Steven Gatschet, AIA, died June 20, 2012, at the age of 71. Mr. Gatschet served as a member of AIA Philadelphia’s Board of Directors and as Chapter President in 1991.
A practicing architect with over 40 years of experience at numerous Philadelphia-area firms, Mr. Gatschet was most recently a private consultant and an adjunct professor of architecture at Drexel University, where he had been teaching since 1982. In addition, he was a member of the boards of the Foundation for Architecture, the Washington Square Development District, as well as the zoning committee of the Center City Residents Association, and the advisory board of the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia.
Mr. Gatschet received his Bachelor of Arts from the College of Architecture at Arizona State University, and was an author of numerous published articles and lectured widely to both professional and non-professional audiences.
The focus of Mr. Gatschet’s research was the history and construction materials and techniques, and the history of Dock Creek and the pre-settlement topography of the city. His hobbies included designing engineered paper constructions, drawing, jazz and classical music, and pipe smoking.
He is survived by his wife, AbbieKinzler, and two children from a previous marriage, Stephanie and Andrew.
A memorial service is planned for September. An exact date will be announced in the near future.
Carlo Ratti to Deliver Keynote Presentation at Design on the Delaware
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnicodi Torino and the E'coleNationale des Ponts et Chausse'es in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been confirmed as one of four keynote presenters at the 10th annual Design on the Delaware conference, November 14-16 in Philadelphia.
Carlo holds several patents and has co-authored over 200 publications. As well as being a regular contributor to the archtitecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper II Sole 24 Ore, he has written for the BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American, and the New York Times. His works has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum of Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the "Best Inventions of the Year."
AIA Philadelphia welcomed the following new members in June:
Joseph C. Gallagher, Assoc. AIA Tyler C. Cooney, Assoc. AIA, KJO Architecture Carl J. Heyne, IV, AIA, Ballinger
Affiliate Members: hpeGroup, LLC
Alan Berger to Present Keynote Presentation at Design on the Delaware
Alan Berger, Landscape Architect, Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and founding director of MIT’s P-REX Lab will give a keynote presentation at the Design on the Delaware Conference on November 15th. Berger’s work emphasizes the link between our consumption of natural resources and the waste and destruction of landscape, to help us better understand how to redesign around our wasteful lifestyles for more intelligent outcomes. He coined the term “Systemic Design” to describe the reintegration of disvalued landscapes into our urbanized territories and regional ecologies. Prior to MIT he was an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard-GSD, 2002-2008. He is a Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow of The American Academy in Rome and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1990). The Project for Reclamation Excellence (P-REX) is a multi-disciplinary research effort at MIT focusing on the design and reuse of waste landscapes worldwide. Learn more atwww.designonthedelaware.com
Member News
Grosvenor selects Eimer Design
The real estate investment firm of Grosvenor has selected Eimer Design to provide a new corporate image along with unique and effective work place design strategies for their Philadelphia offices.
Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects receives Second Prize in DVGBC Sustainable Design Competition
Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects is proud to announce that their team, led by Tim Kiser, AIA and Michael McCloskey, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, received Second Prize in the 2012 Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) Sustainable Design Competition. Kiser and McCloskey participated in the Emerging Professionals category and received the award at the Best of Greenbuild event held Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Their submission, “Mantua RE-Wright”, adaptively re-used the existing Mantua Wright Recreation Center in the Mantua section of Philadelphia. The design is intended to “RE-Wright” the community’s understanding of what their neighborhood is and how it can flourish to foster a sustainable way of living. The Mantua RE-Wright complex is situated within a dense urban context, so a vertical addition to the existing building became a way to introduce much needed program space onto a constrained site with a minimal footprint. The striking image of the tower lends a contemporary face to Mantua’s already established identity. Views afforded from the new addition enable residents to perceive their urban environment in a way that reinforces a sense of scale between their block, their neighborhood and their city.
The tower also becomes a highly visible beacon within the community and presents a constant reminder of the communication health, and educational opportunities the center provides. The building itself acts as a tool for learning and presents visitors with sustainable ways of living within a community, which includes taking advantage of existing unused roof space to allow for the production of natural crops amongst the paved city context and providing a building analytics display to help people engage with responsible building and energy use practices.
The Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects competition team is proud of their role in helping to set the tone for neighborhood environmental responsibility within the City of Philadelphia with this re-imagined community center concept.
EwingCole Wins Engineering Awards
EwingCole, one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and interior design firms, is pleased to announce that it has won three awards from the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers (DVASE). The projects honored by DVASE are the Outpatient Cancer Center at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, PA; the New Headquarters for the United Therapeutics Corporation in Silver Spring, MD; and the Pedestrian Connector for the United Therapeutics Corporation.
“EwingCole’s engineers are focused on delivering collaborative solutions that are sustainable, cost-effective, and address the long term needs of a building,” said Mark Hebden, EwingCole’s President. ”We are honored that our creative solutions to these structural challenges have been recognized by our peers.”
The winning projects were announced on May 16th at the Excellence in Structural Engineering design awards program held at the Top of the Tower at 3 Logan Square, Philadelphia.
The Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer Center of Pocono Medical Center won the “2012 Outstanding Project Award.” Completed this past spring, the 65,000 square-foot cancer center consists of composite slab on metal deck construction with a lateral system composed of ordinary steel concentrically braced frames. Drilled piers make up the structure’s foundation. The building was designed for future expansion up to six additional stories. A skywalk footbridge of steel trusses connects the Cancer Center to the main hospital.
United Therapeutics’ New Headquarters project won an “Award of Merit.” This eight-story office tower with two below-grade parking levels beneath an elliptical auditorium structure presented structural challenges. Support of the auditorium shape, the limited floor heights below the auditorium and the limited locations of columns due to parking clearances required many 6’-0”x3’-0” transfer beams to carry both the vertical and lateral load of the structure. United Therapeutics’ Pedestrian Connector project also won a “2012 Outstanding Project Award.” The Connector spans 90 feet between buildings, allowing employees to traverse the street at the 6th floor level. The full cross section of the connector is a truss, comprised of exposed 7-inch high-strength-steel rings that follow the extended circular cross section of the connector and are spaced at 9-foot centers. The rings are composed of two half circular sections (top and bottom) with a 10-foot radius separated by straight sections of varying length that match the slope of the floor slab.
EwingCole, one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and interior design firms, is pleased to announce that its project for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has won both local and national awards from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). The Medical Surgical Unit of Katz Women’s Hospital won the 2012 Section Award from the Philadelphia Section of IES and also a 2012 Illuminations Award of Merit from the continental organization.
“EwingCole’s team of lighting designers are brilliant engineers who are dedicated to conserving energy while providing beautiful, functional design,” said Mark Hebden, EwingCole’s President. ”A major part of every LEED designation is due to their creativity and commitment.”
Judges were impressed that the Surgical Unit earned LEED credits from 15% lighting energy savings and low mercury lighting, while successfully meeting the client’s expectations and budget. The warm and inviting lobby uses a combination of LED slot lights and LED accent lights. For nursing stations, LED downlights provide general lighting, while LED tape is integrated into the desks. Corridor lights are 1x2 fluorescent for bright daytime illumination, while patient room lighting is very flexible, giving the patient control over the lighting scenes from the pillow speaker. The project is expected to earn LEED Silver.
Pennsylvania Governor Names Timothy Haahs to Advisory Commission
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett recently selected Timothy Haahs, PE, AIA as one of 17 members of the Governor’s new Asian American Affairs Advisory Commission. The importance of this committee presented itself through the vast population of more than 300,000 Asian Pacific American citizens in the state of Pennsylvania. According to Governor Corbett, “The Asian Pacific American community represents a vital dimension of our commonwealth’s diverse ethnic and social community.” Corbett also recently proclaimed the month of May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in Pennsylvania.
Hailing from Korea, and now residing in Montgomery County, PA, Tim is President/CEO of Timothy Haahs and Associates, Inc. (TimHaahs), an architecture and engineering firm specializing in the planning and design of parking and mixed-use structures. He has become a visionary in his industry, building a firm that has set the standard for what constitutes a contemporary parking structure, while simultaneously giving back to his community. He has also dedicated himself to implementing sustainable planning strategies that reduce traffic and carbon emissions.
Active in his industry, as well as in the community, Tim was named 2012 Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year by Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia, and 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. He was also appointed Distinguished Advisory Professor of Architecture by the Inje University in South Korea, one of the highest honors in the Korean community. In 2006, Tim was recognized as Entrepreneur of Year by Ernst & Young in the Real Estate and Construction category, for the Philadelphia region. In 2010, Tim was recognized by ZweigWhite as the Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award recipient.
Heritage Design Collaborative Principal is the New Co-Chair of Historic Preservation Committee
Effective June 2012, Carl M. Dress AIA is the new Co-Chair of AIA Philadelphia's Historic Preservation Committee. Mr. Dress is a Principal at Heritage Design Collaborative and has practiced at several notable firms in New York City and Philadelphia over the last 22 years. He is currently leading HDC’s work on the restoration of the East Park Canoe House on Boat House Row. Dress has a BArch from Pratt Institute and an MArch from Cornell University and is a resident of the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia where he lives with his architect wife and two sons.
HSA's Greg Mastalerz Becomes a Registered Architect
Heckendorn Shiles Architects is proud to announce that Greg Mastalerz has received his architectural license registration. Greg is a 2012 Drexel University Architecture graduate and has served as an integral team member on a variety of projects at HSA since first joining the firm in October 2011. Greg’s design successes at Heckendorn Shiles Architects encompass a variety of project types including a series of Ice Rinks for Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, the Team Store addition to the Wells Fargo Center, as well as several corporate office fit-outs and group homes/therapeutic facilities for children and adults with disabilities.
Archer & Buchanan Breaks Ground for Lenfest Center at ChesLen Preserve
Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd., has announced that a new preserve management center designed for the Natural Lands Trust is under construction. The Lenfest Center, located on the 1,263-acre ChesLen Preserve in Newlin Township, Pennsylvania, will be the home of the Trust’s conservation work and provide public accommodations for orientation and education of community and environmental groups.
“We share with Natural Lands Trust a commitment to sustainability and land preservation,” said architect Daniel Russoniello, AIA, LEED AP. “Like our education center at the Scott Arboretum and adaptive reuse of the historic water works structures at the Anson B. Nixon Park, we are helping these organizations to manage the natural resources under their care and to educate future generations in environmental stewardship.”
Expected to be complete in early 2013, the 9300 sf Lenfest Center will be a two-story structure that includes space for the storage and maintenance of land management equipment and preserve staff, as well as meeting and support spaces. Across a grassy court will be an open air pavilion that will support outdoor programs and provide shelter and shade. Visitors to the Preserve typically enjoy passive recreational activities, such as birding, nature trail walks and star gazing.
“The building was designed in a Chester County agrarian style with exposed timber frame structure, metal seamed roof, and stone exterior,” said Russoniello. “It is nestled into the side of a slope and incorporates many sustainable design features like ground-coupled geothermal heating and cooling, high-efficiency lighting, low flow and waterless plumbing fixtures, rain gardens and recycled materials reclaimed from the site.”
The ChesLen Preserve was established in 2007 as a result of a land donation by philanthropists Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest. The Lenfests have also donated the funds for the construction of the new facility. Formerly mushroom fields, the preserve includes dense woods, wild plant meadows, and several miles of the Brandywine Creek. The project was led by the design team of Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd. with m/e/p engineering firm Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Keast & Hood Co. structural engineer; SITE Engineering Concepts civil engineers; and Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects.
Timothy Haahs and Associates, Inc. Named a Top Minority-Owned Business in the Region
Timothy Haahs and Associates, Inc. (TimHaahs) has been named #13 on the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2012 Top 50 Minority-Owned Business Award list. President/CEO, Timothy Haahs, AIA, PE, hails from Korea and now resides in Lower Gwenydd, PA. Haahs is founder of the organization, an architecture and engineering firm specializing in the planning and design of parking and mixed-use structures.
The list honors outstanding minority-owned businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area based on 2011 statistics. This honor expands Haahs’ already lengthy list of accolades, including his recent appointment as one of 17 commission members for Governor Tom Corbett’s Asian American Affairs Advisory Commission announced in May, as well as his designation as the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association.
The organization is honored to be recognized among some of the nation’s leading innovators for the 6th consecutive year.
Affiliate News
Ms. Sharon Krock, PWS, Elected President of the Philadelphia Post of the SAME
Schnabel Engineering announced that Sharon Krock, PWS, was recently elected President of the Philadelphia Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME). Sharon has served on the Board of Directors of SAME’s Philly Post for over nine years, and has been involved in numerous committees including Scholarship, Communications, and the Signature Event Committees. Last year Sharon served as First Vice President where she was responsible for setting up the programs that are presented at the monthly meetings. Her term as Post President will last one year.
David Gosse Joins Duffield Associates
David C. Gosse has joined Duffield Associates as a Senior Project Scientist. He will provide technical support and project management in the Water and Natural Resources Section. Mr. Gosse has fifteen years of experience in natural resource conservation and habitat management, environmental planning and project management, and stream and terrestrial restoration. He has worked on diverse natural systems such as coastal wetlands and riverine systems, primary headwater habitat, savannahs, pine, and upland ecosystems.
Mr. Gosse has a Master of Arts degree in Marine Affairs from The University of Virginia and a Bachelors degree from Drew University. He is a member of the Society for Conservation Biology, Society for Ecological Restoration, and the Society of Wetland Scientists.
Skanska Relocates Its Philadelphia Metro Office
Skanska USA, a leading provider of construction management, preconstruction, and design-build services, announced today that its Philadelphia Metro office moved to a newly designed, highly energy-efficient space located at 518 East Township Line Road in Blue Bell, PA.
The new 19,100-square-foot office was built by Skanska’s Special Projects Group and is expected to achieve LEED for Commercial Interiors (CI) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
“Sustainability is a core value embedded in Skanska’s culture so it’s imperative for us to practice what we preach to our clients and partners,” said Ed Szwarc, general manager and executive vice president of Skanska USA’s Pennsylvania and Delaware offices. “We’ve built a strong reputation as an industry leader in green building, and are excited to utilize the same highly sustainable features in our own office that we’ve become widely known for, so we can reap the benefits that our clients do.”
In keeping with Skanska’s commitment to being green, the new office features numerous innovative, environmentally-sound elements. For example, all counter tops, carpet tiles, and stone tile flooring contain 40 percent recycled content. In addition, Skanska utilized renewable materials for finishes, such as Lumicor accent panels (which are R4 recycled resins made from crushed recycled glass) throughout the office.
The office’s layout also allows for a natural daylight-based lighting scheme. Combined with the use of ENERGY STAR-rated computers and appliances and new energy-efficient lighting throughout the office, the new space is expected to significantly reduce energy costs in the first year. The optimal design also provides Skanska’s employees with an open atmosphere, allowing for more collaboration, interaction and communication amongst coworkers.
The project was completed on schedule in just four months. The architect was KlingStubbins.
Skanska USA is dedicated to green practices and has completed many LEED-certified projects throughout the U.S. as well as for its own offices. In 2008, Skanska renovated its flagship office in the Empire State Building in New York City to achieve LEED-CI Platinum certification – becoming the first office in the iconic building to be LEED certified. So far, that office has achieved a 57 percent reduction in electricity costs compared to its prior office, and is projected to save approximately $680,000 in energy costs over the life of Skanska’s 15-year lease. This equates to a carbon footprint reduction of nearly 80 tons per year or removing 53 standard size cars from the road.
C. Raymond Davis & Sons Announces Grand Opening
Waverley Heights Retirement Community (Gladwyne, PA) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new theater. Waverley Heights is an award-winning continuing care retirement community located on a 63-acre former Philadelphia Main Line Estate in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
With the help of KDA Architects who designed the project, C. Raymond Davis and Sons was able to construct a 5,813 square foot two story theater addition. The project includes a state of the art 65 seat movie theater on the upper level and a resident run retail shop on the lower level.
The theater provides an elegant and safe multi-media experience for the residents of the retirement community to enjoy movies, presentations, lectures and televised events. It was designed with full access for the handicapped with wide aisles, handrails, and a wheelchair accessible ramp down the one side. The addition blends seamlessly with the interior and exterior architecture of the existing campus. It is a masonry structure with extensive internal acoustic paneling, a full state of the art sound system and cherry stained wood throughout.
Davis is also completing the final phase of the new healthcare facility set to open at the end of the summer.
Have you heard of SPOOKTACULAR? SPOOKTACULAR provides a protected environment for the children of The Children's Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC) to participate in Halloween festivities. This will be the ninth annual SPOOKTACULAR and we would love to see YOU enjoy Halloween with us!
SPOOKTACULAR is two-part event: Part 1 - Charette, October 6: Teams of CHAD students and design professionals design-build street facades at the Center for Architecture. Part Boo! October 27: The day is filled with costumes, arts and crafts, magic, face painting and trick-or-treating in our originally designed neighborhood at CcTC.
LEED Live - Implementing the Building Design + Construction LEED Rating System
Learn how to apply the LEED BD+C rating systems, with LEED for New Construction as the focus, by walking through the phases and key decision points of a typical project. Engage with experienced LEED® Faculty and other participants to work hands-on with LEED implementation strategies and rating system tools. Course Prerequisites: Knowledge of the LEED BD+C rating systems. It is also recommended that you have attended the BD+C 251 in-person course or the BD+C 252 online training.
At the end of this full-day live, facilitator-led class, you'll be able to:
*Explain unique aspects of the LEED 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovations rating system *Apply and facilitate the LEED process with stakeholders *Apply LEED tools to a new construction or major renovation project *Identify key green decisions throughout the process of earning LEED certification
This session will be facilitated by Muscoe Martin, AIA, LEED AP, m2 Architecture
This class is worth 7 GBCI CE Hours and 7 AIA/CES CEHs.
Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Event – July 14, 2012
Join the Friends on Saturday July 14th from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM for a Preservation event at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Friends, relatives, historians and anyone interested in Mount Moriah Cemetery or local history are asked to meet at the Yeadon entrance to the cemetery on Cobbs Creek Parkway starting at 8:00 AM.
Founded in the 1850's, the look and style is of a by-gone era when cemeteries were the parks and gardens of the City and citizens visited frequently to take in the splendor. Winding roads through the 300 plus acres, feature monuments reaching upwards of 30 feet; wonderful statuary typical of the Victorian age, and architecturally inspiring mausoleums invite the public inside. Today, Mount Moriah is listed as a National Historic Landmark and is listed among Pennsylvania's Most Endangered Historic Properties.
The Friends and its partners are working to developing a sustainable future for the cemetery and the greater Mount Moriah community. Volunteers are needed to continue the work of clearing the cemetery of weeds, tall grass and debris. Individuals and groups of all sizes are welcome and encouraged to participate! While hand tools and gloves will be supplied, the Friends would like to encourage volunteers to bring power equipment, such as lawn mowers and weed whackers, with them to the event. If you will be bringing equipment, please let us know by sending an email to info@fommc.org so that we can better plan our activities.
Come out to meet new and previous Park(ing) Day Philadelphia participants, get answers to all your burning Park(ing) Day questions, and more!
Help celebrate 5 years of Park(ing) Day Philadelphia, and be one of the 50 parks we would love to see all around the city and the surrounding neighborhoods of Philadelphia.
The lighting industry is presently undergoing a rapid shift towards more energy efficient solid-state products, such as LED and OLED sources. UL is responding by upgrading our facilities and maintaining our unparalleled third party safety certification and testing services. UL would like to extend to the local AIA community an invitation to participate in the grand opening of UL’s newest lighting testing facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Thursday, July 19 at 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
As an independent, product-safety testing and certification organization, UL has developed product safety standards and tested products for public safety for more than 118 years. We test more than 19,000 types of products for safety and performance around the world. Our existing facility in Allentown specializes in lighting products: everything from common household fixtures and light bulbs to highway lighting luminaires. The new, 37,000 square foot Luminaire Testing Laboratory will be UL’s flagship lighting laboratory, offering our customers testing and certification to a number of successful programs such as ENERGY STAR® and the LED Lighting Facts® program. The day will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony, keynote speakers, tours of the new state-of-the-art facility and a networking lunch followed by an afternoon of exclusive presentations and discussions on US Energy Efficiency Requirements.
Registration is required.
YAF Philly Meets NextFab - A Happy Hour Collaboration
Joinus for Happy Hour with NextFab - NextFab – Philadelphia’s “Gym for Innovators” – has been hosting a regular Happy Hour for their members and have invited us to join them. This will be the first event that we have collaborated on and we hope that you can join us! Instead of meeting at the local watering hole, they have been gracious enough to host the party at their place at 3711 Market on Thursday, July 19th from 6:30-9. Since we will be providing snacks and beer for the event, we are asking everyone to register and put up 10 bucks. Please register HERE and please let us know if you have any questions.
Email Contacts:
YAFPhilly@gmail.com
info@nextfabstudio.com
2012 SKETCH SHOWDOWN hosted by AIA Philadelphia Associates | Late Registration Deadline
ARE YOU AN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN STUDENT OR PROFESSIONAL? Show off your fierce sketching to the architecture and design community!
Winners will be selected in three (3) categories: White Paper Cocktail Napkin, Mixed Medium, and Student.
Winners and finalists will be exhibited at the AIA Bookstore - Washington Square, located on 7th and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, PA.
Winners and finalists will be featured on the professional design feedback site The Designated Sketcher (http://thedesignatedsketcher.com) in the online Sketch Gallery.
Winners will receive $25 gift card to the AIA Bookstore & Design Center and used on the official AIA Philadelphia Associates Committee/Young Architects Forum postcards.
To Enter
- Unleash your sketch genius to a 5 inch by 5 inch white paper cocktail napkin. - Not feeling the white paper cocktail napkin? Submit your sketch on a 5 inch by 5 inch piece on mylar, vellum, cardboard, or any other fibrous material for our Mixed Medium category. - Sketches should be architecture-oriented drawn specifically for this competition. - Use ink or ballpoint pen on all white paper cocktail napkin entries. Mixed Medium category is open to other mediums not to exceed 1/16 of inch from the surface. - Submissions are limited to six (6) sketches per registrant. Make sure to number and include your name on the back of your entry. Considering your submissions as a series? Please include instructions for placement in exhibition with your mailed entries. - Register online http://goo.gl/EwP6N - Late Registration Fee: $10 per participant. All high school student registrants: FREE.
All sketches must be postmarked by July 20, 2012, and sent to: Center for Architecture AIA Associates Committee 1218 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 For more information or questions email assocaia.designcompetitions@gmail.com.
DVGBC Presents A Lunchtime USGBC LEED Webinar Series...
Participate from your own computer. No microphone neccesary! New Webinars will be streaming every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Find out more about our LEED education opportunities, including upcoming webinars.
Earn Continuing Education Credits and Learn About the LEED Rating System
CERT 200: LEED Certification: Project Scoping:
Satisfying Minimum Program Requirements (MPRs) and selecting the correct rating system for your project is fundamental for success in LEED Certification. In part two of the LEED Certification webinar series, we explore the details of MPRs and Rating System Selection. Applications for multiple buildings and building type adaptations will be discussed. Certification Reviewers will share tips and common pitfalls experienced by in the initial scoping of LEED projects.
* Earn 1.5 LEED Specific hours for BD+C, ID+C, O+M, and ND * Also valid for 1.5 AIA/CES LU hours
Online registration will close Monday, July 23rd at 12:00 PM. After registration closes, you may still register by emailing Alex at intern@dvgbc.com. However, all participants must register by 11:00am on Tuesday, July 24th.
EXHIBITION - 2012 Ed Bacon Student Design Competition Entries
Wed, 08/01/2012 - 10:00am
Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
2012 Ed Bacon Student Design Competition Entries August 1 - September 21, 2012
How could Philadelphia's connection to the Delaware river be improved while still allowing for the volume of traffic which travels along Interstate 95, which currently cuts off Philadelphia from it's main waterfront? View the winning entries from the 2012 Ed Bacon Student Design Competition to see some creative, ambitious, and practical solutions.
When transportation corridors such as highways and rail lines meet dense urban areas, choices must be made about how to balance the needs of the transportation modes and the lively city it intersects. Across the world, cities have found innovative solutions for addressing issues relating to large-scale urban transportation infrastructure. Recently in the U.S. cities such as San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis have transformed highways into urban boulevards. Boston buried Interstate 93 in the famous “Big Dig,” but at a huge cost. Other cities have worked to bridge highways and rail corridors that separate downtowns from waterfronts. With international precedent for design solutions, the Center for Architecture challenges the next generation of urban thinkers to propose novel solutions to integrate Philadelphia’s major transportation corridors into its urban fabric.
The Ed Bacon Student Design Competition is run by the Philadelphia Center for Architecture in memory of Philadelphia's City Planner from 1949-1970, Edmund N. Bacon - the only city planner to ever be featured on the cover of Time magazine. The Center performs the charitable and educational work of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects and serves as the physical home for the Chapter in Center City Philadelphia. The Center offers walking tours, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and children's programming on architecture, urban planning, and design. They are also home to the AIA Bookstore & Design Center and the Community Design Collaborative.
CALL FOR ENTRIES Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up! Precedent Exhibition
Wed, 08/01/2012 - 5:00pm
Community Design Collaborative
No, Registration is not required
Got a great green project that can soak up stormwater and serve as a model for creating engaging, healthy, and visually-appealing urban places? Submit it for the upcoming Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up! Precedent Exhibition.
Co-sponsored by the Community Design Collaborative, Philadelphia Water Department, and US Environmental Protection Agency, this national juried exhibition will show how designing with green tools can enhance cities, engage people, and spur new public-private partnerships.
The exhibition will provide inspiring precedents for Philadelphia, leading up to a national competition to be announced in fall 2012. Projects will be on display from September 17 through October 19, 2012 at AIA Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture.
Deadline for Submissions Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 5 PM.
Design Award Entries Due
Thu, 08/02/2012 - 5:00pm
$175/$75
Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA
AIA Philadelphia
No, Registration is not required
AIA Philadelphia is accepting entries for the 2012 Awards for Design Excellence Program. Submissions of all project types and scales are encouraged: large and small, built and un-built, interior and exterior, new construction and preservation. It is the Chapter's intent to recognize work that exhibits exceptional design quality and is worthy of merit. Projects will continue to not be judged in competition with each other, but rather by measuring the architect’s performance against each project’s potential. Thus, projects of modest program or budget can receive an award.
Eligibility Projects, in order to be eligible for submission, must be submitted by a Philadelphia Chapter member Firm in good standing, having substantial (but in the case of multi-architectural firm projects, not necessarily exclusive) design authorship of the project. Entries from multi-office firms are limited to work designed in the Philadelphia member office. In cases of multi-firm entries, the name(s) of any collaborating firm(s) must be listed and their respective role(s) described where indicated on the entry form. Interpretation of “substantial design authorship” shall largely be left to the jury, based on role description provided by submitting firm (available prior to disclosure of firm’s identity). Projects must be submitted by an authorized principal or partner of submitting firm.
Entry Guidelines
A completed entry form must be submitted by participating member by August 2, 2012 for all projects, including those being submitted for only the exhibit. Entry fees: $175 per project or $75 for Divine Detail entry only. Firms participating for the first time may submit one project at no charge. Multiple projects may be submitted. Payment is due with entry form. • The $175 per-project entry fee covers one project only and can include project Competition (C), Design Detail Competition (D), and an exhibit Board (E). Indicate all which apply on entry form. Each project must be identified as Built or Un-built project on the entry. • The $75 Divine Detail fee is for detail that is not related to a project submitted for the regular design competition. If submitting one project ($175) and a Divine Detail only entry from a different project ($75), the total due would be $250. The Divine Detail $75 fee does not include an exhibit board.
IMPORTANT DATES
-Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Creating an Award Winning Entry program (will review the Design Detail award and entry requirements), 12 to 1 pm, Center for Architecture/AIA Philadelphia 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia - Thursday, August 2, 2012: CD with all entry forms and publication photos for all submissions due, including those being submitted for only the exhibit - Friday, August 24, 2012: Entry CD due - Friday, September 28, 2012: Exhibit boards due - Thursday, October 10, 2012: Awards Banquet at Loews Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia - October 7 to 21, 2012: Exhibition, Rotunda, The Shops at Liberty Place . Click here to download the Call for Entries.
Reframing the Ordinary: Drawing Out Of Doors With A Critical Visual Eye
REFRAMING THE ORDINARY: DRAWING OUT OF DOORS WITH A CRITICAL VISUAL EYE Taught by Stuart Shils August 4 – 5, 2012. Old City, Philadelphia, working on the street (but using a local office for necessary retreat). 9AM-5PM daily. Opening Slide Lecture: evening August 3, 6PM – 7:30PM Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Department of Continuing Education _____________________________________________________ An intensive two-day outdoor drawing class devoted to learning HOW to see. To SEE, with a big S. These two days will introduce and cultivate the perceptual tools of rapid visual summation, both in terms of how to understand what you see and how to remake that into clear and intelligent graphic formats on paper. Working in very ordinary places in the Old City, we will understand how the everyday is really extraordinary, visually. This is an intimate class for mid range to advanced painters, designers, photographers or architects, in which there will be a lot of focus on each participant’s work. Using pencils and other drawing tools like litho crayons in sketchbooks, we’ll investigate aspects of the big issue of how to recognize and understand the interior structure of the “perceptual moment” through drawing. We’ll also use the digital camera as a viewfinder to compare how the eye sees and how camera lens works, informing and enhancing direct perception. This is not a class for learning how to render or how to make “pretty pictures” for the market place. Each day we will also consider (in slides and reproduction), the work of great masters from the past and present. To begin the class, the night before the first day there will be a 90 minute slide talk examining a variety of visual documents like photographs, paintings and drawings whose forms and motivations shed light on and set the tone for our own considerations.
DVGBC Presents A Lunchtime USGBC LEED Webinar Series...
Participate from your own computer. No microphone neccesary! New Webinars will be streaming every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Find out more about our LEED education opportunities, including upcoming webinars.
Earn Continuing Education Credits and Learn About the LEED Rating System
CERT 200: LEED Certification: Summary and Overview Documentation:
Projects can be deemed ineligible for certification even before Certification Reviewers look at the strategies and credits attempted. Accurate and consistent summary and overview documentation about a project seeking LEED Certification is imperative. This information can determine if a project is eligible for certification and if the appropriate LEED Rating System has been selected. In the third webinar in the LEED Certification series, we learn best practices for submitting consistent content into LEED Online, and how to correctly calculate baselines.
* Earn 1.5 LEED Specific hours for BD+C, ID+C, O+M, and ND * Also valid for 1.5 AIA/CES LU hours
Online registration will close Monday, August 6th at 12:00 PM. After registration closes, you may still register by emailing Alex at intern@dvgbc.com. However, all participants must register by 11:00am on Tuesday, August 7th.
CALL FOR ENTRIES - Art by Architects (Due Sept. 10)
CALL FOR ENTRIES - Art by Architects Notification of intent due by September 10, 2012
The Philadelphia Center for Architecture's annual art exhibition and fundraiser returns! While you are on vacation or just tooling around your home workshop this summer, please consider making a work of art to donate to the Center for this fundraising exhibition. Proceeds will support the Center's educational programming throughout 2013.
We ask that artwork be donated as a gift to the Center so that all funds raised from its sale can go towards supporting our ever-growing programs. If you are interested in donating a piece of art; becoming an exhibition sponsor; or volunteering to help organize, promote, or mount the exhibition, please send an email with a breif description of how you would like to be involved to the email address above by September 10th, 2012.
This year we are also seeking to procure signed sketches or posters from gloabally prominent architects to sell in the exhibition. If you would be willing to ask a prominent architect you personally know to donate a signed sketch or poster, please let us know!
LEED Webinar: CERT 200: LEED Certification: Think Like a Reviewer
DVGBC Presents A Lunchtime USGBC LEED Webinar Series...
Participate from your own computer. No microphone neccesary! New Webinars will be streaming every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Find out more about our LEED education opportunities, including upcoming webinars.
Earn Continuing Education Credits and Learn About the LEED Rating System
CERT 200: LEED Certification: Think Like a Reviewer:
Can you imagine getting LEED Certification upon your projects preliminary review? It can be done! This module goes in-depth on how to write clear and concise narratives comments and provide the right documentation to ensure certification success. You will get a ‘behind the scene’ look into the mind of real LEED Certification Reviewers to learn the most common pit-falls in LEED Certification.
* Earn 1.5 LEED Specific hours for BD+C, ID+C, O+M, and ND * Also valid for 1.5 AIA/CES LU hours
Online registration will close Monday, August 20th at 12:00 PM. After registration closes, you may still register by emailing Alex at intern@dvgbc.com. However, all participants must register by 11:00am on Tuesday, August 21st.
