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Dear Members of the Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge
Community (H&CR):
As the 2008 chair, I thank you for your continued membership in
H&CR, and I would like to take this opportunity to bring you up
to speed on H&CR’s accomplishments for 2007, as well as to
inform you of our plans for this year.
H&CR is involved with a variety of Housing Awards Programs, and
2007 proved to be a banner year for all of them in terms of number
and quality of submissions.
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The AIA Housing Awards received 253 submissions and honored 19
projects. A full listing, with project sheets, can be found online.
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The AIA/HUD Entries received 88 submissions and honored 3 projects.
A full listing, with project sheets, can be found online.
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The Housing "Show You’re Green" Awards received 32 submissions
and honored 8 winners. Information on these winners have become
part of the knowledge contained at http://www.designadvisor.org.
The Affordable Housing Design Advisor brings together experience
and ideas from successful affordable housing projects all over the
country, as well as the people who developed, designed and built
them.
H&CR also sponsored several seminars at the 2007 AIA
Convention in San Antonio. These sessions were all well
attended and well received by participants. Click on the links
below to download copies of the handouts from these sessions.
H&CR’s Custom Residential Architect’s Network
(CRAN) also sponsored the Full Spectrum Practice
Symposium, held October 19-21 in Chicago. This event, which
brought together nearly 100 architects, focused on the essential
techniques of business planning and marketing for custom
residential design firms. To better illustrate the principles at
hand, presenters focused on business growth opportunities in
sustainable design and digital home technology. From the event,
five AIA Best Practices were created. To view, click on each link
below:
As you can see, 2007 was a year full of success; we hope the value
you received as a member of the H&CR was just as rewarding.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Ms. Kerry
Dietz, AIA, of Dietz & Company Architects, Inc., for her
tremendous leadership and efforts on the H&CR Advisory Group
(AG). Kerry has finished her 5-year appointment and has stepped
down from her official role on the H&CR AG. We look forward to
her continued enthusiasm and insights, and thank her for her
integral role over the past five years.
As we begin 2008, I welcome our newest member, Casius Pealer, AIA,
to the Advisory Group. Casius joins the following members of the
H&CR Knowledge Community Advisory Group:
Kenneth Workman, AIA - 2008 Chair
Sherry Ahrentzen, Assoc. AIA - 2009 Chair
Sanford Steinberg, AIA
Katherine Austin, AIA - Past Chair
It is with tremendous excitement that I can assure you 2008 will
provide H&CR members with even more value than last year.
H&CR will once again sponsor the awards programs mentioned
above, and will do our best to capture the valuable information and
package it for you, our members.
Beginning this year, the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education
Award is granted jointly by the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of
Architects/Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Committee
(AIA/HCR KC). This collaboration is formed with the intent of
emphasizing the importance of good education in housing design in
producing architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas,
as well as capable of leading and contributing to their
communities. The winners for this year include:
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Ian MacBurnie & Mark Gorgolewski, Ryerson University
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Stephen Luoni, Aaron Gabriel, & Jeffrey Huber, University of
Arkansas, Community Design Center
Thanks to great momentum from our newest member, Casius Pealer,
H&CR plans to reinvigorate the H&CR E-newsletter.
Keep and eye out in the next few months for your first issue.
Please also continue to visit the H&CR website for new
industry information and events.
Since the H&CR Knowledge Community has such a wide scope of
topics, we have developed a number of networks, each dealing with a
more specific subset of Housing. These networks are as follows:
Affordable, Custom, Green, Multi-Family, Production Housing, and
Research. Each network is tasked to provide valuable information to
our members through HC&R's website, newsletter and other means
of communication available.
Finally, H&CR is proud to co-sponsor, along with the
Association for Community Design, its fall symposium, entitled
Innovations and Collaborations in Affordable Housing. The
conference will take place October 3-5, 2008
in Phoenix, and will include a variety of panel discussions and
symposia that focus on innovative and collaborative processes that
have been used to address the current crisis in housing
affordability. The symposia will be followed by an exciting
half-day of tours to housing sites in the city. Please save the
date for this exciting collaborative conference and plan on joining
us in Phoenix. Look for future details on the Housing and Custom Residential
website.
I hope this email conveys how excited I am to build upon the past
success of the H&CR. The Advisory Group cannot do this alone,
however, and we encourage everyone to become engaged in some
fashion.
If you have any questions or comments, or wish to become more
involved in H&CR, please email housing@aia.org.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Workman, AIA - 2008 Chair
RWA Architects, Inc.
Below, the 2008 Advisory Group. Left to Right: Ken, Kathy, Sanford,
Sherry, Casius.
The American Institute of Architects
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: housing@aia.org
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