AIA Maryland Celebrates Members’ Excellence in Design
AIA Maryland members and their special guests gathered September 23 to honor award recipients in the state chapter’s 2004 Design Awards Program held at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in downtown Baltimore. Twenty-seven awards (one Public Building of the Year, 7 Honor Awards, 8 Merit Awards, and 11 Citations) were presented by Jury Chair Stacey Ruhle Kliesch, AIA, with Stephen J. Carlidge, AIA, and Bruce D. Turner, AIA, all of AIA New Jersey. They chose from among 122 projects entered by 42 firms.

PRODUCT WATCH
Comprehensive Consumer Information on American Hardwoods
The Hardwood Council has introduced a specification tool for design professionals to show clients woods readily available from the domestic market. Twenty 2-3/4x6-inch samples, from Alder and Ash to Sycamore and Walnut, allow one to feel the heft and texture of the material and compare natural color and grain patterns. An accompanying booklet and CD give details on workability, performance characteristics, and common uses of each species. A four-tone translucent plastic overlay helps show how light-to-dark staining of the wood will affect finished appearance. The package is available to design professionals for $25 on the Hardwood Council’s Web site. Click on “Write and Request,” select “Architect,” and, when you submit your order, enter Promo Code AP04NR.

BOOK REVIEW
Building Diplomacy, The Architecture of American Embassies, by Elizabeth Gill Lui
If you have ever longed for credentials for an insider’s tour of some of the most prestigious symbols of democracy and diplomacy, your paperwork has arrived. A new publication, Building Diplomacy, The Architecture of American Embassies, by fine artist and photographer Elizabeth Gill Lui, assisted by screenwriter Keya Keita, is your passport to American diplomatic enclaves around the world. Beginning with a preface and introductory piece that give context to the images within, the mother-daughter duo team up to provide an absorbing look at the evolution and current state of the face of the buildings through which, Lui writes, “we deliver America’s vision to the rest of the world.”

SITE WATCH
National Trust Releases New Online Historic Atlas
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces the launch of Preservation Atlas, a new online resource that provides information about Trust activities and sites throughout the U.S. Preservation Atlas allows visitors to search a database of the thousands of National Trust offerings, including historic sites, America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, Dozen Distinctive Destinations, Historic Hotels of America, preservation grants, and Main Street and Legal Defense Fund activities. The atlas uses cartographic software that enables users to locate ongoing preservation projects by entering a location or specific Trust activity, project, or site. Visit the Trust Web site to access Preservation Atlas. (A search of the 2004 11 Most Endangered Places yields projects such as Nine Mile Canyon, Carbon County, Utah, pictured. Photo courtesy of the Trust.).

Architects in the Arts
Two famous architects are the subject of performance arts projects debuting this month. The Taliesin Fellows and Taliesin Preservation Inc. will jointly host a private preview performance of WORKSONG, Jeffrey Hatcher’s new play on the life of Frank Lloyd Wright at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company on November 19.  And Regular or Super—Views on Mies van der Rohe, the award-winning 2004 Canadian documentary about the work of legendary Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, will have its Chicago premiere on November 30.

PROJECT WATCH
Audubon Environmental Learning Center in Milwaukee Turns “Green” into “Gold” with LEED
Milwaukee’s Dorothy K. Vallier Environmental Learning Center at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, a design-build project by The Kubala Washatko Architects Inc., recently earned a Gold LEED™ (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 30,000-square-foot learning center, which sits on 190 acres along the shores of Lake Michigan, is the only new-construction Gold certified LEED building in Wisconsin and one of just 28 gold-certified buildings in the U.S.

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AIA Ethics Council Releases Guidelines for Attribution of Project Credit
“Perhaps the most frequent violation of the AIA’s Code of Ethics is that of giving appropriate credit and recognition,” say the newly released “Guidelines for the Attribution of Credit,” issued in October by the AIA Ethics Council. “Because of the frequency of complaints in this area, and because of numerous ‘how to’ requests, the Council undertook to write guidelines,” says Council Chair Peter A. Piven, FAIA, in his introduction to the guidelines, available in full text here.

Click to enlargeUniversity of British Columbia Launches Competition for Campus Main Entrance
The University of British Columbia announced on October 26 the launch of an international architectural competition for University Boulevard, the main entrance to its Vancouver campus. The competition comprises five building sites totalling 400,000 square feet and will include a new university square, a new greenway, new shops and services, university housing, and all the open spaces and associated pedestrian connections between the new and existing buildings for an estimated budget of $82 million (USD). The first of two stages will shortlist participants to six and then to three competitors, who will prepare design submissions. A jury that includes Arthur Erickson, Hon. FAIA; Moshe Safdie, FAIA; Leon Krier; Demetri Porphyrios, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, will choose the three finalists. Expressions of Interest are due November 30. For complete information, visit the competition Web site.

Earn Continuing Education Credits at Build Boston
The Boston Society of Architects’ Build Boston conference and trade show, November 16-18, offers a renowned array of 200 workshops and seminars addressing issues important to architects, such as project delivery and project management, marketing and public relations, financial management and firm management, codes, contracts, and facility management. Visit the conference Web site for details.

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Special Price for AIA Members: Building Diplomacy, The Architecture of American Embassies, by fine art photographer Elizabeth Gill Lui with screenwriter Keya Keita and a foreword by architectural historian Jane Loeffler (2004, distributed by Cornell University Press, in association with Four Stop Press) offers a tour of America’s diplomatic enclaves around the world. Special price for AIA members until November 30: $40/ $50 retail. Visit the AIA Store site or call 800-242-3837, option #4.

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