- America’s Favorite Architecture
- AIA Fort Worth
- The Blueprint for America
AIA Asheville
Norbert W. Young Jr., FAIA
Jay Bhatt
National Chairs
Norman L. Koonce, FAIA
Ronald Skaggs, FAIA
Executive Committee
John D. Anderson, FAIA
Ronald E. Bogle, Hon. AIA
Michael Broshar, FAIA
James O. Jonassen, FAIA
Patrick E. MacLeamy, FAIA
Christine McEntee
George H. Miller, FAIA
Hal P. Munger, FAIA
Robert Packard, Assoc. AIA
Ted P. Pappas, FAIA
Harry Rutledge, FAIA, RIBA
Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Douglas Steidl, FAIA
RK Stewart, FAIA
Thomas W. Ventulett, FAIA
R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA
Arol Wolford, Hon. AIA
Check out the Approved Blueprint for America Initiatives
This month we would like to acknowledge our Bronze sponsors for their contributions to the continuing success of our campaign.
In alphabetical order they are:
Bank of America
Bentley Systems Inc.
Stephen B. and Lisa S. Bonner
Clark Construction Group LLC
Cooper Carry Charitable Foundation Inc.
Ellerbe Becket
Hanley Wood LLC
HGA
HMC Architects
Helmut Jahn, FAIA
Little
OWP/P Architects Inc.
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners Architects LLP
SmithGroup Inc.
Swanke, Hayden, Connell Architects LLP
Last month, we exceeded $10 million in AIA150 donations. Thanks to all for supporting the work of these donations as we continue to develop the Blueprint projects, continue dialogue and activities around America’s Favorite Architecture, restore and maintain the Octagon, prepare to green the AIA headquarters building, publish a book on architecture, and put money aside for research and scholarships. These are all appropriate and exciting ways to spread the word about the power of architecture and the beauty and lasting legacy of good design. More to follow…
Also, last month 82 Blueprint projects were uploaded into Google Earth, and 14 others are ready to go live later this month.
America’s Favorite Architecture Web site continues to be popular with the public. From June 15, 2007, to August 15, 2007, the site welcomed more than 20,000 visitors from 150 countries and territories. The five countries responsible for the most traffic to the site during this period were the United States (10,320), Germany (996), Canada (733), Japan (658), and Italy (644). Public comments continue to roll in and the site to date has logged approximately 1,400. While some people questioned why certain buildings were mentioned and others ignored, most are pleased that they have been reminded of the treasures they have in a nearby city or even across town.
AIA
components are continuing to reserve the companion exhibit,
America’s Favorite Architecture, as well. This month the
exhibit
finished successful stays at the University of Texas, Arlington, School
of Architecture and the Nebraska State Capitol Building in Lincoln,
Nebraska. The exhibit will be opening the first week of
November
in Richmond at the Virginia Center for Architecture. From
there
it will travel to the University of Louisville’s Cressman
Center
for the Visual Arts in February; Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Dana-Thomas
House in Springfield, Ill., in March; and AIA Lubbock and AIA Blue
Ridge in April. More stops are scheduled beyond this spring,
including AIA Central Valley, AIA San Antonio, AIA Rochester, AIA
Memphis, AIA Ohio, and AIA New Mexico (see the list below). If
you’re interested in hosting the exhibit, please contact Andy Smith. Here’s a list of where the exhibit will travel to (so far):
| Lincoln, Nebr. | AIA Nebraska | October 2007 |
| Richmond, Va. | Virginia Society of Architects | November–January 2007 |
| Central Valley, Calif. | AIA Central Valley | January 2008 |
| Louisville | AIA Kentucky | February–March 2008 |
| Springfield, Ill. | AIA Illinois | March 2008 |
| Lubbock, Tex. | AIA Lubbock | April 2008 |
| Roanoke, Va. | AIA Blue Ridge | April–May 2008 |
| San Antonio | AIA San Antonio | May–July 2008 |
| Rochester, N.Y. | AIA Rochester | June–July 2008 |
| Memphis | AIA Memphis | September 2008 |
| Ohio | AIA Ohio | September 2008 |
| New Mexico | AIA New Mexico | October–November 2008 |
AIA Fort Worth Chapter
When the AIA National Component offered the traveling exhibition, America’s Favorite Architecture (AFA), to our components, many jumped at the prospect to take part in this wonderful occasion. AIA Fort Worth had originally planned to stage the exhibit at its public library but decided instead that the exhibit offered them an opportunity to foster a better relationship with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) allowing the public to see what UTA was doing and tie it with the local chapter. AIA Fort Worth took an extra step and added a local element.
With
a national poll limited to 150 buildings, few were representative of
the Southwest. The AIA Fort Worth component thought more local
architecture needed to be recognized. The component polled its members
and sought their vote on selected buildings. The end result was 28 top
vote-getters within 15 counties. The Kimbell Art Museum, the Marty
Leonard Chapel, and the Tarrant County Courthouse were AIA Fort
Worth’s top three picks (click here to view all the
buildings). The AFA exhibit and the chapter’s poll
received
press coverage from the local media including the Forth Worth Star-Telegram,
but more importantly, it gave the AIA another opportunity as a
profession to celebrate our accomplishments with the communities where
we live. The Blueprint for America Spotlight—AIA Asheville
A vibrant city rich in cultural activity, Asheville appears to be the quintessential livable community. The very things that make Asheville a desirable place to live are threatened as new development sprawls over farming valleys and forested mountain slopes.
For example, North Carolina’s Department of Transportation recently completed the final section of I-26, which spans from Asheville to Kingsport, Tenn., and increases accessibility to and through the region. Construction of the I-26 connector through Asheville is scheduled to begin in 2012. The project will add lanes to existing portions of the highway and construct a new section crossing the French Broad River near downtown. Concerned citizens worry about the aesthetics of such a project and want to make the most of its potential as a catalyst for sustainable development along the transportation corridor and in the greater community.
AIA Asheville has created the Asheville Design Center to engage the community in planning discussions and to help shape the project so that this major public works initiative becomes an asset to the community.
AIA Asheville has involved community stakeholders in private and public presentations and discussions of the project and assembled a team of design professionals who have developed a three-dimensional topographical model of the project area, as well as illustrations, graphics, and renderings to help the community visualize various possibilities.
Two community design workshops studied the design of the current proposal and suggested improvements. Last year an alternative design incorporating community goals was ready for public scrutiny. The new plan could save as much as $150 million by reducing land acquisition and roadway costs while creating opportunities for the growth of downtown Asheville toward the riverfront and improving connections with neighborhoods on both sides of the river. For more information, visit the Asheville Design Center.
(as of October 15, 2007)
Founders Circle
$1,000,000
McGraw-Hill Construction, Official Media Sponsor
Autodesk, Official Software Sponsor
Gold
$500,000–$999,999
HKS Architects Inc.
NBBJ
Silver
$250,000–$499,999
AIA Board of Directors
Deltek, Inc.
DLR Group, Inc.
Haworth, Inc.
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
Perkins+Will
RTKL Associates, Inc.
Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates, Inc.
Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc.
SHW Group LLP
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership
Bronze
$100,000–$249,999
Bank of America
Bentley Systems, Inc.
Stephen B. & Lisa S. Bonner
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Cooper Carry Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Ellerbe Becket
Hanley Wood, LLC
HGA
HMC Architects
Helmut Jahn, FAIA
Little
OWP/P Architects, Inc.
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, LLP
SmithGroup, Inc.
Swanke, Hayden, Connell Architects, LLP
Granite
$50,000–$99,999
ADD, Inc.
BWBR Architects, Inc.
Cannon Design
FreemanWhite, Inc.
Reed Construction Data
Marble
$25,000–$49,999
AIA Trust
Craig Beale, FAIA, FACHA
Nunzio DeSantis, AIA
Brian Dougherty, FAIA, & Betsey Dougherty, FAIA
GBBN Architects, Inc.
GSBS Architects
Gund Partnership, Inc.
H. Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, FACHA
John J. Hoffmann, FAIA
Norman Koonce, FAIA, & Suzanne Koonce, Hon. AIA
Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture
Miller | Hull Partnership
Munger Munger Architecture
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Inc.
Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, FACHA
Victor F. Trahan III, FAIA
R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA, & Phoebe Vosbeck
TRO Jung | Brannen
WHR Architects, Inc.
Special Friends of the AIA
$10,000–$24,999
Altoon + Porter Architects
Anderson Mason Dale Architects, PC
John Anderson, FAIA, & Flodie Anderson
Noel Barrick, AIA
Barron, Heinberg & Brocato
Bobby Booth, AIA
Michael Broshar, FAIA, & Mary Broshar
Joe Buskuhl, FAIA
E. Davis Chauviere, AIA
Tommy Cowan, FAIA, & Ann Cowan
Louis de Moll, FAIA
Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA
James H. Eley, FAIA
Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, Studio EDR
Glenn Fellows, AIA
GouldEvans
Marion L. Fowlkes, FAIA
FRCH Design Worldwide
Ron Gover, AIA
Donald J. Hackl, FAIA
Ernest Hanchey, AIA
Heller Manus Architects, Inc.
Dan Jeakins, AIA
Chuck Means, AIA
Mike Menefee, AIA
Morris Architects
Dan Noble, FAIA, FACHA
Marshall Purnell, FAIA
Freddy Roberts, AIA
Miguel Rodriguez, AIA, & Lourdes Rodriguez, AIA
Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, & Barry Jones, AIA
Joseph Sprague, FAIA
Steed Hammond Paul, Inc.
Douglas L Steidl, FAIA, & Sue Steidl
Norman Strong, FAIA, & Susan Strong
Bryce A. Weigand, FAIA
Enrique A. Woodroffe, FAIA/Woodroffe Corporation Architects
Special Donors
(up to $10,000)
Roy L. Abernathy, AIA
Henry C. Alexander, Jr., FAIA
Anderson Brulé Architexts, Inc.
Architecture by Norbert Peiker, LLC
Newell Arnerich, AIA
Arrowstreet, Inc.
Edward Abeyta, AIA
Ronald Arthur Altoon, FAIA
Peter J. Arsenault, AIA
Jim Atkins, FAIA, KIA
Danny P. Babin, AIA
Donald R. Barsness, AIA
Ronald J. Battaglia, FAIA & Sandra Battaglia
Lee Palmer Bearsch, FAIA
Ronald P. Bertone, FAIA
William Beyer, FAIA
Robert R. Billingsley, AIA
Elmer Botsai, FAIA
David Bowen, FAIA
Jay and Michelle Brand
Leon Bridges, FAIA
Thomas D. Briggs, AIA
Robert Broshar, FAIA
David J. Brotman, FAIA
John A. Busby, Jr., FAIA
H. Kennard Bussard, FAIA
Joan Capelin, Hon. AIA
Richard E. Carroll, AIA
Stephan Castellanos, FAIA
Lorenzo Castillo, AIA
L. William Chapin II, FAIA
Matthew Clear, AIA
CMSS Architects P.C.
David S. Collins, FAIA
Douglas J. Compton, AIA
Donald M. Comstock, FAIA
Laura Cordero-Agrait
Jess Raymond Corrigan, Jr., AIA
Anthony J. “Tony” Costello, FAIA
David Crawford
Sylvester Damianos, FAIA
Edgardo de Lara
Ronald W. Dennis, AIA, ACHA
Frank F. Douglas, FAIA
George Dove, FAIA
Brian J. Eason, AIA
Jeremy Edmunds, Assoc. AIA
Elliott + Associates
Robert J. Farrow, AIA
S. Scott Ferebee, FAIA
Robert D. Fincham, AIA
Jonathan L. Fischel, AIA, LEED AP
Ford, Powell, & Carson, Inc.
John P. Franzen, AIA
T.E. Garduque, FAIA
Francisco G. Gonzalez, AIA
B. Todd Gritch, FAIA
Grooters Leapaldt Tideman Architects
Roy L. Gunsolus, AIA
Maureen Guttman, AIA
Walter Hainsfurther, AIA
Thomas E. Harvey, Jr., AIA, FACHA
Jeffrey K. Haven, AIA
Helix | Architecture + Design
James G. Herman, AIA
John Hesseler, AIA
Jeff Hill, AIA
William E. Hinton, AIA
Michael Hoagland
Kerry J. Hogue, AIA
Thomas R. Holt, AIA
Clifford H. Horsak, AIA
M. Teresa Hurd, AIA
John M. Hutchings, AIA
Paul Hyett, Hon. AIA
IMRE Communications
Dick Jackson
Jeffrey K. Jensen, AIA
J.K. Roller Architects
Bruce E. Johnson, AIA
Danie A. Johnson, FAIA
Larry A. Johnson, PE
Richard D. Johnston, AIA
Mark Jones, AIA
Leevi Kiil, FAIA
Tim Konganda
Leonard Koroski, AIA
KPS Group, Inc.
Kirk J. Krueger, AIA
Sylvia Kwan, FAIA
Joseph P. Laakman, AIA, NCARB
Brian F. Larson, AIA
Jeff LaRue, AIA
Robert Lawrence, FAIA
Rick James Lee, Assoc. AIA
Robin Lee, Hon. AIA
Larry D. Le Master, CPA
Michael Lischer, AIA, RIBA
Clark Llewellyn, AIA
Stephen K. Loos, AIA
Marvin Malecha, FAIA & Cindy Malecha
Clark D. Manus, FAIA
Elizabeth Bell Martin
Robert T. Martineck, AIA
John M. Maudlin-Jeronimo, FAIA
Susan Maxman, FAIA
Linda McCracken-Hunt, AIA & Thomas Hunt
Owen E. McCrory, AIA
Christine W. McEntee
Connie S. McFarland, FAIA
Brian McFarlane, AIA
John McGinty, FAIA
Adam Melis
Elizabeth Mitchell, Hon. AIA
Norman T. Morgan, AIA
Rodney W. Morrissey, AIA
Mortar Net USA, Ltd.
Robin L. Murray, AIA PP
Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA
Celeste Novak, AIA
Gregory Palermo, FAIA and Olivia Madison
Gordon Park, AIA
Raymond G. Post Jr., FAIA
Jack D. Price, Jr., AIA
David Proffitt, AIA
David E. Prusha, AIA
Marvin Ragland, Jr.
Ratio Architects, Inc.
Remson-Haley-Herpin Architects
John H. Richardson, PE
Terry R. Richter, AIA
Christopher Rose, AIA
Jeffrey Rosenblum, AIA
Harry R. Rutledge, RIBA, FAIA
James A. Scheeler, FAIA
Charles E. Schwing, FAIA & Jerry Schwing
Scott & Goble Architects
Linda Searl, FAIA
John C. Senhauser, FAIA
Oliver B. Stark II, AIA
Greg Staskiewicz, Assoc. AIA
RK Stewart, FAIA & Barbara Lyons, AIA
Craig R. Stockwell, AIA
Jeffrey C. Stouffer, AIA
James M. Suehiro, AIA, LEED AP
Anne-Marie Taylor
T.H. Teasdale, FAIA
B. Kirk Teske, AIA
Leslie J. Thomas, AIA and Steven J. Bracy
James D. Tittle, FAIA
Bryan K. Trubey, AIA
Larry J. Tuccio, AIA
Nicholas E. Vlattas
Jeffrey D. Vandersall, AIA
Mark Vander Voort, AIA
Edward J. Vidlak, AIA
The Vinyl Institute, Inc.
Michael Wayne Vela, AIA
David Vincent, AIA, ACHA
Craig Williams, AIA
Penelope J. H. Wright, AIA
Eric Zaddock, Assoc. AIA
Andrew J. Zekany
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