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Hopkins Elected President
Eugene
Hopkins, FAIA, will be the 2003 AIA first vice president/president-elect
and will serve in 2004 as Institute president. AIA delegates elected Hopkins
during the Institutes national convention in Charlotte. Election
results were tallied May 10. Hopkins term as first vice president
begins in December 2002.
Currently a partner of SmithGroup, Hopkins works
out of the firms Detroit and Ann Arbor officers, where he is a senior
vice president leading its architecture, engineering and planning initiatives
in design excellence. Before that, Hopkins founded Architects Four (198398),
an AIA Honor Award-winning small firm specializing in historic preservation.
Hopkins served as 2002 vice president of the Institute
and sat on the Board of Directors from 19992002. He was the jury
chair for selection of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural
Education in 2000. He has also served as a member of the Historic Resources
Committee since 1985 and was a member of the national Resolutions Committee
(199798). He was elevated to the College of Fellows in 1997.
Hopkins also has been active on the local and state
levels of the AIA, serving as vice president (1987) and president (1988)
of the AIA Huron Valley component. Subsequently, he was president (1994)
of AIA Michigan after having served as vice president, treasurer, and
secretary. He chaired the state components Finance Committee from
19952001.
The profession is changing. My mission is
to prepare members for excellence in practice and work collectively and
creatively to expand our professional influence, Hopkins said in
his campaign statement. My goal is to address these issues using
focused implementation and fiscal responsibility. Some of the issues
Hopkins will address during his term are the role of the architect, the
PIAs as a resource for knowledge, mentorship and education, and environmental
stewardship.
Hopkins and his wife, Jane, live in Ann Arbor and
have one daughter.
Blackmer, Ellerthorpe, and Schwennsen
Named VPs
Bruce E. Blackmer, AIA; Robin M. Ellerthorpe, FAIA;
and Katherine Lee Schwennsen, FAIA were elected to serve as AIA vice presidents
in 2003.
Bruce
E. Blackmer, AIA, is the managing principal of Northwest Architectural
Company, a 90-person firm with offices in both Spokane and Seattle. His
AIA roles include all AIA Spokane leadership positions, Washington Council
director and Public Awareness Committee member, the Northwest and Pacific
Regions design awards chair, planning chair, finance chair, and
regional director. He was an AIA Summit 2000 International Design Award
program juror and has chaired several regional design award juries. Blackmer
leads the national Professional Interest Areas (PIAs) Program as chair
of the PIA Executive Committee and has served as a speaker at component
meetings, the CACE national annual meeting, and national PIA Council meetings.
Blackmers experience spans small, midsize, and large firms; government;
and academia. Living in Washington, Texas, Maryland, and Minnesota has
provided him with a geographically diverse perspective.
Robin
M. Ellerthorpe, FAIA, is a principal of OWP/P Consultants, Chicago,
a diverse team performing cross-market services within a firm of 360 people.
Ellerthorpe served in leadership positions at the chapter level, including
state IDP coordinator and president of East Tennessee AIA. Within the
professional interest areas (PIAs), he has served on the Public Architects
PIA, as chair of the Corporate Architects PIA, and as PIA Council chair.
Robin current is Facility Management PIA vice chair. An original member
of both the Practice & Prosperity and Redefinition task forces, Ellerthorpe
played an integral part in direction of the 1997 edition of AIA B141,
AIM (Aligning the Institute for the Millennium strategic long-range plan),
The Architects Handbook of Professional
Practice, 13th edition; and the 2002 AIA convention. Ellerthorpe
has made presentations as a thought leader to the AIAs Board on
the topics of the PIAs, redefinition of the profession, and AIM.
Kate
Schwennsen, FAIA, is the associate dean of the Iowa State University
College of Design and an associate professor of architecture. Prior to
returning to her alma mater (BA, 1978, March, 1980) to teach design and
professional practice, she practiced for 10 years in professionally critical
areas, including office and project management, marketing, and design.
Schwennsen has served the AIA and the profession at all levels, including
as director, Central States Region (2000 to present), chair of the Topaz
Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education jury; AIA Education
Honors Awards jury; and Educators and Practitioners Net PIA. On the state
and local levels, she has served as president of AIA Iowa, on the City
of Des Moines Architectural Advisory Committee, and as vice president
of the Iowa Board of Architectural Examiners. Schwennsen also is a member
of the NCARB Education Committee, NCARB Certification Through Licensure
Task Force, AIAS Studio Culture Task Force, NAAB Validation Task Force;
NCARB Internship Implementation Task Force; and NAAB Visiting Teams.
Livergood Elected Secretary
Delegates
to the AIA convention on May 10 elected Lawrence
R. Livergood, AIA, to serve as Institute secretary in 2003. Livergood
is a managing partner of Architectural Expressions LLP, a 28-person A/E
firm located in Decatur, Ill. He served on the national board as a regional
director for Illinois from 19992001 and currently is a Richard Upjohn
Fellow of the Institute. He has chaired the AIAs Membership Systems
Advisory Group, National Membership Committee, and Membership Policy Advisory
Group and served as vice chair of the Component Affairs and Membership
Advisory Committee. Livergood has been active in the AIA Illinois and
Central Illinois chapters, serving as president of both. Active in his
community, his service ranges from chairing the AIA Illinois/State of
Illinois Health Facilities Task Force to serving on the Decatur Mayors
Task Force on Downtown Revitalization.
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