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The Legacy
of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hon. AIA, 1927–2003
Profession mourns the loss of a champion
and true friend
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, U.S. Ambassador to India, Harvard professor, and four-term
U.S. senator, died March 26 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 76.
He will be remembered across the nation as a scholar of razor-sharp
wit and a politician of great skill whose legacy will continue in
perpetuity through his words, eloquently spoken and exquisitely
written. But for many, our profession certainly among them, Moynihan’s
spirit lives on most vibrantly in the built environment—from
single structure to cityscape to transportation plans—for
which he treasured and championed excellence. 
 GSA
Honors High Caliber Design
Government officials and accomplished architects gathered last week
in the nation’s capital to honor 24 diverse federal projects
as exemplars of design excellence in public architecture. The winning
entries in the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence
Awards program ranged from a newly built border station, to an innovative
proposed design for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Satellite Operations Facility, to the careful restoration of a U.S.
Post Office and Courthouse in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Poll: What Do You Think About
Financial Realignment for the AIA?
Please share your views on these three
questions
Grassroots Leadership Conference participants expressed their opinions
on six topics—architecture education, financial realignment,
the profession, communications, knowledge, and membership—during
the annual Issues Forum, March 10, in Washington, D.C. Now it’s
your turn. Please respond to the following three questions about
the second topic: financial realignment. AIArchitect
will run polls of the other topics, tally the results, and share
them in future issues.
 PROJECT
WATCH
San Francisco Regains a Waterfront Landmark
The Ferry Building, at the foot of Market Street, handled 20 million
passengers a year in its day in the 1920s and ’30s. Its 245-foot-tall
tower served as a beacon for decades, drawing people to San Francisco’s
Embarcadero. Then the automobile took its toll. With the Golden
Gate and Bay bridges, ferry ridership declined. In 1957, the newly
built Embarcadero Freeway, like some grand concrete strangler fig,
choked the site to near death.
 AIA
Memphis Honors Four Great Projects
Eugene Burr, AIA, wins Gassner Award
Earlier this year, AIA Memphis presented its 2002 Design Awards
to four deserving projects during the chapter’s annual Celebration
of Architecture. The evening featured a talk by Michael Graves,
FAIA, to more than 300 architects, interior designers, interns,
students, and other architecture lovers—the chapter’s
largest-ever attendance. Firms throughout Memphis submitted projects
in the four categories: new construction; renovation, restoration,
or rehabilitation; interiors; and residential. A jury of award-winning
architects from Louisiana and Washington, D.C., selected this year’s
honorees.
Your Kiplinger Connection (members
only)
AIArchitect links members to
three stories a week from the pages of the renowned Kiplinger
Letter. (Nonmembers
may subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter.)
Spending Curbs: A reaction to government
red ink HR: From beating spam to
a workplace scam World Business:
Rewarding friends when this war ends.
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BEST
PRACTICES (members only)
Rule Number One: Know Your Audience
When trying to persuade others, know them and respect their intelligence.
David Dibner, FAIA, expresses this lesson in a remembrance of testifying
before Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan about new construction that
maintains historic context.
AIA, CSI Working Toward
MasterFormat
Expansion Consensus
As the Construction Specifications Institute prepares for its national
convention this week in Chicago, AIA Executive Vice President/CEO
Norman L. Koonce, FAIA, requested “that implementation of
the MasterFormat expansion be delayed by CSI until [architects,
engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers] who share
interest and support for the program might convene to discuss the
issues more thoroughly.” CSI is currently moving toward a
complete revision of its 16-division format by October 1, 2003.
(See
the CSI Web site for details of the current Draft 3.) In his
April 1 letter to CSI Executive Director Karl Borgstrom, PhD, Koonce
proposed that an industry blue-ribbon panel gather at the national
AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to “share questions,
concerns, and comments with CSI and one another in an open discussion
format . . . I would appreciate an opportunity for the AIA to work
with you in designing a successful effort to achieve thorough understanding
of a system that can address the necessity for all of us to work
in concert.” Watch for an AIArchitect
update following the CSI convention April 9–11 and MasterFormat
Expansion Task Team meeting April 12.
 It’s
Getting Close: 2003 Business
Week/Architectural Record Awards
Deadline is April 18
The deadline to submit projects that exemplify distinguished collaboration
between client and architect is April
18, so download your entry form today. A distinguished jury:
Brad Cloepfil, AIA, principal, Allied Works; Sam Farber, founder,
OXO International; Rob Forbes, founder, Design
Within Reach furniture retailer; José Oncina, general
manager, Microsoft Global Real Estate and Facilities; Karen Stein,
editorial director, Phaidon Press; and Rich Varda, vice president
of store planning and design, Target Corporation, will select this
year’s winners. Go to the Institute Honors site for a
submission package order form or call 888-242-4240 (202-626-7524
outside the U.S.).
Have You Paid Your 2003
AIA Dues?
If not, as of April 1, you are officially a “lapsed member,”
and as such will not be able to take full advantage of AIA products
and services. For instance, you no longer will be able to access
the “members only” articles in this news report or any
other services available exclusively to AIA members. Additionally,
you may not use the initials “AIA” after your name in
any correspondence. The quickest way to remedy this oversight is
to pay
your dues online. You can review your invoice, update your membership
profile, and submit credit-card payment for 2003 renewal dues all
via the AIA.org site. You will need to type in your eight-digit
AIA membership number and password (your last name in lowercase
letters). Questions? Send an
e-mail to AIA Information Central, or call 800-242-3837. If
you want to pay your dues by mail, download
your renewal form. If you cannot pay your dues this year because
of financial hardship, contact Information Central.
 FROM
OUR FRIENDS AT VIRGINIA SOCIETY/AIA
Architecture Week Comes to the
Old Dominion
Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner (D)
has issued a certification of recognition of Virginia Architecture
Week, April 7–13, calling its observance “to the attention
of all our citizens.” The Virginia Society sponsors Architecture
Week to “recognize the contributions of architects and architecture
to the quality of life in Virginia communities. “Architecture
is integral to all our lives as we drive and walk throughout our
towns and cities, and as we encounter it in our homes, workplaces,
schools, places of worship, and centers for cultural entertainment
and recreation,” explained the Virginia Society Vice President
for Advocacy Scott Spence, AIA. (Photo from the Monticello
Web site. House and garden tours began April 1.)
AIA Career Center
Here are this week’s featured opportunities:
Architect,
ATI Architects and Engineers, Roseville, CA |
Architectural
Project Manager, DLZ Ohio Inc., Columbus, OH |
Chief Architect, Kling, Washington, DC |
Development
Manager/NY-NJ, Big Wave Recruiting |
Healthcare
Architect, HLM Design, Denver, CO |
Healthcare
Architect/Project Manager, Thomas, Miller & Partners,
LLC, Brentwood, TN | Intermediate
Project Architects/Designers, Perkins & Will, Inc.,
Los Angeles | Job
Captain, OJMR-Architects, Inc., Los Angeles |
Manager,
Specifications, URS Corporation, Columbus, OH |
Northeast
Territory Sales Manager, Interstate Brick |
Project
Architect, Brown Design Associates, Holdrege, NE |
Project
Architect, Topsider Building Systems, Inc., Clemmons,
NC | Project
Architect/Production Manager, Blankenship McMillen Architects,
Longwood, FL | Project
Architects, Kling, Washington, DC |
Project
Manager/Architect, Oliver-Glidden-Spina & Partners,
West Palm Beach, FL | Project
Manager/Intern, Thomas, Miller & Partners, LLC, Brentwood,
TN | Specifications
Professionals, ARCOM, Alexandria, VA. Visit the AIA Career
Center for a full list of openings.
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