Tim Culvahouse is an american architect who works as an independent consultant via his company Culvahouse Consulting. From 2000 to 2012, he edited arcCA (Architecture California), the journal of the American Institute of Architects California Council. arcCA is no longer published in print format, but Culvahouse continues to work with AIACC as Editor-in-Chief.
Culvahouse is a great resource for knowledge and his "connecting people" approach. It was also interesting to hear that this connecting forms part of his consulting work. And apparently very efficiently, as Garret Jacobs, the outreach coordinator of Architecture for Humanity told me, that the first thing he did when moving to San Francisco, was to connect with Culvahouse to hear what is going on in the social impact field in the Bay area.
I met with Culvahouse on Tuesday 7.1.2014 in a local cafe in Berkeley. It was a great discussion touching on on various issues as the development of social impact ideology with Team Ten in the 1950s and the impact of Samuel Mockabee in bringing together the "social architect" and the "design architect".
We also discussed the change of ecological sustainability moving from the marginal to the fundamentals of architectural profession. According to Culvahouse, a real sign of social impact design turning into a mainstream issue is that the largest architecture practices like HOK and Perkins+Will have included it in their business models, Perkins+Will actually already in 2007.