CORA Members Call Residential Architects to Action

A new position paper advocates for change within the profession to re-establish social relevance and credibility.

by Meghan Drueding, Senior Editor Residential Architect Magazine

In February, four members of the Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA) released a position paper urging change within the profession. Since then, the paper has been circulating electronically and has undergone several revisions based on peer feedback. As of April 21, it had garnered 243 signatures, and authors David Andreozzi, AIA, Duo Dickinson, AIA, Jeremiah Eck, FAIA, and Michael Griffith, SARA, are hoping for more endorsements in the coming months. They’ve written a resolution based on the paper, to be presented at a meeting on Saturday, June 12, at the AIA National Convention in Miami.

The four architects came together out of frustration with what they describe in the paper’s preamble as the profession’s “long-term drift away from social relevance and public credibility.” Notes Dickinson, “This is not a list of demands; it’s a statement of concerns. This is about a generational change that has pushed our profession further and further away from relevance.” He and his co-authors say the economic downturn propelled them into action, but that the underlying issues they address existed well before the fall of Lehman Brothers. “A lot of these things have been simmering for a lot of years,” Eck points out. CORA’s founding mission statement was first published in May 2004 in this magazine, and the organization has been a partner with residential architect’s Reinvention Symposium since the conference began also in 2004.

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AIA Central Valley Endorses CORA Initative on AIA National Convention Agenda

by Bruce Monighan, AIA
AIACV Vice President/President Elect

Background
On March 25th there was an open meeting to discuss the CORA position paper and what action if any the Chapter should take on it.

The present condition of the Cora initiative is that the AIA National has accepted a resolution directly derived from the language of their current statement, and it will be presented on the floor of the convention in front of approximately 350 to 400 credentialed delegates. An AIA Architect representing CORA will present a two-minute introduction, the resolution will be read by the chairman/parliamentarian/secretary of the meeting, and again the CORA representative will give a two-minute overview and statement of purpose.

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National

Based in Washington, D.C., the AIA has been the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857. With nearly 300 state and local chapters, the AIA serves as the voice of the architecture profession and the resource for our members in service to society. www.aia.org

State

The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) is the nation’s largest state architectural organization, representing more than 11,000 architects on issues of statewide importance to the public and profession. With headquarters in Sacramento, the AIACC comprises 22 chapters. www.aiacc.org.

AIA Central Valley

AIA Central Valley is the local chapter of the AIA and serves members in the 17 Northern California counties including Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo, and Yuba. The chapter has been in existence since 1942 and has grown from a group of 5 Charter Members to a current membership of over 750.