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Enjoy an intimate tour of this fascinating complex and enjoy lunch while touring the buildings and adjacent landscape, consisting on a rare grove of Sargent’s cypress, riparian oak woodland, coastal chaparral and uncommon Oracle oak, and other rare plants that only occur on the Cuesta ridge.
This fundraiser benefits the non-profit San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden.
$150 for two people, or $80 per person. Register and more info at slobg.org.
Polly Cooper is a registered architect with more than 25 years’ experience in design and architecture. She founded the San Luis Sustainability Group (SLSG) with fellow architect Ken Haggard. Polly specializes in sustainability, passive solar, and natural lighting design. She is a professor emeritus at California Polytechnic State University where she taught for more than 20 years. Polly has designed hundreds of passive solar buildings and has received numerous sustainable architecture awards.
Ken Haggard is a pioneer in passive solar design and has over 32 years of architecture experience. He served as architect and senior researcher for the first passive solar house in California in 1972, and has received numerous awards for his sustainable designs. Ken has authored several publications on sustainable design, covering topics of passive solar, straw bale construction and roof ponds. Ken taught architecture and environmental design at California Polytechnic University for more than 15 years.