbey Puzzle Prefab.

Matt received his Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley and is a visiting critic at the University of Oregon and University of Washington Departments of Architecture.  He believes that architecture and nature can be combined into one interconnected whole.

PARKING

Over 2,000 parking spots are within 2 blocks of CiV. We suggest the following (in order of distance):

• 3 min: Tom Lee Park has free streetside parking along Riverside Drive
  
• 4 min: 210 Wagner Place (use discount code LUNCH)
  
• 7 min (w stairs): Downtown Mobility Center at 60 Beale Street
  
• 8 min (w stairs): MLGW Parking lot
  
• Downtown Street Parking: Access the Cutbank Bluff from Lynne Jordan Turley Plaza where Vance Avenue meets the Bluff Walk (formerly Vance Park).