PBy collaborators Hong Joo Kim, Jessica Varner, Leigh Christy and Marc Salette spoke this afternoon as part of Cal Poly Pomona Architecture Department’s Fall 2010 lecture series.

Organized around PBy’s four core principles, the group highlighted key aspects of Context, Vision and Process for undergraduate and graduate architecture, landscape architecture and planning students as well as faculty.  During the Q+A session, much of the discussion revolved around how a restored river would be similar to but different than the “original” river due to the transformation of the surrounding urban context.  Additionally, students seemed particularly interested in the process of working in a truly integrated  team, going so far as to hope that this method of collaborating would begin to proliferate the design world.  We couldn’t agree more.

Before being known as the Piggyback Yard Collaborative Design Group (aka the PBy Collaborative), a collection of representatives from individual firms met with FoLAR Founder Lewis MacAdams and Executive Director Shelly Backlar on the heliport of a multi-story parking garage associated with the County of Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility in October 9, 2009. It is the only accessible location with a clear view of the Los Angeles Transportation Center, familiarly known as the Piggyback Yard. (more…)