DesignPhilly: Brickworks Design Studio Speaker Event with Cecil Baker

Schedule

Thu Oct 14 2021 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Brickworks Philadelphia Design Studio | Philadelphia, PA

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Join us at Brickwork's Philadelphia Design Studio for a lecture from Philadelphia's renown architect, Cecil Baker
About this Event
  • Proof of COVID vaccination is required upon entry or proof of medical exemption and mask on indoors
  • Small bites and drinks will be provided

Brickworks Philadelphia Design Studio Speaker Event featuring Cecil Baker

Please join us at Brickworks North America's very first Design Studio, a luxury space for intrinsically bold products, for an insightful lecture and Q&A with Philadelphia's very own Cecil Baker.

Philadelphia has had a long love affair with brick. With clients, with users, with affected communities, there is an immediate welcoming to the use of brick. Like a collective sigh of relief! Brick is symbolic of our heritage and is also unmatched in longevity: it in fact often even looks better with age. It has the patina of romance, gracefully embraces the passage of time and the corrosions of nature. So our issue today is how to let the brick vault us into new design opportunities? How do we take it from this place of soulful comfort into places and configurations that are reflective of change, of new paradigms.


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About the Speaker
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Cecil Baker, Principal

Cecil Baker + Partners

Born and raised in Argentina, Cecil Baker came to the United States in 1959 to attend Williams College. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and went on to get his Master of Architecture degree, studying under Louis Kahn, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cecil brings to each project a unique vision, grounded firmly in his design ideals of serenity and distinct simplicity. He inspires Clients to envision their projects in a new light, and through the partnership that develops, creativity and inventiveness flourish. Cecil finds joy in cultivating every phase of a project, and as a result, his hand can be detected in the largest of gestures to the smallest of details.

Prior to the formation of Cecil Baker + Partners in 1982 he had, with three architect friends, established BRHB Developers, a building and development enterprise whose goal was to put into practice the planning principles that had been the core of his architectural experience, and in the process prove that good design and profitability are compatible. BRHB Developers built and marketed a portfolio of 279 apartments and single family residences. Cecil continues to be a partner in this real estate entity.

In 2012, Cecil was appointed by the Mayor of Philadelphia to serve on the City Planning Commission's Civic Design Review Committee. Cecil is a past Board Member and Vice President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA. He has been regional representative on the national AIA’s Standing Committee on Housing. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University and lectured at other institutions of higher learning.

Cecil's firm is the recipient of more than fifty regional and national design awards. In 2008 he was named to the Hall of Fame by Residential Architect. Cecil lives with his wife, Fairley, in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia.



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Brickworks Philadelphia Design Studio, 1319 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

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