PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

AIA Newark and Suburban Architects A Section of AIA New Jersey

AIA New Jersey is a Chapter and Region of the American Institute of Architects

JULY 2013

Issue 7

The Rostrum

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Newark & Suburban

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President’s Message 1

CANstruction 2013 - Call for Entries

2

Design Awards Report 2

Building Leadership 3

Design Awards - Featured Projects

4

Residential Green

Building Seminars 5

Inside this issue: and Beer”. AIA NJ Board and Section Presidents also

attended. Candidates for AIA National office were there as

well as AIA National President

Mickey Jacobs. This was a wonderful opportunity to meet

different AIA members and communicate.

Vanderbilt Health lecture

headed by Vanderbilt Medical Center spoke of their off campus

Outpatient facility in “Dead Mall” building. The Mall was

previously used as retail with a TJ Maxx and a few other retail

stores. Vanderbilt took over 450,000 square feet of space for

a gut renovation and removed

several layers of insulation from the exterior. The area was

renovated into outpatient clinics and an Imaging Center.

The 11 stair towers remained as

egress and the original paths of egress were maintained. The

mall corridors were turned into w a i t i n g a r e a s a n d

July has flown by. Let me share some of the highlights of the

month with you.

We attended the AIA National Convention in Denver Colorado

June 19th through 21st. Many activities, courses, seminars,

receptions and Tours occurred. There were 15,000 attendees in

total, including AIA members,

vendors and associated AIA members.

Keynote speaker Blake Mykowski, gave a moving

speech telling about his

founding of Tom’s Shoes. He was introduced by Skidmore

Owings and Merrill who has designed three buildings for

Tom’s. Tom’s donates one pair of shoes to a needy person for

each pair sold.

AIA-NJ President Jack Purvis carried AIA New Jersey’s 118

votes for the AIA National Executive Committee and cast

the votes for the candidates selected by AIA-NJ Board and

AIA local section Presidents.

Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA was elected 2015 President and

James Rains, Jr., FAIA and Tom Vonier, FAIA were elected 2014-

2015 Vice-Presidents

AIA-NJ hosted a cocktail reception was held at Corridor

44. AIA NJ Board Members and Section Presidents attended and networked.

Archi-Pac reception following the AIA NJ Dinner for “Billiards

reception/check-in desks were at the line of the storefronts.

This successful project saved

Vanderbilt 37.5 million dollars and was built for $161/square

foot plus a $30. landlord amount.

Upcoming events include:

August 15-16 A/E/C Project Management Bootcamp, Jersey

City, NJ

September 18th – ARE event at NJIT

October 17-18….AIA-NS Design

Day Morris Museum

November 15….-Canstruction

Livingston Mall

December 12… General Meeting speakers: Hugh Trumbell from

KPF and John Ike of Ike, Kl igerman, Barkley…also

Howard Hori will be signing his new book.

Louise C. Addonizio AIA, PP, LEED BD+C, NDICQ qualified, President AIA Newark Suburban

Convention attendees, left to right: Mei-Anh Tierney - Design Manager Starbucks, Mickey Jacobs AIA National President, Louise Addonizio AIA-N&S President, Jack Purvis AIA NJ President, -

Kimberly Bunn AIA-NJ

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AIA Newark & Suburban

Board Members

Officers

LOUISE ADDONIZIO, AIA

President

JOHN A. CWIKLA, AIA

President-Elect

STEPHEN ROONEY, AIA

First Vice President

NATASHA SUZANSKY, AIA

Secretary

ALEX GOTTHELF, AIA

Treasurer

KEVIN McCORMICK, AIA

Past President

Trustees

Trustees 2013

YOGESH MISTRY, AIA

BILL MUNOZ, ALLIED

MEMBER

Trustees 2014

PAUL TIAJOLOFF, AIA

RONALD WESTON, AIA

JASON PEIST, ASSOC. AIA

ALOK SAKSENA, ASSOC.

AIA

Trustees 2015

DIEUJUSTE PIERRE, ASSOC.

AIA

FRANCISCO GRIMALDI,

AIA

Section Administrator

JULIE PAGNOTTA

aiaadmin@verizon.net

AIA NS 2013 Committees

Design Awards 2013: A Night at the Museum The Design Awards Committee is pleased

to announce that the 20th annual Newark and Suburban Design Awards will be held

Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 5:30-9:30 at The Morris Museum in Morristown.

Whether yours is a firm that has entered

previously or you are planning to enter for the first time, please visit the AIANS web

site and download the registration packet from the Design Awards page. This packet

includes not only the registration form but eligibility rules, presentation board

requirements, description of project

categories, presentation tips, and lists of pr int shops and photographers

recommended by past Design Awards

participants. The deadline for e-mailing the registration forms to my e-mail address is one

week prior to the event (Thursday, October 10). Boards can be delivered to the drop-off

locations on October 15 & 16. These locations

will be announced in next month’s Rostrum. I would like to encourage all of our Section’s

members to show us the work you do and are most proud. And as always please feel free to

contact me if you have any questions.

Donald Chin, AIA Newark and Suburban Design Awards Chairperson dsdchin@yahoo.com

AIA Newark & Suburban, together with AIA

NJ, is pleased to announce that the nationally sanctioned CANstruction Design

& Build competition is scheduled to return to the Livingston Mall, in Livingston, New

Jersey this November.

For those not familiar with CANstruction, it is a unique food charity program geared

toward Architects, and our fellow A/E/C professionals. The At lanta-based

CANstruction national organization charters with local organizations, such as AIA NS, to

hold annual design and build competitions

to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made out of canned food. In

each location after the structures are built, the winners declared , and the creations go

on view to the general public as art

exhibits. At the close of the competition all of the “CANsculptures” are dismantled and

the canned food used in the structures is donated to the local community food bank,

together with funds raised through the event.

In 2012, our AIA Newark & Suburban’s

CANstruction event donated over $4,000

CANstruction 2013: Call for Entries and 25,000 pounds of food to the

Community Food Bank of New Jersey. With the help and participation of New Jersey

Architects, allied professionals, sponsors & donors we hope to again make a significant

contribution in the fight against hunger in

our region. In 2013, as many New Jersey communities

are still recovering from the devastating impact of Super Storm Sandy last fall, the

need for community food bank support is greater than ever. This event is one way for

our Architects and design professionals to

showcase our talent, have fun, and give back in a significant way to communities in need.

This year’s theme is "NJ Shore CAN Rebuild - Coastal NJ Architecture.” Teams are

encouraged to creatively interpret and draw

inspiration from New Jersey’s coastal and shore manmade and natural structures,

including buildings and infrastructure, to come up with their designs.

Sponsors, Competitors, Donors and Volunteers wanted!…for information or to get involved contact: Ron Weston, AIA, rweston@westonarchitecture.com.

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BUILDING LEADERSHIP by GETTING INVOLVED Right up front, I want to recognize and proclaim my heartfelt thanks to AIA Newark and Suburban Architects for helping build leadership, through great support for OUR Emerging Professionals and the next generation of architects! Just before the Convention, I delivered a substantial check from this AIA Section to the Board Class of ’13. This class as a project during our time on the National Board, has championed the EP’s. With the help of this donation, the ‘Original Thirteeners’, as we are fondly referred, will allow this new class to continue to raise funds after we leave our service on the National Board. Last month we were able to fund the cost of 6 EP’s to the Convention. AIA Newark and Suburban’s donation is making that possible for the future and I wanted to publicly thank them here. Should any members or remaining sections of the Chapter, or the Chapter itself wish to do the same, please do not hesitate to contact me. It would be my extreme pleasure to deliver checks at the September and December Board Meetings.

I am a fan of the author David McCullough, who has spoken at a previous AIA Convention and is an award winning author of American History. His books have spotlighted many of the early leaders of our great country. The underlining premise of these men and women has been the leadership they exhibited, sometimes with great problems before them. A favorite quote of mine comes from our 6th President of the United

States, John Quincy Adams, and is as follows:

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are A LEADER!”

This last Convention was about BUILDING LEADERS and nearly 90 AIANJ members attended. Mickey Jacob, FAIA as the current AIA President said it best in the Convention’s brochure: “Leadership speaks to the core values of our profession….the daring to dream of more livable, safe, and sustainable environments…the learning of new skills to turn dreams into something that captures the hunger of our clients and the public for a better quality of life…and the passion to transform concepts into action that makes a positive difference.”

The American Institute of Architects is all about leadership, which is why I have been a strong supporter of our Sections and the Chapter to send as many of their officers and directors to Washington, DC early each year for AIA Grassroots Conference. Here in AIANJ, the President-elect has his or her own leadership event, normally just before their installation as President. I would urge the Sections to send as many of your emerging leaders to this event as well.

Leadership can be defined as follows:

An opportunity for you (every member) to combine your expertise, experience and ethics

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DESIGN AWARDS SPOTLIGHT: RESIDENTIAL

Kennedy-Grant’s Country House , left, was selected for

the high level of detail as well as its execution.

A Bronze Medal was awarded to Seth A. Leeb Architect for the “New” Addition project, below. The jurors lauded

this project for its fine level of detail and how the

addition blends into and is hard to detect in the overall scheme of the project.

This month’s Design Awards

showcase features several residential projects submitted in

the Built Residential Category in 2012.

The Gardner Residence project ( r i g h t ) b y S t o new a te r

Architecture LLC received a S i l ve r Meda l and was

commended by the jury panel for the beautiful execution and

detailing and how the plans are

resolved on all levels.

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to lead a team toward a successful outcome around positive actions.

A development of a set of traits skills that include, but are not limited to, exemplary professional behavior and effective communication skills that include active listening, collaboration and thoughtful decision-making.

The AIA mission is to advance leadership development across the full spectrum of individual architects over the course of their careers. Organized leadership events support, connect and mobilize the members in taking on or expanding current roles of leadership within the AIA and hopefully extend to the communities in which they live and work. The opportunity one gains in getting involved, leads to leadership to serve the profession. This means that as a leader you can guide, mentor or educate another colleague within the organization. You can extend the leadership learned skills to help others outside the profession recognize the value and expertise an architect brings to the table in community discussion.

In over 40 years as a member, I have found that leadership is diversified and in the continued

BUILDING LEADERSHIP

commitment developing this skill has deepened my passion for a lifetime of leadership in the profession and in my community.

While I have numerous certificates of appreciation, the one I appreciate most is entitled Judy’s #1M. It was awarded to me in 2010 by Judy A. Donnelly, AIA at the end of her term as President of AIANewark and Suburban Architects.

I cannot promise certificates, but I can promise that by taking the challenge to build your leadership skills with involvement at whatever level you choose in our organization, you will find a unique and very personal journey to professional achievement.

Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA

AIANJ Regional Director, ’11-‘13

The Residential Green Building Committee

will be offering two AIA and GCBI credit seminars on October 2 at the upcoming AIA-

NJ 2013 DESIGN CONFERENCE to be held October 2 and 3 at the Berkeley Hotel in

Asbury Park.

The first seminar “The Big Picture: How the Building Envelope Relates to the Whole

Building Approach” intends to demonstrate the critical nature of proper envelope design

and detailing to ensure high performance for the building’s end user. It is designed for

mid- to high-level professionals in the

residential design and construction fields, with the goal that participants will

understand the science behind design with the Whole Building Approach. The

presentation will explore the effects of

building science on the existing housing stock, energy auditing and energy retrofits

on existing residential structures. Finally, the presentation will review past and current

energy codes, as well as where energy codes are going and why. This course will be led by

Paula Zimin, AIA and LEED AP and Grant

Salmon, LEEP AP, CEA, BPI BA, ENV,

Heating, AC/Heat Pump of Steven Winter

Associates, Inc. The second seminar “Thermal Enclosure

Systems – Building a Better Box” will provide design professionals with a greater

awareness of thermal bridging and air

leakage in buildings. Review of relevant building science principles is included, as is a

review of a selection of common insulating products. Real life problems and examples

will be identified, discussed and illustrated. Participants will not only learn how their

design decisions and architectural details are

critical to the creation of a “better box” but also understand how they can provide the

construction team with the tools they need to implement the design successfully. This

course will be led by Emma Raymont, PE,

Operations Manager, Design Services and Existing Homes, MaGrann Associates.

Robert Emert, Jr., AIA, LEED AP chair of the

Residential Green Committee since 2011 noted that these seminars are part of an on-

going series of half-day workshops prepared

by the committee. Stay tuned for updates.

AIA-NJ & USGBC-NJ Residential Green Building Committee to Team