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Square Feat:: Fancy Steps | Dan Maginn, AIA
Local architect, Dan Maginn, AIA, Principal with el dorado inc is currently being featured as a guest blogger for Good Magazine. This four part series, “Square Feat,” will explore the myths and realities surrounding affordable housing.
Click here to check out the Third installment installment, Square Feat: Fancy Steps.
New Missouri Bank Crossroads “ARTBOARDS” to Debut First Friday in October
Commissioned Images by Kansas City artists Grant Miller and May Tveit
On view this fall as latest installment of Mo Bank’s Art through Architecture project
The Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch, 125 Southwest Boulevard, will debut four new large-scale commissioned images, by Kansas City based artists Grant Miller and May Tveit, on its “Artboards” in time for First Friday October 2, 2009. 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.
Grant Miller will present two east-facing images, which are croppings of recent acrylic on wood paintings. Interweaving hard-edges and painterly drips, and built up through many layers, these painting are Miller’s attempts to physically portray the abundance of information that surrounds us at all times in a myriad of forms. Informed by an interest in architecture as well as in the properties of paint, Miller’s “maximalist” images suggest the chaotic, complex network of information, tangible and intangible, that shapes our lives and informs our choices.
“Whether the forms of information are expressions, memories, math, or the mundane, the act of showing what real time information—and all of its different characteristics—could look like fascinates me,” says Miller. “With this billboard project, I am very excited to have my work enter a more direct and public form of communication, actively engaging in the world of information of which it speaks.”
May Tveit will present mirror images of the same photograph on her west-facing billboards. The image documents “COLOR FIELD,” a series of hardcoated and painted rectangular hay bales, as installed on a beach along the Cape Cod National Seashore. The sculptures here compose a minimalist dotted line along the ocean horizon and shoreline (and later in the day were seen swimming in the bay as they floated on white pedestals), bringing a sense of serenity, order, and beauty to the Artboards’ urban context.
The COLOR FIELD installation pictured was one of 16 “happenings” Tveit completed this summer as part of FIELD TEST, an ambitious solo exhibition project in Wellfleet, MA, whereby the artist, with the help of dozens of far-ranging volunteers, moved and located these and related sculptures in unexpected locations around Wellfleet. As translated into the Artboards in Kansas City, the image both furthers Tveit’s intent of placing art into everyday life and completes a circle, as these candy colored emblems of Midwestern farm culture come home to roost.
About the Artists:
Grant Miller attended the Kansas City Art Institute and received his MFA in printmaking and drawing from Washington University, St. Louis. He has had solo exhibitions at Black & White Gallery, New York, NY; Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City; Pele Prints, St. Louis; and Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago. His work has been featured in group exhibitions including “Maximalist Tendencies in Painting” at Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy; Art Miami; “More is More” at Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University; and “Constructed Realities: The Influence of Science and Engineering in Contemporary American Art” at Center for Contemporary Art, Southeastern Louisiana University. Miller has completed residencies at City Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, and Vermont Studio Center, among others, and was a recipient of a Lighton Internation Artists Exchange Travel Grant. Miller is represented by Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City.
May Tveit received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her Masters from the Domus Academy, Milan, Italy. A Charlotte Street Award recipient (2002) and current resident artist at Review Studios, Tveit has presented solo exhibitions at Farm Projectspace and Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence; Review Exhibition Space, Kansas City; United Metal Spinning Company, Kansas City; and Kansas City Jewish Museum Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom. She has also completed site specific installation commissions for Avenue of the Arts and for National Center for Drug Free Sport, which was awarded an AIA Allied Arts & Craftsmanship Award.
About the “Artboards”:
The Missouri Bank “Artboards” project began in 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 Missouri Bank’s purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch. Every four months, the boards will display a set of newly commissioned artworks, produced as digital prints on ECO-flex, a new, “green” billboard material. Thus far, the Artboards have featured works by Kansas City artists Warren Rosser, Jaimie Warren, Archie Scott Gobber, Miki Baird, Elijah Gowin, and Emily Sall.
Designed by Helix Architecture + Design, Missouri Bank’s Crossroads Branch was the first Kansas City area building project to gain “Art Achievement” through Art through Architecture (AtA), a partnership of American Institute of Architects-Kansas City and Charlotte Street Foundation 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. The Missouri Bank Crossroads project, which also includes commissioned sculpture by artist Jesse Small, earned Gold-level Art Achievement from Art through Architecture.
Future artists for the Artboards will be selected by Missouri Bank representatives from Art through Architecture’s artist database, accessible on-line at http://www.ArtArch.org. For more information about the Art through Architecture program, contact Josh Shelton, Chair of AtA’s Steering Committee, at 816.474.3838 or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For more information about the artists and artwork, 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).
AIA Document Update
On October 13th, the AIA will release AIA Documents on Demand, a web-based service that allows users to purchase and download individual forms and agreements in PDF format which is then completed electronically. The documents available include 16 of the most popular selections from the AIA Contract Document library. This service is ideal for MAC users or those that only use a few contracts per year.
Hard copy (paper) contract documents are available at the AIA Kansas City Office.
To receive a free copy of the AIA Contract documents relationship diagram, visit http://info.aia.org/marketingdemo/registration/
In addition, AIA will release the following new documents in November 2009:
C191™– 2009 (New Document): Standard Form Multi-Party Agreement for Integrated Project Delivery
C191–2009 provides a new framework for Integrated Project Delivery by providing a collaborative environment in which the Parties will operate in furtherance of the Project Goals. Through the use of C191–2009 the Owner, Architect, Contractor and perhaps other Project participants enter into one agreement where the purpose is to design and construct a Project utilizing Integrated Project Delivery. This document is different than the C195™–2008 in that, among other things, the parties do not form a Limited Liability Company. While most of the demand for this document will likely come from users who prefer electronic formats, the innovative and provocative content of this document will likely generate great interest from the legal and academic communities which often prefer a paper version.
B108™– 2009 (Replaces B181™–- 1994): Standard form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for a Federally Funded or Federally Insured Project
B108–2009 is a standard form of agreement between Owner and Architect for building design and construction contract administration that is intended for use on federally funded or federally insured projects. B108–2009 was developed with the assistance of several federal agencies and contains terms and conditions that are unique to federally funded or federally insured projects. Participants on some new stimulus fund projects may need or want to use B108 or its predecessor 181. Given the interest in construction projects funded by this year’s federal stimulus package, this document may be of great interest, especially in more rural areas where U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded projects are concentrated.
B202™–2009 (New Document): Standard Form of Architect’s Services: Programming
AIA Document B202–2009 provides the Architect’s scope of services for Programming in a standard form that the Owner and Architect can modify to suit the needs of the Project. B202–2009 is not a stand-alone document and may be used with AIA Document B102™–2007 or with another owner-architect agreement. Given the complimentary relationship that B202-2009 has with these previous documents, it will likely be of interest to Architects who already use other AIA owner-architect agreements.
Missouri Board posts Sample Title Blocks
In conformance with new regulations on Title Blocks, the Missouri Board has posted a sample block on its web site.
Click here to view the sample: http://www.pr.mo.gov/boards/apelsla/sample.pdf
Kansas City Tow Services Vehicle Impound Facility receives Gold LEED rating
The City recently received official confirmation from the U.S. Green Building Council that the Tow Services Vehicle Impound Facility at 7750 Front St., has attained a gold rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The tow lot, which opened earlier this year, is the most environmentally conscious building the City has taken from design to build to operation, and was judged on sustainable site work, water and energy efficiency, emissions and air quality.
This facility was design by AIA Kansas City Member Firm, el dorado.
Berkebile wins a Heinz Award
Bob Berkebile has been honored with a 15th annual Heinz Award, which celebrates the ideal that individuals have the power and responsibility to change the world for the better. This year’s awards, announced today by Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation, focus singularly on the environment.
Berkebile is honored with a $100,000 Heinz Award for his role in promoting green building design and for his commitment and action towards restoring social, economic and environmental vitality to America’s communities through sustainable architecture and planning.
“Robert Berkebile turns tragedy into the environment’s triumph. Where others see a typical job of rebuilding after a disaster, he sees a chance for restoration: restoration of a family’s dream, a town’s revival along the banks of the Mississippi and of the air, water, and land, where that new growth rises,” said Teresa Heinz, chairman of the Heinz Family Foundation. “He has helped to set a standard that has been embraced by architects, engineers and planners throughout the world. For the far-reaching impact of his work, we are pleased to honor him with one of this year’s Heinz Awards.”
As the founder of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) National Committee on the Environment, Bob Berkebile has been one of the central forces behind a new focus on sustainable building that has influenced thousands of architects and changed the face of green architecture in America. He has devoted himself to improving the world through his profession, embracing the cause of sustainability and responsible environmental design practices, helping to found both the U.S. Green Building Council and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. His sustainable design and planning projects extend from new developments to several restorative sites including New Orleans and Greensburg, KS.
“Bob Berkebile’s leadership in the sustainable design community is legendary,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chairman, U.S.Green Building Council. “As a close advisor to the USGBC board of directors, where he was also a founding member of the USGBC’s Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee, there is no one whose advice and counsel is more frequently sought or more highly valued. Beyond recognition by his peers for his design excellence and leadership contributions, including receiving USGBC’s National Leadership Award in 2005, his reputation is founded on his personal and professional integrity, a rare generosity of spirit and commitment to tirelessly educating both other professionals and the world at large about the value of sustainability and the integral role it plays in design excellence, in health and human productivity and comfort, and in environmental stewardship.”
“Receiving a Heinz Award is a deeply humbling experience. I wish to share this recognition with my talented colleagues at BNIM and with hundreds of dedicated professionals at AIA COTE, USGBC and also with the scores of scientists and mentors who have inspired and informed this journey of discovery,” said Bob Berkebile, FAIA. “It is clear that we are all united in our mission to strengthen our communities with architecture and design that is regenerative and increases human capacity.”
Created to honor U.S. Senator John Heinz, the 2009 Heinz Awards commemorate the late senator’s long-standing commitment to the environment by bestowing $100,000 awards to 10 individuals whose achievements have helped bring about a cleaner, greener and more sustainable planet.
Until this year, the Heinz Awards recognized individual achievements in five distinct categories – Arts and Humanities, Environment, Human Condition, Public Policy, and Technology, the Economy and Employment. While this year’s awards focus on the environment, the nominees were evaluated through the prism of the traditional five Heinz Awards categories.
For a complete list of this year’s award recipients and for information about Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation visit http://www.heinzawards.net.
AIA Kansas City Space Rental Guide
Looking to rent a space for your next meeting, seminar or event? AIA Kansas City is the space. Check out the attached flyer for the details.
2009 AIA Kansas City Annual Meeting / Elections Results
AIA Kansas City would like to extend thanks to all 2009 Candidates for their participation and to the membership for all the help and votes they extended. A special thanks to the Nominating Committee for their efforts in securing a worthy slate of candidates. This event would not be possible without the contributions of the Annual Meeting/Elections Sponsors: Boulevard Brewery, Holmes Murphy, Mark One Electric, Omni Architectural Products and VM Zinc, PSI Inc. and SGH, Inc.
AIA Kansas City would like to welcome & congratulate newly elected Directors & Officers:
AIA Kansas City Assoc. Director – Erin Pias, Assoc. AIA
AIA Kansas City Three-Year Director – Kimball Hales, AIA
AIA Kansas City Treasurer – Ryan Manies, AIA, Esq.
AIA Kansas City President-Elect – Jay Tomlinson, AIA
National Center for Drug Free Sport Awarded Art though Architecture “Gold Level” Art Achievement
National Center for Drug Free Sport (NCDFS ) has been awarded highest level “Art Achievement” by Art through Architecture (AtA) for commissioning a new, site-specific video installation by Kansas City based artist Barry Anderson as part of a recent architectural renovation project completed by el dorado ,inc. architects. The artwork was commissioned as part of the second phase of a two-phase building renovation for NCDFS’s offices at 2537 Madison, on the Westside in downtown Kansas City.
Through AtA, a partnership of American Institute of Architects-Kansas City and Charlotte Street Foundation, 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.
Working with AtA, Frank Uryasz, owner of Drug Free Sport, and Josh Shelton, project architect, el dorado, reviewed the work of eligible artists in AtA’s online database at http://www.ArtArch.org, selected a short list of artists, then conducted studio visits with five finalists, ultimately selecting Barry Anderson for the commission.
“Art through Architecture provided an opportunity for me to consider early in the planning process art installations for our expanded space,” says Uryasz. “Through meetings with selected artists at their studios, I found I was particularly drawn to movement and to Barry Anderson’s video animation work.” Anderson was awarded the $10,000 commission in late February, 2009.
Anderson’s 8-plus minute looping digital animation, “There and Back Again,” spreads out across three synched flat screen monitors mounted in a vertical arrangement on a wall in NCDFS’s entrance lobby. The work takes inspiration from the architecture and design of the office lobby, particularly its brightly striped walls, its exposed, white-painted ceiling trusses, and its overall lightness, as well as from the function of the office lobby as a space which people enter and move through.
Mixing figurative and abstract elements, the surrealistic animation unfolds in four “scenes,” beginning with a lush blue sky and soft clouds, from the center of which radiate rapidly spinning disks of colorful photographic imagery. This sky-scape morphs into a segment directly inspired by NCDFS’s architectural trusses, with the viewer feeling as if they are swimming through a rabbit hole-like matrix of angular white beams, which then gives way to a purely abstract passage of rainbow-colored, orbiting, ovular forms, finally yielding to a landscape with hyperreal green grass, from which the same spinning disks as in the first scene rise like bubbles toward the sky. Then back to the beginning in an endless loop.
“I wanted to convey a sense of delight,” says Anderson, “and to create a kind of gateway or portal into the space, as well as into an imaginary space.” Aware that visitors might spend a few initial minutes in the lobby then re-visit it on their way out following a meeting elsewhere in the offices, Anderson was interested in making a longer work, and one which varied radically over its course, such that it might offer continual surprises; a new experience for visitors at each encounter. As a whole, the piece, which expands upon Anderson’s recent pop-inspired digital animations but represents his first foray into synched, multi-monitor installation, evinces a sort of spatial journal and grappling with ideas of infinity and “the void.”
“Anderson’s video installation introduces an ambient and shifting horizon line, allowing multiple perspectives and vanishing points to appear and re-appear,” says Shelton. “His work, and our collaborative dialogue surrounding the work, was necessarily spatial. As a result, our team began to understand the new architecture surrounding us in expansive ways. “
“Barry incorporated architectural elements of our building into the piece, which makes it truly integrated into the environment of our workspace,” Uryasz adds.
About the Artist:
Barry Anderson received his BFA from University of Texas, Austin, in 1991 and his MFA from Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington in 2002. His video and photographic work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY (opening August 2009); Salina Art Center, Salina KS; Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City; Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX; Gallery 201, University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas City, among others. It has been featured in group exhibitions, video festivals, and fairs at venues such as Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina, Kansas City; Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Thailand New Media Art Festival, Bangkok; Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota; Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janiero, Brazil; Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY; Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City; Dasm Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY; Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Pump Rooms, Learnington Spa, England; and South Bend Regional Museum, South Bend, Indiana. Anderson completed a video commission for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, in 2008. He is an Associate Professor of Electronic Media at University of Missouri Kansas City, Department of Art and Art History and is currently a Review Studios artist.
About the Architect:
Awarded “Firm of the Year” in 2008 by American Institute of Architects-Kansas City, el dorado architects applies a multidisciplinary approach to modernism. Through the engagement of architecture, urban planning, public art, industrial design, fabrication, and education, the partners at el dorado have developed a shared language with which they approach a wide range of project typologies and scales. The New York Architectural League included el dorado in the 2008 class of Emerging Voices. The firm’s projects have been published on a regular basis, both nationally and abroad. El dorado received numerous awards for the design of The National Center for Drug Free Sport, including an Architectural Honor Award from AIA Central States Region, an Arts and Craftsmanship Merit Award from AIA-KC, and a Design Merit Award from AIA-KC. The project was recently published in a cover story on el dorado in the June 2009 issue of Architect magazine.
About the Client:
Based in Kansas City, The National Center for Drug Free Sport, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Frank Uryasz, previously director of sports sciences for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Devoted to preventing drug abuse in athletics, NCDFS is the premier provider of drug testing services, drug screening policies, and drug testing education programs in sport. In addition to Barry Anderson’s video installation, NCDFS’s offices feature work by Kansas City artists May Tveit, James Woodfill, Archie Scott Gobber, Lonnie Powell, and Mike Sinclair, among others. Supportive of the arts community on many levels, Frank and Ann Uryasz are also artist patrons at Review Studios.
The mission of Art through Architecture (AtA) is to support artists and the arts community in the Kansas City area and to enrich architectural practices and architect-client relationships by providing architects and clients with incentives and tools to collect, commission, place, and integrate artwork by Kansas City artists into their processes and projects. For more information about the Art 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).
Local architectural students awarded $14,000 in scholarships
Kansas City, Missouri – The Kansas City Architectural Foundation (KCAF) is pleased to announce that six outstanding students have been selected as recipients of the 2009 – 2010 scholarship. A total of $12,000 in scholarships were awarded for the 2009 – 2010 school year, in addition to a $2,000 National American Institute of Architects Award for a 5th year architectural student. The KCAF Scholarships are awarded each year to deserving students from the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, who will be or currently attend an accredited architectural school. Selection criteria include demonstrated financial need, academic performance, letters of recommendation, and answers to short essay. The recipients were honored at a special reception on the 11th of August.
We are pleased to award scholarships to the following students:
Kansas City Architectural Foundation Scholarship
Lauren Sanderson – 6th Year, Kansas State University
Ryman Kinney – 1st Year, University of Kansas
Kelsey Vusich – 2nd Year, Kansas State University
Alex Callow- 2nd Year, Kansas State University
Bryan Stockton- 2nd Year, University of Kansas
Gerard Alba- 2nd Year, University of Kansas
The Kratz Scholarship is awarded to:
Ryman Kinney – 1st Year, University of Kansas
The Linda Erwin Young Scholarship is awarded to:
Alex Callow – 2nd Year, Kansas State University
The Peggy and Frank Zilm Scholarship is awarded to:
Bryan Stockton – 2nd Year, University of Kansas
The Kent Spreckelmeyer Scholarship is awarded to:
Gerard Alba – 2nd Year, University of Kansas
The Bruce McKenzie Scholarship is awarded to:
Kelsey Vusich – 2nd Year, Kansas State University
The AIA Kansas City Scholarship in conjunction with AIA National is awarded to:
Lauren Sanderson – 6th Year, Kansas State University
The Kratz Scholarship was established to honor the legacy of Edwin and Edith Kratz, lifelong residents of Missouri. Edwin was a licensed architect who worked as the Chief Architect and Chief Underwriter for the Federal Housing Administration in Kansas City. Both Edwin and Edith had a passion about the importance of education and a personal commitment to continue to learn and expand their own knowledge as well as encouraging other to do so.
The Linda Erwin Young Scholarship was established to honor the legacy of Linda Young, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects Kansas City Chapter from 1978 to 1989. Through Young’s exceptional dedication and leadership she actively supported the community awareness of architecture and the built environment.
Peggy and Frank Zilm established two scholarships to honor young and deserving architectural students the first named The Peggy and Frank Zilm Scholarship’ and the second to honor Kent Spreckelmeyer a professor at the University of Kansas for his strong commitment to mentoring students named as The Kent Spreckelmeyer Scholarship’. The Professor Kent Spreckelmeyer Scholarship was established to award to a deserving student attending the University of Kansas.
The Bruce McKenzie Scholarship was established in 2000 by Gary Nevius, AIA as a colleague and friend to honor Bruce’s life as a talented architect and designer. The scholarship was established to provide a deserving student from Bruce’s alma mater, Kansas State University, a better opportunity in his honor.
The Kansas City Architectural Foundation is a charitable corporation (501© (3)) established in 1984 through the leadership of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Kansas City Chapter.
The Kansas City Architectural Foundation educates individuals and communities about the power of architecture to transform lives and improve the places where we live, learn, work, and play. Through our outreach programs, grants, scholarships and educational resources, KCAF inspires people to become thoughtful and engaged stewards of the built environment. To learn more about the Foundation please our website at http://www.kcarchitecturalfoundation.org and click on DonorsEdge.
For more information please contact The Kansas City Architectural Foundation c/o Dawn Kirkwood, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects 816-221-3485 for information concerning these scholarships and applications.