The Gualala Arts Lecture Series will host architect Pete Gang on Monday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Gang will present a slide show on the current state of energy-efficient, resource-efficient building in the United States - from houses of mud and straw to mid-town office buildings, including the hopeful rumblings in the regulatory world.

Pete Gang is an architect and former general building contractor. In addition to running Common Sense Design, an architectural practice specializing in "spirited green architecture," he has been teaching straw-bale and natural building workshops since 1996. A founding member of the Redwood Empire Chapter of the US Green Building Council, he is co-teaching a Green Building Progressional Certificate Program at Sonoma State University. "Our effort is to design and build more sensibly, more intelligently, more responsibly," Pete says.

A 1980 graduate of MIT (in architecture), I am one of a small number of architects who has years of experience in trenches as a hands-on licensed general building contractor (Common Sense Construction, 1986-1990), as well as years in other architecture firms prior to 1985. He has been a licensed architect in California since 1991.

A $5 donation at the door is appreciated.