PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Rostrum 2012

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

SEPTEMBER 2012

Issue 9

The Rostrum

Official newsletter of the

Newark & Suburban

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President’s Message 1

AIAS Quad Conference 2

Forty, but Who is Counting?

3

Design Awards 2012 4

Sales Opportunities 5

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I would like to commend Newark and Suburban

Trustee Ronald Weston, AIA for his commitment as

Chair of the Professional Practice Committee in

2012. He has taken on his

position this year with a sense of responsibility to

provide our members with insightful thoughts in each

month’s Rostrum on what

i t takes to be a professional. I echo his

sentiment in the August 2012 Rostrum - as

professionals, we have the responsibility to understand

the macro and micro

economics of our industry. U n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e

economic world that affects you will enable you to

better plug into a market

sector, a project, or a new client that will help

maintain and grow your

Sad to see the summer coming to an end, but I

look forward to the events

the AIA has planned for us in September. AIA-NJ is

holding the Design Day Conference this year at the

Berkeley Hotel in Asbury Park, NJ on Thursday

September 13th.

I encourage Newark and Suburban members to

attend. It is a great venue and an opportunity to see

friends and colleagues from

other sections. The list of speakers is as impressive

as their topics. Personally, I am intrigued by the

guided tour of the refurbished Asbury Park

boardwalk. It is an all-day

event capped by a reception where the

winners of the design c o m p e t i t i o n a r e

announced . Mo re

information as well as the opportunity to register are

located on the AIA-NJ

business. Lastly, as a follow-up from

last month’s message

where I reported on the AIA’s response to USGBC’s

request to sign a letter to the GSA calling for the

continued use of LEED, a response was prepared by

Robert Ivy, FAIA, AIA

National Executive Vice President/Chief Executive

Officer. I applaud Mr. Ivy for being proactive and

responding accordingly to

the GSA. The letter is available for you to read in

its entirety at the AIA Advocacy Website: http://

www.a ia .org/a iaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/

aiab095597.pdf

Kevin McCormick, AIA,

LEED®AP AIANS

President,

2012

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AIA Newark & Suburban

Board Members

Officers

KEVIN McCORMICK, AIA

President

LOUISE ADDONIZIO, AIA

President-Elect

JOHN A. CWIKLA, AIA

First Vice President

LISA SAN FILIPPO, AIA

Secretary

STEPHEN ROONEY, AIA

Treasurer

YOGESH MISTRY, AIA

Past President

Trustees

Trustee 2012

JUDY DONNELLY, AIA

Trustees 2013

CHRISTY DIBARTOLO, AIA

ALEX GOTTHELF,AIA

BILL MUNOZ, ALLIED

MEMBER

NATASHA SUZANSKY, AIA

Trustees 2014

PAUL TIAJOLOFF, AIA

RONALD WESTON, AIA

JASON PEIST, ASSOC. AIA

Honorary Affiliate

DAN BISCHOFF

Section Administrator

JULIE PAGNOTTA

aiaadmin@verizon.net

AIA NS 2012 Committees

AIAS-NJIT Quad Conference: Revitalizing Cities

and learn about the city and the potential it has to benefit

us all. Each day will have a series of workshops and

tours culminating with a

main event that will be sure to inspire. Please visit

AIASNJIT.com to learn all about what this conference

has to offer. At the AIAS of NJIT, we are passionate

about what we do and what we stand for. Our chapter

will provide the tools

necessary to reinvent what it means to be urban and

reinvigorate the current state of our cities.

Call for Sponsors +

Professional Architects For opportunities to sponsor

or donate, please visit

AIASNJIT.com - Sponsors To be a part of the Portfolio

Review /Firm Crawl, please email aiasnjit@gmail.com for

details.

The American Institute of Architecture Students at the

New Jersey Institute of

Technology (AIAS NJIT) will be hosting the semi-annual

AIAS Northeast Quad Conference this October in

Newark, New Jersey! As current Architecture

students, we have an invested interest in what our

world will become in 5, 10,

even 20 years from now. It is our mission to showcase the

p o t e n t i a l o f u r b a n environments, like Newark,

and look forward to a progressive future.

This four day conference will focus on what we need to do

as designers, planners and

architects in order to strengthen the urban fabric

in which we thrive. Hundreds of students and professionals

alike will gather to discuss

current and relevant issues in the profession and to

understand how we can make these known to the

general public. It will be

supported by groups like the Project for Public Spaces who

will be sending their president, Fred Kent, to

speak on their behalf as our Keynote Speaker. To

reinforce the message, there will be workshops, tours, and

discussions all focused

around the theme of R e v i t a l i z a t i o n . T h e

conference will also provide networking opportunities for

students and professionals. The conference will host

events such as Portfolio Reviews and Firm Crawls to

he lp s t reng then the

re la t ionsh ips be tween architects and future

architects. Join us from October 18th to

October 21st this fall to live

By Vicky Tran, 5th year student at NJIT and AIAS member

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I just realized that next month will be the start of my

fortieth year as an AIA member. I last wrote about

an AIA anniversary, when I

served as President of AIANJ. I stated at the time that it

was going to be a special year and it was, because we

celebrated the 150th anniversary of OUR

professional organization. AIANJ’s contribution,

organized by Stacey Ruhle

Kliesch, AIA, was to introduce architecture to 150

different 6th grades around the state. Late last year

under the guidance of Philip S. Kennedy-Grant, FAIA we

finished and delivered in a most beautiful book, a list of

150 BEST buildings and

places in the Garden State. Many of our members

contributed to both of these projects.

While we have experienced

various degrees of setback in the four or five years since

then, due mostly to the downturn in the economy,

OUR AIA is still here to serve the membership. The

membership has experienced lower numbers and as such,

shrinking revenue

capabilities. I need not tell you that without revenue we

are hard pressed to provide OUR educational programs

for those who remain members. These same

programs will also help us attempt to entice former

members to come back into

the organization.

AIANJ is made up of six local

sections and as such, a lot of what happens because of the

effort of our local

leadership. This could not be more true here in my

home section of AIA Newark

and Suburban Architects.

There is a new generation of leaders, some in fact that

may not have even been born when I joined AIA back

in 1972! In my visits around

the Chapter and at Chapter events, I find this as a

positive and though we have experienced some hard

times, the hard work of a few has and continues to

deliver to many.

The AIA is poised to realign the Institute in the next few

months, and as just a small part of your national

leadership, I will be meeting in New Mexico with the

remainder of leadership to

contribute ideas of to make the AIA BIGGER, and most

important, BETTER for all of us. So stayed tuned and

even if you have only been a member for a few years, be

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be entering for the first time

or after having not submitted recently. And as

always we look forward to seeing the great work of

our loyal member firms that enter projects every year.

My fellow Co-Chair from the Architects League, Stacey

Ruhle Kliesch, tells me that

her section’s members are excited about the joint

event, and so we are expectig a fine display of

our two sections’ work. And the presidents of the other

AIA New Jersey Sections are all looking forward to

serving as our jurors,

helping to make this year’s event a real all New Jersey

affair. The Design Awards are

open to all members of our two sections, including

Associate AIA members. For the submission, the

NS / AL member should

have played a primary role in the project, such as

project designer or project manager. Projects may

date from any period of a member’s career, and

projects that have been

previously submitted but were not awarded may be

entered again. Please visit the Newark and Suburban

web site for complete submission rules and

requirements. I encourage all of our

Section’s members to show

off your work. So, be sure to mark October 11 for the

opportunity to see the work of our member firms while

enjoying live music and delicious food and drink in

the company of your AIA colleagues.

Please feel free to contact

me with any questions and comments. If you are

planning to participate and submit work, please e-mail

me to assist in our planning for the event. I would also

like to mention we are in the process of setting up

drop-off sites for the boards

and will be announcing the sites shortly.

Donald Chin AIA

Design Awards Chairperson dsdchin@yahoo.com

Design Awards 2012 With August and the

summer winding down, this is your friendly reminder

that the 2012 Newark and Suburban Design Awards

are a little over a six weeks away. This year’s Design

Awards will be a joint event with the Architects League

to be held October 11 from

6 – 9:30 pm at the Hamilton and Ward Steakhouse in

Paterson. We have moved the Design

Awards out of September, which is always crowded

with Labor Day, the return of school, and religious

holidays as well as the AIA

State Design Day. This gives all our member firms

the entire month of September to put project

boards together. Please visit our AIANS web site for

some presentation tips as we l l a s a l i s t o f

photographers and print

houses that members have used and recommend.

As Chairperson, I am excited to report that quite

a few of our Newark and Suburban member firms will

What City is pictured below?

ready to step up and contribute your ideas and help your local

section to make the AIA the best it can be.

Jerome Leslie Eben,

AIA AIANJ Regional

Director, 2011-2013

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