AIA Kansas City: The American Institute of Architects

AIA Missouri serves as the voice of the architect at the state level. By participating in the AIA Missouri Annual Meeting in Jefferson City you add strength to that voice. The day consists of a business meeting and legislative briefing, awards luncheon and visits with legislators to advocate on behalf of the profession. Our business meeting will include presentations by: AIA Missouri’s legislative consultant Kathi Harness, members of the State Registration Board as well Jeff Schaeperkoetter, Director of Missouri Division of Facilities Management, Design and Construction. Learn about pending legislation on environmental sustainability, construction bond authority, design build for schools, and much, much more. We have also invited House Speaker Ron Richard to join us to give us more information on his call to action to renovate the state’s Capitol. He stated he has a plan for a $350 million charitable trust that would “rebuild and remodernize” the Capitol. We are hoping that his schedule will allow him the opportunity to give us more details.

To register, please visit http://www.aiamo.org. The registration fee of $30 includes lunch.
Cost: $30 in advance – $35 at the door

Contact your chapter office or AIA Missouri (573-635-8555) if you are interested in carpooling to Jefferson City.

The Building Enclosure Council of Kansas City is pleased to announce for the Young Architects of Kansas city a walking tour of the Kansas City
Performing Arts Center courtesy of JE Dunn on March 24th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.

This event is free. However, since space will be limited to 20 participants, please RSVP by no later than 5pm on March 19th.

Where to meet: JE Dunn Field Office at1640 Baltimore – there is a parking lot to the north of the building – if you gather in the lobby – also there are models and progress photos in the lobby.

Attire: Everyone must wear long pants and close-toed shoes.

Safety: Hard hats and safety glasses will be provided

Site Access release: Prior to the tour there is a site access waiver that must be signed and left with the tour guides.

If you have any questions please contact: Hosam Habib , R.A. at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Led by three national experts who’ve created and implemented successful FBCs, this course gives comprehensive knowledge combined with hands-on experience.

Instructors:
•Kevin Klinkenberg, a Kansas City-based architect and expert in Traditional Neighborhood Design techniques in projects of all scales.
•Scott Polikov, President of Gateway Planning Group in Austin, TX, expert in the integration of transportation infrastructure and urban form.
•Sam Poole, an attorney with years of experience in preparing comprehensive plans, plan amendments, and form-based codes.

9 AIA CES and AICP credits are available for this course

The registration fee for this one-day course is $250/person. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all course materials. To register for this course, go to http://www.formbasedcodes.org/courses.html, e-mail (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or call 312.731.4701.

Join Western Blue for this session on content management.

This presentation will focus on innovative ways you can scan, store, manage, search, retrieve and collaborate on both electronic information and paper documents. The average full time employee spends 3 to 4 hours a week searching for information. That constitutes approximately $5000 a year per employee. Is your company trying to accomplish more with less time, less money and less employees? We will demonstrate solutions that are designed and proven to help your company achieve these goals. You will learn what your company’s options are, from single ownership to enterprise wide solutions. You will be introduced to how these technologies can improve your bottom line. We will be discussing everything from traditional ECM solutions to the newest SharePoint solutions to help determine what best suits your firm.

This program is worth 1 LU and lunch will be provided.

Join us for a FREE two-day training workshop for builders, remodelers, architects or anyone else interested in being at the forefront of this fast emerging trend. This course will cover all business aspects of deconstruction including: – Safety – Debris handling – Tools and equipment – Maintaining salvage values – Jobsite layout – Handling & shipping – Sequence of work – Deconstruction techniques – Jobsite inspection

Participants will receive a full-color deconstruction notebook, a certificate of completion, box lunches on both days and transportation between the classroom and jobsite. Note: this a managerial level training, not labor training.

To register, simply contact Mark Bullock with Habitat ReStore at 816-231-6889 ext.236 or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Register now – space is limited.

Ethics in Planning

Stacey Swearingen White is Associate Professor in the KU Department of Urban Planning. Her research interests are in the areas of environmental planning and policy, including stormwater management, sustainable communities, public participation, open space protection, and planning pedagogy. She also serves as the Director of Academic Programs for the KU Center for Sustainability.

The spring 2010 Oscar Ekdahl Memorial Lecture of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design will be given by two distinguished Japanese architects.

Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu will speak at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2010, in Forum Hall of the K-State Student Union. The lecture is open to the public without charge.

In 1986, a group of seven people, including Kazuhiro Kojima and Yasuyuki Ito, enrolled in the Tokyo University Graduate School doctorial course and jointly established a fi rm named Coelacanth. Achievements included winning fi rst prize in the international competition for the Osaka International Peace Center in
1990, the Utase Elementary School in 1995, and receiving the Design Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan in 1997. The offi ce was renamed C+A in 1998. Then in 2005, the fi rm reorganized into CAt (C+A Tokyo) and CAn (C+A Nagoya). From offi ces in both Tokyo and Nagoya, the fi rms design architecture locally and internationally, based around four partners: Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu (CAt), and Yasuyuki
Ito and Susumu Uno (CAn).

According to Librairie d’Architecture, “Kazuhiro Kojima, in partnership with Kazuko Akamatsu of CAt, works with rather unusual strategies as the driving force of his projects. Kojima doesn’t use form as a starting point; instead, his buildings are the outcome of situating space itself at the centre of discourse, plus concepts linked to the fl uidity and instability of the phenomena that go to form a building. The fl uidity and instability of life and of space itself are concepts rooted in the traditional Japanese culture Kojima reinterprets and manipulates in a contemporary way. The outside of one of his buildings is, therefore, the secondary expression of what has given rise to the inside.”

Kazuhiro Kojima was born in Osaka and graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. He completed the master course of architecture at the University of Tokyo where he was also a research associate. In addition to being a CAt partner, he is also a professor at the Tokyo
University of Science and a visiting professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology.

The EEBN invites you to Sustainable Roofs from a Green Manufacturer

8:00 AM – Registration and Networking
(bagels, juice and coffee available)
8:30 – 10:00 AM – Tour of DERBIGUM
10:00 – 10:30 – Networking

REGISTER NOW

This event is free for EEBN members, $20 for non-members
and $10 for students who register by March 24.

The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) is hosting a two-part workshop that will give people with a stake in energy issues the opportunity to help develop a regional framework that supports energy efficiency, energy conservation and renewable energy production in the Kansas City region.

Fee: None, but please make every effort to attend both sessions

Participants will learn from local and national experts the latest approaches to energy efficiency and conservation, including an overview of national trends and best practices in areas such as sustainable urban planning and design, green building and energy codes.

The sessions will explore using a systems-thinking approach and implementing best practices; adopting progressive codes, standards and incentives; partnering to find regional solutions and synergies; monitoring effectiveness; and promoting market transformation. Learn more or register.

Now: The Physical and Virtual University of 2010
the implications of digital transformation for learning and the meaning of place