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Planks
From the Platforms
Candidates for AIA office respond to questions
The eight candidates running for AIA office in 2004 have responded
by e-mail to two sets of questions. The National Associates Committee
asked about public safety, specialization/certification, and responsibilities
to interns.
The Professional Interest Areas (PIA Council) wanted candidates'
opinions on: the future of PIAs, organizational structure, resource
allocation, collaboration in planning for the convention, and a
PIA representative to the Executive Committee of the Board. Find
out what the candidates have to say.
Happy
Earth Day!
AIA’s Committee on the Environment
identifies
2003 Top Ten Green Projects
In recognition of Earth Day 2003, the AIA’s Committee on the
Environment (COTE) selected examples from new construction and renovation
of office, retail, residential, academic, and institutional facilities
as the top 10 design solutions that protect and enhance the environment.
The projects will be honored May 1 during a ceremony at the National
Building Museum in Washington, D.C., presented by COTE Chair Daniel
Williams, FAIA, and then again on May 9 at the AIA national convention
in San Diego.
Summit Addresses Bridging Gaps in Diversity
Data
The AIA Diversity Committee, committed to gathering data to provide
a clearer picture of architecture as a career today, recently convened
a collateral summit in Washington, D.C. Individuals from the AIA,
American Institute of Architecture Students, Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture, National Council of Architectural Registration
Boards, National Architectural Accreditation Boards, National Organization
of Minority Architects, ArchVoices, and McGraw-Hill Construction
shared detailed information April 11 on their organizations’
current data holdings and collection methods.
Dallas’
JH+P Named 2003 IDP Outstanding Firm
Award recognizes commitment to professional
growth of tomorrow's architects
James, Harwick + Partners, Inc. (JH+P) of Dallas captured the 2003
Intern Development Program (IDP) Outstanding Firm Award. Given to
an architecture firm that demonstrates exemplary commitment and
contributions to interns, this national award recognizes a firm's
balance of comprehensive training opportunities, continuing education
programs, and commitment to the IDP.
Poll: What Do You Think About the Profession
and Knowledge?
Please share your views on these seven
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 seven questions about the fifth
topic: knowledge. 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.
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.)
World Business: International trade
up 4 percent this year, 6 percent next in an increasingly interconnected
world. Politics: White House targets
Democrats to oust from House and Senate. U.S.
Economy—Price Points: Gas up until Autumn ($1.20 by
year’s end), PCs down 11 percent, softwood low (not hardwood).
PROJECT
WATCH
Salt Lake City to Build New Children’s
Theater by Helix Architecture
Helix Architecture of Tacoma has just won an invited competition
to design the new Children’s Theater of Salt Lake in Salt
Lake City. The architects now are entering fee negotiations with
the owners and operators, who are based in Seattle. The 30,000-square-foot
facility will house a 450-seat auditorium, a 100-seat black box
theater, a 200-seat outdoor amphitheater for city-sponsored summer
performances, and an acting school for 100 students. A central main
lobby formally separates the facility’s two main functions:
the theater sits on the north and the school on the south. Its many
interesting features include a stepped-down stage to allow interaction
among actors and audience during performance and a children’s
playground on the south end of the building to allow little ones
to blow off steam before performances. Helix’s Alex Protasevich,
AIA, conceived of the building’s exterior as “a sequence
of unfolding film frames—it is a performance by itself. As
one goes around the building, one is confronted with a continuous
unfolding of changing perspectives,” he says. Protasevich,
a Russian-born architect won a Silver Medal in the “InterArch
2000” exhibition-competition of the International Academy
of Architecture, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, for his design of the
Episcopal Church in Centerville, Utah. The theater complex, expected
to begin construction in 2004, has a $5 million construction budget.
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Use
Your Brain! Put Some Proof Into Your Poetry at Convention
Slated seminars plus some schedule changes
offer new opportunities May 8–10 in San Diego
Architecture and Neuroscience:
A Basic Introduction to the Science and Its Potential Application
(Seminar FR38, Friday, May 9, 2–3:30 p.m.) is just one of
the exciting learning opportunities available at the AIA convention
this year. Check out these last-minute schedule changes, including
some new program additions, that may allow you to fine-tune your
plans on the plane to San Diego.
BEST PRACTICES
(members only)
Architecture and Engineering Curriculum
Inspires Students, Community
A program in southern New York that imparts fundamental principles
of architecture, provides students with collaborative student/teacher
“hands-on” learning experiences, and allows them to
work directly with local architects is one of 17 programs to receive
an AIA Award for Component Excellence and serves as a model for
AIA members and components everywhere.
Six Schools Now Offer
Design/Build Degrees
A new survey from the Design-Build Institute of America indicates
that five universities now offer design/build master’s degrees,
while a sixth school offers an undergraduate minor in integrated
project delivery. Some programs stem from engineering schools and
others through architecture departments, while one insists it is
truly integrated.
AIA Career Center
Here are this week’s featured opportunities:
Architect/Intern, Slocum Platts Architect Design Studio, P.A.,
Winter Park/Orlando, FL | Architectural
AutoCAD Operator, Personnel One Inc., Washington, DC
| Architectural
Project Manager, DLZ Ohio Inc., Columbus, OH |
Chief Architect, Kling, Washington, DC |
Healthcare
Architect, HLM Design, Denver, CO
|Healthcare
Project Architects, Managers, Planners, architectfinders,
inc. |
Intermediate
Project Architects/Designers, Perkins & Will, Inc.,
Los Angeles |
Project
Architect, Smith Carter Architects and Engineers, Atlanta
| Project
Architect, Steven E. Hutchins, AIA, Architects, Jacksonville,
FL |
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 | Projects
Managers, Kling, Philadelphia
| Specifications
Professionals, ARCOM, Alexandria, VA. Visit the AIA Career
Center for a full list of openings.
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