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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
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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
e-mail =
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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