Annual Meeting Celebrates the Past and Looks to the Future
"75 That Made a Difference: From T-Square to High Tech" Opening Reception and Annual Meeting
Thursday, October 7
6 pm, Reception, Two Allen Center, second floor lobby
7 pm, Annual Meeting, One Allen Center
Parking available in Allen Center garage; access Two Allen by the skybridge.
$10/members and member guests; $25/non-members
RSVP by October 4, 713/520-5138.
Program includes Chapter business, awards, and remarks by James Howard Kunstler followed by a reception catered by A Fare Extraordinaire.
Our speaker, James Howard Kunstler, has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, and the University of Virginia as well as for AIA Chapters, the American Planning Association and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
He says that he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
He feels strongly about cities. In a review of Leon Krier's latest book Kunstler says: "The city and the town are indispensable, and they must be places worthy of our spirits. Without them, we are liable to not remain civilized." Don't miss his impassioned critique of late 20th century urban life-and discussion of solutions to the problems he deplores.
Kunstler is in Houston to address the Smart Growth Conference on Friday, October 8, sponsored by the Gulf Coast Institute, with AIA Houston, EPA, HARC Center for Environmental Studies, and a host of other organizations.
The final celebration of our 75th Anniversary Year, From T-square to High Tech, chronicles people, events, firms, architect-client relationships, consultants, and interesting facts shaping Houston since 1924. From a small band of 17 founders, the Chapter has grown more than 75-fold. That first group included the Father of the Registration Law in Texas and holder of registration #1, Houston's most important "big business" architect, the architect for City Hall, several City Architects of Houston (we had that position in the early days), the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, the first professor of architecture at Rice Institute, the designers of River Oaks, significant civic buildings, churches, schools, and our early skyscrapers.
The exhibition, designed by Douglas Gallagher and curated by Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, includes a timeline, a firm "family tree," and features on the Founders, the Developers, the Patrons, the Architects, and the Buildings That Changed Things, all liberally illustrated by photographs of buildings and people. Photographers contributing to the exhibition include Richard Payne, FAIA, Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, and many Chapter firms. Other material was obtained from the Houston Metropolitan Research Center's Architectural Archives, the Woodson Research Center at Rice University, the archives of Houston Endowment, and the archives of the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post.
The exhibition is funded by a grant from the Houston Architecture Foundation with Walter P. Moore as its major sponsor with additional support from Diamond Affiliate Firms Turner Construction and Smith Seckman Reid.
Consider this a double celebration: a salute to 75 years of distinguished architecture and your first millennium event. Make your reservations now.
Sponsors
Gensler
Morris Architects
PageSoutherlandPage
Watkins Hamilton Ross
Associated General Contractors
Brookstone Construction Corp
D. E. Harvey Builders
Ferguson Enterprises
Kirksey and Partners
Ray Bailey Architects, Inc.
Spaw Maxwell Company
Swinerton-Walberg
Webb Architects
W. S. Bellows Construction Corp
Fisk
TSA Convention: Shaping Texas
October 21-24
Moody Gardens
Galveston, Texas
Join with your colleagues from all over the state to renew friendships, learn through seminars and tours, pick up new product information at the trade show, play golf or tennis, walk on the beach, and maybe even party some. You can get the jump on the state's new requirement for continuing education for license renewal (probably effective at renewal time in 2001) in dozens of seminars from marketing to design to career building. If you register early enough, you can enjoy a progressive dinner in several historic B&Bs. The Chapter's party, Crazy Eight, will mix the Zydeco Dots and Nicholas Clayton's eclectic Victorian style in the 1876 wooden octagon at the Garten Verein. And Saturday night, the black tie Presidents' Gala will salute George Mitchell and the recipient of the Pitts Award.
Watch your mail and register early. We're the hosts; let's make all of Texas welcome.
AIA Houston Sponsors
Host Chapter Party
On Wednesday, October 27, the National Academy of Architecture for Health is meeting in Houston. As part of the activities, the AIA Houston Committee on Architecture for Heath is sponsoring the Host Chapter Party at the Museum of Health and Medical Science following a windshield bus tour of the Texas Medical Center.
Principal Underwriter
C.E. Ward Constructors, Inc.
J.E. Dunn Construction Company
Sponsors
Associated General Contractors, Houston Chapter
FKP Architects
Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc.
PageSoutherlandPage
Popham Walter Burford Architects
Texas A&M University College of Architecture
Walter P. Moore and Associates
Watkins Hamilton Ross
The Westfall Group, Inc.
Wylie & Associates
AIA/AGC Joint Meeting
Monday, November 15
5:00 pm, Cocktail Reception
5:45 pm, Program
Houston City Club
$35, AIA and AGC members; $45, non-members
Mark your calendar for the annual architect/contractor get-together. The panel, facilitated by Alan Fleishacker, Associate AIA, attorney at 3D/I, will feature owners that have completed projects using alternative delivery methods. This event qualifies for learning units and will provide information useful to interns and principals alike. Details in the November Perspective.
Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series
"Speculations on the Future" is the theme of the 1999 fall lecture series. The programs will be held in the theater of University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Jean-Louis Cohen, author of "Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge 1893-1960," speaks on October 7. On October 12, the author of "CyberCities," Christine Boyer, speaks.
Lectures are at 7:30 pm. Advanced series lecture tickets are available through the RDA office, 713/527-4876. Upon availability, single tickets are on sale the night of the lecture.
Sandcastle Competition Winners
Golden Bucket Award: Rey de la Reza Architects/SWA Group/Val Glitsch, "Carmen Mermanda"
Second Place, Silver Shovel Award: Page Southerland Page/Tellepsen/Compaq, "Y2Kastle"
Third Place, Bronze Shovel Award: Corgan Associates, "Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie"
Honorable Mention:
Jackson & Ryan Architects, "Saving Jackson Ryan"
Mustang Engineers, "Baskin Robins for Dessert"
Day Brown Rice, "Saving Ryan's Privates"
Best Team T-Shirt: Coburn, Linseisen & Ratliff, "Y2 Kegs"
Best Team Signage: The Design Office of Steve Neuman and Friends, "Absolut Alfred"
Best Traditional: Page Southerland Page/Tellepsen/Compaq, "Y2Kastle"
Best Costume: Rey de la Reza Architects/SWA Group/Val Glitsch, "Carmen Mermanda"
Public's Favorite: Coburn, Linseisen & Ratliff, "Y2 Kegs"
Most Hilarious: Corgan & Associates, "Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie"
Most Lifelife: Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum/Turner Construction, "Bugwiser"
That's Entertainment: Jackson & Ryan Architects, "Saving Jackson Ryan"
Let the Games Begin: Pearson English Architectural Design, "Olympic Scorch"
Best Long Distance: University of Texas at Austin, "The Next Big Thing"
3rd Annual AIA College Challenge: University of Texas at Austin, "The Next Big Thing"
75th Anniversary: SJKB, Inc., "AIA Anniversary Theme"
Many thanks to the sponsors of the 13th AIA Sandcastle Competition. The event, with a perfect beach day, was a great success. Seventy-five teams, includes five from area schools of architecture, and more than 2200 team members participated. Thanks, also, to the dedicated and energetic Sandcastle committee chaired by Thomas McCarthy, AIA.
1999 Sandcastle Competition Sponsors
Major Underwriter
A & E Products
Golden Bucket Sponsors
KI/Pallas
SpawGlass Construction Corporation
Silver Shovel Sponsor
E. Harvey Builders
Bronze Shovel Sponsors
American Subcontractors Association, Houston Chapter
ASI Signs
Constructors & Associates, Inc.
Collins & Aikman Floorcovering
Durotech Inc. General Contractors
Quality Service Floor Covering
Satterfield & Pontikes Construction
SpawMaxwell
Tellepsen
Turner Construction Company
Vaughn Construction
Friends
3/D International
Armstrong World Industries
Associated Builders & Contractors of Greater Houston
Associated General Contractors, Houston Chapter
Brookstone Corporation
DalMac Construction
Day Brown Rice
Floor Tech
GMP Inc.
James R. Thompson, Inc.
Kronberg's Flags & Flagpoles
Mission Bufete Constructors, Inc.
McCoy, Inc.
Miner Dederick Construction
National Terrazzo Tile & Marble, Inc.
Southcoast Construction Services, Inc.
Stone Marketing International, Inc.
Teknion
Wilsonart International
Workman Construction
Wylie & Associates, Inc.
Special Thanks to
Galveston Parks Board
Galveston Island Hilton Resort
Sprint PCS
1999 Sandcastle Committee
Thomas McCarthy, AIA, Chair, Page Southerland Page
Kem Casey, Quality Service Floor Covering
Peggy Fortner, Houston Chapter AIA
Abby Gold, Richard Wayne & Roberts
Pat Gremillion, A&E Products
Victor Joe, AIA, House Reh Burwell
Jeff Jones, Bigelow Carpets
Alison Kutler, University of Houston, AIAS
Jere Lafferty, Shaw
D. Paul Larson, University of Houston, AIAS
Sydney Lenoir, Quality Service Floor Covering
Russell Litton, Designweave
Karen Phelps
Joe Powers, AIA, House Reh Burwell
Wesley Richards, 3DI
Bernice Salinas, Watkins Hamilton Ross
Analisa Smith, A&E Products
Ed Stevelman, A&E Products
Pam Vassallo, AIA, Ray Bailey Architects
Debra Wysk, FKP Architects
