| As a complement to New West's annual Real Estate and Development in the Northern Rockies conference,
which covers a wide range of issues relating to growth and
development, New West is offering "Designing the New West," April 25 at the Gallatin Gateway Inn near Bozeman.
Designing the New West will feature leading architects, developers, land planners and landscape designers from around the region, with the aim of identifying best practices, showcasing great projects and understanding how thoughtful and innovative design can help help us shape our region in the most positive possible ways.
Join us Thursday afternoon for a pre-conference tour of interesting projects around Bozeman, led by Montana State University Professor of Architecture Ralph Johnson and MSU students. This will conclude with a conference opening reception and social.
Conference highlights will include:
Presentations on next-generation land planning and architecture from some of the nation's leading practitioners Discussion of how the vernacular of Western design is changing, with false fronts and slapdash neighborhoods giving way to new urbanism and creative approaches to materials and landscape Analysis of the economics of cutting edge architecture and design, and especially the challenges of sustainability and green building A magnificent setting at the historic Gallatin Gateway Inn, and lively networking with some of the top design and development professionals from around the region
Designing the New West has been qualified for the prestigious American Institute of Architects' continuing education program, and will also offer continuing education credits for certified planners and real estate agents.
Jonathan Weber is the founder and editor-in-chief
of NewWest.net. He was the co-founder and editor in
chief of The Industry Standard, a weekly business news
magazine and online service that rocketed to prominence
in the late 1990s only to crash and burn along with
the rest of the dot-com economy in 2001.
Weber moved to Missoula in early 2002
to serve as a visiting professor at the University of
Montana Journalism School. He quickly became fascinated
by the myriad issues associated with growth and change
in the region, but was also frustrated by the lack of
quality media devoted to those issues.
In 2004 he began
to think in earnest about how the dramatic changes under
way in the media world might create an opportunity for
a new kind of publication about the Rocky Mountain region,
and the result was New West. Jonathan has also served
eight years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles
Times, and was a co-founder of the Geneva-based international
affairs publication World Link.
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