November/December 1996

AIA Services

| Houston 1997 Construction Technology Expo |

| Urban Design Lectures at the Goethe Institute |

| Walsh Lecture Features Sam Mockbee, FAIA |

| Committee Bulletin Board |

| New in the Library |

| Seminars/Conferences |


Houston 1997 Construction Technology Expo

IS YOUR TRANSCRIPT short on learning units? Have you completed your Health Safety Welfare units?

You have examined your transcript from AIA and the University of Oklahoma, haven’t you?

What would you think of 16 units in one day? Of logging all of your required HSW units? Plus almost 200 booths full of construction materials and other products. Door prizes. A Party.

A major goal of AIA Houston is the continuing education of our members. In line with this effort, the Chapter has joined forces with AGC, CSI, and DISCA to bring you the Construction Technology Expo to be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center on January 14, 1997.

This Expo offers a full day of seminars developed on three tracks: targeting senior management with seminars on business strategy, staff level with construction detailing and contractors with construction processes. Look for your attendee brochure in the mail the first week in December.

Members can earn 16 Learning Units, almost half the requirement of 36 units, by attending the educational seminars planned throughout the day. There are 23 seminars to choose from, including the quarterly Design Construction Forum. Other business strategy seminars include Partnering/Strategic Alliances and Team Building, The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be, and Project Budgeting and Statements of Probable Cost. There is a choice of 12 seminars that deal with Construction Means and Methods, including the design and detailing of Curtainwall, Masonry, Flashing, Exterior Joint Sealants, EIFS, Roofing, Terrazzo, Wood Components, Residential Roofing, Interior Wall Design, Lighting Design and CADD/3D/Virtual Reality. The final round of seminars explore construction processes of Foundation Design/Site Engineering, Jobsite inspection/CA, Investigation of Wall and Roofing Failures, Bid Day Confusion, Bidding and Bid Procedures and Alternate Construction Methods in Accordance with Senate Bill 1.

Who should attend? Architects, contractors, sub-contractors, specifiers, building managers, and administrators of public and private institutions and related organizations who regularly use design and construction materials and services.

More than 180 exhibit booths will be open for viewing between 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The sponsors will host a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 on the exhibit floor for closing ceremonies and presentations of awards and prizes. The exhibit booths will remain open to allow everyone ample time to visit exhibitors. Door prizes will be awarded from drawings from selected booths.

Plenty of volunteer opportunities are still available. If you would like to help with the Expo, please call Cynthia Walston at 621-2100. The Expo hotline is 370-3710 for booth and sponsorship information. The Expo is sponsored in part by Hebel, producers of Hebel Precast Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Building Products, Ridgway’s, Inc., and FKP Architects, Inc. 


Urban Design Lectures at the Goethe Institute

Monday and Tuesday, November 11 and 12
7 pm 3120 Southwest Freeway, Suite 100

A Level 1 Continuing Education Lecture; 1 LU self report

Herr Professor Elmar Zepf of Munich will lecture at the Goethe Institute on changing concepts of city planning. On Monday his lecture will focus on the effect of changing attitudes and values on the concept of the city. A heightened sense of individualism, environmental concerns, telecommunications, a growing emphasis on tourism as a major economic engine for cities are factors that encourage the exurban migration. Zepf describes his ideas as a "Model of Rural Development."

On Tuesday he will speak on "The Information Society and the Knowledge Village," emphasizing the way the personal computer has changed working conditions and diminished the importance of location. He suggests that the public realm is rapidly becoming obsolete. The postmodern city may be virtual, although the current rebuilding of Berlin follows traditional, 19th century patterns.

Elmar Zepf is currently working on scenarios for the 21st century in rural Germany, a project of the erman Government. In 1994 he developed a regional plan as a pilot project for futurist initiatives. He has been a Professor for City and Regional Planning at the University of Frieburg since 1975 with particular interest in city and village renewal strategies and community management. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 60’s and has lectured at Rice, Texas A&M, and the University of California at Berkeley.

His visit to Texas, which includes a lecture at UTAustin, is generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute. The lectures are free and open to the public.


Walsh Lecture Features Sam Mockbee, FAIA

Tuesday, November 19, 1996
6:30 pm
University of Houston College of Architecture

"The architect’s primary connection is always with place; and not just the superficial qualities of place but the deeper energizing focus of the entire cultural structure where the making of architecture occurs."

The Sally Walsh Lecture, an annual event supported by an endowment of the Houston Architecture Foundation, will focus on the work of Sam Mockbee, FAIA, Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Auburn University.

Mockbee is the director of the Rural Studio in Greensboro, Alabama. Responding to the power that the rural South had on his own life and work, he developed this studio as a complement to the emphasis on inner city problems so often addressed in urban design studios in architecture schools. Students in the Rural Studio face the real world problems of designing and building affordable housing for the rural poor. In the process, they work with real clients to develop rural housing prototypes and gain experience in construction.

Mockbee is a native of Meridian, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn in 1974. His firm, Mockbee Coker, has received many national design awards. He has taught at Clemson University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Mississippi State University and was the Bruce Goff Professor of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma.

In 1992 AIA/Houston's Celebrate Architecture, recognizing excellence in design, education, and professional and community service, was organized as a tribute to Sally Walsh, one of Houston's finest designers and a truly inventive spirit. The Houston Architecture Foundation announced that evening the creation of an endowment to fund annual lectures on interior design and architecture to perpetuate Sally's role as mentor to architects and designers. The lectures are organized by the College of Architecture at the University of Houston.

Major donors to the Walsh Endowment are Mr. and Mrs Louis Adler, the Brochstein Foundation, the Brown Foundation, the Hobby Foundation, Houston Endowment, James Elkins, S. I. Morris, FAIA, and Vinson Elkins.

AIA members may file a self report form for learning units. The lecture is free and open to the public.


Committee Bulletin Board

AIA Design Committee

To conduct the annual award program and to foster other opportunities for discussion of design issues. 

Thursday, November 14
Chapter Office, noon
LU Credits for programs and seminars.
RSVP, 622-6261

During the October meeting we saw the first portion of Bauhaus in America, a film produced by Judith Pearlman and shown recently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as part of an RDA series. The remaining portions of the film will be screened at the November meeting, with discussion to follow. Thanks to Joe Adams, AIA, for arranging for us to see this excellent documentary.

Preparations are underway for the 1997 Design Awards. Note the Call for Entries on this page. The On the Boards competition for unrealized project is now a permanent part of the Design Awards weekend. This year’s jurors will be Barton Phelps, of Barton Phelps & Associates, Los Angeles; Andrea Leers, of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Boston; and James Baird, of Holabird & Root, Chicago.

Mark Lange, AIA, Chair

AIA Committee on Architecture for Health (CAH)

To provide a forum for architects and allied professionals engaged in health care facility work; to develop professional development programs in that specialty.

Third Annual Design for Health Gala
Tuesday, December 10
6-8 pm
Museum of Health and Medical Science, 1515 Hermann Drive

Seminar and tour of the "Amazing Body Pavilion"
Level 1, 2 LUs

Reminder: Call to Exhibit Work entries are due by November 26, 1996.

American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and International Interior Design Association (IIDA) healthcare design professionals will gather at the Museum of Health and Medical Science for "A View From Within," for the third annual Design for Health Exhibit. Facility and department representatives from Houston’s medical community and BOMA will be invited.

Design entries for the gala will focus on interior healthcare projects. Vendors will display products and literature of healthcare related finishes, furniture, accessories and equipment. The seminar and tour will begin at 6 pm and will highlight the design process and intricacies for building some of the museum’s exhibits. Music, food, and beverage service will be provided.

Mark your calendars for this event! Call Gary Owens, AIA, or Lisa Charrin, AIA, at FKP, 621-2100 for exhibit information or to add your name to the invitation mailing list.

Tom Braud, AIA, Chair; Gary Owens, AIA, Vice-Chair, Gus Blanco, AIA, Program Coordinator; Wayne Burford, AIA, Membership Coordinator; Lisa Charrin, AIA, Newsletter/PR Coordinator

IDP Practice Seminar

To support the advisor/intern program; to develop seminars for interns.

Tuesday, December 17th
Chapter office, 6-8 pm
Intership and Practice, courtesy of TBAE.NCARB
Cost: $15 members, $5; member intern, $10 non-member intern, $20 non-member
Students free with ID
Value Units ( now called Training Units) for Interns; LUs for Architects

The final IDP seminar for 1996 will be presented by representatives of Texas Board of Examiners (TBAE), National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and the Intern Development Program (IDP) Committee in early December—the exact details will be released shortly.

Many new rules and regulations have been adopted this year that will affect our daily lives, from education through internship and on into our professional practices. This seminar will serve as an opportunity for Architects, Advisors, Sponsors, Interns and Students to meet with TBAE and NCARB representatives to discuss everything from the new computerized Architect Registration Examination (ARE) to the eradication of the "squealer’s" law.

Seating is limited; for reservations call the RSVP line, 622-6261.

Robert Burnham, AIA, IDP Chair
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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, December 5th
Chapter office, noon
Business meeting and program with catered lunch
1 Learning Unit
RSVP required, 622-6261

This month’s program will feature Jeff Burnett with The Lighting Group. His program will present material on both residential recessed and track lighting. Track discussions will cover both line and low voltage applications. He will provide numerous samples for you to view and experiment with. Special emphasis will be made on the highlighting and accenting of artwork the home. Questions are welcome on these and any other lighting subjects.

Rand Silverman, AIA, Chair 


New in the Library

THE NEW EDITION of the AIA publication, Architectural Licensing Laws: Summary of Provisions, is available for review in the Chapter library. Aspects of licensing laws covered by the publication include: scope of practice, interprofessional occupational exemptions, structural and occupational exemptions, enforcement, corporate practice, initial and reciprocal licensing requirements, board composition and powers.

 To buy a copy call 800-365-2724. Order #J=348-96.


Seminars/Conferences

University of Houston-Downtown Applied Business & Technology Center, 1996 fall schedule for Autodesk is available for review in the Chapter office, or call the training center at 713/221-8032. CEU’s awarded for full participation in most courses.


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