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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="2b28ec00ddualp.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#333333" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#99FF99" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" >Studio 300A Art+ Architecture</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" >    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" > </FONT><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Studio 300A Art Architecture"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bio_of_firm.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About"><U><B>About</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><B>News and Events</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="recent_architectural_works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Architecture"><U><B>Architecture</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="various_works_on_paper_by_artist__barry_peterson.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artwork"><U><B>Artwork</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="ways_to_reach_deliberate_design.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact "><U><B>Contact </B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="art_and_architectural_links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05c58020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>News and Events</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700dcaaaaaa00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leslie and Barry have moved their painting, architecture and print-making studios into one large space in the ICB at Studio 300A.  Leslie Allen, Artist, Deliberate Design + Architecture as well as NightSHIFT Press will all be in one large and rather beautiful, raw space on the third floor with exquisite views of SF Bay, Tiburon and Angel Island.  We are in the process of forming a business partnership and we will be doing business under the name of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><U>STUDIO 300A ART+ ARCHITECTURE</U></FONT>.  More on this later, but in the mean time, here is some very light reading in the <A HREF="http://www.thecitystarsf.com/catalog/catalog.php?catalog_id=166&start_page=6" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thecitystarsf.com/catalog/cat"><U>SF City Star</U></A> about the partnership.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700dcaaaaaa00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">As a part of our <A HREF="http://www.icbartists.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.icbartists.com"><U>ICB Artists Association</U></A> 40th OPEN STUDIOS event held last year (and we are characteristically understating the significance of this event on the West Coast) we built-out a small but precious gallery space on the first floor of the ICB.  The inagural show was a retrospective of the late Timothy Rose's kinetic sculpture and his graphic works.  Tim was the one who can easily be credited with originating this kind of event in at a time when it was virtually unprecidented.  This year we had somewhere between 80 and 90 resident artists participating and we recieved a somewhat overwhelming visitorship.</div> <bR> <div>       <IMG SRC="3c136790.jpg" border=0 width="566" height="377" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700dcaaaaaa00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Last year a video was made of several of the artists in their studio during the show.  Check out Barry and Leslie on Ed Rutch's video series:  <A HREF="http://youtube.com/group/MarinArts" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://youtube.com/group/MarinArts"><U>YouTube</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div>    </div> <div>       The <A HREF="http://www.icbbuilding.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.icbbuilding.com"><U>ICB</U></A> is at 480 Gate 5 Road at Harbor Drive in Sausalito.  It is a giant ex-ship building structure with a barrel-vaulted roof--across the street from the Post </div> <div>       Office. We are 1 block from the water. Look for us in Studio 300A.    </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700dcaaaaaa00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">We have been rather active in the City of Sausalito by volunteering for such committees as the Planning and Design Committee for the new public safety facilities (meaning the new police and fire stations soon to come here in town).  Also the Architect Selection Committee and the Project Manager Selection Committee for the same project.  We were also asked to help in the selection process of the new Planning Director here in Sausalito.  Barry has been appointed to the Sausalito Planning Commission instead.  Yes, Barry has crossed over to the "DARK SIDE".  Or maybe, it is for reasons more like this:</div> <bR> <div> <I>"Architects should retake responsibility for an urbanism that is currently abandoned to the statistical concerns of zoning, building codes, traffic and financing." -Andres Duany</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700dcaaaaaa00.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Tauton Press/ Author and Home Magazine editor, Peter Lemos has just released a new book which features residential kitchen renovations of note.  It is called<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><A HREF="http://www.taunton.com/store/pages/070823_tcpg.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.taunton.com/store/pages/07082"><U><B>KITCHENS FOR THE REST OF US</B></U></A><B>. </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B> </B></FONT>If you look through this book you will find an 8-page spread on DD+A's <A HREF="renovation_of_mill_valley_house.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HugGarneau Residence Mill Valley, CA"><U>Garneau-Hug renovation</U></A>.  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700b444444400.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="23ba8100.jpg" border=0 width="424" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Warren Callister and Bay Area  architect / legend, </B></I><A HREF="http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewtopic.php?p=12956#12956" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewto"><U><I><B>Jack Hillmer</B></I></U></A><I><B> at Davies Hall in SF.  Our guess would be that Shostakovich was on the program.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>(photo by Charles Sholten)</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Jack passed away on 2 April 07.  Jack retired many years ago saying, "the profession is dead".  If you knew the kind of organic purity he achieved in his design work,  you would believe him.  His work is well beyond our reach now.  Good bye, Jack.  Thank you so much for all your survivors.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/04/28/HOGLQPFASD1.DTL&o=0" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/art"><U><B>SF Chronicle 28 April 07</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>One year and one day later, Architect </B><A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/06/HOG3E5CJ1M1.DTL" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg"><U><B>Charles Warren Callister</B></U></A><B> passed away in Novato.  Since this posting is so soon afterward, there is little to be said --just this image by Loren Hammer, taken at Jack's memorial at Mar West Studios in Tiburon, CA.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3c444870.jpg" border=0 width="580" height="391" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Charles Warren Callister  27 Feb 1917-3 April 2008</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/30/HOUA10RNJP.DTL&hw=Warren+Callister&sn=001&sc=1000" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg"><U><B>Article by David Weinstein</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>