The Legacy of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hon. AIA, 1927–2003
Profession mourns the loss of a champion and true friend
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to India, Harvard professor, and four-term U.S. senator, died March 26 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 76. He will be remembered across the nation as a scholar of razor-sharp wit and a politician of great skill whose legacy will continue in perpetuity through his words, eloquently spoken and exquisitely written. But for many, our profession certainly among them, Moynihan’s spirit lives on most vibrantly in the built environment—from single structure to cityscape to transportation plans—for which he treasured and championed excellence.

GSA Honors High Caliber Design
Government officials and accomplished architects gathered last week in the nation’s capital to honor 24 diverse federal projects as exemplars of design excellence in public architecture. The winning entries in the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence Awards program ranged from a newly built border station, to an innovative proposed design for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellite Operations Facility, to the careful restoration of a U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Poll: What Do You Think About
Financial Realignment for the AIA?
Please share your views on these three questions
Grassroots Leadership Conference participants expressed their opinions on six topics—architecture education, financial realignment, the profession, communications, knowledge, and membership—during the annual Issues Forum, March 10, in Washington, D.C. Now it’s your turn. Please respond to the following three questions about the second topic: financial realignment. AIArchitect will run polls of the other topics, tally the results, and share them in future issues.

PROJECT WATCH
San Francisco Regains a Waterfront Landmark
The Ferry Building, at the foot of Market Street, handled 20 million passengers a year in its day in the 1920s and ’30s. Its 245-foot-tall tower served as a beacon for decades, drawing people to San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Then the automobile took its toll. With the Golden Gate and Bay bridges, ferry ridership declined. In 1957, the newly built Embarcadero Freeway, like some grand concrete strangler fig, choked the site to near death.

AIA Memphis Honors Four Great Projects
Eugene Burr, AIA, wins Gassner Award
Earlier this year, AIA Memphis presented its 2002 Design Awards to four deserving projects during the chapter’s annual Celebration of Architecture. The evening featured a talk by Michael Graves, FAIA, to more than 300 architects, interior designers, interns, students, and other architecture lovers—the chapter’s largest-ever attendance. Firms throughout Memphis submitted projects in the four categories: new construction; renovation, restoration, or rehabilitation; interiors; and residential. A jury of award-winning architects from Louisiana and Washington, D.C., selected this year’s honorees.

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BEST PRACTICES (members only)
Rule Number One: Know Your Audience
When trying to persuade others, know them and respect their intelligence. David Dibner, FAIA, expresses this lesson in a remembrance of testifying before Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan about new construction that maintains historic context.

AIA, CSI Working Toward MasterFormat
Expansion Consensus
As the Construction Specifications Institute prepares for its national convention this week in Chicago, AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA, requested “that implementation of the MasterFormat expansion be delayed by CSI until [architects, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers] who share interest and support for the program might convene to discuss the issues more thoroughly.” CSI is currently moving toward a complete revision of its 16-division format by October 1, 2003. (See the CSI Web site for details of the current Draft 3.) In his April 1 letter to CSI Executive Director Karl Borgstrom, PhD, Koonce proposed that an industry blue-ribbon panel gather at the national AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to “share questions, concerns, and comments with CSI and one another in an open discussion format . . . I would appreciate an opportunity for the AIA to work with you in designing a successful effort to achieve thorough understanding of a system that can address the necessity for all of us to work in concert.” Watch for an AIArchitect update following the CSI convention April 9–11 and MasterFormat Expansion Task Team meeting April 12.

It’s Getting Close: 2003 Business Week/Architectural Record Awards Deadline is April 18
The deadline to submit projects that exemplify distinguished collaboration between client and architect is April 18, so download your entry form today. A distinguished jury: Brad Cloepfil, AIA, principal, Allied Works; Sam Farber, founder, OXO International; Rob Forbes, founder, Design Within Reach furniture retailer; José Oncina, general manager, Microsoft Global Real Estate and Facilities; Karen Stein, editorial director, Phaidon Press; and Rich Varda, vice president of store planning and design, Target Corporation, will select this year’s winners. Go to the Institute Honors site for a submission package order form or call 888-242-4240 (202-626-7524 outside the U.S.).

Have You Paid Your 2003 AIA Dues?
If not, as of April 1, you are officially a “lapsed member,” and as such will not be able to take full advantage of AIA products and services. For instance, you no longer will be able to access the “members only” articles in this news report or any other services available exclusively to AIA members. Additionally, you may not use the initials “AIA” after your name in any correspondence. The quickest way to remedy this oversight is to pay your dues online. You can review your invoice, update your membership profile, and submit credit-card payment for 2003 renewal dues all via the AIA.org site. You will need to type in your eight-digit AIA membership number and password (your last name in lowercase letters). Questions? Send an e-mail to AIA Information Central, or call 800-242-3837. If you want to pay your dues by mail, download your renewal form. If you cannot pay your dues this year because of financial hardship, contact Information Central.

FROM OUR FRIENDS AT VIRGINIA SOCIETY/AIA
Architecture Week Comes to the Old Dominion
Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner (D) has issued a certification of recognition of Virginia Architecture Week, April 7–13, calling its observance “to the attention of all our citizens.” The Virginia Society sponsors Architecture Week to “recognize the contributions of architects and architecture to the quality of life in Virginia communities. “Architecture is integral to all our lives as we drive and walk throughout our towns and cities, and as we encounter it in our homes, workplaces, schools, places of worship, and centers for cultural entertainment and recreation,” explained the Virginia Society Vice President for Advocacy Scott Spence, AIA. (Photo from the Monticello Web site. House and garden tours began April 1.)

AIA Career Center
Here are this week’s featured opportunities: Architect, ATI Architects and Engineers, Roseville, CA | Architectural Project Manager, DLZ Ohio Inc., Columbus, OH | Chief Architect, Kling, Washington, DC | Development Manager/NY-NJ, Big Wave Recruiting | Healthcare Architect, HLM Design, Denver, CO | Healthcare Architect/Project Manager, Thomas, Miller & Partners, LLC, Brentwood, TN | Intermediate Project Architects/Designers, Perkins & Will, Inc., Los Angeles | Job Captain, OJMR-Architects, Inc., Los Angeles | Manager, Specifications, URS Corporation, Columbus, OH | Northeast Territory Sales Manager, Interstate Brick | Project Architect, Brown Design Associates, Holdrege, NE | Project Architect, Topsider Building Systems, Inc., Clemmons, NC | Project Architect/Production Manager, Blankenship McMillen Architects, Longwood, FL | Project Architects, Kling, Washington, DC | Project Manager/Architect, Oliver-Glidden-Spina & Partners, West Palm Beach, FL | Project Manager/Intern, Thomas, Miller & Partners, LLC, Brentwood, TN | Specifications Professionals, ARCOM, Alexandria, VA. Visit the AIA Career Center for a full list of openings.

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