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 Utzon
Wins 2003 Pritzker Prize
Danish architect Jorn Utzon, Hon. FAIA, who designed the iconic
Sydney Opera House, has been selected as the 2003 Laureate of the
Pritzker Architecture Prize. While best known for the Australian
commission, which he won in an international competition at the
beginning of his career in 1957, Utzon continued to influence the
built environment with several other significant works, including,
according to the Pritzker jury, “handsome, humane housing;
a church that remains a master work with its remarkably lyrical
ceilings; as well as monumental public buildings for government
and commerce.” 
 Architects
Employ Conventional Wisdom
The glass façade and flagship design of the new Washington
Convention Center beckon guests to enter the massive complex and
take in the details and amenities that abound in each corner of
the 2.3-million-square-foot building. The center, designed by Thompson,
Ventulett and Stainback, Atlanta, recipient of the 2002 AIA Firm
Award, with Mariani Architects-Engineers, and Devrouax & Purnell
Architects-Planners, both of Washington, D.C., is intended to be
a monument unto itself, and city officials and building designers
are banking on the fact that city dwellers, visitors, and meeting
planners will share their excitement for the latest addition to
the Washington, D.C., skyline.
Poll: What Do You Think About the Profession?
Please share your views on these 11 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 these 11 questions about the third
topic: the profession. AIArchitect
will run polls of the other topics, tally the results, and share
them in our convention issue, May 9. See also comments from past
polls.
 Bell
Honored as a Top Newsmaker by ENR
magazine
AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA (left),
and AIA President Thompson E. Penney, FAIA (right), congratulate
AIA New York Chapter Executive Director Fredric Bell, FAIA, on being
named one of Engineering News-Record’s
25 Top Newsmakers of 2002. Feted at an April 3 gala in New York
City, Bell received the award for “catalyzing a Who’s
Who of 400 individuals from 21 design and planning groups to create
guiding principles for the renaissance of Lower Manhattan”
immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks. Bell was
quick to share credit with his fellow participants in New
York, New Visions, the pro bono group that has become advisor
to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the voice of
public opinion, which has shown—unequivocally—that people
can own the design of their city.
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.)
After the War: Quick return to
mild recovery Economy: Profits
up, hiring flat Global Markets:
China outpacing everyone, Japan still shrinking.
 PROJECT
WATCH
New Indiana Building Honors Native Son Red Skelton
URS Corporation of Grand Rapids, Mich., recently unveiled its design
for the Red Skelton Museum and Performing Arts Center for Vincennes
University, in Vincennes, Ind., the famed comedian’s hometown.
The 98,000-square-foot performance center/museum will replace the
school’s 35-year-old drama and music complex. The performance
center’s repertoire will include a balconied, semicircular
theater seating 800; instrumental and choral rehearsal rooms; acting
lab; construction lab; dressing rooms; and faculty offices. The
museum will house a 100-seat video room showing the many facets
of Skelton’s life as a comic, actor, writer, painter, and
composer; conference rooms; and an open area displaying his costumes,
artwork, and other performance memorabilia. Construction on the
$15 million facility will begin this fall, with completion slated
for the fall of 2005. (Rendering courtesy of URS.)
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Building Codes ILLUSTRATED
Illluminates
International Building Code
Clear text, clear drawings facilitate
code compliance
This excerpt comes from the just published Building
Codes ILLUSTRATED: A Guide to Understanding the International Building
Code, by Francis D. K. Ching and Steven Winkel, FAIA (John
Wiley & Sons, 2003). This book speaks to architects in their
language by graphically detailing the intent of the new International
Building Code, the single document that replaces the three
U.S. model building codes. The authors, an architectural drawing
guru and a well-versed building codes expert, wrote it as a companion
book to the IBC itself, meaning the guide is to be used in tandem
with the code. They include a “how to use this book”
for students, emerging professionals, and seasoned practitioners.
 Don’t
Miss This Great Course on Building Security!
AIA eClassroom just released a new distance-learning course, "Contemplating
the Unknown: Trends and Predictions for Protecting the Built Environment
in a Society at Risk," based on a Grassroots Leadership Conference
program March 10 by Frances Halsband, FAIA, principal of New York
City’s R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects. Halsband
shares her experiences with federal-building design, presents a
brief history of security design, and offers a range of components
to be considered in creating safe and beautiful environments. (For
the AIArchitect coverage
of that session, click here.) The half-hour seminar, truly about
an architect sharing her ideas with other architects, offers one
HSW learning unit. $49.95 AIA members/$74.95 retail. Check it out
today!
 ASLA
Awards Entry Forms Due May 2
The American Society of Landscape Architects
(ASLA) 2003 Awards program features four categories of professional
awards: design, analysis and planning, research, and communications.
Any individual, firm, agency, or academic institution may enter
the design and analysis and planning categories if the project’s
participants include a landscape architect or a graduate or faculty
member of a landscape architecture program. Anyone may enter in
the research and communications categories. ASLA also is soliciting
entries for its new Community Service Award, recognizing public
service, and the Landmark Award, recognizing a project completed
15–50 years ago that contributes significantly to the public
realm. Entry forms are due May
2, and materials must be submitted by
May 16.
Download the entry form from here.
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/Production Manager, Blankenship McMillen Architects,
Longwood, FL| Project
Architects, Dorwin Thomas Architect, Grand Cayman Islands,
BWI |
Project
Architects, Kling, Washington, DC |
Project
Manager, BJAC, Raleigh, NC |
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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