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TEACHING EMPATHY
AIA CHICAGO EQUITY ROUNDTABLE
OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER
EXHIBIT DESIGN TEAM
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OM TUC m\/CD Diversity by Design OUR PREVIOUS ISSUE Oswaldo Ortega, AIA, leads students in an is available to view digitally exercise at the Project Pipeline summer camp. at www.aiachicago.org |Photo credit: Kai L. Brown y//////////
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BY EDWARD KEEGAN, AIA
A version of this article originally appeared in the January online edition of Architect magazine.
Perhaps you've seen University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UlUC) professor Kathryn Anthony and her class on one of their field trips to Chicago — or you haven't. The visit is an important com• ponent of the course, but she explained, "We visit women architects, architects of color — anybody who's not a white, male architect." Her most recent book rep• resents the interests that have driven her pedagogy for more than three decades — Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places. She's taught the yearly seminar on gender, race and ethnicity since 1991. While the initial classes were almost exclusively women, "There was maybe one brave male architecture student," Anthony recalled. She told him, "If you're feeling ARCHITECTURE/GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES SEMINAR ON GENDER AND RACE IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE WITH ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ALUMNA JEANNE GANG. FAIA strange, that's good. You'll be empathetic." Last fall's edition had 15 students, including four Munich school looked at the WE VISIT WOMEN ARCHITECTS. ARCHITECTS OF COLOR men, which is now the average. design of contemporary refu• ANYBODY WHO'S NOT A WHITE. MALE ARCHITECT" Topics evolve, as she weaves gee camps in Germany, and KATHRYN ANTHONY UlUC PROFESSOR world and political events into their translation of materials the course's content. Students from German opened the studied the spatial interactions topic to an English-speaking and spatial behaviors of Hillary audience. Another German Research can be driven navigating as a tuba player in Clinton and Donald Trump student recently took the class by students examining per• the school's band. This led to during the 2016 presidential on her year abroad in the sonal spatial experiences. 3 survey on social media that debates, and they researched United States. "I came here Last semester, a woman who allowed her to gather inform previous encounters dating because of this class," she told had attended an HBCU in tion from 90 students in just back to JFK and Nixon in Anthony. "I can't believe it, but Tennessee told Anthony of two days. And the class has 1960. Two students from a this isn't offered elsewhere." the spatial difficulties she had oeen an incubator for future
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PE OF CHICAGO WITH ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ALUMNA DINA GRIFFIN, FAIA
ARCHITECTURE/GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES SEMINAR POSING FOR "THE BIG SQUAT- ON NOVEMBER 19 WORLD TOILET DAY ARCHITECTURE/GENDER AND WOMEN S STUDIES SEMIN^ research. Meltem Gurel wrote about gender in architectur• al history texts, eventually expanding that paper with Anthony for publication in the Journal of Architectural Education. Following gradua• tion, Gurel became the found- ng chair of the Department of Architecture at Bikrent University in Ankara, Turkey (where six of the 10 full-time faculty are women). The class has clearly been successful, and Anthony noted mentor the students long after Facebook groups for her recent who she met long before social that it's become more diverse they leave the comfortable classes to keep building com• media. "It's important to keep m the last five years. "There's confines of Urbana-Champaign munity with past students, but good friends," she said — a timeliness to these issues," through the networks she she notes that she still keeps in which seems like good advice she said. And she continues to has created. Anthony uses touch with her own classmates. for everybody. CA
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of surveyed women of color think people of color are very underrepresented*
•SOURCE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION BOARDS 51% .3% of surveyed white women think people of color are are African- American very underrepresented*
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Fifty years ago, notable civil rights activist and head of the National Urban League Whitney Young Jr. called upon the AIA and its membership to take a stand against segregation, both inside and outside of the profession. He observed the lack of diversity in the AIA audience, and importantly, he called out the profession for its ongoing complicity in creating "vertical slums" that characterized public housing. He indicted architects for their participation (willful or not) in the planning of segregated cities.
His speech was startling but Fifty years later, the field is were released in January 2017, AIA National recommendations maintained a tone of optimism. addressing diversity from within and offered several recommen• are good, and it is a starting "It took a great deal of skill as a means to address Young's dations to the profession on how point," she said. "But what and creativity and imagination assertion of architects' "thunder• to better cultivate and retain we need to do now is address to build the kind of situation ous silence" toward the tragic diversity. Today, AIA Chicago is these recommendations on a we have," he said, "and it is results of poor city building. launching its own group — the local level." going to take skill and imagi• National AIA convened an Equity Equity Roundtable — to address The group has been assem• nation and creativity to change in Architecture Commission these recommendations in our bled by Baker and AIA Board it. We are going to have to in 2015 to address growing local market. Director Patricia Saldana have people as committed to concerns about disproportion• Catherine Baker, AIA, AIA Natke, FAIA, who will chair the doing the right thing, to inclu- ate representation of minority Chicago board president, roundtable and will be working siveness, as we have in the groups (including women) in the has been driving the Equity toward understanding how the past to exclusiveness." field. The results of their study Roundtable to fruition. "The AlA's recommendations can be
12 MARCH // APRll // PQ^^i CHICAGO ARCHITECT • CHICAGO.ORG applied in Chicago's market, "WE RE IN THE and where there may be gaps. LISTENING PHASE RIGHT "In comparison to national NOW. BUT IT IS THE FIRST averages, Chicago's chapter is EXCELLENCE IN MASONRY quite diverse," Baker said. "But STEP. CURRENTLY. OUR we need to create tools, incen• BUILT ENVIRONMENT AWARDS tives and goals to help firms look inward to see where they AND PROFESSION CELEBRATION are lacking and what they can ARE STATIC WITHOUT do to remedy it." The group DIVERSITY. WE NEED TO Chicago history museum will meet quarterly to create COCKTAILS AND HORS D'OEUVRES POOL THE TALENTS OF tangible opportunities for firm APRIL 21, 2018 • 6:00 - 8:30PM self-assessment and guides to EVERYONE TO MOVE THE best practices. PROFESSION FORWARD." Young's indictment of archi• tecture is still quite relevant, as — CATHERINE BAKER. AIA. AIA CHICAGO BOARD PRESIDENT he discusses the link between a majority-white profession and a willful ignorance of issues, Attend As Our Guest affliction, and policy decisions Complimentary Admission that primarily affect people of tion and inspire them to enter for Licensed, Practicing Architects color. For example, in August the practice, they will be more 2017, the United States gained likely to educate their commu• its 400th African-American, nities on the complexities of female, licensed architect. building in their neighborhood As of today, black women and provide them with a vocab• represent just 0.3 percent of ulary to be critical of buildings about 110,000 licensed archi• and those processes." tects in the United States. The The Equity Roundtable will 2010 U.S. census reports that address education at the K-12 Chicago's population is 32 level with the hopes of creating percent African-American — a a new, more diverse generation major gap in representation. of architects. They will also lis• While the profession's racial, ten closely to minority architects ethnic and gender makeup practicing today to address does not match that of the how to better provide support general public, it becomes throughout their careers. They increasingly difficult to serve may also look into outside these populations and educate professions for innovations and them on the process of creat• anecdotes. "We're in the lis• ing buildings in these neigh• tening phase right now," Baker borhoods. "Buildings don't just said, "but it is the first step. get built, they get financed," Currently, our built environment Baker said. "If we are able and profession are static with• Isslssiss to reach kids as early as kin• out diversity. We need to pool dergarten, teach them about the talents of everyone to move Registration and additional details at: design throughout their educa- the profession forward." CA MasonryAdvisoryCouncll.org/events
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expertise to the table: Chadha, EXHIBITION DESIGN TEAM LED BY RALPH APPELBAUM ASSOCIATES (L TO R) RALPH APPELBAUM AMANDA WILLIAMS, HANS NEUBERT LARNIES BOWEN. ANDRES HERNANDEZ, SHERINE KAZIM, NORMAN TEAGUE. RENATA GRAW, JEN PARK, EVELYN REILLY, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, MONICA CHADHA CARLIN WRAGG, AKI CARPgSITER an architect who works with a LUKAKITO, MELANIE IDE NOT PICTURED M.ARY BETH BYRNES, RACHEL GERSHMAN hybrid practice at the intersec• tion of design, social justice and| economic development; Park, a skilled project manager and architect; Graw, an award-win• ning graphic designer; Teague, a designer, fabricator and educator who focuses on urban complexities; Williams, an artist focusing on color and architec• tural material reuse; and Hernandez, an arts educator whose work has discussed public spaces, social justice, the civil rights movement and more. The team is responsible for engaging with community crucial to informing the design process, one of which took place | over Martin Luther King Day in January 2018. The participatory, interactive meeting served as an There has been a plethora of news and noise surrounding the incoming opportunity to meet the team, Barack Obama Presidential Center's development. While much of the hear about the planning for the controversy surrounding the campus location and exterior design continues museum from Dr. Louise Bernard (director, Museum of the Obama to engage Chicagoans, a small but diverse team of interdisciplinary Presidential Center) and invite architects, designers, content developers, educators, artists and more are the public to share thoughts and ideas. working hard to produce the OPC's future exhibitions. According to the team, ongoing meetings and "incu• bators" through the design Led by Ralph Appelbaum and based practitioners who The local team includes Moni process will also help foster Associates — the firm that also are managing a boots-on- ca Chadha, AIA; Jennifer Park, new paradigms for community led exhibition design at the the-ground, community-ori AIA; Renata Graw; Norman planning and provide opportu• Smithsonian National Museum ented design process that Teague; Amanda Williams; and nities for skills-training ses• of African American History gives a voice to Chicago's Andres L. Hernandez, Assoc. sions. "Emphasizing public and Culture — the team diverse and impassioned AIA. Each individual brings his interactions allows us to be includes a crew of Chicago- communities. or her own set of skills and open about the process, to
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deliver not just an exhibit from the 44th presidency, by history to action and providing during the MLK Day event, one design but a design process," involving the public in these tools for empowerment," participant commented on how "eague said. The final result will discourses, the team has she said. "amazing and atypical" it was to DO what he calls "an interpre- bigger goals than just a display. The team's diversity, both of see a team led by women and ive experience." According to Aki Carpenter, practice and in representation, people of color. "It truly is a Although the design process design director at Appelbaum, is not overlooked by the public. project like no other!" ex• one of the main goals of the will yield a robust and compre- "We want the public to see claimed Chadha; a fitting exhibits is to inspire people to Ihensive exhibition of docu• themselves in this team," sentiment for a team that is truly action: "It's about connecting ments, artifacts and ephemera Chadha said. Park noted that, one-of-a-kind. CA
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AIA CHICAGO FOUNDATION SAVE THE DATE: BOARD UPDATE PRAIRIE GRASSROOTS 2018 Hop on the bus headed to Springfield, Illinois, for the annual day trip to meet In addition to administering annual awards and schol• your state and local representative and discuss the issues critical to the architec• arship programs for emerging professionals such as the ture profession. Join us on April 10, 2018. Details to come. Martin Roche Travel Scholarship and the Dubin Family Young Architect Award, the AIA Chicago Foundation administers the Architects in Schools Program, developed
by AIA Chicago's Community Interface Committee. The PHOTO CREDIT LUCY HEWETT foundation also completed the influential Tiny Homes De• sign Competition to develop another alternative housing firm to serve homeless young Chicagoans, and supported the production of publications, including the A/A Guide to Chicago, and John Vinci: Life and Landmar/cs, by Robert Sharoff with photographs by William Zbaren. In 2019, the AIA Chicago Foundation will introduce a diversity scholarship program for students attending local schools of architecture.
PRESIDENT Gina (JinHwa ) Paradowicz, AIA
VICE PRESIDENT Fred Brandstrader, AIA
TREASURER
Chris-Annmarie Spencer, AIA
SECRETARY Christopher Chwedyk, AIA
TRUSTEES Laura A. Fisher, FAIA Peter Schlossman, AIA Jayshree Shah, AIA Gracia Maria Shiffrin, Esq., FAIA Walter D. Street III, AIA, NOMA Grant Uhlir, FAIA PUBLIC TRUSTEES NEOCON 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lisa DiChiera Roberta Feldman, PhD CAROL ROSS BARNEY, FAIA Mary K. Woolever NeoCon is just around the corner: June 11-13, 2018, at the EX-OFFICIO Merchandise Mart. Carol Ross Barney will present the Day Zurich Esposito 3 Keynote Address, sponsored by AIA Chicago. Robert Forest, FAIA, RIBA, OAA Future Cities - Creating Livable Environments, Carol Ross Barney, Paul Lurie, Esq. Founder and Design Principal, Ross Barney Architects Wednesday, June 13 I 9:30 a.m. NeoCon Theater, 19th Floor, The Mart
AlACHiCAGO.ORG MARCH//APRIL//201! CHICAGO ARCHITECT A LARGE PARTY FOR THE SMALL PROJECT AWARDS Join AIA Chicago's Small Practitioners Group and the Custom Residential Architects Network for the 2018 Small Project Awards Exhibit and Large Party! May 17, 2018 I 5:30-8:30 p.m. Architectural Artifacts, 4325 N. Ravenswood Avenue FREE and open to the public
Spend the evening with more than 800 architects, designers and ar• chitecture enthusiasts while perusing an exhibit of 2018 Small Project Awards submissions. Award winners will be recognized in a short pro• gram. Voting for the Pella Crafted Luxury People's Choice Award goes live April 17 — vote for your favorite project at aiachicago.org.
A NEW ADDITION TO AIA CHICAGO MADE Please welcome a set of lamps designed by Young Hee Han, AIA, and Mark Bruzan, AIA, of Han Bruzan Studio. Displayed lamps include:
Mysteron: The Mysteron table lamp is a mad scientist's project conjuring a mysterious aura. Its profile suggests a hidden purpose: Energy of the massive light of cap• tured stars.
Cyl-Flora: The Cyl-Flora table lamp employs a composition of metal screen fabric applied with real flower blossoms. In this fixture, figures of yellow, forsythia blossoms are revealed through both direct glimpses and as projections onto translucent panels which provide the composition with a theatrical expression.
Wrap: This Wrap table lamp's organic geometry is accen• tuated by special, two-toned pigment. The shade's gentle form is set in stark counterpoint to the industrial aesthetic of the steel stem and cast-concrete base.
Objects are on view m AIA Chicago's reception and cafe, 35 E. Wacker Dnve, Suite 250, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday- Friday through March.
AIA 18: THE AIA CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE The national Conference on Architecture takes place in New York City on June 20-23, 2018. AIA Chicago will be placing a Call for Dele• gates shortly If you are interested in being a delegate, you will be required to attend one of two short training sessions taking place one month prior to the conference. Stay tuned for more information. To get registered for AIA '18, visit www.conferenceonarchitecture.com. CA
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Carolina Lopez, AIA, LEED AP, has been promoted to vice president of SmithGroupJJR's Chicago office.
6 Patrick Peterson, PLA, CDT, SITES AP LEED Green Associate, has joined site design group, ltd. (site) as th« director of construction administration. Jenna Jones, ASLA, LEED Green Associate, has been promoted to director of marketing and communications at site.
HOK designed the new Michigan Consumers Credit Union headquarters in Kalamazoo, Michigan; the new facility opened in early 2018. The design emphasizes natural influences and values amenities and personal wellness. Alex Pappas, AIA, has joined Carl Walker, a division of WGI as the senior business development manager in their Chicago office.
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Goettsch Partners' 150 North Riverside won Project of the Year and Best Project in the Office/Retail/Mixed-Use category for the 2017 Best Projects Awards by ENR M,dwest. The.r Zurich North American Headquarters won Best Project in the Green Projects Category.
Linda Kanoski, AIA, LEED AP, has joined George Halik, AIA, OKW Architects as managing director of formerly a principal and interior architecture and will be leading the Legat Architects designed renovations to owner at Booth Hansen, has transform classrooms and offices into a new Student joined The Lamar Johnson firm's expansion of its interiors practice. Center at Oal MARCH // APRIL // 2018 21 PEOPLE -f PROJECTS PLEASE SEND YOUR NEWS TO [email protected] JJ Tang, FAIA, led the HDR design team that developed a highly secure, technically Hirsch Associates LLC will become Hirsch-MPG LLC, with Andrew sophisticated headquarters for the U.S. government in Africa. The story of how the Myren, AIA; Richard Parks, AIA; and David Gene, AIA, joining design team approached security, functionality, sustainability and constructability in Howard Hirsch, AIA. founder, as partners of the new firm. the extremes of the African desert was featured in the recent issue of The M)7/tary Engineer magazine. PHOTO COURTESY OF SHLNZHONGHAI Perkins+Will has designed the new headquarters of Skender Construction, one of the largest corporate interiors contractors in the country, located in a repurposed parking garage in Fulton Market. Goettsch Partners' Rosewood Sanya hotel opened in 2017. The project is the final component of a new hospitality complex on Hainan Island in Sanya, China. AIACHICAG0.ORG 22 MARCH // APRIL// 2018 CHICAGO ARCHITECT PEOPLE + PROJECTS 'TO CREDIT TOM HARRIS. TOM HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHY Ware Malcomb's Chicago office has been named Design Firm of the Year at the 2017 Awards for Excellence held by the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association's Chicago Chapter. Kuklinski-^Rappe Architects' 2017 Small Project Award winner. Courtyard Home wa included in the recently published. The American House: 100 Contemporary Homes. The book includes several other AIA Chicago firms: Searl Lamaster Howe's Harbert Cottage and Asbury Residence; Cohen & Hacker's Contextual House; and Thomas Roszak Architectures' 7RR Eco-Home. Moses Scott, Assoc. AIA, has joined Goettsch Partners as the director of digital practice, based in the Chicago office. Mark Schwamel, AIA, is now principal of design at Unispace's Chicago office. Lindsey Peckinpaugh, AIA. is joining Perkins-t-Will as principal and Legat Architects has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based Legat Kingscott. The Columbus leader of its local bcation will become Legat Architects' fifth Midwestern studio. Pictured is the Kent State sports, recreation Jniversity Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center (New Philadelphia, Ohio), designed by the and entertainment „olumbus studio. practice. MARCH // APRIL '/ 2018 23 PEOPLE + PROJECTS Ron Weber, AIA, is now associate at Pappageorge Haymes Partners, promoted recently from senior project architect. Stantec Architecture's work with Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center earned Healthcare Design magazine's Readers' Choice Award in the cancer care category. Lamar Johnson, FAIA, and Lisa Johnson have formed The Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC). The new Chicago-based architecture, interior design and planning practice is focused on serving commercial and institutional clients and designing projects. Led by principals from Gensler, Booth Hansen and Gary Lee Partners, the LJC team's portfolio includes mixed-use, entertainment, residential, retail, health care and commercial office projects. NAVIGATION Ware Malcomb has completed the new Purohit Navigation corporate headquarters located at the Willis Tower. The firm provided interior architecture and design services for the project. AiACHICAGOORC 2A MARCH // APRIL // 2018 CHICAGO ARCHITECT ^WE ARE OPENING OUR DOORS loin us (ii our Open House dud disi (ACI WIIK li doors we can open lor you. 1 HURSDAY 19th • 37:30PM Please Join Us For This Open House Event I Thursday, April 19th I 3 7 . 30PM SIERRA Learn More Aboui Our Verllcal Iniegrailon I Discover Our Higli-Qiialily Products i4ear (rom Respecied Guest Speal www.SlerraPacincWindows.coni | P.O. Box 8489. Red BluK.CA 96080 | 800-824-7744 | A Division ol ^•lUC PHOTO CREDIT BURUNGHAM COM DIVERSITY by Design BY ADESHINA EMMANUEL he architecture, construction and civil engineering industries have a major diversity problem. Indeed, National T Council of Architectural Registration Boards statistics illustrate what most black and brown architects — especially women — find at their firms: few professionals who look like them. Consider that our country has nearly 110,000 licensed archi• tects, and nine out of 10 are white. Eight out of 10 are men. Minorities are about one-third of workers in the construction industry, but only hold 14 per• cent of management positions, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 81 percent of civil engineers are white, and 87 percent are male, accord• ing to the U.S. Census Bureau. But in Chicago, professionals are channeling energy toward young people of color with hopes of evening the playing field. The idea is to open doors by exposing youngsters to ACE fields, teaching them basic and technical skills to succeed, helping them navigate their college journey, and supplying them with the network connections to land intern• ships and jobs. Project Pipeline Oswaldo Ortega, AIA, a 35-year-old project architect at Gensler who identifies as Afro-Latino, serves as president of the Illinois chapter of the National Organization for Minority Architects (I-NOMA). The New York native got interested in architecture and design from helping his father, a Dominican- American carpenter, do work around the house. But from college to his work at architecture firms, he saw few black and brown faces on the same track. Ortega said I-NOMA "tries to provide a continuous mentorship program from the age of 10 all the way to when he or she takes the (architecture license] ACE MENTOR CHICAGO STUDENTS exams, so there's a tie back to a support system MARCH // APRIL // 2018 27 PHOTO CREDIT KAI L BROWN •NOMA S PROJECT PIPELINE SUMMER CAMP Project Pipeline. Jones and other Jones must have gotten tliroughout the whole process, and if She's a 15-year-old black girl kids put together a model design the memo. Now a freshman at you go through any hurdles or have from the South Side of Chicago project that they presented on the Lindblom Math 8f Science Academy any questions, since you're actively who answers that loaded question, last day of camp. Jones overcame a in the West Englewood conmiunity, engaged in the pipeline, there should "What do you want to be when you bad case of stage fright to present she's already looking into colleges always be someone who can answer grow up?" with palpable conviction her model comnmnity. It included with her career path in mind, and those questions." and zero hesitation. a high-rise building, a family home in late January, she signed up for A major part of 1 NOMA's efforts "1 want to be an architect, ' and a shopping center. And she ACE Mentor Chicago. is the four-day Project Pipeline Jones said, who lives in the Auburn was fascinated by how much goes "I'm taking every opportunity I Architectural camp held annually at Gresham neighborhood with her into designing a building — from can get," Jones said. the Illinois Institute of Technology sister and mom, an assistant teach• aesthetics to population density in the Bronzeville community, er. "This is exactly what I want to to how a structure impacts near• ACE Mentor Chicago which targets kids from sixth to do, even though this isn't the typi• by buildings and the community The centerpiece of the ACE Mentor eighth grade. I-NOMA has an ambi cal job for somebody like me." around it. program is an after school program tious goal to have the demographics Just over 400 — or one out of "That's when 1 knew architecture that runs from October to March. in the architecture field match the every 272 licensed architects — are is what 1 want to do," Jones said, Teams of 20 to 25 students and U.S. population by 2030. black women, according to the who attended several camp sessions mentors meet for weekly sessions "I see a lot of young people, National Council of Architectural and other 1-NOMA programs before where they work toward developing young ladies especially, who are Registration Boards. Jones first she aged out last year. a hypothetical project from con• passionate about doing this at a knew she wanted to bolster their Ortega said the plan at I-NOMA cept to delivery. Krisann Rehbein, nmch earlier age," Ortega said. ranks when she was 12. is to pump kids from Project executive director of ACE Mentor He could be talking about Three summers ago, when she Pipeline into ACE Mentor Chicago. Chicago, said it's also critical for Ericka Jones. was in sixth grade, Jones attended A. ACHICAGO-ORG 28 MARCH // APRIL // 2018 CHICAGO ARCHITECT industries that shape, build and struction they think of trade work• design our cities to reflect the peo• ers, not management positions." ple who live there. Alvarez, 29, said he noticed "Especially in a city like Chicago Ambrocio's curiosity — and his "ESPECIALLY IN A CITY LIKE CHICAGO THAT :hat has a really diverse popula- kindness. HAS A REALLY DIVERSE POPULATION. ITS :ion." Rehbein said, "It's import• "The kid is just phenomenal," ant to make sure those voices, Alvarez said. "Five minutes talking IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THOSE VOICES. perspectives and skills are reflect- to him, you know that he cares not PERSPECTIVES AND SKILLS ARE REFLECTED IN ;d in the way we design and build just about himself, but others." THE WAY WE DESIGN AND BUILD OUR CITIES." our cities." Alvarez was raised on the South Marvin Ambrocio was a 17-year- Side of Chicago. Growing up, he — KRISANN REHBEIN. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACE MENTORS CHICAGO old junior at Jones College Prep didn't have role models like the when he discovered a passion for man he is now. His sister studied construction management and civil engineering a UIC, but Alvarez engineering. Now, as a 21-year-old had a more imsure path. He nearly PHOTO CREDIT KAI L BROWN j college junior studying civil engi• majored in culinary arts, and he neering at the University of Illinois spent time studying electrical engi• at Chicago, he has a future vision neering, before changing his major of himself. He wants to manage to civil engineering in his junior large-scale construction projects, year of college at the University of especially hospitals. Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. "They have some of the most "One of my personal goals once I mplex systems that get put into got into college and got a job was to buildings, so from an engineering give back to Chicago in one way or aspect, it's interesting," he said. another," he said. "I think the first But also how it benefits a commu• step is showing representation as a nity is very interesting to me." mentor, and letting myself be out Ambrocio's family hails from there for the kids." Guatemala. He grew up in the After two years with Alvarez Uptown neighborhood on the as his mentor, Ambrocio was North Side, raised by a single able to get a scholarship that mother who supported him and helped him apply to more colleges his three brothers by cleaning than would have been possible other people's homes. Nearing the without the financial support. end of high school, he had a gener• Alvarez helped him start building al interest in the ACE fields, but he a network and nab an internship was still confused about what path before he even got into college. to take. And then he enrolled in Today, he's working part time at the ACE Mentor program and met Turner Construction. Ambrocio his mentor Pedro Alvarez, assis• now mentors his own flock of high tant purchasing agent at Turner school kids at ACE Mentor. He said Construction, who became like a Alvarez showed him the power father figure, he said. mentorship can have in a young life "He made the experience pretty and career. personable," Ambrocio remembered. Their relationship is a testament "Him being Latino really gave me to that power. the example 1 needed to say, 'Wow, "This is a kid who will one day PHOTO CREDrr this is actually possible.' When peo• be my boss," Alvarez said, "and I'm ple think of Latinos or blacks in con• completely fine with that." CA MARCH//APRIL//2018 29 DEFINED BY EXCELLENCE FOUR The road to the top is a long one. These four firm leaders reflect on their earliest days in architecture; their dedicated mentors and greatest achievements; their passions and uphill climbs. Their projects have won awards for design excellence, brought communities together and driven global sustainability conversations forward — theirs are stories of ingenuity, collaboration and fortitude. Interviews have been edited for length and clarity. DINA GRIFFIN FAIA. NOMA. IIDA PRESIDENT. INTERACTIVE DESIGN ARCHITECTS (IDEA) How has mentorship helped shape building to feel like an institution. I KNEW. IF I STAYED ON THAT PATH. IT WOULD your career? The residents were so appreciative The one person who stands out is for treating them (as they called NOT LEAD ME TO WHERE I NEEDED TO BE (IN THE Professor Art Kaha at the University it) "like [they] lived on the Gold PROFESSION) I NEEDED TO BE THE ONE TO MAKE of Illinois School of Architecture. Coast." It was that moment that IT HAPPEN Early on, I stmggled with drawing resonated for me; no chent, no and communicating ideas on paper. I matter status or title, is any differ• had technical abilities, but freehand ent (or better) than any other client drawing came hardest to me. My or user. At your talks, what do you peers, on the other hand, were in the office, I'd be pigeon-holed tell young people who are as the computer person. That was sketching beautiful, professional- How have you experienced career architecture-curious? a trajectory-changing moment. I looking ink on paper images. pinch points? You can't let your career just hap• knew, if I stayed on that path, it I approached Professor Kaha and Having been raised in the same pen. Advocating for yourself ensures would not lead me to where I need• told him that I didn't feel I was at city where I built my career, I have that you're in control of your career ed to be (in the profession). I need• the level of my peers. He told me to amassed a great network of sup• path to and through architecture. ed to be the one to make it happen. give it a year. During that year, we port. So I haven't experienced too focused together on my weakness, many of them. But I am sensitive Can you give an example of this How did you prepare to present while I continued to enhance my to it, especially for women of color. advice in practice? the Ohama Presidential Center strengths. At the end, I felt strong I'm not sure why our numbers are Early in my career, I was very good with Barack Ohama? enough in my artistic abilities to stay so low, with only 400-plus black at computers before they were pro• Every time someone mentions in the program. Without Professor female architects in the nation. The lific in the profession. One of the that, my heart starts racing. I Kaha, I would not be an architect. numbers are improving, but that's major designers in the city wanted found out the night before that why I speak at schools, elementary to see a "flyby" of a project we were I would be center stage with What have been some of your most and high schools, to introduce the working on. We were in my tiny the president, along with Mike formative projects? profession early. When speaking cubicle — myself, his assistant and Strautmanis from the Foundation! We did a small project called Saint at the university level or at pro• the designer. He would ask the Up until that moment, we had Leo Apartments for disabled vet• fessional engagements, I often tell assistant, instead of addressing been unable to say anything about erans. Every project goes through the story of Professor Kaha. After me directly, to show him different the project. So, to be able to look value engineering, and one of the each event, at least one person has views. At that moment, I realized out at my community, see peo• first things to be reduced in quality come up to me and said, "that was that he did not "see me"; I did not ple I know, so many people who are the finishes. 1 fought tooth and the reason I left the profession: I exist to him. Shortly after, I went to went to my high school, it was so nail to keep those finishes because didn't speak up; I wish I had done my boss and I said I wanted to go great to finally share the project I wanted the residents to call this the same." out on the construction site to see and express how excited I am as a place home. I didn't want their how buildings are built. If I stayed native South Sider to be involved. MARCH // APRIL // 2018 31 JULIE MICHIELS AIA. NCARB. LEED AP ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL. PERKINS+WILL When did you begin considering be obvious. I am also a contribut QIASS WINDOWS architecture as a path to pursue? ing editor to MAS Context, so the I've always been a creative thinker in diversity of the contributors to the both the artistic sense and the prob• journal has opened my eyes to new lem-solving sense, backed by a good ways of thinking. dose of Midwestern practicality. Also, If I have a truly sticky design prob• my dad was an electrician, and so lem, I will sit there and do a series somehow the building industry has of rapid-fire sketches. Usually some• always been part of my upbringing. It thing has legs when you get to it. led me into thinking about the build• ing industry. So. when it was time to Did you have to learn to trust decide what to pursue for a career, yourself to do that type of exercise? architecture seemed to be a good fit. I struggled with that early in my career. I would sketch, and the sketch Who else influenced your wasn't "finished." so I didn't want decisions to enter the field? anyone to see it. I maybe didn't realize how iterative design really is. Also it's My high school drafting teacher was are programs and trainings that pen on paper; nobody's building it yet. less than fair, and that was a reality pivotal. He always made an effort provide the framework for growth: I learned to admit that your first idea check. And only once was I in a posi• to challenge me. He wasn't push Several years ago, I was awarded an ' is not always right but it might be a tion to bring it to somebody's atten• ing me but pulling me along with Innovation Incubator grant to study seed. Until you just go for it, it's never tion. It was recognized and corrected. special challenges. I would do tht)se wireless power. I was also accepted going to come out. I don't define myself as a woman assignments, and he would always up into a yearlong program called the architect. I'm an architect and a the ante for me. It is a really great way Leadership Institute. It's a big com• As a woman working in architec• whole host of other things that to mentor because most people are mitment and investment on tlie ture, have you ever experienced define who I am. I try not to define going to step up. Roger Stieglitz was firm's part that has given me profes• moments of professional doubt? myself as any single one of those. his name. I don't think he knows how sional tools to grow. But I can't neglect the power and influential he was to me. There were a couple key moments presence that those things have. Our office is very thoughtful about around salary: both times I was apply• people and creating an environ• ing for a position, as was a male can• You call yourself a creative ment of trust that allows for people didate with fewer years of experience You've earned a major promotion problem-solver — how do you to take risks and feel open to share than I. Both times, they were offered recently at a relatively young age! maintain that creative energy ideas and have candid conversations. equal or higher salaries than me. And What type of environment has through tough challenges? There are good outcomes — personal that stimg. I'm an optimistic person. helped you thrive and grow? I always have my eyes and ears and business-wise — from creating I don't like to go into any situation On a firm-wide basis, the company open. I'm always connecting the that environment. invests a lot in its people. Tliere dots between things that might not thinking that it's going to be anything AIACHICAGO.ORG CHICAGO ARCHITECT 32 iVIARCH // APRIL // 2018 SHARON SAMUELS AIA. NOMA. LEED AP PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDER. SOLOUEST DESIGN UNLIMITED. LLC BOXVILLE UTILIZES USED SHIPPING CONTAINERS TO ENLIVEN A BRONZEVILLE STREET CORNER How did architecture first enter edge to the group, including commu• your sphere of interest? nity members, business owners, con• My mom took me to Oak Park to see tractors, architects and designers. We the houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, are connected by a common thread and that was the beginning. In high of wanting to improve the economic 1 school, 1 was more interested in fine and social conditions of the neighbor• art, but my parents were dead set hoods we live in and serve. on me becoming an engineer. They enrolled me in a pre-engineering How can architects help play a program for high school girls at the role in developing communities? Illinois Institute of Technology to get Architects can play a vital role in me interested in the ideas, but no sale! developing communities by finding something they are passionate about, Tell us about the BoxviUe whether that is entrepreneurship, project. How did coUaboration education or social issues, and apply• play a role in its success? ing their skills and knowledge to help One of the missions of Urban make the situation better. There are Juncture, tlie developer of Boxville, is various ways architects can contrib• to improve the quality of experience ute beyond just building stock. For for the growing bicycle community example, we designed a space for the in Bronzeville. They were already Connect South Shore Arts Festival. "HOTO CREDIT SOREN SPICKNALL organizing bicycle tours and the idea We were challenged with taking a of providing bike maintenance came vacant comer commercial space and architecture school, I almost didn't What advice would you give to about to have a space that could be turning it into a vibrant artist market continue, but thanks to a few angels young people looking to pursue a established and maintained witli min• and performance venue. Once it was in my comer who advised me not to career in architecture or design — imal cost and labor: by using shipping complete, the result was even better give up, I stayed and finished. More of particularly, to young women or containers. Fast forward four years than expected — we ignited the con• those pivotal moments have happened people of color — groups that are and several entrepreneurs approached versation around the revitalization of throughout my career, such as being underrepresented in the field? Urban Juncture and posed the ques• a commercial corridor. laid off at the height of the 2008 reces• Realize this one hard tmth: The world tion: What else could shipping con• sion and stmggling to pass that one owes you nothing. You only owe your tainers be utilized for? Could you talk about your career test in the ARE that somehow kept self to do the best you can with what Boxville is definitely a project that "pinch points" and how you tricking me up. I have navigated them you have every single day. With that is being built on collaboration. The navigated them? all by staying focused on my goal of and perseverance, the world will be team consists of various stakeholders I have had quite a few career pinch becoming an architect and having the forced to take you seriously anci not that bring specific skills and knowl• points. In my sophomore year of grit and passion to keep moving. look away. MARCH // APRIL // 2018 33 XUAN FU AIA MANAGING PARTNER. SKIDMORE. OWINGS & MERRILL LLP 7 A RENDERING Of KUNMING WUJIABA AND ITS PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL PARK Cart you walk me through your Kingdom, always learning. I had to IMAGE COURTESY OF SOM career and how you got to the overcome working with different time position you are in today? Could you zones, studying a second language, discuss how mentorship may have and taking care of my two kids. had an impact on your career? Chinese say 'Tian Dao Chou Qin" — My architectural career began in hard work will always be rewarded. 1986, when I started working for I have been fortunate to receive the Beijing Institute of Architecture unwavering guidance from the most Design & Research on the Beijing knowledgeable mentors in design Asian Games Village project. and management. Jeff McCarthy, In 1989, during the Chinese FALA, my primary mentor, taught Economic Reform, I was eager to me how to aggressively strive instead together to achieve common goals. see the outside world. I left China of waiting passively, how to contin• achieve energy savings, water con• Frequently clients have great pres• and went to grad school at Ball State uously improve and refine during servation and landscape integration sure to deliver a building. Through University. In 1990, I got a summer the process of exploration, and most on every project. Our view of sus careful collaboration and mutual internship at SOM. importantly, to deliver what has tainability is not project specific, but how that project folds into a larger compromise, a more sustainable end I graduated in the 1991 reces• been promised while seeking win-win mission of providing opportunity for product can be realized than what sion, when few architecture firms situations for all involved. I learned future generations. All people should they thought at the outset. were hiring. By good fortune, I was to break the box from Phil Knquist, have the opportunity to live in clean, hired by Youngman 8; Company, a I-AI A, and to see with no boundaries, compact cities with healthful and What advice would you give young six-person firm. There I learned tiic and that to transform anything takes flexible spaces to work and play. people looking to pursue a career in architect's different responsibilities guts and talent. architecture or design? in each phase of design. The rapid development of the Our recent project Kunming Work your career with passion, and In 1992,1 worked in interior entire world, especially China, Wujiaba is an example. Rather than work hard! Be modest so you can leam design at VOA and learned to see played a crucial role in my success. converting all the available space of from others, and later on, help others interior spaces from the occupants' Tliere is a Chinese proverb: "Tian a fonner airport for development, seeking knowledge. Don't wait for point of view and to form design Shi, Di Li, Ren Me" — the right time, as the client requested, we proposed opportunity, plan your life and focus concepts from inside out. the right place and the right people. designing half the area as an environ• mental park, to provide lasting ben• on the most important thing you In 1994,1 was hired by SOM to efit to the people of a city with little believe in. Be open to think outside work on Shanghai's landmark Jin I'd like to hear more about your open space. Tliis large Central Park of the box; team up with others, and Mao Tower, and began my 25-year passion for sustainability. What for Kunming was also designed for you can always leam from the person career, growing from technical archi• are the challenges you face natural stormwater management in next to you, regardless of their tide. tect, to new business development, to communicating the needs for this rapidly growing, flood-prone city. 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