Firm News

Albert Kahn Associates Inc. has formed a new subsidiary company, Kahn Manufacturing Solutions Inc., Detroit. It will specialize in manufacturing and industrial engineering.

Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle (AVRP), San Diego, has established a Los Angeles office following the acquisition of Siegel Diamond Architecture, Los Angeles.

Fox and Fowle Architects, New York City, will receive a citation from the Urban Design Awards Program, which is sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects/AIA and the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. It will receive the honor for its work on the Midtown East Master Plan in Long Island City. In addition, Syracuse University has selected Fox & Fowle (led by senior principal and SU alumnus Bruce S. Fowle, FAIA, '60) to design the university's proposed 165,000-square-foot School of Management Building.

WWCOT, Santa Monica, Calif., has been selected to plan and design a new high school in Panorama City, Calif., which will house more than 2,000 students when it is completed in 2005. It is among the first "new generation of high schools" to be built by the Los Angeles Unified School District in the last 17 years. Centrally located in the San Fernando Valley, the four-story facility will be designed to serve as a high school with portions accessible for community use, according to Chet Widom, FAIA, WWCOT principal in charge of the project.

Member News

Karen Kirks Alexander, AIA, KKA Architecture, is a 2001 recipient of the Women in Business Achievement Award presented by The Business Journal of Charlotte and metropolitan area. She was recognized for her efforts to help form a team of architects that helped to preserve an historic area around Greensboro, N.C., and for her work with the Charlotte AIA, among other personal and professional accomplishments.

Martin Santini, AIA, past president of AIA New Jersey (1995–1996), was elected as the next regional director for AIA/New Jersey. Santini, who currently serves as president of the Architects League of New Jersey, will succeed James Gatsch, AIA, in January 2002, as the new representative from New Jersey to the national AIA Board.

Howard Wertheimer, AIA, a partner with Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta, has been named chair-elect of the Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA). The organization provides the scientific equipment and furniture industry with input from the design community.

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