The American Institute of Architects
The Chapter’s Architecture Festival will kick-off with an opening party/event scheduled for Friday, October 12th.
We are seeking interested members, allied companies, Corporate Partners and students to help define and organize this fun event.
The first organization meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 6th at noon at the Chapter office. Please e-mail Kim Anderson if you are interested in participating: kanderson@aiacv.org
The Chapter is looking for Houses designed “specific to our region” to feature in a tour at the inaugural Central Valley Region Architecture Festival, scheduled for this October. The deadline has been extended to this Thursday, May 3rd.
Selected projects will be open for touring by members and the general public for a one-day visit, and the project architect(s) will also be invited to participate in a pre-tour panel discussion to introduce their design concept and the ideas behind it. This is an incredible marketing opportunity, as the Chapter’s media partners will provide press coverage to an entire region of potential clients!
Houses selected will be the best examples of current, site-specific residences built for and within the Central Valley/Sacramento/Capitol region. Houses may be urban, rural or in-between. They may be new, adaptive re-use or re-models. The goal is to showcase how AIACV member architects and firms have worked with local owners to create houses for living in this particular region today.
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To Participate:
To Enter:
Please submit in an MS Word document the following:
Also provide:
Deadline:
E-mail entry materials to info@aiacv.org. Questions? Call 916-444-3658
Emerging Professionals, Architects, Students and Consultants alike all converged at Lionakis’ Sacramento office campus on April 18th for an evening of networking, food and fellowship to kick-off the Chapter’s Emerging Professionals’ first Firm Open House of 2012. Lionakis “opened-up the house” providing tours, demonstrations, project presentations and plenty of food and drink for attendees.
Attendees learned about the firm’s new Lionakis EP Program, which supports licensure of its Emerging Professionals, and their Athens Leadership Development Program. They were also treated to a demonstration of Lionakis’ 3D Printer, as well as presentations focused on the application of Integrated Design and Sustainability on projects in the firm’s Education, Healthcare and Civic Markets.
An iPad was even raffled-off! Stuart Lindsey of M. Neils Engineering was the lucky winner. The firm would like to thank everyone who purchased a chance at winning; the proceeds benefited the Lionakis Foundation.
June 6th is the next AIACV EP Firm Open House at MFDB Architects. Be sure to mark it down in your calendar. Click here for an Open House Flyer
Please join the Sacramento Business Journal for their annual Structures event. This year’s topic is “Affordably Green”. Businesses want to construct and run their buildings efficiently — to help the bottom line and to meet changing expectations of clients and employees. But how to do it on a reasonable budget? This year’s Structures event will feature a panel of experts who will talk about affordable ways to save energy and reduce your environmental footprint.
When: Friday, April 27, 2012
Time: 7:30am – 9:30am
Where: Doubletree Hotel, 2001 Point West Way, Sacramento
ASLA will host, Kimberly Garza the co-founder of ATLAS Lab for a presentation on landscape ecology and infrastructure.
The presentation will explore the recent work of ATLAS, including the winning design proposal for the Catalyst: Sacramento Capital Mall Competition ‘Capitol Canopy’ as a means of establishing a genre of work that promotes resiliency in the relationship between urbanization, infrastructure and the environment. The presentation will touch upon methods of design grounded in cartography and historical studies to articulate the analysis and design of complex and dynamic ecological systems.
This event is FREE!
Time: 5:30 – 7:00
When: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Location: AIA CV Gallery, 1400 S St, Sacramento
Please RSVP to: marq@quadriga-inc.com
Are you attending the AIA National Convention May 17-19, 2012 in Washington D.C.? If so, there are a number of business issues and resolutions that will be addressed that have an impact on members and components in California.
AIACC is hosting a Town Hall related to Convention activities for all AIA members in California on Friday, April 27 from 2-4 p.m. In addition, there will be a breakfast meeting for California members during Convention – May 17 from 7-8 a.m. and the New Fellows Reception on the same day from 6-8 p.m.
To join in, please click on the following links to register:
o Click here to RSVP for California’s Town Hall conference call – April 27 (2-4 p.m.)
o Click here to RSVP for the California Breakfast Meeting at Convention – May 17 (7-8 a.m.) at the Renaissance Hotel (Room: Renaissance West A)
o Click here to RSVP for the New Fellows reception at Convention – May 17 (6-8 p.m.) at the Renaissance Hotel (Room: Renaissance East)
Carol Highsmith, the photographer for the America’s Favorite Architecture exhibit, is touring California in the months of May and June and has asked for help in identifying less obvious but architecturally notable
buildings around the country– especially those that are not in the guidebooks– for possible inclusion in her current project.
Suggestions, including building name, address, and architecture firm, along with a low-res image should be sent to Carol at carol@carolhighsmith.com.
All photographs will be donated to the Library of Congress and will be available copyright-free to the public.
Take a look at this interesting post that originally appeared in Arch Daily:
“You can get into Architecture for one of two reasons: good architecture or bad.
For Cameron Sinclair, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, it was the latter. As a kid, Sinclair would wander his rough-and-tumble South London neighborhood, contemplating how it could be improved (and creating elaborate Lego models to that effect). Instead of soaring skyscrapers or grand museums, he was inspired by buildings that “integrated your neighborhood in a way that made people feel like life was worth living.”
But that’s not Architecture. Or so he was told when he went to University.
Architecture Schools have created curriculums based on a profession that, by and large, doesn’t exist. They espouse the principles of architectural design, the history and the theory, and prepare its hopeful alumni to create the next Seagram Building or Guggenheim.
Unfortunately, however, the Recession has made perfectly clear that there isn’t much need for Guggenheims – certainly not as many as there are architects. As Scott Timberg described in his Salon piece, “The Architectural Meltdown,” thousands of thousands are leaving the academy only to enter a professional “minefield.”
So what needs to change? Our conception of what Architecture is. We need to accept that Architecture isn’t just designing – but building, creating, doing. We need to train architects who are the agents of their own creative process, who can make their visions come to life, not 50 years down the road, but now. Today.”
Click here for the entire article.
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