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CAJ
to Host Conference on Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructures
Hold the date:
September 16–18 in Washington, D.C.
The AIA Committee on Architecture for Justice will co-host
the second annual Congress on Infrastructure Security for the Built
Environment (ISBE) September 16–18 in Washington, D.C. The
ISBE conference format provides an opportunity for contractors,
engineers, architects, and allied professions involved with designing,
protecting, and securing the nation’s critical infrastructures
to share knowledge and work together to define and develop an appropriate
built world for future generations of Americans. The conference
is in conjunction with The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP)
annual meeting. TISP is an organization formed as a direct response
to the events of September 11, includes the AIA and 170 other public
and private-sector groups whose expertise has a direct impact on
the future security of America’s built infrastructure. See
next week’s AIArchitect
for more details.
Department
of Interior Adds 18 Historic Landmarks
Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton designated 18 properties as National
Historic Landmarks—spanning the gamut from two Frank Lloyd
Wright houses to Elvis’ Memphis recording studio—at
a Washington, D.C., ceremony July 31. Wright’s contributions
to the list include his 1936 Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First
House, Madison, first house to reflect his ideas of “Usonian”
architecture, and the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Second House,
Middleton, Wis., his only solar house. Read on for a complete list.
Stressful Buildings: Does Architecture
Make Us Sick?
Over the past century, the physical effects that buildings can have
on people have become more apparent. A body of scientific data and
preventive guidelines has emerged to create the discipline of ergonomics,
and repetitive motion syndrome, height-adjustable chairs, and keyboard
wrist supports have became a part of the vocabulary of design professionals,
especially those who plan for corporate offices. Chuck First, AIA,
focuses this article on the psychological impact of stress and how
buildings can either increase or reduce stress levels.
Three
Approaches for Introducing Architecture to Young People
To give students interested in design and architecture an opportunity
to demonstrate their skills and creativity, a California architect
has organized a design competition open to all high-school students
in Santa Barbara County. Further east, a Colorado architect is helping
to develop Web-based educational resources for grades K–12
that teach critical concepts through a focus on architecture. And
a practitioner and professor in Washington, D.C., found his bliss
introducing elementary-school kids to the built environment.
Project
watch
Wisconsin Residence Hall Gets New Lease
on Life
The residents and staff of Bethesda Lutheran Home Services Inc.,
Watertown, Wis., will soon enjoy completion of the first of a four-phase,
$45 million–$50 million plan to modernize and redesign their
living complex, thanks to Eppstein Uhen Architects and The Bentley
Company, both headquartered in Milwaukee. Updating the outmoded,
dark, institutional-feeling residence halls, all built between 1950
and 1970, topped the list of design team and client concerns.
Your Kiplinger Connection (members
only)
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exclusive access to three stories a week to help them manage their
practices and plan for the coming year. (Nonmembers
may subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter.)
The Economy: The economic recovery
is wobbly, but getting stronger. Energy:
A new energy bill in Congress is a certainty this year. Conservation
remains important. War on Terror:
Counterfeit goods coming into the U.S. are financing terrorist activities.
We’re in for a long and costly haul in Iraq.
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BEST
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Could You Impart Your Firm Culture in
Five Years?
The Lukmire Partnership, a 25-person architecture firm in Arlington,
Va., recognized that its efforts at professional development were
an investment. In 1999, the firm set out to create a more formalized
approach to professional development. Two simple goals were identified:
set an educational direction, and make the most of limited resources.
To find out what they did, read this excerpt from Architect’s
Essentials of Professional Development, by management consultant
Jean R. Valance.
Heads
Up! Honor Award for Interiors Deadlines Draw Near
There still is time to submit entries for the Institute Honor Awards
for Interiors program: Entry forms must be completed, submitted
with the entry fee ($375 per entry for AIA members and $750 per
entry for nonmembers), and postmarked no later than August
15. All submission binders must be sent to the AIA Honors
and Awards Department, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
20006-5292, Attention: Institute Honor Awards for Interiors, and
postmarked no later than September 12.
To request the call for entries or for more information, contact
the AIA Honors and Awards Department, 202-626-7563 or
rmartin@aia.org. Or
you can access a PDF file covering the 2004 AIA Awards program online.
(Pictured is the Kate and Laurance Eustis Chapel, New Orleans, by
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, a 2003 Honor Award for Interiors winner. Photo
© Neil Alexander.)
Is 13 Your Lucky Number?
Author Nathaniel Lachenmeyer has approached the AIA with what he
terms an “odd query.” You see, he is writing a book
on the number 13 for Penguin Putnam Architecture that will “examine
superstitions related to 13 from 13 perspectives (e.g., psychology,
history, and mythology). Part of the book deals with the beliefs
about 13 that have been incorporated into architecture and design.
Can you help? Here’s what he wants to know.
Wright
Building Conservancy to Explore Architect’s Late Work
Annual conference based at FLW’s
‘San Francisco home’: the St. Francis Hotel
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy announces that registration
is now open for its 2003 Annual Conference, which this year will
be August 31–September 7 at Frank Lloyd Wright’s San
Francisco home, the historic St. Francis Hotel. This year’s
conference will focus on Wright’s late work, his contemporaries
and apprentices, and those Modernists who continue in his influence.
AIA CAREER CENTER
Here
Are This Week’s Featured Opportunities
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Trenton, NJ • Associate Designer-Neighborhood Design
Team, Madison, WI • Chief of Lighting/Senior Lighting Designer,
Philadelphia • Director, Capital Projects and Tenant
Construction, Denver •
Disabled Access Consulting Firm,
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Forensic Expert, Poway, CA
• Intern Architect,
Bernardsville, NJ
• Job Captain, Los
Angeles
• Landscape Architect,
Philadelphia
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Project Architect, San Luis
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Senior Architect, Minneapolis
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