Young Architects Forum
To provide a focus for the activity and interest of architects
and interns under 40 or in the first 10 years of practice.
Fourth Tuesday of the month
Chapter office, 6 pm.
Thursday, September 12, Happy Hour, Mesa, 1971 W. Gray, 6
pm.
Tuesday, September 24, instead of our regular meeting we will
tour PDR.
Please join us on the tour and at our regular meetings to
discuss activities for this fall. We hope you will become involved.
For more information call me at 520-5446.
Reagan Miller, AIA, Chair
AIA Design Committee
To conduct the annual award program and to foster other
opportunities for discussion of design issues.
Thursday, September 12
Chapter office, noon
LU Credits for programs and seminars.
RSVP, 622-6261.
Selection of jurors for the 1997 Design Awards program is
on the agenda. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting. I will fax
a preliminary list of juror candidates to regular committee people
before the meeting, so please call me at 871-7205 with names you'd
like to see on the list.
Mark Lange, AIA, Chair
Residential Committee
To serve as a forum for those engaged in the practice of
residential architecture; to develop continuing education programs in
that specialty.
Thursday, September 26
Chapter office, noon
Business meeting and program with catered lunch
1 Learning Unit
RSVP required, 622-6261.
This month's meeting/program will be in the showroom of
Colours of the Rainbow Granite Corporation, 4340 Southwest Freeway.
Tommy Schlitzberger, Sr. Executive VP, will discuss the cost,
durability and low maintenance of natural stone and the modern trend
of the use of granite as counter tops. Dr. Y.J. Liu, President, will
explain how the prices have become more reasonable for marble and
granite. There will also be a drawing for a door prize of a beautiful
polished granite table top.
October program will feature Geotech Engineering.
Rand Silverman, AIA, Chair
Business Practice Committee
To provide a forum for discussion of practice management
issues.
Thursday, September 19
Chapter office, noon
1 Learning Unit
RSVP, 622-6261.
Carolyn Ferguson, Marketing Manager of The Lentz Group,
will discuss marketing at the strategy development level: the process
of identifying the firm's niche or target market, evaluating the
firm's competitive strengths and weaknesses relative to that segment
and creating a feasible plan to position the firm accordingly. This
is going to be a great presentation and qualifies for LUs.
Walter Murphy, AIA, Chair
Micro-Firm Roundtable
Dedicated to the exchange of information, ideas and resources
relevant to the 1-2 person firm.
Monday, September 9
Chapter office, 11:30 am-1:30 pm
Mark your calendar:
roundtable session. This is an opportunity to speak your
mind, bring your most recent success or quandary, and seek
information and ideas from other small firms.
We are an energetic, positive group, and our Monday meetings
usually leave us "charged" and inspired by each other.
Betty Avary, AIA, Chair
Hy Applebaum, AIA, Co-Chair
Architecture for Kids Committee
To develop and implement programs which inform the public about
architecture and the built environment, with specific emphasis on
primary and secondary school students.
Tuesday, September 3
Chapter office, noon
RSVP, 622-6261.
AIA Houston will host an Architecture is Fun Teacher
Workshop on Saturday, September 21, 9 am-noon, at the Chapter office.
The workshop will include a brief introduction to the world of
architecture, as well as a hands-on project which can be used in the
classroom; there will also be a discussion as to how the concepts of
architecture relate to all grade levels and subjects. Architecture is
Fun is a program which involves students in activities and projects
to develop their awareness of architecture and the built environment,
and is funded by the Houston Architecture Foundation.
Julia Nolte, AIA, Chair
IDP Practice Seminar
To support the Advisor/Intern Program; to develop seminars for
Interns.
Third Tuesday of the month
Chapter office, 6-8 pm
Cost: $10 member, $5 member intern, $10 non-member intern, $15
non-member, college student free with ID.
Value Units for Interns; LUs for Architects.
On the third Tuesday of even months, a seminar will be
presented by the IDP Committee. The seminars for 1996 focused on the
Construction Industry and provided information that not only is
required training for Interns, but also address subjects that are
often difficult for Interns and young Architects to obtain in the
typical Architect's office. With your support, these seminars will
also serve as an opportunity for Architects, Interns, Students and
Associated Professionals to meet and exchange ideas.
On Tuesday, October 15, the changing relationship between
Architects and the Construction Industry will be the topic of the
fifth and final seminar of the year: Contractors: Partners or
Adversaries? Several specialists in the area of design-build,
arbitration, mediation and partnering &emdash;from attorneys to
owners, to educators, to builders, to Architects &emdash;will present
a wide range of viewpoints at the seminar. Seating is limited;
reservations can be made with AIA, call 622-6261. Thank you.
Robert Burnham, AIA, Chair
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Continuing Education Committee
To coordinate and monitor the Chapter's continuing education
offerings; to develop programs as needed.
Tuesday, September 17
Chapter office, noon
RSVP, 622-6261.
I have good news. As of August 1, more than fifty percent
of the Houston Chapter membership have taken the time to obtain
learning units and have reported them to National AIA record keeping
at the University of Oklahoma. Remember, in 1996 all AIA members must
begin to obtain learning units (LUs); 36 LUs by December 31, 1997.
Members can obtain LUs by level 1 self-directed study, level 2
seminars/lectures and level 3 workshops.
The Chapter will notify those members with 0 learning units in
September. Transcripts will be mailed to all members later in the
fall.
We still need additional volunteers to serve on the committee for
1996. Duties might include writing monthly newsletter articles,
coordinating programs with other committees or evaluating programs in
accordance wi the AIA Guidelines. Your contribution would be greatly
appreciated.
Kurt Hall, AIA, Chair
HOUSTON CENTER for Photography offers two six-week courses
led by Richard Payne, FAIA, for the fall of 1996:
Introduction to the Art of Photography
Instructor: Richard Payne
Location: HCP
Dates: Six Monday classes, September 30 - November 4, 7-9 pm
Fee: $250 students/seniors, $300 HCP members
36 LUs on self report form.
Advanced Fine Art Photography
Instructor: Richard Payne
Location: HCP
Dates: Six Tuesday classes, October 15 - November 19, 7-9 pm
Fee: $250 students/seniors, $300 HCP members, $350 general public
36 LUs on self report form.
A Unified Profession
Thursday, October 3, 1996
Innova, Room 4
5:30 pm, Reception
6 - 7:30 pm, Forum
RSVP by October 2, 622-6261.
A panel of Lars Lerup, Dean of the Rice University School
of Architecture; Bruce Webb, Acting Dean of the University of Houston
College of Architecture; Charles B. Thomsen, FAIA, 3D/International;
and Jeff Ryan, AIA, Jackson and Ryan Architects, will discuss the
future of architecture from the perspectives of the academy and
practice. Where is architecture headed? How can schools position
themselves to meet the future? Shape the future? Is the frequently
bemoaned "gap" between school and practice a chasm or a positive
condition of creative tension? What is the role of the professional
society in facilitating a constructive dialogue?
Facilitated by Alan Fleishacker, Associate AIA, the Forum will
include responses from Jan Blackmon, AIA, President-Elect of the
Texas Society of Architects, and Michael Stanton, FAIA, Vice
President of the American Institute of Architects, as well as
opportunity for audience participation.
This Forum is the first in a series of discussions prompted by the
Carnegie Foundation report on architectural education and practice,
Building Community. Boyer and Mitgang, authors of the report, suggest
that practitioners and educators form partnerships "to enrich
schools, to support experience, to sustain learning."
There are implications here for life-long learning and for a more
intentional relationship between the academy and the office to
implement the goal.
Subsequent Forums include on-campus sessions for students and
alumni and another inclusive session on necessary dialogue with the
public and the role that both the school and the office have to play.
The focus of the latter is the section of the Carnegie Foundation
report, An Enriched Mission, which recommends "building to beautify;
building for human needs; building for urban spaces; preserving the
planet."
Most practitioners and educators have some ideas about this
subject. Come to the Forum and share yours. If you want a copy of the
report, call the Chapter office. The cost is $15 plus tax and postage
and handling, if you want it mailed to you.
Drive Time Seminars:
Seminars on audio tape available in the Chapter office:
John Belle, FAIA, 1995 AIA Architecture Firm
Award-Winner
Kermit Baker, AIA, Forecasting Economic Futures
Design and Construction Forums:
January 18, 96, Managing Risk II
June 29, 95, Project Delivery Options
November 9, 95, Managing Risk I
AIA/AGC Seminars: Recommended Practices:
June 17, 96, Focus on the Owner
May 20, 96, Project Delivery Systems
April 22, 96, Programming and Planning for Facilities Design
Video tapes in the Chapter office:
Back from the Brink (Saving America's Cities by Design)
Building Design Concepts (An Architectural Perspective)
ISTEA: Shifting Gears (The Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991)
Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (CD)
The U.S. Capitol, an exploration in design (Autodesk).
