The Next 150: The Beginning of the Future—Visions, Goals, Strategies, and…Regrets
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The 151st
New Forward director, Jeanne S. Mam-Luft, welcomes AIA associates to a year of forward-looking and forward-thinking as we celebrate the next 150 years.
This year Forward is all about—well, moving forward: this year, we focus on the future. In our next four issues, we will celebrate and explore “The Next 150 Years,” following the AIA’s celebration of our 150th anniversary in 2007. This quarter’s issue sets the stage: “The Next 150: The Beginning of the Future—Visions, Goals, Strategies, and…Regrets.”
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The National Associates Committee’s Role in the Future of Our Institute and Our Profession
Jonathan M. Taylor, new Community Director for the National Associates Committee, welcomes us to a new group of committee members, a new year, and a new era.
With what many are calling “the year of the intern,” Associates have quite a ride ahead of them. Inevitable changes to the way our profession practices architecture are on their way, and the National Associates Committee is an increasingly vital voice for the population of architects-to-be in America. Jonathan M. Taylor (LEED AP, Assoc. AIA, NAC Community Director) gives us some back history, insight on strategy, and previews to the future.
Interviewing My Employer: GBBN Architects in Cincinnati Celebrates its 50th with the AIA’s 150th
2008 Forward Director dives into the next 150 years and takes advice from the pros as she sits with the CEO of her firm, GBBN’s Robert Gramann, FAIA.
Robert Gramann became the CEO of GBBN Architects, Inc. in 1996. This year, GBBN celebrates its 50th anniversary just as the AIA heads into its 151st year, and celebrate it will as the company reaches peak success with growing numbers of offices and employees. Young Associate Mam-Luft, Director of Forward and employee of GBBN, sits down with her employer to ask him for advice, predictions for the future, and reflections on the past.
A Personal Introspection: Remembering & Predicting
An Associate member and Regional Associate Director, Yovanna Alvarez, shares personal memories of her experiences as a professional, while forming hopes for the future.
Yovanna Alvarez, AIA Regional Associate Director of the Florida and Caribbean region, is highly active in her firm and community. Having won awards and recognition from entities such as the Miami’s AIA chapter and the Major of Miami, Alvarez has accomplished much. In this article, she shares a variety of opinions, reflections, and suggestions.
The Future of Affordable and Sustainable Housing: AmeriCorps and Working With Habitat for Humanity
Shipei Wang opted for a break in her previously traditional career as an intern architect, having signed up for service with AmeriCorps, and shares her renewed perspective with us from outside the office.
Shipei Wang is a LEED Accredited Professional who left a full-time job as an architectural intern in a large international firm to volunteer with AmeriCorps and Habitat for Humanity. As she reaches a landmark in her term of service, she looks back in order to look forward: she recognizes the responsibilities, strengths, and dire importance of architecture’s connection to and partnership with society.
The Future…Without Licensed Architects?
Young architect Carolyn Sponza responds to rising concerns about depleting numbers of new architect registrations.
While she has faith in NCARB’s recent numbers reflecting a recent increase in new registrants from 2006 to 2007, Carolyn Sponza offers opinions and advice to interns as encouragement to continue in and complete the process of becoming registered. She warns us against the impending troubles of an architect-less future and reminds associates of the value in becoming registered architects.
The Past and Future of Studio Culture
By Thomas Fisher
This article originally appeared in October 2004’s ArchVoices, and again in the Committee on Architecture for Education’s Winter 2004 newsletter. Its message and perspective is so invaluable that we print it here again as we head into the next 150 years to remind ourselves what the design studio is really about.
Thomas Fisher, critic, author, and Dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, sends an important message to educators and students alike. The culture of the design studio is a phenomenon into which every design student is inducted. Fisher proposes that the future of studio culture can and should be one wherein designers take action to solve “social, economic, political, and economic inequities.” He calls for us to consciously leave behind the negative stigma of the studio, wherein “self-destruction” and maliciousness have truly run amuck, and instead, find a “permeable,” “tolerant,” and efficient workplace.
| April 24, 2008
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