Most of us have presumably become aware of the improvements being made to the former bank building at 199 Petaluma Boulevard North, the southwest corner of PBN and E. Washington. Some of us have probably also stopped to read the intriguing notes about the coming “Hall of the Above”.
Daniel Castor, the new tenant of 199 Petaluma Boulevard North and the coiner of the phrase “Hall of the Above” has agreed to tell KBYG what he’s doing and what his vision is for the building.
Casual conversations, with light refreshments, will begin at 6:30pm. The forum will begin at 7:00pm.
Join us in person if you can. If not, Zoom will be available starting at 7:00pm.
Daniel Castor lived in Malaysia and Singapore until moving to Chattanooga, TN at the age of nine. He graduated with high honors from Princeton University in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Harvard University in 1995.
His career has taken him around the world from Amsterdam to Rome to New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
In 1992 Daniel received a Fulbright Scholarship to draw the Amsterdam Exchange, the masterwork of the Dutch architect Dr. H. P. Berlage.
Daniel's professional experience through the 1980s and 90s included large-scale projects in the offices of Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York, Payette Associates in Boston, and Anshen + Allen in San Francisco
In 2001, wanting to focus on a more personal approach to practice through residential design, he co-founded Castor Henig Architecture in San Francisco. He has since worked on a variety of single family homes, estates, additions and remodels throughout the Bay Area.
In 2007 he established Castor Architecture in Mill Valley, CA to work closer to the home he shares with his wife Jennifer Jerde and their daughters Nell and Gwen.
In addition to his professional practice, in 2020 he established the Geomancer Project as a kind of parallel workshop to illustrate properties of the physical world that may otherwise be unseen or underappreciated. The goal is to increase the awareness and understanding of Geometry through lectures, exhibitions, and internships – as well as community-building public art installations. Some of the results can already be seen suspended inside Hall of the Above.
The firm will be moving its headquarters to Petaluma with the completion of renovations to the Seed Bank building.
Zoom will be available starting at 7:00pm.