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Letter from the Chair
By Linda Reeder, AIA - Welcome to the annual Small Project Awards issue of the SPP Journal.
Once again, small project practitioners have demonstrated that design excellence is not limited by size or budget. The jury perused more than 200 projects submitted in four categories to select the ten exceptional projects featured here. Ranging in size from a cemetery marker to a transit center, these projects demonstrate that small projects are diverse, creative, and vital to society.
Our thanks go to the awards jury who spent considerable time, thought, and care reviewing the submitted projects. The jury was composed of four architects who are small project practitioners (2012 SPP Chair and jury chair Leonard Kady, AIA; Julie Beckman; Christopher Herr, AIA, LEED AP; and Laura Kraft, AIA) and Fine Homebuilding magazine editor Rob Yagid. (Fine Homebuilding's forthcoming HOUSES issue will feature several of the residential award winners.)
The Small Project Awards program was established in 2005 to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to all project types, regardless of size. We have worked to keep entry fees low to make submitting projects accessible to small firm practitioners. More than 80 percent of architecture firms have fewer than 10 employees, and many of these firms execute small projects.
After reviewing the projects in this SPP Journal (edited by Marika Snider, AIA), we hope you are inspired to enter the next Small Project Awards program. The 2014 categories and submission requirements will be posted here in September. As always, all types of projects—including installations, renovations, interiors, and new construction—are eligible.
If you are attending the AIA Convention in June, please join us Thursday morning at session TH105 to celebrate these award-winning projects.
Linda Reeder, AIA, LEED AP
SPP Advisory Group Chair, 2013
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2012 SPP Awards Program
Bemis InfoShop | Omaha, Nebraska
Category 1 Winner: Jeffrey L. Day, Min | Day
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Studio for a Composer | Spring Prairie, Wisconsin
Category 1 Winner: Sebastian Schmaling, AIA Johnsen Schmaling Architects
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Cemetery Marker | South Canaan, Pennsylvania
Category 1 Winner: Paul Kariouk,
Kariouk Associates
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Pavilion at Cotillion Park |
Dallas, Texas
Category 2 Winner: Mell Lawrence, FAIA; Mell Lawrence Architects
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Webb Chapel Park Pavilion | Mission, Texas
Category 2 Winner: Wendy Evans Joseph & Chris Cooper; Cooper Joseph Studio
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Nexus House |
Madison, Wisconsin
Category 2 Winner: Sebastian Schmaling, AIA; Johnsen Schmaling Architects
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308 Mulberry | Lewes, Delaware
Category 3 Winner: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
View project images and jury comments »
Nevis Pool and Garden Pavilion | Bethesda, Maryland
Category 3 Winner: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
View project images and jury comments »
Tahoe City Transit Center | Tahoe City, California
Category 3 Winner: Wright Sherman; WRNS Studio
View project images and jury comments »
Four Eyes House |
Coachella Valley, California
Edward Ogosta, AIA | Edward Ogosta Architecture
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Celebrating SPP Award Recipients at AIA Convention
TH105: AIA Small Project Awards: Small Projects, Big Ideas
Earn 1.0 AIA HSW LU | Thursday, June 20, 2013 | 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
This annual event draws attention to the frequently overlooked category of small and inexpensive projects. In spite of diminutive sizes and budgets, these recognized projects are elegantly designed, sustainable, and contextual. In this session, the meaning and value of "small" projects are celebrated for their exemplary standard in architectural design. Attendees will learn how some architects put imaginative, outside-the-box thinking to work for outstanding results. A panel comprising members of the jury and the AIA Small Project Practitioners (SPP) Knowledge Community will lead a discussion with awardees and the audience to follow through on their processes, trials, failures, and successes.
Additional Convention Events
Get a Free Marketing Communications Check-up
Gain valuable feedback on the effectiveness of your firm's marketing communications. Bring your marketing plans and collateral to the conference, and schedule a 15-minute communications checkup with a Certified Professional Services Marketer from the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS). Seasoned marketing professionals will be on hand in the AIA Town Hall to sit down with you and conduct a sustainability audit of your firm's marketing collateral. You'll also take away suggestions to improve your firm's return on investment in marketing and client development initiatives.
Get a free marketing critique at AIA Townhall on Thursday, May 17 or Friday, May 18 between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Resources
Key Contracting Issues in Digital Practice Design and Construction
April 9, 2013 | 2-3pm ET | 11am-12pm PT | Earn 1.0 AIA HSW LU | Learn more »
Prices: Member $45.99 / Non-Member $59.99
This session explores digital trends in design and construction- such as building information modeling (BIM) - and investigates the ramifications digital developments have on project participants, project success, and the public in general. Key topics will include the use and exchange of digital data, the impact of digital data and BIM use on project communication and efficiency, and other issues related to the use and transmission of digital data.
Participants will be able to use the knowledge gained during this program to better understand AIA Contract Documents protocols and provisions that address issues related to digital practice and building information modeling. This understanding will allow for the efficient and responsible use of building information modeling, which will benefit all construction project participants, building occupants, and the public in general.
WEBINAR: Accounting 101 for Project Managers
May 16, 2013 | 1-2:15pm ET | 10-11:15am PT | Earn 1.5 AIA LUs | Learn more »
The purpose of this presentation is to provide a basic understanding of accounting principles used by the architecture and engineering industries. This is accomplished in webinar format utilizing definition or terms and examples of accounting documents and reports. In addition to Project Managers having this basic understanding, it is best that everyone in a firm understands key financial metrics and business indicators. This will provide a resource to help manage projects more successfully and connect project management with firm business management on a common platform.
This session is designed to examine: trends and challenges facing business development, best practices in strategic/business development and your firm's effectiveness.
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