"Defining the Current"
AIA Kansas Conference, Wichita Kansas
Wednesday, October 25 Thursday, October 26 Friday, October 27 Saturday, October 28
Invitation for AIA Kansas Conference
Get swept away by the current…
This year’s conference is uniquely Kansas. Seemingly everything and everyone presenting at the show has roots in this state.
From homegrown designers that have done well, to our own members teaching us about the work that is their passion. From exhibitors you either know or need to know, to seminars where the continuing education credits are worth your while.
From representatives of our own state Universities comes the chance to interact and have a great time…the “Deans Draw” sessions are always fun, and this year we will have A.R.E. Jeopardy – where the seminar “contestants” get to answer questions from the registration exam in a fun, game-show like format hosted by Wendy Ornelas, FAIA.
Our second-annual putt-putt golf tourney will be in the Exhibition hall to entice you to have fun with long-lost colleagues. And the highlight will be the elegant AIA Kansas awards ceremony, a “black-tie optional” event with award presentations by some of the Midwest’s most respected architects – Gene Mackey, FAIA, and Joe Biondo.
Join me this year by the river in Wichita and get swept away.
Jan Burgess
2006 AIA Kansas President
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
8 am – 11:00 am Booth Set Up – Exhibition Hall, Century II
10:00 am – 1:00 pm Optional Event with Additional Registration Fee
Disaster Assessment Certification/Recertification Training - Volunteer to become a certified inspector for the Kansas Disaster Assessment Program co-sponsored by AIA Kansas, Heart of America Chapter ICC, and the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. This seminar meets the certification and/or recertification for those participating in the program. Co-Chair Stan Peterson, FAIA, Regional Director Jim Hendershot, ICC, and Randi Stahl, Human Services Officer, Kansas Division of Emergency Management will conduct the training. 3 CES HSW
11:00 am – 3:30 pm Vendor Set Up
1:00 – 2 pm Foundation Meeting – Hyatt Hotel
2:00 – 3:30 pm Board Meeting – Hyatt Hotel
4:00 – 5:30 pm Free Public Lecture – Panel Discussion – Defining the Current - - A free public lecture featuring three award-winning architects as they converse about how they are “Defining the Current.” Today’s architecture requires different skill sets than that of ten years ago. Learn how these three architects spanning several generations, are meeting and exceeding their client’s expectations, how they use new building products, methods and technology to make great buildings. Joseph Biondo, Eugene Mackey, III, FAIA and Patrick Tighe, AIA– 1.5 CES HSW
5:30 – 7:00 pm Opening of Exhibit Hall – Exhibition Hall, Century II – 1 CES
7:00 – 9:30 pm Foundation Golf Fund-Raiser / Exhibitor Reception – Exhibition Hall, Century II
Thursday, October 26, 2006
7:30 – 8:00 am Registration – Exhibition Hall, Century II
8:00 – 9:00 am Opening Session – Exhibition Hall, Century II – Welcome by Burgess
Overview of 150 Anniversary / Blueprint for America - Cook – 1 CES
9:15 – 10:45 am 4 Breakouts 1.5 hr CES Each
1. Architects Using their Skills to Help Their Neighbors at Home and Abroad - Rex Barber is a staff architect / team leader with Engineering Ministries International (eMi), a Christian ministry that designs facilities that serve the poor in developing countries. eMi designs a world of hope - clean water, sanitation, roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, and churches. Through eMi, these professional services are provided without charge for missionaries in developing countries. Since 1981, eMi has completed over 500 relief and development projects in nearly 75 countries. Last year, over $2.9 million (49,900 hours) in services were provided to their client partners. Stan Peterson, FAIA, principal of Peterson Architectural Group, is the Co-Chair of the Kansas Disaster Assessment Program. For the last 15 years, Peterson has led teams of architects and building inspectors to assess natural disaster damage throughout Kansas. With our partners Heart of America Chapter ICC, the program is now part of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. Program volunteers have provided damage assessment for thousands of homes, schools, and commercial buildings after floods, tornados and fires. Zach Snethen, Associate AIA, is a 2003 graduate of Kansas State University currently working with Horst, Terrill & Karst Architects, in Topeka. He is an advocate for using ones time and talents to help others. Over the past 10 years he has volunteered and served from areas of central Mexico to northern Michigan and a few places in between. Projects have included building a fish hatchery, hurricane cleanup, and leading a church high school youth group to Caro, Michigan to work on fixing up homes. Locally he is involved with Christmas in April and other neighborhood cleanup revitalization efforts. Currently Snethen is the AIA 150 Champion for AIA Topeka and is coordinating the efforts of the “Blue Print for America” initiatives. Through simple service efforts, he has seen the affect it has for others.
2. Deans Draw Part I (3 hours total) - Deans’ dual presentation of priorities/examples, and instruction in aspects of the art of freehand drawing. Materials: Soft pencils, charcoal, pastel, conté, fluid drawing pen. (Paper will be provided.) As Dean of KU’s School of Architecture and Urban Design, John Gaunt, FAIA, has the responsibility for strategic direction and over-all management of the School. He is an administrator and teacher, lecturing in various architectural courses at KU, and as a visiting lecturer at other universities. Prior to becoming Dean at KU in 1994, he was in architectural practice for 28 years, the last 18 of which were with Ellerbe Becket, based in Minneapolis. His personal artistic interests are concentrated on freehand drawing, particularly in illustrating architectural subjects in various travels. He teaches a freehand drawing course for architectural students. Dennis L. Law, FASLA, is the Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design; Kansas State University; Manhattan. Before joining the faculty of KSU, Law, was a landscape architect working for various municipal park and recreation systems; a reclamation specialist with BLM; and director of landscaping for a theme park. He is a member of the Columbian Artists with specialty in watercolor and pen and ink work.
3. Building Green - One Plank at a Time - While this program is primarily focused on wood flooring as an appropriate green building product, the program is also comprehensive in that it includes the following: General Overview about Green building in general: buzzwords in the industry, quantifiable advantages to building green, social responsibilities and other motivations and benefits. Options for green floor covering; recycled antique wood; why flooring from newly sawn timber can fit within green building parameters; advantages of using solid wood flooring and green finish options for wood flooring. Examples of homes that were built with green materials, including wood flooring. Resources for additional information. This is an informative and interactive program, complete with resource handouts and samples of various program elements. Connie Glover is the Director of Marketing for Carlisle Wide Plank Floors in Stoddard, New Hampshire.
4. Integrated Practice and the Application of BIM - Integrated practice is the vision of moving from traditional ways of doing business into fully collaborative, highly integrated, and productive teams that include all the stakeholders in a project’s lifecycle. The most important factor behind this evolutionary change is not technology, as some speculate, but business reality. Technology is just a catalyst to effect a needed change that addresses failures that have long been recognized in the building industry. In this session we will examine the market drivers that are leading to this change, and help you understand the role of BIM as both a Catalyst and an Enabler. We will not focus on a specific technology or platform, but look at things from a general standpoint that applies to several platforms. Charles E. (Chuck) Mies, Assoc. AIA is a Technical Specialist for the Building Solution Division of Autodesk. In this role Chuck travels internationally to assist Architecture and Engineering firms understand the impact of BIM and Integrated Practice on their firms. Working with a wide range of clients from large, multi-national firms to small sole proprietors, Chuck has seen the impact of integrated practice on firms of all sizes. Chuck has also spoken at several AIA events on these industry trends.
10:45 – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm 4 Breakouts 1.5 CES
5. Deans Draw Part II (continued from above)
6. ARE Jeopardy? Come join us for a test of your knowledge of the ARE -- Jeopardy-style. Prizes will be awarded to the winners! Wendy Ornelas, FAIA, has taught studio, marketing and management courses at Kansas State University. Among her other activities with the College, Associate Dean Ornelas is the Director of the Department of Architecture’s Internship Program. She is a principal with Condia + Ornelas Architects, a gourmet cook, architect, professor, and fly fisher. Ornelas received the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, is a past AIA Kansas president, past director for the West Central Region of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, past member of the IDP Coordinating Committee, as well as a member of the advisory committee for the 2005 Internship Conference: Designing Tomorrow’s Architect.
7. Preventing Water Penetration - Water is clever. It finds its way inside of buildings through openings that we cannot imagine. It is so clever that finding a wet spot does not mean that we have found the point of entry. Joints not filled with mortar and missing flashings are the main cause of water penetration. They are also problems that are very difficult to remedy. This short course about water and masonry veneers will explore: How do walls keep water out? Why doesn’t four inches of masonry keep all of the water out all of the time? What mortar should be used? How many shovels is that? Why can’t I use a raked joint? Should head joints be filled with mortar? How do drainage walls work? Where do put the flashings? How is cleaning specified? While promoting the proper use of brick and other masonry products, Ron Hunsicker has worked with brick distributors, owners, architects, engineers, contrac¬tors, the research community, and students. He has presented over thirteen hundred technical seminars to groups from two to a hundred in professionals' offices, in college classrooms, in contractor’s offices, and at meetings of local and state chapters of professional and industry organi¬zations. In addition to answering thousands of technical questions and making many plan, detail, and specification reviews, he has also made almost seven hundred site investigations to assess problems and suggest remedi¬al action. HSW
8. Design to Compete - Discussing the Role of Design in the Competitive Environment - Cynthia B. Halsey joined the Cessna Aircraft Company, a division of Textron, Inc. in October of 1991 as Director, Interior Design and currently holds the position of Vice President, Interior Design, Engineering and Development. A graduate of University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s degree in Interior and Architectural Design, Halsey has held several positions in the aviation industry, with broad experience in design management and aircraft completions. Prior to joining Cessna, she operated her own business from 1984 to 1991, managing all aspects of private aircraft completions, including the interior and engineering design.
12:30 – 2 pm Exhibits and Lunch – Exhibition Hall, Century II – 1 CES
(2:00 – 6 pm) Exhibit Breakdown – Exhibition Hall, Century II
2:15 – 3:15 pm Contextual Architecture - The Work of Mackey Mitchell - Mackey Mitchell has a reputation as a leader in the design of contextual architecture—a body of work that demonstrates genuine concern for tradition and character of space. Among the firm’s outstanding projects are restoration of the Pershing/DeBaliviere neighborhood and hundreds of housing units throughout the St. Louis area, the Lammert Building, Hotel Majestic and the Post Office Annex, the office buildings at Saint Louis Union Station and student housing at Washington University. Learn how the firm continually expands their reputation for contextual architecture while incorporating the latest products, theory, and technology. The firm is currently involved in the new design and construction of the Saint Louis University Arena complex. Eugene J. Mackey III, FAIA, LEED™ is Chairman of Mackey Mitchell Associates, the architecture, planning, and interiors firm he founded in 1968. Before establishing his own firm, Gene was associated with Murphy & Mackey, a firm established by his father, Eugene J. Mackey, Jr. Since founding the company, Gene has guided its growth to its present size. Mackey has served on numerous professional committees, including terms as a director of AIA St. Louis. He was twice president of the St. Louis Chapter (1989 and 1990). In 1991, he was invested into the AIA College of Fellows. He has also served as panelist for many design competitions, the National Committee on Urban Planning & Design and the 1994-1996 Jury of the College of Fellows. 1 CES HSW
3:15 – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm 4 Breakouts 1.5 CES
9. Designing & Making – Dan Maginn, AIA and Jamie Darnell are partners at el dorado inc, a unique architecture firm located in the Crossroads Arts District of Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded in 1996 as an expression of five architects' shared interest in the relationship between designing and making. With a current staff of 14, find out how steel fabrication remains integral to el dorado's architectural operation, both as a business enterprise and as a tool to better understand materials and how they are connected. Dan is a 1989 Graduate of the Tulane University, and Jamie is a 1989 graduate of Kansas State University. - HSW
10. Design Competitions – Competitions: complexities and contradictions - Why do some designers consistently win competitions? Is there some special secret about the competition process? Do the winners have the most complex and rich ideas, or are they the least expensive proposals? This session will look at the complexities and contradictions about design, the design process and winning competitions. Wendy Ornelas, FAIA, has taught studio, marketing and management courses at Kansas State University. Among her other activities with the College, Associate Dean Ornelas is the Director of the Department of Architecture’s Internship Program. She is a principal with Condia + Ornelas Architects, a gourmet cook, architect, professor, and fly fisher. Richard Hoag has taught courses in architecture, communications, social and behavioral factors, and research methods at Kansas State University, the University of Illinois, and Florida A& M University. The primary focus of his scholarship and consulting is human factors, communication and the physical environment, and architectural competition. His graduate education includes architecture at the University of Washington and communications at the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11. The Barefoot Home and The New Informality - Forget using the front door or eating dinner in the dining room. Today, we live in a casual, no-tie-required world where we wear jeans to work, put our feet up on the coffee table, and entertain in our kitchen. We no longer sit down to a formal dinner inside, but rather fire up the barbecue on the back patio. According to the 2005 Home Design Trends Survey by the American Institute of Architects, 66 percent of architectural firms report that “informal space” is on the rise. Builders, architects, designers, realtors and homeowners cannot afford to miss the latest big trend in home design. Join Marc Vassallo, author of The Barefoot Home and The New Informality, as he explores this new way of thinking about home in his Barefoot Manifesto: "Relax, open up, embrace the sun, live outside as well as in, adopt a barefoot state of mind.” It’s a simple, powerful, timely message. Vassallo is one of today’s top writers in home design. With formal education in architecture and creative writing, Vassallo understands and clearly articulates home design trends and ideas. In 2005, Vassallo partnered with acclaimed architect and author Sarah Susanka for a groundbreaking book about crafting quality and character in a home through architectural details. Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life (The Taunton Press, Sept. 2005) quickly became a best seller and a hit with homeowners, architects, and design professionals across the nation. Vasallo will be signing books in the exhibit hall and immediately after his presentation. - HSW
12. The Cost of Building Green - This session is a case study of the
5:15 – 6:15 pm Creating Unique Solutions – The Work of Tighe Architecture – Tighe Architecture is committed to creating an authentic, contemporary architecture informed by technology, sustainability and building innovation. The architecture is a response to the aspirations of the community, a celebration of human activity. The work is not of style but of process. A process driven by influences such as client, site, budget, culture, society and the environment. Tighe Architecture was founded in 2000 on the belief that Architecture has the power to enhance human activity. Patrick J. Tighe, AIA is principal and lead designer of the firm located in Santa Monica, California. Since the inception of Tighe architecture the firm has received numerous accolades. Most recently, Patrick Tighe was honored with the distinguished Rome Prize Fellowship. Other honors include the AIA’s Young Architect Award, 40 under 40 Award, several National AIA Honor Awards as well as local AIA Honors. The firm received American Architecture Awards two consecutive years in 2003 and 2004. Prior to establishing the practice, Tighe was an integral part of the Morphosis Team where Tighe was an Associate. 1 hr HSW
7:00 – 8:00 pm Cash Bar / Music – Roberto Bernardinello Trio
8:00 – 10 pm AIA Kansas and AIA Wichita Honors Program Gala - Celebrate Design and Professional Excellence at the 2006 AIA Kansas and AIA Central States Region Honors Program. Gene Mackey, FAIA, presents the AIA Kansas Awards and Joe Biondo presents the AIA Wichita Awards at this black-tie optional dinner. MC – John Gaunt FAIA – 1 HSW Optional Event, Separate Registration Required 1 CES
10 – 1 Films – “Calatrava Travels” - Widely recognized as the greatest living designer of transportation structures like airports and train stations, award-winning, world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava came to international prominence at an early stage in his career. His popular yet controversial creations can now be found all over the globe, and his stunning proposal recently won the commission for the new transportation hub at the rebuilt
Friday, October 27, 2006
8:30 – 10:00 am 4 Breakouts 1.5 hr each
13. Sedgwick County Arena….the project, the process, and the progress - The 184.5 million dollar Arena is the largest capital project ever undertaken by Sedgwick County and will be a major element of the architectural fabric of Wichita for years to come. The panel discussion will involve principals from the four firms coming together as the Arena Design Consortium. Learn how they got together, how they work together, the commitment to a public process, and how it is going. Presentation will explain the composition of the team formulated for this complex project, what has been accomplished to date and how the design is progressing. – Wes Darnell, AIA, and Dan Wilson, AIA, are founding principals of Wilson Darnell Mann PC in Wichita that has grown from a 2 person office in 1980 to a staff of 45 today. In recent years Darnell has turned his focus from firm management back to project management, where he enjoys working with some of the firm’s larger and more complex commissions. Wilson is well known in the architectural community for his design passion and sensitivity. Through his extensive career as a designer, Dan has an endless list of projects that are a testimony to his creativity and skill. Many of those projects stand as architectural icons both locally and across the country. William B. Livingston, AIA, is President/CEO of Gossen Livingston Associates, Inc. in Wichita. Livingston is responsible for the overall management of the firm where he regularly participates in the design, planning and general supervision of the majority of their projects. Livingston has more than 41 years experience in the planning, problem seeking and design of new, renovation/remodel projects, and restoration of historically significant buildings. Jeffrey T. Van Sickle, AIA, currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of McCluggage Van Sickle & Perry (MVP), a fifty person professional services firm located in Wichita. MVP provides architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning services for projects primarily in the commercial/industrial, healthcare, food service, military, and educational sectors. Van Sickle’s experience includes over thirty years in architecture, planning, and project administration. A founding member of MVP Corporation, August 1988, his responsibilities include overall management of the business, financial and marketing affairs of the firm, as well as selected specific project assignments. HSW
14. Future Perfect— Ten Rules to Sustain Your Firm’s Success What separates highly successful engineering firms from those who merely get by? What’s the difference between good and great? How will ongoing political, social and economic upheavals and turmoil change how your practice? Join us as we explore the ten key attributes and characteristics all firms must develop in order to thrive in today’s profoundly changed, and tomorrow’s sure to change even more, world. Take home ideas and suggestions to help you avoid distractions and focus your firm’s management efforts to those activities and practices that truly make a positive difference. David Wahby is President of Wahby and Associates, an Architectural and Engineering Consulting firm. Before beginning his firm as a practice management consultant to a variety of architectural and engineering firms of various types and sizes nationwide, he was a principal, shareholder and chief operating officer of a 150+, multi-office, A/E firm. Wahby is an author and presenter of numerous A/E seminars and conference workshops on marketing, finance, human relations and firm practice management. He provides a level of specialized practice management knowledge, expertise and objectivity simply not available to most firms on an in-house basis.
15. Renewing the People’s House - Kansas Statehouse Preservation & Restoration - The presentation will explore the history of the Kansas Statehouse. Learn about its original construction sequence, the original design intent, and the role numerous Statehouse Architects played in constructing the State’s most important building. The current design objectives, site issues, and building issues will be addressed in order to explain the State’s decision to handle this massive preservation project as a phased design and phased construction project. The presentation will provide an update on the recent construction activities. It will provide an overview of the hidden treasures uncovered, the craftspeople involved with recreating the missing historic elements, and highlight the final results. Vance Kelley, AIA, leads the Treanor Architects preservation team, Topeka. As Project Manager on the $160 million Kansas Statehouse Historic Preservation and Restoration, he has worked with legislators, user groups, and members of the public to coordinate all interests. Having spent the majority of his career dedicated to historic preservation, Kelley has a great respect for the necessity of written and drafter documentation. His expertise in this area is respected throughout the Midwest. HSW
16. Design, Art and Architecture – How sculpture complements natural landscaping and design solutions. Among other benefits, sculpture provides water conservation; elevation of image or brand and delivery of destination themes. Eric Carroll, Vice President of Desert Steel Corporation in Wichita has a unique perspective. His background in sculpture at Wichita State University led to custom furniture building. He owned his own custom furniture/architectural detail shop that specialized in mixed media pieces for ten years. One day his father-in-law asked him to build a saguaro cactus. After 7-8 months of prototyping, they took the work to their first show. It sold so well that Carroll and his father-in-law began Desert Steel Corporation where things have steadily progressed ever since. HSW
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:30 am Work of Joseph Biondo – In Search of Pragmatic and Poetic Solutions – Learn about Joseph N. Biondo’s search for pragmatic and poetic solutions to site opportunities and user needs, craftsman-like in its concern for detail and process and sculptural in its integration of space, light, materials and their means of construction. Biondo is a K-State graduate. Currently with Spillman Farmer Architects in
11:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch - AIA Kansas, Kansas Architectural Foundation Business Meetings – 1 CES
1:30 – 4:30 pm Tours – Water Treatment, NW branch YMCA, Keeper of the Plains or Movies -
The WATER Center (Wichita Area Treatment, Education and Remediation, City of Wichita,) designed by Gossen Livingston, is the culmination of an effort to clean up contaminated water located under the downtown area of the City of Wichita. The City of
Or Movies: “Calatrava Travels” - Widely recognized as the greatest living designer of transportation structures like airports and train stations, award-winning, world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava came to international prominence at an early stage in his career. His popular yet controversial creations can now be found all over the globe, and his stunning proposal recently won the commission for the new transportation hub at the rebuilt
6:30 – 9:00 pm Past President’s Dinner
Saturday, October 28 – Optional Event with additional registration fee.
8:30 am – 12:30 pm The Bottom Line – Finance Management 4 CES
Are you buried in seemingly useless financial information? Not comfortable with what your financial statement is really telling you? In this workshop, David Wahby will prepare you to understand and interpret the numbers and will show you how to put financial information to use, day in and day out, to achieve your firm’s goals, regardless of its size. Not only will you come away from this session with a heightened degree of financial confidence, you will return to your office with a set of practical and easy to use "tools" for effectively managing your firm.
Topics include:
• Understanding and interpreting financial statements for A/E businesses
• Improving cash flow and improving collections
• Costing services and developing price proposals
• Budgeting and cost control
• Key financial ratios and tools
• Concepts of firm valuation and ownership transition
David Wahby is President of Wahby and Associates, an Architectural and Engineering Consulting firm. Before beginning his firm as a practice management consultant to a variety of architectural and engineering firms of various types and sizes nationwide, he was a principal, shareholder and chief operating officer of a 150+, multi-office, A/E firm. Wahby is an author and presenter of numerous A/E seminars and conference workshops on marketing, finance, human relations and firm practice management. He provides a level of specialized practice management knowledge, expertise and objectivity simply not available to most firms on an in-house basis. Wahby has received the highest ratings as a speaker at the National AIA Convention where he has provided pre-convention seminars.
Hotel
Overnight accommodations are available at the Wichita Hyatt Hotel, 400 West Waterman Street, Wichita, 67202, 316-293-1234. A special conference rate of $101 is available until September 26th if you say you are attending the AIA Kansas conference.
Continuing Education
Each session is marked with the maximum number of education credits (CE) an attendee may earn. Sessions marked with HSW receive credit as Health, Safety, Welfare.
Dress
Business casual is appropriate at all seminars. The temperature in rooms varies; we suggest you dress in layers. The Awards & Gala is a black tie optional event (tuxedos or dark suits for men; cocktail attire for women.)
Questions
Contact Carol Maxim, AIA Kansas, 800-444-9853 or by email maxim@aiaks.org
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