News:
AIA | HSW Self-Reporting Deadline
Starting January 1, all HSW credits must be reported through an AIA CES Provider. Members have until January 31, 2012, to self-report any remaining HSW or HSW/SD credits from 2011. Make sure your members don’t lose any HSW credits they earned in 2011.
AIA Monthly Advocacy Call: SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns
This month’s Advocacy Monthly Call on January 19th 4pm ET will feature Marie Johns, the Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration. The call will focus on contracting opportunities, counseling & training, business loans & grants for small businesses. This teleconference promises to be very informative for all small business owners. Instructions for accessing either the web conference or the audio only teleconference are available on the monthly advocacy meeting’s webpage.
Gehry Residence Selected for 25 Year Award
The Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, Calif., has been selected for the 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award. A seemingly ad hoc collection of raw, workmanlike materials wrapped around an unassuming two-story clapboard bungalow, Frank Gehry’s, FAIA, home for his wife, Berta, and two sons found a literal, but unexpected, answer to the question of neighborhood context, and used it to forever re-shape the formal and material boundaries of architecture.
Enormously influential in both theory and practice, the home’s fundamental material modesty and formal experimentation marks a Rubicon in the history of contemporary architecture, tearing down inherited stylistic standbys to declare a new design language for the modern suburban architectural condition. Recognizing architectural design of enduring significance, the Twenty-five Year Award is conferred on a building that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years as an embodiment of architectural excellence. Projects must demonstrate excellence in function, in the distinguished execution of its original program, and in the creative aspects of its statement by today’s standards. The award will be presented this May at the AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C.
NCARB | The IDP 2.0 Interns’ Rollover Guide
Learn how the upcoming changes to the IDP will affect you. The rollover guide includes the rules that will pertain to your experience as it moves from the current IDP to IDP 2.0. It also includes definitions, explanations of the experience areas that are combined or split, training hour rollover examples, and frequently asked questions. Download, PDF, 429K
NCARB | IPD 2.0 Calculator
Wondering how your hours will roll over to IDP 2.0? Check out the IDP 2.0 Calculator! Enter your approved hours and see how they will roll over to the new program. It gives you and your IDP supervisor information on your progress through the program to help prepare for the rollover in April. View
2012 AIA Changes to Health, Safety, and Welfare Education Requirements
On December 9, the AIA Board of Directors voted to modify the AIA’s calendar year continuing education requirement. Per year, AIA members will be required to complete 12 hours of health, safety, and welfare (HSW) education, an increase from the previous requirement of 8 HSW. The AIA Board will re-evaluate the sustainable design (SD) requirement in 2012. The new HSW requirement goes into effect in January 2012 and AIA members should fulfill their total 18 hours of continuing education during the calendar year.
Increasing the HSW requirement per year sets a higher standard for AIA members and will enable them to fulfill state licensing requirements for most states. Additionally, increasing the required number of HSW credits will raise the level and quality of our continuing education and professional development of architects.
Additional information and list of topics on health, safety, and welfare (HSW).
Additionally, in calendar year 2012, aligning closer with state licensing boards’ practice, AIA members will no longer be able to self-report HSW courses for credit. Members will need to complete HSW credits by taking qualifying courses from registered AIA CES Providers and Providers will need to report HSW courses for members to receive HSW credits. Members can continue to self-report learning unit (LU) credit hours for non-provider courses and programs.
In the past, AIA members were able to attend courses outside of the AIA CES Provider network and submit a self-report online to be reviewed for HSW or SD credit. AIA CES is implementing this new HSW and SD credit policy to ensure quality education and establish an educational standard for the courses that AIA members attend.
New Missouri Bank Crossroads Art Through Architecture Artboards
The Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch, 125 Southwest Boulevard, KCMO, will debut four new large-scale commissioned images by Kansas City artists Jon Scott Anderson and Derrick Breidenthal on its “Artboards” in time for First Friday, January 2012. Installed on the exterior, double-sided billboards rising above the bank, the “Artboards” are visible to the public all hours of the day, and will remain on view for approximately three months.
Jon Scott Anderson presents one contiguous photographic image, split between the two billboards, which inserts a patch of lush green forest into the urban realm in the dead of winter. “Across a field of green, black vines write their calligraphy, a poem about their gestural nature,” Anderson writes. Composed of multiple photographs taken from different points of view, his Artboards in fact portray a uniquely constructed view of nature, “like a Muybridge motion and time study about this place in the forest.” About his intent, Anderson writes, “Just as the use of stepping stones in the Japanese tea garden was to slow down the visitor and to humble them as they bowed to enter the tea house’s low doorway entrance, so does this image, with its multiple viewpoints, suggests a ‘bow’ and echo a similar reading.”
Interested in how technology shapes perception and experience, painter Derrick Breidenthal presents a pair of images that contrast a naturalistic painted landscape with a pixilated, digital representation of the same. In juxtaposing the two depictions, he seeks to provoke consideration of how our digital environment is fundamentally transforming the way we see and experience space and place. “We are quickly reaching a time (some would say we have already arrived) in which the virtual world holds a deeper connection for many than a simple walk in the woods,” he writes. The fact that the large-scale images will be viewed from various distances introduces an additional layer to this dynamic, whereby the images will slip back and forth between abstraction and representation at different rates, depending on proximity.
About the Artists:
Jon Scott Anderson received his MFA in Filmmaking from Syracuse University and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He also attended Rockhurst College, where he studied Japanese. His work has been exhibited around the country and internationally, including in New York, Tennessee, Ohio, Minnesota, California and Japan. He is represented by the Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, where his work has been shown frequently in both group and solo exhibitions. Anderson’s photographs are also in the collections of businesses and institutions including Sprint World Headquarters, Overland Park, KS; University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR; Houlihan’s Restaurants, Inc.; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Washington, DC; and Missouri Bank, among others. Visit www. http://www.jonscottanderson.com for more information.
Derrick Breidenthal attended both the University of Kansas and Johnson County Community College. His work is featured in collections located around the world, including Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA; Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City; KU Medical Center, W Hotel Collection, Detroit, MI; and Kansas State University. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. In Kansas City, Breidenthal has presented solo exhibitions at the Leopold Gallery, Medium Well Studio, The Arts Incubator and Station A. In 2009, he received an Artist Inspiration Grant from the ArtsKC Fund, and this past year was a resident at the Caye Caulker Study in Belize, Central America. Visit http://www.breidenthalart.com for more information.
About the “Artboards”:
An Art through Architecture “Art Achievement” project, the Missouri Bank “Artboards” launched fall 2008, when the building’s existing double-sided billboards were renovated and converted into a highly visible site for work by area artists as part of the bank’s purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch, completed by Helix Architecture + Design. Art through Architecture, a partnership of Charlotte Street Foundation and American Institute of Architects-Kansas City, administers the programming of the Artboards in collaboration with a panel of Missouri Bank representatives. To date, the Artboards have featured commissioned works by Kansas City artists Warren Rosser, Jaimie Warren, Archie Scott Gobber, Miki Baird, Elijah Gowin, Emily Sall, Grant Miller, May Tveit, Allan Winkler, Mike Sinclair, Anne Lindberg, Paul Shortt, Adolfo Martinez, Jerry Kunkel, Deanna Dikeman, and Mary Wessel, Barry Anderson, and Luke Firle.
Art through Architecture (AtA) is designed to encourage collecting and commissioning work by Kansas City area artists through architectural practice. Through AtA, new architectural projects may earn Gold, Silver or Bronze levels of Art Achievement by dedicating a percentage of the total construction budget to collecting artworks, commissioning temporary or permanent artworks, and/or including artists on design teams. For more information about the Art through Architecture program, visit http://www.artarch.org or contact Kate Hackman, Administrator, Art through Architecture Art Committee/Associate Director, Charlotte Street Foundation, at 816.994.7731 or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
2012 AIA National Photography Competition
AIA St. Louis presents the 2012 AIA Photography Competition for actively registered architects, AIA members and AIAS members. The entry deadline is March 1, 2012.
The rules and regulations and entry form can be found at http://aia-stlouis.org/photo_contest.asp
The top fourteen (14) entries will be exhibited at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, D. C. and be included, along with 38 other entries in the 2014 Engagement Calendar published by Universe.
Entry fee for AIA members (AIA & Assoc. AIA) is $30.00; AIAS member entry fee is $15.00. Entry fee for non-member registered architects is $60.00.
Cash Awards
First Place $500
Second Place $400
Third Place $300
Al Fuller Award $200 The subject of the Al Fuller Award must be located in the United States.
NCARB | IDP 2.0 Final Phase Goes Into Effect 3 April 2012
The final phase of IDP 2.0 will go into effect for interns on 3 April 2012. This implementation will include:
• New experience categories and areas
• Simplified experience settings
• New electronic experience reporting system
• Credit for academic internships
• Broader definition of an IDP supervisor
The Basics
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you prepare for the final phase:
• All hours will be rolled over to IDP 2.0.
• The total hours required to complete the IDP—5,600—will remain the same.
• The total core minimum hours required to complete the program is increasing to 3,740 for everyone—an increase of 20 hours from the current requirement.
• If you have completed the IDP prior to 3 April 2012, you will not be affected by the new requirements.
• IDP 2.0 updates the IDP requirements to more closely align with the practice of architecture today. Changes were derived from the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture.
KCMO Neighborhood Advisory Council seeks to fill vacant positions
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Neighborhood Advisory Council (KCNAC) is seeking candidates to fill five board member positions for the 2012 term.
The Neighborhood Advisory Council consists of 15 members who meet monthly to discuss proposed City policies and programs and make recommendations to the director of the City’s Neighborhood and Community Services Department. The board aims to represent Kansas City’s diverse neighborhoods’ interests in the development and implementation of government policies affecting them.
At this time, the board has two at-large positions available, as well as one position open in each of the following regions: northwest, northeast and centralwest. To see a map of each region, along with written descriptions, please visit http://www.kcmo.org/kcnac and click on the “six regions” link.
To be eligible for the board, candidates must prove residency, be a registered Missouri voter, not have any outstanding warrants or delinquent taxes, and not have any conflicts of interest with the work of the Neighborhood Advisory Council.
Candidates must also reside in the region that they are seeking a position for. This excludes the at-large positions.
Kansas City, Mo., residents interested in running for one of the available seats need to complete an application and return it by Friday, Dec. 30. Please send to:
Tiffany Drummer, c/o Neighborhood and Community Services Department.
414 E. 12th St., 4th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64106
Applications are available at http://www.kcmo.org/kcnac, or at the Neighborhood and Community Services Department, located on the fourth floor of City Hall, 414 E. 12th St.
If you have any questions regarding KCNAC or need an application, please contact Tiffany Drummer at 816-513-3210.