Awards Issue 2016 AIA Iowa, Central States Region and National Annual Design Awards DIRTY HANDS! ISU STUDENT FIELD DAY
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michael broshar: aia iowa medal of honor iowa projects win three national awards best of the best: aia iowa and central states region winners aia young architects: aust and nagle winter 2017 ia Awards Issue 2016 AIA Iowa, Central States Region and National Annual Design Awards DIRTY HANDS! ISU STUDENT FIELD DAY Thanks to the members of the Masonry Institute of Iowa for hosting the annual Iowa State University Student Field Day, giving future architects and engineers the opportunity to spend a day visiting masonry projects and manufacturing facilities. At the United Brick Plant, a Division of Sioux City Brick, the students developed new masonry skills doing hands-on brick laying. IOWA’S OLDEST AND NEBRASKA BRICK | 402.408.5555 LARGEST BRICK COMPANY MINNESOTA BRICK | 952.888.9239 SIOUX CITY BRICK | 712.258.6571 UNITED BRICK | 515.254.0196 editor’s letter Welcome! Annually, Iowa Architect celebrates the recipients of the AIA Awards for design excellence at the state, regional, and national level. Accomplished professionals from around the country are assembled to jury the awards with the goal of recognizing exceptional work, celebrating high-quality design, and recognizing the value it brings to the culture of where we live. Design excellence is exhibited by creativity and beauty, certainly. It is also demonstrated by an investment in larger goals: contributing to diverse neighborhoods, supporting health and wellbeing, creating economic opportunity, and committing to environmental sustainability. This issue features 43 outstanding projects. Each one representing a commitment of time, talent, and resources in pursuit of design excellence in the broadest definition. Congratulations to all. Jessica Terrill, AIA Editor, Iowa Architect Editor Jessica Terrill, AIA Associate Director Jarrod Seigel, Assoc. 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Meeting the running prints for his father, Robert at Rice University in Houston, and two project’s tight deadline was a tremendous Broshar, FAIA, when he was just 6. When years working for a firm in Minneapolis, challenge, and Broshar was in his element he was in high school, he didn’t take he returned to Waterloo and joined his as a superb communicator. “It required drafting classes; he learned at his father’s father’s firm. He also immediately joined an incredible amount of coordination and Waterloo firm instead. AIA Iowa. teamwork,” he says. Architecture, he says, “was kind of in “It seemed like the natural thing to do to Broshar was also pleased to have my blood.” be engaged in the profession outside of the a hand in reestablishing Waterloo’s So, too, was an inborn passion for firm,” he says. connection to the Cedar River with the excellence, leadership, and service to the It wasn’t long before Broshar dove into RiverLoop Amphitheatre and trail system. profession. Robert, who was president leadership roles in AIA Iowa, serving as “We had a collaborative team,” he says. at the AIA Iowa and AIA National levels, secretary, second vice president, first “Engineers, city leaders, landscape received the second-ever AIA Iowa Medal vice president, and president. Following architects, and us. It’s become a real focal of Honor in 1992. his four years as a trustee for the Iowa point for the city.” Twenty-four years later, on September Architectural Foundation, he held the Over the course of Broshar’s 22, it was Broshar who was awarded the role of Vice President on the AIA National career, much of the industry has AIA Iowa Medal of Honor, becoming Board of Directors and Director of the AIA changed drastically. the first second-generation recipient. Central States Region. He has also been “When I was first out of school, It’s fitting, then, that he was nominated extensively involved with the National everything was still done with pencils, for many of the qualities his father Architectural Accrediting Board and the pens, parallel rules, and triangles,” he exemplified throughout his Design Professionals Risk Control Group. says. Today, the work he does at INVISION career: leadership, service, and strength Running parallel to his organizational Architecture is primarily digital. as a communicator. leadership has been Broshar’s steadfast But just as in 1980 when Broshar began These qualities have served Broshar commitment to projects that transform his career, a successful architect is judged well in his 36 years as an architect. He’s communities across Iowa: health care and on his abilities and the relationships led transformative projects across Iowa educational facilities, office buildings, and he develops with his clients. “That’s and advanced his profession through his recreation and civic projects. something that doesn’t ever change,” he service statewide and nationally. One project of which Broshar is says. It’s also something for which Broshar Broshar’s involvement with the AIA especially proud is Waterloo’s $26 million, has been recognized many times. And so began when he joined the student 140,000-square-foot Cedar Valley he is again. chapter as an undergraduate at Iowa SportsPlex, funded by private donations iowa architect iowa 8 profile Danielle Hermann, AIA AIA Iowa Young Architect Award WORDs: leah walters Danielle Hermann, AIA, recipient of the Des Moines’