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Green
Design Rules AIA Michigan’s Awards Program
AIA Michigan is proud and happy to announce that green design was
the order of the day as the chapter presented its annual awards
to the owners and architects of 12 buildings at a May 2 ceremony
at the Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Among the delightful
dozen was the inaugural winner in the newly established sustainable
design award category, the Ford Rouge Center Revitalization in Dearborn,
by ARCADIS.
Ball
State Architecture Students Help Rebuild Technician’s Home
After an arsonist destroyed Bob Githens' home in Muncie, Ind., Githens,
a woodshop technician at Ball State University’s College of
Architecture and Planning, figured he would buy a new property rather
than rebuild the abode that had housed his beloved $40,000, fully
equipped workshop. But an architecture professor at the school had
a different idea. The instructor wanted his students to take Githens
on as a client. Although initially reluctant, once Githens, aka
“Woodshop Bob,” started kicking around plans with the
students, he didn’t think it was too bad an idea either.
AIA, CSI Seeking Common Ground on
MasterFormat Expansion
A rapid and far-reaching expansion of the standard specifications
reference for the construction industry has raised many eyebrows
and some alarm. CSI has extended its completion target six months
from the original July 2003, and AIA representatives continue to
focus attention on Draft 4 of the expansion, which is open for comment
until November 7, 2003.
Tax Cut Legislation Provides Relief for
Small Businesses
Key provisions of last month’s $350 billion economic stimulus
package include tax relief for individuals and small-business owners,
as well as federal funds for cash-strapped state governments.
BOOK
REVIEW
Evenings at Five, a
novel by Gail Godwin, Illustrated by Frances Halsband, FAIA
It would be easy to tout acclaimed novelist Gail Godwin’s
Evenings at Five as a perfect
beach-trip summer story—easy, and not quite right. This obviously
autobiographic tale of a writer who muses back on the 30-year marriage
to the music composer husband she just lost is instead an hour’s
respite from chores on a rainy day, an under-a-pine-tree fictional
retreat, or a quietly contemplative evening when the reader will
be drawn to savor the good bits and pieces of her or his own life.
Frances Halsband's line drawings add much to the tale's poignancy.
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.)
Prices: Tariff-induced increases
in domestic production have pushed steel prices way down. Oil prices
to plummet soon. Business Planning:
Small businesses can save big by outsourcing business-management
tasks. If people are sick, send them home, risk mitigators advise.
Tax Cuts: If the new law boosts
the economy, Bush will win in a big political gamble.
PROJECT
WATCH
SBRA’s New Science Building Unites
Disciplines Physically and Generations Symbolically
Boston’s Shepley Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott’s
newly dedicated science center on the campus of Agnes Scott College,
Decatur, Ga., brings light-filled learning to this women’s
liberal arts college via large corner windows and a three-story,
glass-fronted entrance atrium. To encourage cross-disciplinary learning,
the 104,000-square-foot center bridges four departments—biology,
chemistry, physics, and psychology—and houses labs, classrooms,
faculty offices, and a science reading room. Perhaps its most unusual
feature is a mural in the center’s Woolford B. Baker atrium
that offers a three-story rendition by Jon Roll of the DNA of the
college’s namesake. The painting of the genetic material of
Agnes Scott, a young Irish immigrant and matriarch, was derived
from the mitochondrial DNA of a female Scott descendent and alumna.
“This particular double helix, through a discovery made only
50 years ago, symbolically lines the college’s tradition with
today’s graduates and students—the conscience of modern
science,” the architects report. (Photo © Kieran Reynolds,
courtesy of Agnes Scott College.)
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Feng Shui Principles Offer an Old/New
Look at Creating the Best Use of Space
“Forget what you have read about in New Age journals. Cancel
the crystals. Extinguish the incense. This is not your grandmother's
feng shui,” say authors Lenore Weiss Baigelman, AIA, and Nancilee
Wydra in their article, “Feng Shui Principles for Building
and Remodeling,” adapted from the April 2003 Small
Project Forum Journal. It all boils down to considering how
architecture affects human behavior.
Access Security Summit
via the Web
The McGraw-Hill Companies are now offering access to all 35 hours
of their May 14–16 Homeland Security Summit via audio and
video Web-cast. The Web-cast enables participants to see and hear
keynote addresses and presentations from all four of the summit’s
tracks:
• Aviation, Transportation, and National Defense
• Business and Economic Security
• Architecture and Construction
• Energy, Utilities, and Natural Resources.
The registration fee ($150 summit attendees/$275 all others) allows
three months’ access for up to three registrants. In addition,
the new McGraw-Hill Companies Homeland
Security Directory is free to registrants. Get more information
or view a free Web-cast session on “Interdependence:
Our Vulnerability, Our Strength.”
Call
for Applications: CCA Visiting Scholars Program 2004–2005
The Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) announces
its 2004–2005 Visiting Scholars Program. The program welcomes
applications from scholars and architects conducting research at
post-doctoral or more advanced academic levels. Scholars may submit
a research proposal in any area of architectural history, theory,
and criticism. Residencies at the centre may extend from three to
eight months beginning in September, January, or May. Adequate stipends,
private offices, and administrative and research support are provided.
Applications must be received by November
1, and notification will be in January 2004. For information
and application forms, contact: Study Centre, Canadian Centre for
Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montréal, Québec, Canada
H3H 2S6; phone, 514-939-7000; fax, 514-939-7020; e-mail;
or Web.
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Libeskind
Presentation Available Free: The first of the 26 sessions
and seminars from the AIA national convention available through
eClassroom, the
Daniel Libeskind presentation is available now, free of charge to
AIA members ($49.95 for nonmembers).The rest will be posted
as they are produced throughout the summer. View all the eClassroom
distance learning courses.
Should
You Get Into Design/Build? The new The
Architect’s Guide to Design-Build Services, edited
by G. William Quatman II, FAIA, Esq., and Ranjit Dhar, FRAIC, and
published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in partnership with the
AIA, is available from the AIA Bookstore, $58.50 AIA members/$65
retail, plus $9 shipping and handling. Read
a Best Practices tip from the book. To order, phone 800-242-3837,
option #4; fax 202-626-7519; or send
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Get
two years of CES credits through your professional liability carrier:
Under The AIA Commended Professional Liability Program, insureds
can satisfy state requirements. For more information, go to the
Planetaec Web
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