Architectural Education
Thursday, September 16
Chapter office
5:00 pm, reception
5:45 pm, presentation
Please confirm your attendance at 713/520-5138.
A panel of Deans will discuss architectural education and practice with particular emphasis on the ways their schools have chosen to address technical and business issues.
Joe Mashburn, AIA, is Dean of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston. In his second year at the helm, Mashburn came back to Houston after stints in College Station, Australia, and Blacksburg, Virginia. Bob Fillpot, FAIA, is Dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. A long-time Houstonian, Fillpot left Lloyd Jones Fillpot to pursue a degree at Harvard and has been in Oklahoma a year. Thomas Regan is Dean of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Also in his first year, Regan came to Texas from Auburn.
These schools differ remarkably in size, emphasis, and philosophy. Don't miss this conversation about the future of the profession.
Monday, September 27
7-8:30 pm
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet
Come celebrate the second edition of the Houston Architectural Guide, out of print for about five years and now revised and enlarged. With a Preface to the Second Edition by Joel Barna and more than 200 new photographs by Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, and text by Stephen Fox, this volume is an excellent addition to your library, even if you have the 1990 edition. Buildings demolished since 1990 have been moved to a section for "lost Houston." Structures with historic designations are listed in an appendix. And of course, there is an index.
Gerald and Stephen will be on hand to sign your copy, which retails for $20.
The Houston Architectural Guide is published by AIA Houston and Herring Press. Generous support for the publication came from the Houston Architecture Foundation and the Anchorage Foundation of Texas.
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 of AIA Houston
Thursday, October 7
6 pm, Reception, Two Allen Center, second floor lobby
7 pm, Annual Meeting
Parking available in Allen Center garage; access Two Allen by the skybridge.
RSVP by October 4, 713/520-5138.
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.
Designed by Douglas Gallagher and curated by Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, the exhibition 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.
The Annual Meeting, which begins at 7 pm, will include a report on the State of the Chapter from James Hill, AIA, president; presentation of the President's Awards, the Chapter Citation, the Artist Award, the Craftsman Award, and the Educator Award; and election of officers and directors for 2000.
Consider this a double celebration: a salute to 75 years of distinguished architecture and your first millennium event. Make your reservations now.
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.
Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series
"Speculations on the Future" is the theme of the 1999 fall lecture series. The first two programs are in the Brown Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts; the last two programs will be held in the theater of University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. On Wednesday, September 22, hear Christian Thomsen, author of "Visionary Architecture: From Babylon to Virtual Reality." Daniel Libesking, author of "Radix-Matrix: Architecture and Writings," lectures on Wednesday, September 29. 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
75th Anniversary Alert
Mark your calendar now; you will want to be in on the fun. In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Chapter's founding, a committee chaired by Joe Webb, AIA, has outlined a series of events, for the public and for the Chapter. Some are special, once-in-75-years kinds of things; others are an anniversary twist to familiar Chapter events.
August (date to be determined): Publication of the second edition of Houston Architectural Guide, with text by Stephen Fox and photography by Gerald Moorhead, FAIA
September: 75 That Made a Difference, an exhibition celebrating significant architects, architecture, clients, builders, and events of the past 75 years, curated by Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, designed by Douglas Gallagher
October: Annual Meeting and Chapter Awards, James Hill, AIA, presiding; and TSA's 60th Annual Meeting in Galveston, Kathy Heard, AIA, and Mike Gaertner, AIA, local chairs.
