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Congressional
Inaction Leaves Funding Bills Hanging
Congress has left itself a lot to do when it returns in September.
The two lawmaking bodies deferred work on several major construction
spending and appropriation bills until after their August recess.
Chief among this legislation is the reauthorization of the transportation,
aviation, and water-resources bills.
Everything’s
Coming Up Roses in
Baton Rouge
Chapter presents Rose Awards to seven
local firms
AIA Baton Rouge selected seven local firms—and eight buildings—to
receive its prestigious 2003 Rose Awards. These awards recognize
members of the chapter for their outstanding architecture, and this
year’s collection of disparately attractive winners include
a Catholic Church, Porsche dealership, and planetarium. Recipients
received their award certificates at the chapter’s Summer
Social at the end of July.
AIA
Hawaii Bestows Highest Honor on Botsai
Noted building forensics and seismic design expert, founding dean
and professor emeritus of the University of Hawaii School of Architecture,
and 1978 AIA President Elmer E. Botsai, FAIA, received the AIA Hawaii
State Council’s highest award in June, the Medal of Honor.
Internationally recognized for his work, Botsai currently consults
with Group
70 on building diagnostics. (Photo © Doug Blagriff.)
Lily
Graces Chicago Navy Pier Walk
This 12x9x9-foot sculpture by Dee Christy Briggs, Assoc. AIA, “Lily,”
is one of 34 that will grace Chicago’s Navy Pier Walk from
now into October. In her study of “three-dimensional handedness,”
says the 1994–95 president of the American Institute of Architecture
Students, the “composition is made from two handed forms,
a left and a right, which are combined into one about their center.”
The Navy Pier Walk is a showcase of public sculpture. “I’m
looking for works that are not only aware of art’s public
mission, but go to great lengths to draw unexpected audiences to
them,” said Pierwalk 2003 Juror David Pagel. For
more information, visit the Pierwalk Web site. Photo by Albert
Vecerka/ESTO.
Project
watch
Hastings & Chivetta Create Longest
Continuous Floor Span for Former Olympic Venue
St. Louis-based Hastings & Chivetta Architects, Inc., has renovated
the existing 1996 Olympic swimming and diving venue at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, turning it into a student recreation
center and creating a 175-foot continuous floor span, the longest
ever known. The design transformed the single-purpose facility into
a venue usable for many of the university’s recreational activities.
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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.)
Blackout: It could happen again,
with a fix years away. Look for more federal regulation. Travel:
Billions in jeopardy for large airports, but millions available
for community airports. Office Tech:
Laptops more popular as remote connections become commonplace. Firm
management software available specifically for design firms.
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BEST
PRACTICES (members only)
Strategically Leveraging Your Prime Asset
People are the biggest asset of any architecture firm, and there
are a lot of ways to improve how we interact, says Boyce Appel,
a management consultant who has specialized in human relations at
design firms for more than 30 years. “The things that I’m
most interested in are foundational issues that confront a professional
design firm. They deal with conflict, culture, climate, performance
feedback, how to deal with bad times, and the partner politics and
dynamics.”
Scholarships
Available for AIA Leadership Institute for Community Involvement
If you have a keen interest in increasing your personal involvement
and effectiveness as a leader in civic and community service, the
2003 AIA Leadership Institute at Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C., October 8-11, can help you make it happen. Because the AIA
is committed to the architect’s role as community leader and
contributor to society through participation on civic and community
boards, as elected or appointed officials, or in volunteer activities,
it has designated funds for tuition assistance for participants
of the 2003 AIA Leadership Institute.
Heads
Up! Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design Deadlines Draw Near
There still is time to submit entries for the 2004 Institute Honor
Awards for Regional and Urban Design 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 September 5. 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 Regional and Urban Design, and postmarked no later
than October 3. 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 restored housing from the Howard University–LeDroit Park
Revitalization Initiative, Washington, D.C., by Sorg and Associates,
P.C., a 2003 Honor Award for Urban and Regional Design winner. Photo
© Anice Hoachlander.)
AIA CAREER CENTER
Here
Are This Week’s Featured Opportunities
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Architect, Knoxville
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Architectural Production, Louisville
• Architectural Project Manager,
Trenton, NJ • Associate Designer-Neighborhood Design
Team, Madison, WI • Chief of Lighting/Senior Lighting Designer,
Philadelphia • Director, Capital Projects and Tenant
Construction, Denver
• Director, Design and Construction,
location not disclosed
• Intern Architect,
Bernardsville, NJ |
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• Lead Architect, Seattle
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Project Architect, San Luis
Obispo, CA
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Project Architect, Sacramento
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Project Architects/Job Captains,
Long Beach, CA
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Project Manager/Architect, Colorado
Springs
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Project Manager/Site Inspector,
Livermore, CA
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Proposal Manager, Bethesda, MD
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Senior Associate, Northern Virginia
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Senior Associate/Project Manager,
Thousand Oaks, CA
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