What Are Architects Saying About Today's AIA Trust?
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TSA is th e o fficial Te.us srarc 01'!,'llnit.ati on o f the American ln ChangingTimes •liture o f ArchitecL~ (Dnid Lancast er, Execu tiv e \Ike President) . Copyright 1997 by th e Tera s So IN TH£ TWO MONTHS since the last issue of Texas Architect was publi shed, a dcry of Architects. great deal has been going on in Austin. Th e Texas Legislatur e adjourned its David Lancaster Execudvt!Vice President biannuaJ session, ending in a not uncommon whirl of confusion and contro CanllO Yermcn Publlshtr Susan Williamson &crutivt!Editor versy. The results for the profession were genera lly favorable: A tax on pro Kelly Robers on ManagingEditor fessionaJ services was avoided and definition s of aJrernarive publi c-educa Jenna Co lley Communica1ioos1n1ern tion construction delivery methods like design-build were approved. J onnhan Hago od Contributor C..:aru lyn 83kcr Jul, ~9-1•" Advt!rtisingRepresentlltivt! Thjngs at Texas Architect have changed during the past two months as well. Editor Vince n t P. Hauser, AJA, returned to the full-rime practice of TSAPub licationsCommittee Dennis Stncy, AL\, Dallas (chair); Denni s W. Clayton, architecture in mid-May; the current staff incl udes Canan Yetmen, former ly AIA, Midl:1Dd;Lawren ce H. Connolly, A1A,Midland ; associate pub lisher, now publisher; Susan William son, formerly senio r edi Mory C rit es, AJA, Lubb ock; Elir.abcth Darl'Z.C, AJA, Ausli n; Val Glitseh, FAlA, Houston; Julius G ribou, to r, now executive editor; and Ke lly Roberson, former ly associate editor, IA. Co llege Station; Mark Gunderson, AlA, Fort now mana ging editor, as well as J enna Colle y, Worth; Mart in J. Harm s, AJA, Lubbock; Douglas Kndrnc, AJA, Austin; J eff Potte r, AlA, Longview; commu nications intern. Although the staff has UPCOMINGISSUES Sh•fi k I. Rifaat, Ali\, HOIJSton; Ed Solte ro, AlA, El changed, the Texas Society of Archit ects' com l'•• o; Da n Wigodsky. AJA.San Amnn io mitment to plllblishing the best regional architec We invitesubmission of ContributingEditors ture magazine in the country is as strong as ever. projectsto TexasArchitect David Dillon , Dallas; S1ephen Fox , Houston ; Nestor lu fanw n , AlA, Dallas ; Mike Greenbe rg, S,n Anto This commitment to exce llence has been a for upcomingissues : ni o; llnrbaro Koerb le, Fo n Wonh; Gerald M oor haJlmark of Texas Architect since the Society be hcn,1, FAIA, Housto n; Willi s Winters, AJA. Dallas ; D•vid Woodcock, FAJA. RillA, Co llege St<ttion gan publi shing it in r951. The editor ial vision Nov/ Dec' 97 (deadline21 that brou ght Texas Architect to its current posi July)· PublicBuildings • TSAOfficers J~11 Blockmon , AJA, Dnllos , Pr esident ; David tion began with a serie s of architect edito rs Richter, FAfA, Corpus Christi, President-Elect; David Bae r, FAIA, from 1951-1959; Harold If you havequestions , or D•rrell Fitz.gcrald , FALA,Houston, Vice Prcsi rlcnt ; Roh1ndo Garcia. AIA, McAllen , Vice Calhoun , FAIA, from 1959- 1961; Don Le gge ideasfor ·News"or l'rcs,dcnt: Maran Horms , AJA, Lubbock , Vice from 1961-1966; and Jim Pfluger, FAIA, from MSurvey,M please call us at l'rcs1dcnt; David H. 'Watkins, AJA, Mouston , \ ~,·c Pre sident ; Bill Wilson, Ali\, Corpus Christi, 1967-1974. In 1974, the first profes sional jour 512.478.7386or fax at I 'rcusurc r; Do hn LaBiche, AIA, Beaumont, Sec- naust, Larry Paul Fu ller, took over as editor, a 512.478.0528. 1c1.1ry; Ronald Skaggs, FAlA, Dallas, and Fnnk D1111glas, Fi\lA, Hous ton, AIA Direc1ors; Da,•id position he held for 11 years. His successor, an I un<":l.icr, Austin, Exccurivc Vice Pr esident other writer, Joel Warren Barna, also served as editor for more than a de TSABoard of Directorsby Chapter cade, from 1985 until 199 5. And finally, when Vince took the reins as edi l'hlll ip Mille r, AJA,Abilene Chapter; Stephen Brooks, tor in the spring of 1995, the magazine had come full circle: back under the ,\Ii\, An1arillo Chap ter; Girar d Kinney, AIA, Austin ( ha11tcr; Elton Abbott, AJA, Bnzos Ch apter ; John leaders hip of an architect editor for the first time in more than 20 years. l)ykc mn, Jr ., AJA, Corpus C hristi Chapter; Kirk Vince, who had served on TSA's Publications Committee for five years, h_n1c1,cr,Ali\, DaJlas Chapter; Tommy Ro1Jo1.nik, Ali\, I• I Posn C hapter; Tony DiNicoln , AIA, Forr Worth and had worked for Venruryco tt Brown in Philadelphi a, for the Texas His Chapter ; Ernesto Maldonado , AlA, Houston Chap- tor ical Commission, and-in private practice in Austi n, brought a strong vi 1er, Rud olph Gome z, AIA, Lo wer Rio Grnnde Valley CJ,aptcr; Mary Crites, AlA, Lubb ock Chapter; Du:tnc s.ion to Texas Architect.