honoring Louise Addonizio, AIA, AIA Newark & Suburban Architects President, in 2013. Kevin McCormick, AIA, 2012 AIANS President, and Julie Pagnotta, our Section Administrator, did an excellent job putting together and hosting a wonderful evening.

I would like to personally thank Louise for a job well done and look forward to her continued input this year. I’d also like to thank our Members and Sponsors for their dedication and support that allow us to be the best AIA Section in New Jersey!

Please visit our website http://aians.org/ frequently to keep up-to-date on all that is happening this year.

Thank you and be well, John

John A. Cwikla, AIA, LEED AP BD+C,

AIANS President 2014

President’s Message Welcome to 2014. For those who don’t know me, I am John A. Cwikla, AIA and I am honored to serve as your AIANS President for 2014. During the year, I hope to have the opportunity to meet many of you at one of our general meetings, educational seminars or special events.

I have lived most of my life in Union County, save the few years that I lived in Philadelphia during college; and I currently live in Springfield with my lovely wife and our energetic young son.

I am a project architect with Potter Architects, LLC, a third generation architectural firm in Union, NJ, where I have worked since 1995. I graduated from the Architecture Program at Spring Garden College in Philadelphia PA, with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and earned my license to practice in the profession in 2010.

My journey through AIANS began in the fall 1996, when I joined my AIA Newark & Suburban Architects and started helping out with our

newsletter, the Rostrum.

Over the past 18 years, I have served as Trustee, Secretary (twice), Treasurer, 1st Vice President, President-Elect and now your President. I also took a few years off from AIANS to serve as AIA New Jersey’s Regional Associate Director at the National level.

Along the way I met many dedicated members of AIANS and tried to learn from each of them as I worked my way up the ranks. They all had one thing in common, they cared enough to give their time & energy to improve our organization and profession.

I will take all that I have learned at the Section, State, and National levels and do my best to keep this organization moving in the right direction.

We’ve put together a very exciting calendar of events for 2014 and I hope to see you all at each event. Our first general meeting is on February 13 featuring 2 speakers and focusing on Resilience & Recovery.

If you missed our Past President’s Banquet, you missed a fabulous event

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Rostrum 2014 

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Practice Notes  2 

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Past Presidents Banquet   4 

   

   

   

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the built environment Architects are well posi oned to help lead resilient design ini a ves, on a regional, community, and building‐by‐building basis. 

The roots of building resiliency predate the recent focus on climate and extreme weather, having previously emerged in response to terrorist a acks, most notably September 11th 2001. Broadly speaking, resilient design prepares buildings, infrastructure and communi es to withstand both manmade and natural disasters. Insurance and risk management companies were considering building resilience as part of their property insurance underwri ng well before the current emphasis on the topic.  

It is too early to know yet, but resilient design could expand in the years ahead the way green design and sustainability have grown over the past decade. Sustainability is now a dominant component of our profession, with the en re AEC industry being reshaped to develop more energy efficient, healthy, and high performance buildings.  

The United States Green Building Council, through their LEED programs, took sustainability from the margins of the industry to the core of design prac ce. Once LEED’s “opt‐in” approach to sustainability was entrenched, code officials and jurisdic ons began to integrate sustainable measures into the building code. Last year’s new model Interna onal Green Construc on Code (IgCC) 

Professional Practice Notes: Resilient Design Perkins+Will recently forecast Design Resiliency as a top trend in the AEC field for 2014. Principal Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, described Superstorm Sandy as "a cri cal wake‐up call." The firm’s report predicts that designers will pay more a en on to crea ng work that accounts for the possibility of natural disasters. Preparedness will be integrated with community‐based design responses to natural disasters.  

Here in New Jersey, with billions of dollars in reconstruc on in the works following Sandy, building and infrastructure resiliency in response to the impacts of extreme wind and water events are currently a high priority. As crea ve shapers of 

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codified sustainability as part of our profession’s regulated health, safety and welfare mandate.  

There are synergies between sustainability and resilience in design, both respond to environmental challenges including climate change; however, the two topics can be divergent. Sustainable design focuses more upon ecological efficiency and healthy environments, where Resilient Design Ins tute h p://www.resilientdesign.org/ defines Resilience as “the capacity to adapt to changing condi ons and to maintain or regain func onality and vitality in the face of stress or disturbance.  Resilience is about the capacity to bounce 

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As many of you know, I completed my three year term of service as AIA New Jersey’s Regional Director on OUR Na onal Board of Directors, December 13th.  Each member of the Class of ’13 was given a chance to speak for about two minutes.  Well, two minutes is just not enough  me, so I went over……………..a li le.  Here is what I said and a li le bit more, as there is so much more that can be said in an ar cle: 

My fellow Board Members, AIA Staff and Guests gathered in the AIA Board Room received an update on the progress WE here in NJ were experiencing in “being stronger than the storm.”  I was sure to provide a BIG thank you to President Mickey Jacob, FAIA and Execu ve VP/CEO, Robert Ivy, FAIA for providing AIA dollars to AIA‐NJ, which helped the Chapter to pull off our own Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT)  helping residents of Camp Osborn.  The success of the SDAT will be repeated at the AIA Conven on in June, with a presenta on by Jack Purvis, AIA.  We all hope that many of you can come to Chicago, a city of great architecture, to show over 200 other components, just how strong AIA‐NJ is!   

I also spoke about the legacy of past Regional Directors from AIA‐NJ going back to 

1966, with emphasis on David Del Vecchio, AIA who preceded me and Robert Cozzarelli, AIA who has now se led into the posi on as your new Regional Director. It is important for the members to know that our leadership skills were built right here at AIA Newark and Suburban.  Dave, Bob and I have stressed the importance on many occasions and again I would stress that this kind of training can be obtained at the annual Grassroots Leadership Conference. If you can a end, do and you will see for yourself just one of the many benefits that AIA offers. 

Above all, I made it clear to the assembled that a LARGE thank you was due to Marsha, my wife of over forty years, who has allowed me to par cipate in the support of my profession from the very beginning, in the early 1970’s and con nues to support me as I move on to the next chapter of AIA Service, hopefully as the Ins tute’s Secretary in 2015! 

Along with other members of the Class of 2013, I was awarded the Richard Upjohn Fellow Medal.  For me this was a special honor, as Upjohn, who was the founder of the American Ins tute of Architects, was responsible for the Ves bule and Steeple addi on in 1862 to the St. Mark’s Church, which stands 

at the Gateway to the West Orange Downtown Corridor, my community that I have worked so hard to preserve and ‘bring back from the brink.’  I submi ed an ar cle for my local paper that explained my service to AIA, but at the same  me spoke of the iconic architecture in the community.  I also men oned proudly that Dr. Mindy Fullilove, who just also happens to be from West Orange, will con nue in her posi on on this esteemed board for another year.    

On January 18th Kevin McCormick, AIA put together our annual Past Presidents Banquet to honor Louise Addonizio, AIA and all of our Past Presidents.  Congratula ons to him for organizing the party that somehow gets be er every year.  It was especially good to see Ken Underwood, FAIA and Steve Safary, AIA, two of the many past presidents who gathered for this event.   

Also congratula ons to Stephen Schwartz, AIA, in receiving the Herman C. Litwack, FAIA Award and to Jason Peist, Associate AIA on his receipt of the Carlton Riker, Emeritus Associate Award.  These well deserved awards also keep the memory alive of those two fine gentlemen, who as presented by Seth Leeb, AIA and John Cwilka, AIA did so much for this sec on and AIA Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA 

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Thank you, Congratulations and did I say THANK YOU?  ‐NJ during their respec ve 60 plus years as members.   

AIA and the most recent reposi oning of the Ins tute are about US, WE, & how TOGETHER the AIA can become more of a visionary member focused organiza on.  Many of you saw that at the banquet with the presenta on of those two awards and the results of John’s effort in sketching out the ’14 agenda while he was President‐elect.  It is me to move forward with it, and 

I hope that the en re membership will join me in ge ng involved.  

And finally, I was very surprised by Judy Donnelly, AIA and her presenta on of a special recogni on award from the Sec on to me for my past na onal service.  In coming to the podium, I was ,for the first  me in a long  me, speechless.  So I want to end this ar cle to the en re membership of AIA Newark and Suburban Architects with a simple but most important……………thank you.  THANK YOU for the recogni on of service and know that you will see me around this year and for years to come! 

Jerry  

2014 AIA NEWARK & SUBURBAN ARCHI

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AIA Newark & Suburban Board Members  Officers JOHN A. CWIKLA, AIA President

STEPHEN ROONEY, AIA President-Elect

NATASHA SUZANSKY, AIA First Vice President

RON WESTON, AIA Secretary

ALEX GOTTHELF, AIA Treasurer

LOUISE ADDONIZIO, AIA Past President

Trustees Trustees 2014

KEVIN MCCORMICK, AIA

CHRISTY DIBARTOLO, AIA

PAUL TIAJOLOFF, AIA

JASON PEIST, ASSOC. AIA

Trustees 2015

DIEUJUSTE PIERRE, ASSOC. AIA

FRANCISCO GRIMALDI, AIA

Trustees 2016

BILL MUNOZ, ALLIED MEMBER

WESLEY CORNER, AIA

Section Administrator

JULIE PAGNOTTA aiaadmin@verizon.net

AIA NS 2013 Committees

AIA National Board of Directors

Regional Director

Robert Cozzarelli, AIA

bob@cozzcirmarchitects.com

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back a er a disturbance or interrup on of some sort.” 

As an example, a green building with a  ghtly sealed envelope that depends on a highly efficient mechanically ven lated system may become unusable when energy supplies fail. By contrast, a less energy efficient building with operable windows could prove more resilient with passive ven la on in response to power outages. So the use of passive systems (e.g. natural ven la on, passive 

cooling & hea ng, dayligh ng), can naturally be more sustainable and resilient. 

The Na onal Ins tute of Building Sciences’ Integrated Resilient Design Program h p://www.nibs.org/?page=irdp promotes resilience as one of the primary goals during building design. The Ins tute notes that beyond protec ng building occupants from harm, buildings that are designed for resilience are intended to absorb and rapidly recover from a range 

of disrup ve events; con nuity of opera ons is a key goal. 

Prac cing Architects should not overlook trends in design resiliency. Consider how you might take a proac ve role in helping your clients make their buildings, and your communi es, more resilient. 

Ronald C. Weston, AIA, LEED AP, / AIA NS Professional Prac ce Commi ee Chair, rweston@westonarchitecture.com or rweston@psands.com 

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