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Architecture SD AIA South Dakota 401 East 8th Street Suite 200C Sioux Falls, SD 57103 President’s Letter 05 or Member News 06 PO Box 1596 A Year in Haiti 10 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 www.aiasouthdakota.com Features AIA South Dakota Board of Directors Collaboration 16 Executive Director In Collaboration 16 Joe Bartmann Art + Architecture 18 Board President Working with Landscape 20 Larry Crane, AIA Better Together, Design by the Rest of Us 22 President-Elect Alan Wieskamp, AIA Town Planning 24 Secretary / Treasurer Collaboration = LEED & Design Results 26 Jerry Lindberg, AIA GROWING Big Ideas in Small Places 28 Director ASHRAE & Integrated Design 30 Thomas Baffuto, AIA COLLABORATION Equals SUCCESS 32 Director The Experience Economy 34 Gene Fennell, AIA Building Community Through Historic Buildings 36 Director Coordination with BIM 38 Jim Heroux, AIA 2010 AIA South Dakota Design Awards 43 Director Elizabeth Obaka, AIA Departments Director Dave Van Nieuwenhuyzen, AIA Before & After 53 Director A Miracle on Main Street Ward Whitwam, FAIA AIA Happenings 54 Past President UPDATE

Keith Neuharth, AIA s Young Architects Forum 56 Regional Associate Director Jacob Bunde, Associate AIA Electronic Collaboration Design SD 58 Architecture South Dakota Editorial Committee DesignSD: Hill City Larry Crane, AIA South Dakota LEGO’CY 60 Sandy Dickenson, AIA Ward Whitwam 62 Elizabeth Obaka, Assoc. AIA Rebel with a Cause Tom Reasoner, AIA Ward Whitwam, FAIA Social Lites 78 Joe Bartmann Angela, McKillip, LEED AP Directories Copy Editor Maggie Pettersen Firm Profiles 66 Graphic Artists: Membership Roster 76 Ashley Wolfe

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Design Matters: Knowledge, Service, and Perspective

This issue of Architecture SD magazine is a reflection of us all showing the sum of the pieces is greater than its individual parts. Through COLLABORATION, we continue to overcome during economically, professionally, and politically challenging times. As the smallest AIA state chapter in the country, we are planning to lead by example to show that “design matters” as the pivotal issue in defining value for ourselves and for our state.

Knowledge The practice of design and construction is ever changing, requiring more from all who are involved to produce quality. A new U.S. Green Building Council chapter for our state has been established to focus sustainable concepts and practices. Our state has officially adopted an energy code with raised awareness to President maximize limited resources and improve the quality of living. And, the Architectural Master’s Degree program Larry Crane, AIA at South Dakota State will be completing its first year this summer with a hope for future re-investment back into our professional community.

Service For decades, Ward Whitwam, has been our AIA Chapter’s Executive Director. A special thank you from us all is more than deserved for his energy, vision, and plain stubbornness to not settle for something less. A new era has begun with Joe Bartmann, in partnership with the Rural Learning Center, in Howard, SD, as our new Executive Director. Joe is building on what Ward has established for our next generation of development. Design: South Dakota is continuing to provide high-quality professional planning services for small communities across the state. Our design professionals are donating their time and expertise at many levels in an effort to give back to our local communities, state, and areas around the world like Haiti.

Perspective Without it, we are lost; but with it, we provide the purpose to create meaning. This year will mark the merging of the Plain Green Conference and the annual AIA SD Convention. Our two organizations share a common mission relating to “green design” and sustainability. In the future, more partnering will be accomplished to raise the quality of our collective in-state design and construction professional’s value.

This year will prove to be successful with your collaborative participation. Enjoy the magazine, and look forward to next year’s issue!

Sincerely,

Larry Crane, AIA LEED AP President, AIA South Dakota Board of Directors

www.aiasouthdakota.com 5 membernews AIA South Dakota 2011 Convention 2011 WHN E : October 13 & 14, 2011 CONVENTION WHERE: Downtown Holiday Inn | Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Design professionals will gather on October 13-14, 2011, for the annual AIA South Dakota Convention in Sioux Falls. This year’s convention will have an exiting new look and all new learning and networking sessions. The convention is a gathering place for architects and all who collaborate with them to shape our buildings and communities. Mark your calendars and sign up for AIA South Dakota’s occasional e-news at aiasouthdakota.com to keep in the know about the 2011 convention and other events.

P lain Green 2011: Regenerate

The region’s green design and business conference is set for October 14, 2011, at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Sioux Falls. This year Plain Green will go beyond sustainability by exploring “regenerative design” in a rapidly changing world. To register or become a sponsor, visit plaingreen.org.

Invite design:SD to Your Community

Imagine a team of architects and other design professionals and community development specialists helping your town shape its future. Design:SD team members volunteer for three- day workshops to look, listen, and learn, then sketch and illustrate your community’s visions and goals in a way you can put to good work. To learn more about inviting the team or volunteering, visit designsd.org. Design:South Dakota is sponsored by AIA South Dakota and the Rural Learning Center. Read about design:SD Project Hill City on Page 58.

AIA’s “How Design Works”

Hiring an architect for your residential or commercial design project could be the best decision you’ll ever make. But many people don’t know how or why architects make design work. At AIA’s How Design Works For You Web site, you’ll learn how to work with an architect, as well as how to find the right architect for your project. Visithowdesignworks.aia.org .

Architecture For Humanity

Architecture for Humanity is a non-profit organization providing design services to people who need it most. Each year Architecture for Humanity has a direct impact on over 10,000 people, with help from a network of volunteer design professionals like you. As a newly formed chapter in Sioux Falls, we are committed to making a difference both locally and globally through the power of design. We have hit the ground running, already having completed several exciting projects including participation in a national design competition, building a community tool shed in the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood, and facilitating a city-wide affordable housing competition. Now we are looking for you to get involved. To learn more, contact [email protected] or visit www.afh-sfsd.org.

6 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 AIA South Dakota N ew Faces Join Leadership Scholarship Winners

Larry Crane, AIA of Perspective, Inc., architectual and design studio in Sioux Falls, Each year AIA South began his two-year term as President of the AIA South Dakota Board of Directors in Dakota awards scholarships January. Larry has served on the AIA SD Board for 5 years and is also a member of the to 4th - 6th year Architecture SD editorial committee, the design:South Dakota team, and the SDSU architecture students who Architecture Program Founders Group. Reach Larry at [email protected]. graduated from a high school in South Dakota. Jacob Bunde, Associate AIA of Baldridge and Nelson Architects and Engineers, Inc., in Sioux Falls now represents AIA Associate members from the North Central Region 2010 Award Recipients: (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin) as our Regional Associate Director on AIA’s National Associates Council. During his two-year RAD term Jacob will also lead efforts in our state to assist AIA Associate members in preparing for the ARE exams to become practicing architects. Reach Jacob at [email protected]. Through a partnership with the Rural Learning Center in Howard, SD, Joe Bartmann serves as the new Executive Director of AIA South Dakota. Long-time former Director Jason Sumner Ward Whitwam, FAIA, remains a key part of the leadership team. Reach Joe at [email protected] and Ward at [email protected]. North Dakota State University

AIA Contract Documents

AIA Contract Documents have defined contractual relationships in the design and construction industry for 120 years. They save you time and money, are Jared Weismantel updated to reflect current industry practice, streamline the reviewing process, address emerging issues within design and construction, and demonstrate fair North Dakota State University and balanced consideration to all parties. Now AIA South Dakota is a full-service distributor of AIA Contract Documents. We are your source for paper documents, downloadable documents and document subscriptions. And best of all, buying your contract documents through AIA South Dakota means you are supporting our educational and networking opportunities for members throughout the year. Learn more at aiasouthdakota.com.

Steven A. Dix University of Nebraska, Lincoln SDS U Architecture Program Kicks Off

South Dakota State University’s first ever freshman class of future architects began studies in Fall 2010. Students embark on a four-year undergraduate program followed by a two-year master’s program. Read more about SDSU’s Architecture Department from Brian Rex on page 30.

Holden Rasmussen UGB S C South Dakota Chapter University of Nebraska, Lincoln Armed with the mission “to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy and a prosperous environment that improves our quality of life,” the South Dakota chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) continues its efforts state-wide. Full chapter status will be achieved in 2011. The USGBC SD Chapter will hold a variety of educational workshops and webinars that will support the needs of green- Scholarships are funded by building newcomers as well as seasoned LEED Accredited Professionals. an educataional foundation. Contact Ward Whitwam at Ten buildings in South Dakota have achieved LEED certification, and 58 605-334-2422 for information on projects are currently registered as pursuing LEED certification. making a contribution. To become a member of the South Dakota chapter, or attend a sponsored event, go to www.usgbcsd.wordpress.com

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Architecture for Humanity is an in- suffer from an architectural disaster triguing organization. I first met in Haiti. Images of desperate Hai- Cameron Sinclair, co-founder, when tian people amid the rubble of their he spoke at the Plain Green10 Con- collapsed houses and schools burned ference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at my architectural core. It began to A. A. e St and sustainable building strategies. in the development and integration of high-performance principal at Koch Hazard Architects, provides leadership

a last April. He told us about an idea sink in that I was seeing an opportu-

c that started with two volunteers some nity I’d waited 25 years to find. We

y 11 years ago, which was to make good can help our neighbors anywhere and

design available to anyone, anywhere at anytime, but Haiti called to me as M using the philosophy that where re- an architect. With blessings from my c

M sources and expertise are scarce, inno- husband and partners at Koch Hazard aha vative, sustainable, and collaborative Architects, I accepted a design fellow- design can make a difference. He told ship from Architecture for Humanity n

, AIA L AIA , us about the difference humanitarian and launched into a year’s work in architectural work has made around Haiti. the world and especially its potential

E impact in Haiti after the January 12, Not that I haven’t paid attention to the E D 2010, earthquake had leveled many of world situation, but living in a devel- A oped and resource rich nation has an

P the buildings in Port-au-Prince and its

BD+ surrounding region. My heart melted insulative effect. It is sort of a weird seeing the devastation and hearing cruelty to see firsthand how much less C others have. Haiti is the poorest na-

and statistics that would be repeated again and again about the number killed and tion in the western hemisphere and its left homeless, school-less, without people painfully suffer the burden. work or shelter. The grim statistics Architecture for Humanity responded are connected to real lives, unnamed to the earthquake in March 2010 by and unseen people who continue to

Haiti United States

Median annual income $1,200 $46,000

Potable water use per capita 116 m3/year 1,600 m3/year

Electricity use per capita 28 kWh 12,484 kWh

Forested Land area 3.8% 38%

Population under 15 years 38% 20%

Median Life Expectancy 29 (55 pre-earthquake) 78

Infant mortality rate per 1,000 74 8

Literacy rate (over 15 years) 53% 99%

10 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Three brothers watched as we toured a school site. (Photo by Stacey McMahan, Architecture for Humanity, Haiti.) establishing a presence in Haiti and concrete practices). Our partners are eration Theology), which is a com- began focusing on schools. To rebuild doing great work on very specific and bination of social justice and change schools in post-earthquake Haiti we smaller scale projects that have helped mixed with the ecological belief that have had to cultivate partnerships with us adapt these essential elements for one organism’s waste will feed anoth- some of the many other non-govern- our schools. er. It is a challenge to the traditional mental organizations (NGOs) oper- definition of waste, which flushes POOPSOIL ating in Haiti (some for many years, effluent down the drain or, if you while the architectural community Sustainable Organic Integrated Live- are in Haiti, into a pit latrine, which seems to have been reticent until re- lihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit orga- becomes a hotspot for diseases such cently). There are basic needs in Haiti nization dedicated to protecting soil as cholera. SOIL has installed several that architects are especially well pre- resources, empowering communities, community toilet facilities in slums pared to help meet, like safe shelter. and transforming wastes into resourc- and temporary camps, effectively up- Through innovative and thoughtful de- es. They believe “the path to sustain- scaling bucket and sawdust technol- sign we can promote the adoption and ability is through transformation, of ogy. They provide training, organic use of building standards and codes, both disempowered people and dis- layering material (i.e., sawdust), and explore the use of strong alternative carded materials, turning apathy and poop pick-up, dumping the full buck- local building materials such as rubble pollution into valuable resources.”1 In ets in a protected area for six months and earth block, help solve the issue of other words, SOIL is turning poop into while the material converts to soil. By lack of sanitation, and more. productive farmland, which is an amaz- January, they will be producing 5,000 Three fundamental components of suc- ingly important upcycle given that gallons of new soil per month for use cessful projects have turned out to be Haiti is 96% deforested and erosion by farmers as highly enriched, organic waste handling (composting latrines), has robbed most of its topsoil reserves. fertilizer. They have their vision set clean water (rainwater catchment) SOIL has been working in Haiti since on a local poop economy where Hai- tians can build, maintain, and service and good construction materials and 2006 and has taken up Liberation composting latrines while selling the technologies (masonry and reinforced Ecology (a turn on Aristide’s Lib-

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Haiti has a tropical climate with large semiarid areas in the interior plateau and elsewhere. Average annual rain- fall in the Port-au-Prince area is 53 inches, with dry times sandwiched between two rainy seasons. Domes- tic water service is rare and sources of fresh ground water are just as scarce. Because sanitation is poor, water systems become a repository 2 Latrine block at Ecole Baptiste Bon Berger Pele for everything while being used for everything. According to Interna- end product to farmers. Liberation created a chamber switching system tional Action, “Contaminated water ecology, the circle of life, a seed of so- that works on a 6-month rotation. Ev- is the leading cause of infant mortal- cial change. ery semester, the levers are flipped and ity and illness in children. Germs for a new and empty compartment is ready hepatitis, cholera, and chronic We began working with SOIL, touring to receive poop. Urine is diverted and diarrhea are carried in water their facilities, learning their process, the essential dry organic cover (saw- used for cooking and drink- and noodling on how to scale up to dust, sugar cane byproduct from rum school-size composting latrines. ing. Nearly every water source in production, kitchen scraps, etc), kept Haiti has become contaminated with Our largest school design is for 1,000 in a storage space in the latrine ‘block’ human waste because of the absence students, which will require 32 toilets. is added after each use. Ventilation is of a sewage sanitation system.” Our task was to convert the higher achieved with a solar chimney with maintenance bucket-removal process cross ventilation over the chambers. Rain water harvesting is a pragmatic to an onsite storage and processing When the diversion mechanisms are and commonly used way of access- approach suitable for schools that are flipped, full chambers are allowed to ing relatively clean water for domestic perennially short of staffing. Teaching compost for 4-6 months before being use. If a cistern is strategically placed students should be the focus of teach- emptied to an open-air facility for fi- on or near the roof, captured water ers, not emptying toilet buckets, so we nal composting. We’ve learned that will gravity feed to locations of use when the material reaches 162 deg F, within the buildings, such as kitchens Often, the chore of gathering water falls to the youngest in the family. In cholera bacteria and other nasties are and latrines for cooking, laundry, and this photo taken from International Action’s Web site, a little girl carries a bucket and walks in a street gutter filled with dirty running water. She killed, so it is essential that the shape handwashing. Available fresh water most likely took a bucketful back to her family. of the chamber, added organic matter, can also become a source of income if liquid and oxygen content, etc., are all there is a large roof surface to collect conducive to reaching this tempera- the water, over-sized storage capacity, ture. We are hoping to partner with and convenient access. International SOIL to help the schools learn to prop- Action and LifeGivingForce are two erly use and maintain their new com- NGOs working to improve access to posting facilities. We are also hop- clean water in Haiti with two very dif- ing the composted ‘humanure’ will ferent systems. eventually be culturally accepted and International Action uses a simple and used to fertilize kitchen gardens on inexpensive chlorine tablet system the school grounds. Our Round One where a portion of incoming untreated schools, complete with these innova- water runs over the chlorine tablets, tive latrines, are scheduled to be under then mixes with untreated roof run- construction early this year. off in the cistern. The cost is about 25 tem and tank storage for lightly treated non-potable water for cleaning and washing and another larger storage tank for drinking water. The power source is our off-the-grid sun.

LifeGivingForce works with community leaders to encourage local owner- ship and maintenance to help ensure a sustainable building up of the community, as well as care and longevity of the system. Masonry and Concrete Roadside block shop (Photo by Stacey McMahan, Architecture for Humanity, Haiti.) Material quality and construction methods have become increasingly cents per person per year for the sys- development project. In the town of poor in Haiti for a variety of reasons. tem with little upkeep, which is great Leogane, which lost 90% of its buildings Rubble is the visible proof of a failed because it’s simple and inexpensive. in the January 12 earthquake, Habitat system that accepted buildings built Our mantra is to keep everything sim- will build 665 homes, and Architec- without codes, inspections, or test- ple, low-tech, and low-maintenance. ture for Humanity will provide design ing. As a result, a quarter of a million and construction oversight for clinics, people were buried beneath crumbled schools, public open spaces and mar- buildings in the January 12 earth- Our mantra is to keep kets to be built over the next 3-5 years, quake. everything simple, low-tech as funding allows. and low-maintenance. In Haiti concrete blocks are made in The area has no sanitation services, no roadside shops with half the prescribed domestic water, and no electricity. In- amount of cement. Abundant but LifeGivingForce has had a presence in frastructure will be planned and even- weak limestone is regularly substitut- Haiti for 4 years and has developed a tually installed, but, initially, clean ed for river sand, while reinforcing is series of filtration systems that range water will be provided through several omitted or downsized from prescribed from first responder suitcase kits capa- community well sites with accompa- quantities. Ties are widely spaced and ble of providing clean water for 5,000 nying filtration systems such as the wrapped incorrectly, compounding people per day to larger, two-cistern, 75KUF from LifeGivingForce, which building weaknesses, especially given community-sized systems. is designed to provide 75,000 liters a Haitian penchant for numerous col- (19,000 gallons) of water for 37,500 umns, reduced shear walls, and ever- Architecture for Humanity has also people per day. The initial cost of increasing floor plates and overhangs recently begun collaborating with $18,000 USD includes the LGF sys- Habitat for Humanity on a community with successive stories.

Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) diagrams explaining in-wall electrical/plumbing infrastructure 3D detail from working drawings by Architecture for Humanity in Haiti Typical concrete pour at an Architecture for Humanity rural school. (Photo by Darren Gill, Architecture for Humanity, Haiti.)

Architecture for Humanity is partner- notes in both English and French. The standards, using Haitian skilled and ing with Appropriate Infrastructure elements of safe building are new to unskilled labor, within 3-5 years. 3 Development Group (AIDG) to pro- Haitian builders and need to be care- vide training to local masons, archi- fully monitored onsite to ensure they We’re learning how to help Haiti build tects, and engineers in good construc- are correctly implemented. We have back better by working alongside them tion techniques, including concrete found we need to be onsite almost full- and, at the same time, changing the and mortar mixing, rebar placement, time, watching, correcting, coaching, way we do things to make the knowl- block construction, and even the ba- and training the builders to interpret edge transfer process easier. After sics of seismic design within simple our drawings. We’ve had to give stop- explaining to a colleague ‘what we’re buildings. AIDG has developed a work orders to give us time to react doing in Haiti,’ he said, “It sounds like heavily graphic manual demonstrat- to mistakes, make them tear out bad you are walking over a bridge as you ing good concrete and concrete-block workmanship, change details to make build it.” He was exactly right. practices. I attended a one-day train- up for ad-libbed construction, all the ing by AIDG; the class was full and while trying to ensure the assemblies those attending were quite engaged. meet seismic and hurricane requirements. It has been a slow, frustrating, We are also learning how to create and sometimes comical process but documents that are more easily un- we’re making headway. It’s essential derstood by Haitian contractors and that we do. Our goal is to build ten builders using 3D drawings of more 1 From the SOIL Web site http://www.oursoil.org/ schools, meeting international code 2 Special thanks to volunteer Hill Pierce for his work in developing complicated construction details and this design 3 An interesting side note – schools here are very simple, providing classrooms, administration offices, a small kitchen, and latrines. AIDG masonry training course, photo by Stacey McMahan, Architecture for Humanity, Haiti. There are usually no mechanical systems and very simple electrical systems. We are budgeting schools at $10K to 15K per student, as compared with schools in the U.S. which generally cost 10 times that amount. Information resources: Central Intelligence Agency Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Index Mundi – Demographics World Bank World Health Organization The World Fact Book Demographia Global Security Other essential resources: Humanure Handbook, free for download http://humanurehandbook.com/store/Humanure-Handbook-EBook.html Confined Masonry Workshop Handbook, developed and used by AIDG http://www.aidg.org/documents/CM-Handout%20MASTER%20v3%20English.pdf

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In colloa ab r tion

“Making architecture is like writing a novel. Making a work of art is like writing a poem.” – Maya Lin

Maya Lin, the fourth-year architecture student who ing roles of services and structures that give life to the won the design competition for the Vietnam Veter- more concrete and visible forms we compose. From ans Memorial in Washington, DC, certainly one of the quarry to the clay pit, the foundry to the mill, the the most distinguished and recognizable built forms drawing board, or LCD—resources are combined and in our country today, went on to become a fine and culled into a tangible and hopefully delightful cre-

S Midwest. He can be reached at [email protected]. Tom is a free range architect practicing in the upper m T applied artist. Her works range from architecture to ation, worthy of holding public space and providing o landscape architecture to gallery installations, and her purpose.

R words echo that of the design process. e

a The construction documents of a century ago were

o Her observation discerning the difference between true blueprints with pages of specifications typed on ner, AIA ner, art and architecture is a telling metaphor. A work of onionskin paper you could probably count with your architecture is the culmination of a shared vision, a fingers as opposed to our tomes of today. Yet the creation for which no one individual can claim total computer driven technologies that helped create our responsibility, other than for liability issues. From information age have also helped make a complex the blinding synthesis of a ‘thumbnail sketch” to the process more comprehensive and coherent. From mind-numbing rigors of shop drawings, the process is computer-aided design (CAD) programs to the intro- one that invites, indeed, thrives and lives on collabo- duction of building information modeling (BIM) sys- ration. Not the collaboration of enemy sympathizers, tems, our combined efforts are all the more responsive no matter how many times you had to call the sup- and potent. plier. Instead, the companion definition of a co-labor: Our unfolding mission to serve our planet as our ulti- to work jointly with others, especially in an intellec- mate client will mandate that we “remake the way we tual endeavor. make (and build) things” if we are to rein in the en- Some collaborators leave more intangible signs of ergy consumption of our buildings and help provide their involvement, from paper trails of financial environments that contribute to a sustainable whole wherewithal and planning permissions, to the invis- rather than isolated microclimates or vulnerable mon- ible (except to the x-ray vision of engineers) support- ocultures. To do so will require even more concerted

16 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 “Architecture is always dream and function, expression and collaborative thinking, planning, manufacturing of a utopia and instrument of convenience.” and building. Collaborators range across the design disciplines as well the public and private sectors of —Roland Barthes our designing and building matrix.

Collaboration implies a successful union of design- Project Team Members ers with design intent, licensed or apprenticed, jour- Design Architect: Traffic Control: Elevator: Ward Whitwam, FAIA Dakota Trails Contractors of Selby, Inc. Lagerquist Elevator Company neymen or middlemen. Each writes a chapter in the Sioux Falls, SD Selby, SD Sioux Falls, SD book; the page lengths may vary, but the novel would Architect of Record: P/C Headwall: Plumbing: Architecture Automated South Dakota Concrete Products Mitchell Plumbing & Heating remain a draft without their contributions. When a Gene Murphy, AIA Pierre, SD Mitchell, SD Sioux Falls, SD building is just the sum of its parts, it’s just that, a Pre-cast Panels: HVAC: General Contractor: Gage Brothers Concrete Products, Inc. Paulson Sheet Metal, Inc. building; when it’s greater than the sum of its parts, Sioux Falls Construction Sioux Falls, SD Mitchell, SD Ron Hammer Sioux Falls, SD Masonry: Painting: it’s architecture and collaboration helps make it so. James Williams Masonry, Inc. Friessem Painting Mechanical/Electrical Engineers: Avon, SD Hartford, SD The following articles will give voice to some of the (geothermal) West Plains Structural & Ornamental Steel: Casework: many co-authors that combine forces and experiences Sioux Falls, SD Eggers Steel Company Pine Valley Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls, SD to give shape and meaning to our physical world. No Structural Engineers: Clark Engineering Electrical: Lumber Products & I-Joists: cornerstone can ever attest to the true energy and tal- Sioux Falls, SD Bickner Electric J.W. Horner Lumber Company Kimball, SD Sioux Falls, SD ent embodied in a work of architecture. Artist - Interior Rolling Gate: Carl Grupp Doors & Hardware: E.I.F.S. & Drywall: Sioux Falls, SD Steeler Door & Hardware Gerald Johnson Plastering & Sioux Falls, SD Drywall Artist - Stainless Steel Laser Cut Sioux Falls, SD Panels: Specialties: Bob Aldern Combined Building Specialties Metal Roofing: Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls, SD Architectural Sheetmetal Works, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD Artist - Hanging Bead Work: Ceramic Tile: Elissa Guderyahn Whitwam Falls Tile Company Caulking: Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls, SD Gene Rollinger Caulking Sioux Falls, SD Earthwork: Acoustical & Wood Ceilings: Schoenfelder Construction F.M. Acoustical Tile Company Glass & Glazing: Mitchell, SD Sioux Falls, SD Interstate Glass & Door Mitchell, SD

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Artists and architects have collaborated on some of the world’s most successful buildings.

Architects love to design buildings that transform spa- a prominent exterior façade among many other works, tial experience into emotion. More than functional and the church wished to continue the tradition in their 2010 comfortable enclosures with sufficient parking, build- facility expansion. Working with the building and art ings should be full of delight. There are no certain de- committees, Koch Hazard Architects used a call-for- sign recipes, but art can be partnered with architecture to art process to select an artist to create large mosaic tile A. A. e St and sustainable building strategies. in the development and integration of high performance principal at Koch Hazard Architects, provides leadership create exceptional places. murals depicting the 7 days of creation for the exterior a of the new worship center. The process followed these c Artists and architects have collaborated in some of the steps: y world’s most successful buildings. Try to imagine Gothic

churches without gargoyles, the Trevi fountain without M sculpture, or the Sistine Chapel without Michelangelo’s c

M frescoes. Churches have had a special love affair with

aha art throughout history and still use art to convey meaning and evoke emotional response. Libraries, offices, n and schools can also gain through a partnership with art. , AIA L AIA , People spend a third or more of their lives in such places and can benefit from thought-provoking surroundings that help lift up their day-to-day experiences. E E D Art can be partnered with architecture in many ways: as A

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BD+ as design railings, fixtures, fritted glazing (translucent or opaque material fused to glass), relief murals cast into C

precast concrete panels, and so on—the list is endless. and Creative partnerships can also be formed when “art opportunities” are designed into a building or site to be filled by commissioned or donated works of art.

Art-architecture integration has been significant in the history of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls. Building on the legacy of a Bob Aldern mural on a clerestory-lit chancel wall and a Palmer Eide mosaic on

18 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 As a testament to the success of this endeavor, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church was the recipient of a 2010 AIA SD Merit Award.

1. A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was issued The selected artist, Eyob Mergia, is one of the region’s to find interested artists. The RFQ described the most sought-after liturgical artists. As it unfolded, the church and its history, the building project, and process of finalizing the mosaic design involved close parameters of the commission, including location, cooperation among the artist, the committee, the archi- size, medium, and budget. Many artists submitted tect, and the fabricator/installer. The spectacular out- samples of their work, resumes, and references. All come is the result of open communication, hard work, were reviewed by the art committee and a short list and great artistic creativity. Donations by members of of artists was selected. the congregation, Syverson Tile and Stone, Sicis (glass mosaic tile factory in Italy), Jans Corporation, and Koch 2. The shortlisted artists were then asked to submit Hazard Architects helped make it possible. proposals for the mosaic panels using a Request For Proposal (RFP). The RFP requested a prelimi- This process and its result will be a powerful testament nary design describing the artist’s vision for the to the dedication and faith of the church for as long as its work based on the theme and other information building stands. It is a great example of the power of art provided. Of four proposals received, the commit- and architecture to transform each other into something tee selected two finalists to present their work and more than either could be on its own. explain their ideas.

3. The art committee convened, listened to each final- ist, then made their final selection for the commission. Eyob Mergia’s panel design from which the final mosaic murals were created. were murals mosaic final the which from design panel Mergia’s Eyob

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The outdoor exhibit space exposes visitors to a diverse play environment that encourages interaction and manipulation. interaction with our clients, consultants and the community in which we we which in community the and consultants [email protected] clients, our work. with interaction The Fall of 2010 witnessed the opening of the new Chil- The primary goal for the museum project was to build a dren’s Museum of South Dakota (CMSD) in downtown fun and interactive place for children to embrace curios- Brookings. The vision for this project and the collabora- ity, creativity, imagination, and innovation. The majority tive efforts of the owner group, city entities, and design of the museum exhibits tie directly to the culture and his- team resulted in a new landmark destination and cultural tory of the region. The owner group had extensively re- WILL L L Confluence design process is focused on collaboration and and The collaboration on projects. focused is sector public, process private of and design range wide Falls, a Confluence Sioux institutional, in includes work educational, Confluence with Confluence’s Manager SD. Project Senior y jewel for the city of Brookings. searched their project, and they brought great enthusiasm e

P and high expectations to the process.

u The collaborative process for the Children’s Museum d started long before the design team was in place. In 2006, By early 2008, assembly of the project team was under the Larson Family Foundation approached the City of way, and the design process had begun. The team of ar- , ASLA Brookings and the Brookings School District about their chitects, landscape architects, exhibit programmers and bold vision to create a world-class children’s museum. At designers, and the general contractor joined with the

is a Landscape Architect and and Architect Landscape a is that time, the school district was in the process of plan- owner-stakeholder group for a series of collaborative de- ning a new elementary school, and the historic downtown sign charrettes that shaped the exhibit program, building Central Elementary School (built in1936) was soon to be design, and site elements. The scope of the project and left without a tenant. Arguments for the construction of the content of the exhibits evolved significantly during the the museum outside of the downtown core could have process, even through construction, but the final result is a been easily justified based on public exposure and site ac- museum experience that flows seamlessly inside and out. cess. Instead, community leaders gravitated to the Larson Architecture Incorporated of Sioux Falls provided design Family Foundation vision of rehabilitating the downtown services for the building renovation and for the addition landmark to provide this new cultural asset. The decision of a new entrance pavilion. The facility features nearly to locate the museum downtown has spurred additional 20,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space, along with redevelopment in the museum neighborhood and will program and party rooms and a restaurant. Among the provide a continued economic benefit to the downtown many interior exhibits, “Kids Street” features businesses district.

20 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Lan dscape typical of any community—including a grocery store, restaurant, and mechanic shop, all with a play environment that encourages interaction and manipulation. The “Sensations” area provides opportunities for kids (and adults) to explore their senses of sight, sound, and touch. In the renovated gymnasium, a visitor can climb two stories through the “Cloud Climber” for a look over the “Our Prairie” exhibit that celebrates our rural communities.

The building renovation was planned with LEED certification as a goal. Among the sustainable design decisions were the use of recycled materials, the restoration of all existing windows to open the building back up to natural light, and the repurposing of existing gym bleachers in creative ways as balcony railings, new seating, and exhibit components.

Confluence, Inc., a regional landscape architecture firm, was brought on to help program and lead the exterior design effort for the 3.45-acre site, including 1.5 acres of exterior exhibit space and the adjacent streetscape improvements. Nature play was the unifying theme of the outdoor exhibit space. The site exhibits include an interactive An authentic home for the T. rex family is accomplished through the use of broken logs, berms and boulders, large evergreen trees and a rustic landscape. The siting and orientation of the T. rex exhibit was carefully considered in order to provide optimal views from within, while buffering the adjacent streetscape. stream and fountain, dig pits, a rolling hill and tunnel, a mud-pie kitchen, stacking and climbing elements, a maze, a winter skate pond, a large equipment display area, and an animatronic T. rex exhibit (Mama and Baby).

The site design was also planned with sustainability in mind, incorporating large areas of native plantings, per- vious aggregate pathways, and a landscape with a low dependence on supplemental water. The streetscape and parking improvements increase the efficiency of traffic patterns and create a civic campus feel among the museum and the adjacent Senior Center, Community Cultural Center, and Public Library. The perimeter of the CMSD property was developed to work in conjunction with the redeveloped streetscape and to respect the historic character of the downtown.

The opening of the Children’s Museum of South Dakota was the result of a strong vision and a project team that embraced a challenge. Collaboration was an essential key to the successful delivery of the project. Check out the museum at www.prairieplay.org, or make the trip to Brookings for a visit. But watch out for Mama; she’s been known to bite!

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The Rural Learning Center is a product of visionaries. Both organization and place, it is a platform for rural people to discover, teach, share and reimagine– together. [email protected]. their community outreach portfolio. You can reach her at the development of Design:South Dakota as a part of Design impacts our every day. It shapes our And when something this big is happening in travel patterns, our communities, and our per- such a small place, it has to be designed for and spective. Often we don’t have the ability to in- by the people who are making it happen. Com- fluence design in a meaningful way. But some- munity members couldn’t do it alone, though. times we do. That was the case in Howard, SD, K S L with the SD Chapter of AIA, has sponsored Dakota. The Rural Learning Center, along Learning Center, located in Howard, South Outreach Coordinator at the Rural i

n The Need for Something New

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n n ing place in Howard. “A living room,” as one of over 15 years of intentional work to create a is a Community participant described, where people could come new and better future for those who call Miner to eat, rest, and meet. County, SD, home. It would also become the single largest construction project Howard had The new building was necessary because of the ever seen, relying on a host of partners and fi- community’s aggressive development efforts. nancial investments from community members Those efforts had humble beginnings, but had and businesses alike.

22 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 De sign BY THE REST OF US

grown into a nationally recognized rural development ini- A Product in Process tiative. A growing renewable energy economy was the The building that was designed by the rest of us is being most visible result, alongside other important changes in- constructed along Howard’s Main Street. The 30,000+ cluding new housing developments, a growing retail sec- square foot LEED Platinum building will house a confer- tor, and amenities for senior citizens. ence and training center, restaurant, 24-room hotel, and The building would serve a dual purpose – a place for a host of learning opportunities for community residents local community members to gather for meetings and and visitors alike. events, alongside a training center for rural residents to And the design is beautiful. Not only because it’s visu- learn about the ongoing work of revitalizing rural commu- ally appealing, but because it’s an example of what design nities and opportunities presented by the green economy. should be. A perfect balance of community expression Designers, Meet Community and designer’s eye. And what’s better is that you can find it on Main Street in a small town in South Dakota. The design process defined both what the building would be and how it would look. More than 75 local residents, led by Koch Hazard Architects in four community workshops, discussed the facts, concepts, needs, and goals that would determine both the building’s design and function. During the course of the workshops, residents also partic- A growing renewable energy economy was the most ipated in an extensive survey to determine how the build- visible result, alongside other important changes. ing should look and feel.

The ideas surfaced during the workshops brought a new depth of thought into the mix. Residents believed the building should connect to the entire community, teach people something as they drive up and then walk through it, have lots of flexible space, and be a year-round attraction. Oh, and of course, it needed to be built with an eye toward sustainability and efficiency to match the community’s growing renewable energy niche.

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“If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.” – Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s wisdom captures the motive of Mitchell cus 2020 and citizens to hear progress reports and leaders in initiating a community-wide visioning provide input. The local media were invited and re- process and strategic plan called “Focus 2020.” In ported on these events and other activities. the summer of 2008, representatives of the City of Mitchell, Davison County, Dakota Wesleyan Uni- The subcommittees used data, expert testimony, Association. [email protected] Planners Association; Vice-President, Western Central Chapter of American Planning tn p L n site visits, surveys, and other research in develop- E versity, Mitchell Public Schools, Avera Queen of I Peace Hospital, Mitchell Area Chamber of Com- ing their recommendations. They were charged with U merce, and Mitchell Area Development Corporation production of final written reports to be available to the public (www.focus2020.org).

A collaborated to strategize on launching Focus 2020.

M According to a September 4, 2008, press release, the

, Mark Buche, Focus 2020 spokesman said, “The pro-

City Planner, City of Mitchell, SD; President, South Dakota process will “set a road map for the future with those cess of developing a community vision is a wonder- that live, work, and play in the community.” ful opportunity for people to come together, take a In the spring of 2009, Focus 2020 leaders developed look at their interest area, and work cooperatively to a planning model and formed a steering committee determine a direction they want to go. It takes good that received reports from eight subcommittees. information and hard work to make a link between the present and the future.” Membership in the subcommittees was open to anyone interested, and those with expertise were asked In looking back, the Focus 2020 organizers planted to serve. Meetings were advertised and open to the seeds, the subcommittee volunteers and citizens pro- public. Periodically, the steering committee and the vided the nutrients, and now Focus 2020 is bearing subcommittees jointly hosted open houses. These fruit. Today, Mitchell’s policy makers and orga- events provided opportunities for all involved in Fo- nizations are implementing many of Focus 2020’s

The new stadium at Joe Quintal Field in Mitchell (Photo by The Daily Republic, Mitchell)

24 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 The Focus 2020 planning model formed a steering committee that received reports from eight subcommittees. recommendations and including them in their long- plex. Focus 2020 is also a continuation of a vision- range plans. Focus 2020 provides a template for de- ing tradition and is producing tangible results such signers of Mitchell’s image. as development of a Corn Palace campus plan, Main Street & Beyond, and new school facilities and dis- Mark Puetz, co-owner of Puetz Corporation in cussions of a new community center. Mitchell said, “By having a coordinated, comprehensive plan for the city, Mitchell is able to focus its The process invited discourse and made citizens redevelopment and marketing efforts on the city’s as- alize that achieving consensus is challenging. How- sets like the Corn Palace, Main Street, Lake Mitch- ever, as Lincoln said, “The possibility that we may ell, and most importantly the excellent educational, fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the sup- commercial, and industrial organizations who benefit port of a course we believe to be just.” greatly from a national infrastructure intersecting the city.” From a city planner’s perspective, Focus 2020 The World’s Only Corn Palace is a Mitchell icon. provides a blueprint in proposing and implementing land-use regulations and comprehensive planning.

Mitchell’s iconic The World’s Only Corn Palace is a symbol of our community’s pride. The story of the Corn Palace’s origins reflects a vision that Mitch- ell’s founders left for future generations. Mitchell throughout the years has maintained this vision. In the early 1990s Mitchell adopted a process called Vi- sion 2000. The tangible results of that plan include a new water source, two new elementary schools, a new senior center, and an affordable housing com-

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Heartland Consumers Power District, Madison, South Dakota

Being more environmentally friendly is not just Early Collaboration Leads to LEED Platinum a trend, it is here to stay. Focus is intensifying on Certification companies and consumers to become more green The decision to create a green building came in and environmentally aware. Heartland Consumers the spring of 2009. Early in the design process, Power District, a Madison, SD, non-profit, public SI Je at Iowa State University and received a degree in journalism at: journalism in Jessica degree educated Contact a formally received [email protected] was and communication. Ankeny, She mass from 2010. and University moved State January She in SD. Iowa at Falls Falls, Sioux Sioux to in IA, Company Carlson Heartland set a goal to earn LEED Platinum certi- s power utility that serves customers in South Da-

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is a Marketing Assistant with the Henry Henry the with Assistant Marketing a is company built their corporate headquarters us- recognizes performance in five key areas including recycled materials, energy and water efficient ing sustainable site development, water savings, systems and sustainable processes. The new head- energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor quarters became operational in early 2010. environmental quality and awards certification at “As a public power utility, we educate customers four levels: certified, silver, gold, and platinum. on the benefits of energy efficiency and sustain- Heartland worked closely with architect Koch able practices,” said Heartland General Manager Hazard and contractor Henry Carlson Company Mike McDowell. “Now we will be able to dem- to design and construct a building reflecting Heart- onstrate those benefits. It is my hope that the green land’s commitment to environmental stewardship. theme of our new building will eventually become This early and continuous collaboration achieved the norm for all buildings in South Dakota.” LEED Platinum certification in July 2010.

26 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 =E LE D & Design results “Heartland has been a great partner in creat- Materials ing this green building,” said Stacey McMa- han, AIA, LEED AP, of Koch Hazard. “They • Long-lasting, sustainable materials are came to us wanting to ‘go green,’ so we began used throughout the building, including the conversation about sustainability strate- precast concrete walls, metal panel siding, gies, cost, and processes to carry their goals standing-seam steel roof, structural insu- through design and construction. Heartland has lated panels, and polished concrete floors. been dedicated and creative in their response to • 14 percent of the building materials are LEED requirements. The only way to create a reused including ceiling panels from re- great building is to work with a great client.” claimed bleacher seating. • 22 percent of the building materials are re- The following are some of the environmentally cycled, including recycled tile and Paper- friendly features of the new Heartland head- Stone countertops. quarters. • 86 percent of the new wood used is Forest Stewardship Council Certified. Saving Energy • The new facility uses 46 percent less en- Achieving Platinum LEED certification re- ergy than a standard built building. quires the collaboration of an enlightened own- • Insulated panels and occupancy sensors er, a creative design team, and a knowledgeable help reduce energy usage. and experienced builder. Ultimately, Heartland • 70 percent of the energy used is generated benefited from the collaboration by achiev- from wind energy and solar panels. ing not only the LEED Platinum certification, but also by winning a 2010 South Dakota AIA Saving Water Honor Award. • The building uses 33 percent less water than a standard built building. • Low-flow fixtures with sensors reduce water usage. • The landscape consists of native prairie plants so a permanent irrigation system is not needed.

Individual Control and Comfort • Each room is separately zoned so employees can control the temperature of their work areas. • A geothermal heating and cooling system with active chilled beams reduces the amount of fan power needed for cooling and ventilation.

Sources: Heartland Consumers Power District. Heartland Headquarters: A Visual and Working Demonstration in Green Building Design. WordPress.com Web site: http://drosheim.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hcpd- building-brochure.pdf. Heartland Consumers Power District. “Heartland HQ Earns LEED Platinum Certification.” Heartland Consumers Power DistrictWeb site: http://www.hcpd.com/NewsMedia/NewsDetail189.cfm?Id=0,444 Western Area Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. “Heartland Headquarters Earns LEED Platinum Certification.” Energy Services: Reliable Energy Solutions Bulletin. September 2010. Western Area Power Administration Web site: http://www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/esb/2010/sep/sep102.htm

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The inaugural class of South Dakota Stat University’s Department of Architecture Program. Arlington, Carleton University in Canada, Technische Universität Berlin, and and Berlin, at Universität Texas of Technische University Canada, in the at University. University educated was Columbia He Carleton CO. Arlington, Denver, in Architects The new Department of Architecture (DoArch) not be the case here. What are the particulari- in the College of Arts & Sciences at South ties of architectural practice and education in Dakota State University (SDSU) will deliver this state that I see from the Ivory Campanile in an important new generation of architects to Brookings? Here’s a sketch: the profession in South Dakota. DoArch is in x A Br & Partners Architects in New York, NY, and Humphries Poli Poli Humphries and NY, Robertson York, New Cooper, in of and offices Architects the in Nebraska, University Partners & worked Tech He Colorado, of Texas at Oklahoma. University. universities professor a State the was and he Dakota SDSU, South at Before Head Architecture • Architectural practice in South Dakota is

i year one of operation. The first class of SDSU n trained professionals is now in process. They small practice. No office in the state has an R e are smart, curious, patient, and ambitious young aggregate of 10 professionals with active is Associate Professor and Department of of Department and Professor Associate is people who have names like Alex, Anthony, architectural registrations under one roof. Blake, Bobbie, Chevelle, Daniel, Dustin, Gar- Less than 15 percent of the people with ac- ret, Katie, and Rex. These students will be the tive registrations in South Dakota practice first generation trained with the state’s profes- from South Dakota. sional and community needs in focus. What’s • Architectural practice in South Dakota is come to light in my first six months here is the done in small places. There is nothing met- very specific and unique state of practice in ropolitan about the urban fabric of South South Dakota. The schools I’ve taught in over Dakota’s towns and cities. the last 15 years see the majority of their gradu- ates absorbed into large metropolitan practices • DoArch will be one of the smallest profes- and multi-national corporate firms like HKS, sional programs in the U.S. with approxi- Fentress, Davis Partnership, Beck, Leo Daly, mately 8 faculty, 4 staff, and 170 students HDR, DLR, HOK, and Perkins+Will. That will engaged in 6 years of professional study.

28 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 in small places

• SDSU, with a long history of combining vocational training and a liberal arts edu- SD Architectural Registra- SD Architectural Registra- cation, has unique and extraordinary re- tions in SD, by city: tions Outside SD by State: sources available for hands-on teaching in 50 Sioux Falls 138 MN design, construction, and representation. 26 Rapid City 55 NE This condenses into a new DoArch Mission 4 Aberdeen 42 CO Statement: 4 Yankton 38 ND We’re a small professional program in a 3 Brookings 33 IA small land-grant university teaching stu- 3 Mitchell 31 IL dents how to make buildings and manage small practices in small cities. 3 Vermillion 30 TX

Other design schools prepare their professional 2 Brandon 29 MO students for specializations like sustainability, 2 N Sioux City 25 WI health care design, digital representation, his- 2 Pierre 21 CA toric preservation, digital fabrication, urban design, interior architecture, and community 1 Custer 20 KS design. We, however, see that South Dakota’s 1 Spearfish 17 OH needs will be best met in training “general prac- 1 Watertown 15 TN titioners” who are well prepared for management and leadership in small practice in small 14 MT places. These preparations include: 12 WA • persuasive communication skills 11 GA • excellent critical thinking capacity 11 MI Prepared by Brian Rex • strong analytical, resourcing, and research Jan. 01, 2011 11 OK skills Source: Data culled from Web sites • civic responsibility to the city 10 AZ of various state agencies in charge • high professional ethics and a strong sense of architectural registration. 9 AR of stewardship for the environment 8 KY – all built on a fundamental sense of craft and principle in building construction. classes. There is a unique opportunity here also We begin professional instruction working to teach to a small, refined scale of urbanism through the technologies of construction, then if we use the unique, small-scale urban fabric we teach architecture as the mediated practice of South Dakota as our teaching and research of making models and drawings that make laboratory. buildings. We cycle the teaching between intro- spective moments of fundamental disciplinary SDSU’s Department of Architecture is the first training and moments of practical collabora- new professional program in the Great Plains tive interaction. There are unique opportuni- region in 100 years. We need to go against the ties within SDSU such as the range of shops flow and grow big ideas in small practice for and labs for intense hands-on experience in our small places.

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“ It is going to require a real cultural shift in our industry to transform the design process, and it’s a shift that has to occur if we are going to reach our goal of net-zero-energy buildings.” – Lynn G. Bellenger, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE

Integrated design has become a common topic among This recognition of integrated design and its importance members of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerat- has come about primarily because of two factors: empha- ing, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). I first sis on sustainability and advances in building modeling. became familiar with integrated design 2 years ago as a judge for one of three ASHRAE-sponsored competitions, ASHRAE has made sustainability a cornerstone of its be- [email protected]. for over 23 years. Kasey can be reached at: A and has been designing control systems for commercial buildings Chapter of ASHRAE. He is also the President Direct Digital Control S Student Activities and former president of the South Dakota K liefs. The ASHRAE mission statement, “to advance the a the ASHRAE Integrated Student Building Design Com-

e arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air condition-

y petition, which attracted schools from all over the world. ing and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a

b The importance of integrated design became even more b sustainable world,” has inspired our leaders for the past o evident to me at the annual conference in the summer tt, tt, of 2010 when I heard Lynn G. Bellenger, P.E., Fellow 5 years. Beginning in 2006, the following presidential P

. themes were selected: E ASHRAE, state in her presidential address: . is the ASHRA “My presidential theme, Modeling a Sustainable • A Sustainable Future – Terry E. Townsend, P.E. World, highlights the role ASHRAE members play • Greater Efficiency Today, Blue Skies Tomorrow as leaders in sustainable design. In energy simula- – Kent Peterson

E Region IX Vice Chair for tion, daylight analysis, computational fluid dynamics and building information modeling software, we have • Maintain to Sustain – Bill Harrison powerful modeling tools that enable us to create and • Sustaining Our Future by Rebuilding Our Past – refine our vision of a building—its appearance, sys- Gordon Holness tems, operation and performance. Those resources, used effectively in an integrated design process for • Modeling a Sustainable World – Lynn G. Belleng- new buildings and in analyzing retrofit opportunities er, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE in existing buildings, will help us guide building owners, architects, developers and contractors in building orientation, shading and shape and in selecting materials, windows, equipment and systems that optimize building performance.”

30 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 dESIGN Advances in modeling are helping make integrated de- ASHRAE recognizes that there are still major challenges sign feasible. Through the use of virtual models, building in taking advantage of integrated design. Models must performance can be predicted and optimized by adjusting be improved to more accurately predict building perfor- factors such as: mance, especially as mechanical systems become more creative. However, the biggest challenge will be in chang- • Building orientation and shading, which affect ing how we think about the building design process. As heating and cooling loads and daylighting opportuni- ASHRAE President Bellenger notes: ties • Insulation, which impacts heating and cooling loads “The traditional approach where the architect designs the building shape, orientation and envelope and then • Daylighting, which reduces lighting costs and cool- transmits the drawings to the mechanical and electri- ing loads cal engineers for their design is a silo approach that • Windows, which affect daylighting and also impact misses the rich opportunities for optimizing building cooling loads performance through a collaborative approach from the beginning. It is going to require a real cultural • Building mass, which impacts heating and cooling shift in our industry to transform the design process, loads and it’s a shift that has to occur if we are going to • Controls, which can maximize daylighting and mini- reach our goal of net-zero-energy buildings.” mize ventilation loads through demand ventilation.

Selection from the 2010 ASHRAE Competition Integrated Sustainable Building Sustainable Integrated Selection from the 2010 ASHRAE Competition University Technological Lawrence by Winning Entry Place Design, First and Phelps, Carolyn Lamb, Ryland and Design students (College of Architecture Keyzer) Amy www.aiasouthdakota.com 31 colloa ab r tion

The confidence our clients place in us can only grow stronger when we demonstrate our ability to work together in order to exceed their expectations.

As a project begins, the design professional has the current interior design principles and practices, ultimate objective of meeting the owner’s vision contract documents, and decision-making skills. and goals by creating functional and aesthetically NCIDQ certificate holders meet the legal and regu- pleasing outdoor spaces, building shell, and interior latory standards that 29 states have established. reached at: [email protected] experience in health care, corporate, and most recently hospitality design projects. Darla can be and accessories can impact the final design project. Darla has nearly 15 years of interior understands how space layout, material and finish selection, integration of furniture, art Defining how one feels within a designed space is Darla’s forte. As an interior designer, she J A D spaces, all while adhering to code and regulatory a

r Both architecture and interior design are multi- l requirements. Because buildings are highly inte-

faceted professions with comparable guiding

a grated and potentially complex, architects will typi- c design principles. On the flip side, each has their o cally work with other disciplines to come up with b

s area of expertise. It is together that architects and o the best design solution. The design team may also n

interior designers can rely on one another to solve include an interior designer to help carry the design problems and create designs that are coordinated concept into the interior spaces of the building. from the building shell to the tiniest details of the Perhaps it’s important to note that, like architects, building interior. Collaboration can be the means it’s through education, experience, and examination through which that perfect idea is uncovered. that interior designers become qualified to protect The architect generally has a vision of what the and enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the building may look like and works to coordinate public in their designs. Like the National Council that vision with the rest of the design team. Col- of Architectural Registration Boards, the National laboration between the architect and interior de- Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) signer is invaluable when it comes to carrying the is composed of regulatory boards. Specific require- design concept from the outside in. Coordinating ments have been set for NCIDQ certificate hold- the selection of materials, colors, and furnishings ers, including 6 years of education and experience while integrating interior architectural elements along with a demanding 2-day examination. These means we might be better able to meet the desired certificate holders have proven knowledge and ex- response from users while conforming to the func- perience along with being proficient in the most

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tional, maintenance, performance, environmental, when we demonstrate our ability to work togeth- and safety requirements of our selections. These er to exceed their expectations. To state it simply, decisions made together are more likely to meet the “Collaboration equals success.” project requirements than if made alone.

The introduction of that “cool” new material or product is one of the great joys in practicing design, but even greater satisfaction can come from the mo- ment when we realize this new “thing” solves the problem or enhances our creation. In an age when countless materials, building systems, and sustainable design solutions and products are available and when greater budgetary constraints come into play, architects and interior designers can bounce ideas off each other to ensure a high quality, efficient, and economically feasible outcome. We aren’t always exposed to the same information, so those opportunities to benefit from one another’s strengths and to then integrate those solutions into the design can be one of the things we are most proud of in the end.

When we have well-thought-out, coordinated, and responsible design solutions, the users are the ultimate beneficiaries of our efforts. The confidence that our clients place in us can only grow stronger

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South Dakota Public Universities Research Center includes 8,986 square feet of Sioux Quartzite.

A book I read years ago talks about the “experience econ- In 2010, these essentials have come together, perhaps omy.”1 It discusses how America has transitioned through because of recent changes in the economy forcing us to various economies. The experience economy, according rethink who we are and how we do business. Perhaps we to the authors, is the next economy, following the agrar- are now out of our comfort zones as business leaders. And ian economy (agriculture), industrial economy (manufac- perhaps without knowing it, we are now stronger then H A Br development, and industry leadership. You can reach Brian at at Brian reach can 605.595.3422 You or product years’ leadership. 25 marketing, than industry with more [email protected] and has management, worked He has business development, Midwest. Brian in Dakota, the North Kansas, and experience throughout Dakota, South Nebraska, in architects Iowa, AIA the of Minnesota, member allied an turing), extraction economy, and, most recently, service we’ve ever been. i

n economy. P We see architects striving for unique, yet grounded, so- e l

p The book’s message is that businesses must create memo- lutions for their project owners in this very competitive s ,

rable events for their customers, and it’s that memory that environment. We see a focused consciousness toward nat- General Manager, Jasper Stone Company, As As Company, Stone Jasper Manager, General becomes the product—the “experience.” This is a natural ural materials with minimal impact on our environment progression beyond the value-added economy many think through lenses such as LEED. We see the demand for re- of. And, it’s through collaboration that the architectural gional materials growing dramatically, replacing foreign- stone industry has the potential to create a valuable expe- based materials. We see project owners wanting to make a rience for all. statement while stressing tighter budget concerns. Many

. Four essentials of creating a synergistic, cohesive experience :

• Vision to see beyond false boundaries without blinders or preconceived ideals • Desire to achieve what others say cannot be done • Openness to share the vision and the desire • Two-way communications that allow all to contribute to, as well as learn from, each other

34 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Ecom no y S uppliers, Designers, and Owners Unite to Move Forward

designers and project owners are simply tired of the challenges with man-made materials and want to use traditional materials in a modern application.

As this experience mind-set began to swell, 2010 developed into our breakout year in sales, and we created or- ganizational efficiencies in all of the markets we serve. A few years back, we made a conscious decision to retool our company. We recognized that we needed to create an experience for those interested in using the special Sioux quartzite stone. Our business model is unique in the stone industry. We now supply pass-through ancillary products, working with designers 2 or more years in advance of the published bid.

Let’s take a look at a previous project and see how the collaboration between architect, owner, and supplier brought a very unique landmark to South Dakota. Jasper Stone Company helped create the first two buildings on the campus of University Center in Sioux Falls. Prelimi- nary discussions focused on how to affordably create an “old world” appearance, with stone return details and the hand-crafted, natural stone look.

South Dakota Public Universities and Research Center, Sioux Falls, SD Architect: TSP, Sioux Falls, SD Stone: Sioux quartzite corbel fascia at 4-10″ thick, 12″ height, and up to 4′ length, with hand- pitched finish. Jasper Stone also provided a veteran stone cutter with over 40 years’ experience on the job site to help ensure the proper-looking details. Joints: 1/2″ mortar Timeline: Initial design discussion, January 2007; bid date, July 2007; completion, January 2009

1 Pine J, Gilmore J. The Experience Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press; 1999.

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The historic Central Middles School in Brookings has been transformed into the Children’s Museum of South Dakota. Historic buildings are a critical component of what Researching a building’s history provides not only makes each community unique. They are sources valuable information on restoring lost features but of pride that help us develop a sense of identity by also provides an excellent way to involve the public defining and distinguishing our communities. They in a project. Asking the public for memories or his- n H n S J [email protected]. Dakota State Historical Society. He can be reached at jason. are also an excellent measure of a city’s quality of toric photographs of a building gives local residents a

o life and a visible means to convey that quality to po- a way to participate in the project. Their stories and tential visitors, residents, and businesses. Success- photographs can also provide valuable informa- a

u ful historic rehabilitation projects that contribute to tion that can be useful in marketing the building’s g

is Director of Hist this sense of pride have many things in common. unique story. But the most important similarities all occur before Involving Preservation Professionals construction begins. Obtaining advice from preservation professionals Knowing Your Building

oric Preservation for the South can help avoid pit falls later in the project. Architec- One appealing aspect of historic buildings is that tural historians, for example, can help identify char- each building has its own unique character. Of acter-defining features, research historic properties, course, this also means each building presents its and prepare grant or tax-incentive applications. own challenges, whether from a design or a con- Also, meeting with the State Historic Preservation struction perspective. That is why it is important to Office (SHPO) early and often during the design understand what architectural elements, materials, phase of a project pays off. Part of the SHPO’s job or spaces define the character of a historic building is to give advice on how a project can meet fed- and develop a plan that preserves them. eral and state preservation standards and thereby qualify for grant and tax incentives. Not involving

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the SHPO early enough in a project can result in al- terations that jeopardize a building’s eligibility for financial incentives - and even its eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. 1

Meeting Multiple Community Goals

One historic rehabilitation can help accomplish more than one community goal. Construction jobs associated with historic rehabilitations, as well as the businesses housed in historic buildings, have a significant economic impact on communities. Renovated historic buildings enhance a tourist’s experience or even become tourist destinations them- selves. Housing shortages are lessened through the Most recently, Dale Larson, CEO and President rehabilitation of underused historic buildings, and of Larson Manufacturing Company in Brookings, energy is conserved by recycling historic build- worked with the Brookings School District to help ings. construct a new elementary school so that the Cen- tral Elementary School could be converted into a The intersection of Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue children’s museum. The Children’s Museum of in Brookings offers two excellent examples of South Dakota, which opened in September 2010, this concept. In 2004, Steve McCarthy, owner of will provide a tourist destination, have a significant McCarthy Properties in Rapid City, renovated the economic impact, add a cultural attraction, and have former Brookings Middle School, now known as an environmental benefit as the project pursues the 1921 Building, into 18 apartment units and LEED Silver certification.2 Both of these projects commercial and government office space. met multiple community goals, while at the same time reusing and adapting historic buildings.

If done successfully, planning a historic rehabilitation project can have as great an impact on a community as the completed project itself. An inclu- sive, collaborative planning process can result in community buy-in and new or strengthened relationships with individuals or organizations that support the project and can have a snowball effect on surrounding historic properties as property owners are motivated to rehab their own buildings.

1 For a list of architectural historians and grant and tax incentives, visit the South Dakota State Historical Society’s Web site at: http://history.sd.gov/ Preservation/. 2 “Family Dream Becomes Reality,” Nick Hartley. Brookings Register, 7 September 2010.

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almost too late. It is practicallyB impossible,IM not to mention unfeasible, for an architect to produce a set of building documents with building section and elevation views for every wall on the project. Not to mention, structural engineers are terrible at reading an architect’s mind. However, with BIM, the en¬tire design team is able to view any section or elevation anywhere they want. This takes some of the guesswork out of design and applies a live visual “snap- shot” of the proj¬ect that ultimately improves coordination among architec¬tural and engineering disciplines—and ultimately reduces costly change orders during construction. However, the information contained within a BIM is still only as accu¬rate and useful as that compiled by the design Building information modeling (BIM) generates and professional. Therefore, it doesn’t eliminate the human ele- man¬ages building data, including building geometry, ment of error or conflict in building design, but it definitely spatial relationships, geographic information, quantities, minimizes them. Firms who are using BIM claim it is has and properties of building components during design and many ad¬vantages such as: throughout a building’s life cycle. The process typically structural engineering work experience. Rob can be reached at: [email protected] Science in engineering degree from South Dakota State University, and he has over 12 years of current licenses in the states of South Dakota and Minnesota. He achieved his Bachelors AH R 1. Improved visualization for all disciplines o uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building-mod- b

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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT www.henrycarlson.com | 605.336.2410 GENERAL CONTRACTING 2010 AIA South Dakota Design Awards 2010 Honor Awards P rairie Club Lodge Valentine, Nebraska Architecture Incorporated, Sioux Falls, SD The Prairie Club Lodge is a 31-guestroom clubhouse/lodge, with outbuildings and additional cabins nearby. It was designed for the unique destination and resort golf course located south of Valentine, NE.

CLIENT: The Prairie Club ARCHITECT: Architecture Incorporated Name, AIA, Design Architect Name, Project Manager CONSULTANTS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Associated Consulting Engineering, Inc. Structural Engineering Structural Engineering Associates Civil Engineering Miller & Associates CONTRACTOR: BD Construction ADDRESS: Valentine, Nebraska SIZE: 45,000 square feet

The Lodge sites above a river running through a wooded canyon. The area outside of the canyon above the Snake River drastically changes into sand dunes that stretch for hundreds of miles. This geological wonder has created the environment for two world-class golf courses as different as Colorado and Scotland. The Lodge sits on the crest of the canyon between the two courses and next to a par-three course.

44 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 2010 Honor Awards Heartland Consumers Power District Madison, South Dakota Koch Hazard Architects, Sioux Falls, SD The new headquarters building for Heartland Consumers Power District embodies the utility provider’s mission to encourage renewable energy and energy efficiency.

CLIENT: Heartland Consumers Power District ARCHITECT: Koch Hazard Architects Jeffery A. Hazard, AIA, LEED AP Design Architect Keith W. Thompson, LEED AP Project Manager CONSULTANTS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Associated Consulting Engineering, Inc. Structural Engineering Structural Engineering Associates CONTRACTOR: Henry Carlson Company ADDRESS: Madison, South Dakota SIZE: 9,400 square feet The compact floor plan curves around a natural rise, carefully sited to maximize visibility and take advantage of daylighting. The facility includes a lobby/ display area, staff offices, a board room and support spaces and is the first LEED® Platinum certified new building in the state of South Dakota. Simple finishes reflect the industrial character of Heartland’s work, while photovoltaic panels, a geothermal heating and cooling system, and native landscaping also demonstrate Heartland’s comprehensive commitment to sustainability.

www.aiasouthdakota.com 45 2010 Merit Awards C alvary Lutheran Church Rapid City, South Dakota Upper Deck Architects, Rapid City, SD The members of this congregation wanted all of the conveniences of a modern church facility, with the character of a traditional church.

CLIENT: Calvary Lutheran Church ARCHITECT: Upper Deck Architects Tim Cheever, AIA, Design Architect Sheryl Coley, AIA, Project Manager Chris Heiser, P.E., Structural Engineer CONSULTANTS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Malone Engineering CONTRACTOR: Gustafson Builders ADDRESS: Rapid City, South Dakota SIZE: 13,800 square feet

The church is anchored by a cut-away cylinder that serves as the steeple/cross tower with a 32-foot high stainless steel cross and a brass ring that adorns the top of the cylinder. The cylinder also anchors the front of the chancel, with a similar 16-foor cross. Exterior materials blend to give the facility a traditional feel and carry into the interior spaces, with wood to add warmth. All of the balcony railings, communion railing, liturgical furniture, and paraments were custom designed by the architect to enhance the interior of the sanctuary.

46 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 2010 Merit Awards O ur Savior’s Lutheran Church Sioux Falls, South Dakota Koch Hazard Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

An extension of the original parish design concept ties together the key existing and new masses, creating a composition that is respectful of the original church, seemlessly updating it to meet current needs.

CLIENT: Our Savior’s Lutheran Church ARCHITECT: Koch Hazard Architects Jeffery A. Hazard, AIA LEED AP, Design Architect Cory A. Bleyenburg, Project Manager CONSULTANTS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Company Structural Engineering Company CONTRACTOR: Jans Corporation ADDRESS: Sioux Falls, South Dakota SIZE: 70,000 square feet

Culminating 25 years of planning, this expansion doubles the original 1959 church’s size, adding a new 850-seat Celebrate Center, gym, education center, youth and office areas, all organized, together with major existing spaces, around a new entry and Gathering Place.

www.aiasouthdakota.com 47 2010 Merit Awards Sammons Financial Group Sioux Falls, South Dakota Koch Hazard Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

CLIENT: Sammons Financial Group ARCHITECT: Koch Hazard Architects Jeffery A. Hazard, AIA LEED AP, Design Architect Kyle S. Raph, LEED AP, Project Manager CONSULTANTS: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Associated Consulting Engineering, Inc. Structural Engineering Structural Engineering Associates CONTRACTOR: Fiegen Construction ADDRESS: Sioux Falls, South Dakota SIZE: 120,000 square feet

Sammons’ Sioux Falls operations are life-insurance based with a culture characterized by interest in training, wellness, collaboration, security, and tradition. The design responds with an open plan organized around a central circulation spine - offering opportunities for chance collaboration - which connects the single building entry (security) with the café and flexible meeting spaces (training and identity) and the outdoor patio (wellness).

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CLIENT: Visual Arts Commission Sioux Falls, South Dakota ARCHITECT: TSP, Inc. Paul H. Boerboom, AIA Fabricator: Quality Welding

GALVANIZER: Siouxland Galvanizing

ADDRESS: 224 West 9th Street Sioux Falls, South Dakota

An abstract interpretation of a nostalgic icon recalls an earlier time in historic downtown Sioux Falls using contemporary materials.

High Wheeler Bike Rack Art Sioux Falls, South Dakota Paul H. Boerboom, AIA, TSP Inc., Sioux Falls, SD

www.aiasouthdakota.com 49 Other 2010 Submissions C edar County Courthouse C herapa Place Hartington, NE Sioux Falls, SD Koch Hazard Architects, Sioux Falls, SD Koch Hazard Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

C hildren’s Museum of South Dakota Harrisburg High School Brookings, SD Harrisburg, SD Architecture Incorporated, Sioux Falls, SD Architecture Incorporated, Sioux Falls, SD

Kolberg Pioneer Industries Yankton, SD Mannes Architects, Yankton, SD

4th Floor Annex Interior Renovation State of South Dakota Capitol, Pierre, SD MSH Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

R obl Residence Canton, SD MSH Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

Sanford Children’s Clinic Dincan, OK Architecture Incorporated, Sioux Falls, SD

50 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Other 2010 Submissions Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church Student & Administration Center Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls Seminary, Sioux Falls, SD RSArchitects, Sioux Falls, SD RSArchitects, Sioux Falls, SD

U niversity of Sioux Falls Athletic Complex U rology Specialists Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls, SD MSH Architects, Sioux Falls, SD MSH Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

Yankton School District Yankton Fire Station No. 2 Yankton, SD Yankton, SD Mannes Architects, Sioux Falls, SD Mannes Architects, Sioux Falls, SD

David J Sorg, AIA, LEED AP Danielle C. Hermann, AIA OPN Architects, Cedar Rapids, Iowa OPN Architects, Des Moines, Iowa

David Sorg, AIA, is a principal with OPN Architects, an award-winning Iowa firm with offices Danielle Hermann received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Iowa State University in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. OPN is a 70-person interdisciplinary firm with architects, in 2001 and graduated with a Master of Architecture degree, Summa Cum Laude, in landscape architects, and interior designers, founded in 1979. 2008. She currently practices architecture at OPN Architects in Des Moines, Iowa, where she has been a Project Architect since joining the firm in 2008. Prior to her work with OPN, David received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Iowa State University with she was an Architect at Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture, the 2001 AIA Architecture distinction in 1992. Davis has had the opportunity to practice in 20 states, including the Firm Award winner. Though her background has afforded her the opportunity to touch a design of corporate headquarters for John Deere Credit, Wells’ Blue Bunny, and is currently broad range of project types, her work with historic structures stands out. Danielle the managing principal on the new $120 million Federal Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. has been involved in the restorations and rehabilitations of some of the Des Moines Several of David’s projects have appeared in Iowa Architect. David’s most recent work area’s most significant historic sites, such as the renaissance of the historic East Village for John Deere, a visitor center in East Moline, Illinois, received an AIA Iowa design award neighborhood, the restoration of the Salisbury House and the Hoyt Sherman Place Theater, in 2009. and her most current work at Terrace Hill, the Iowa Governor’s Mansion.

David has led the sustainability efforts for his firm, being the first LEED AP in the office. The office now has over 30 Danielle is also a studio critic and has taught several undergraduate architectural design studios at Iowa State LEED AP’s and 7 LEED certified projects. Currently there are two projects on track for LEED Platinum certification and University. She continues to be actively engaged in the Iowa component of the AIA and is the current Chair another 11 registered with the USGBC. and founder of the AIA Iowa Diversity Committee. One of her most current efforts is the development and implementation of the Track1 mentorship program and its supporting coalition of organizations which includes David has been an active leader and volunteer in his community, serving on many boards including Metro North partnering with the Iowa ACE chapter, Iowa State University, and student organizations, such as AIAS and NOMAS. Rotary (immediate past president) and the Chamber of Commerce’s leadership program (in-coming board chair). Danielle has also had her award-winning graphic work featured at group and solo exhibitions in Iowa and Michigan. This work allows her to continue her investigation into the continually evolving status of women in the architectural profession as it is impacted by pregnancy and motherhood.

Danielle is an Associate Editor and a contributing author for the Journal section of the Iowa Architect Magazine and a graduate member of the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute Class of 2009/2010.

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Befe or & After Ai M racle on Main Street

Perhaps calling a renovation on Aberdeen’s Main included brick cleaning and tuck-pointing, a new Street a “miracle” is an exaggeration, but it’s cer- storefront, new windows, and new awnings. It tainly positive momentum for the community. was completed in late September 2010 and the Thanks to the Aberdeen Downtown Associa- effect of the renovation was instantaneous. “We tion’s Façade Grant Program, several core busi- get positive comments from numerous people, nesses have begun restoring the historic nature of and it’s continuous,” noted co-owner Don Trebil- be reached www.huladesignbuild.com. Build Architecture. His firm has offices in Aberdeen and Sioux Falls. He can r H TOM their building’s facades ― and at least one busi- cock. ness is feeling optimistic about the results.

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The process of starting the Façade Grant Pro- his business, co-owner Chuck Trebilcock stated, B E gram in Aberdeen, as in most communities, was “You can’t sell anything if they don’t come in the RT , a challenge. How do you convince a community door, and this is getting them in the door.” Chuck L AIA, of the value of investing in a city’s core? How continued, “If advertising could do this alone, do you convince a city government to allocate then we would’ve spent the money on advertis- E money for the façade of a private business? ing. But this is doing what advertising won’t.” E D

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The slow grant process began with a small group ,

feeling it’s helping the till.” is principal architect at Hula Design/ of downtown business people extolling the vir- tues of a healthy city core, increased property The Engel Music façade project coincided with values and tax base, a tourist destination (and the ADA’s recent downtown streetscape reno- tourist dollars), improved quality-of-life for vation, which includes new colored sidewalks, young adults and families, saving and renovating planters, historic lighting, and other historic ame- neglected buildings, and improving the overall nities. “People come into the store and they see image of the community. Not long after, the city what’s going on downtown and they say—and and community jumped on board—and subse- not just one person but lots of people— ‘I hope it quently the Aberdeen Downtown Association continues, I hope more businesses keep fixing up was formed. The ADA then began to unite the their stores,’” laughed Chuck. goodwill and financial resources of downtown and the city. The buzz downtown is palpable, and while the 2011 façade grant applications won’t be due for After some successes and near successes with the some time, the ADA has already received notice initial grant recipients, the program appeared to of multiple submittals. Developers and prop- be sputtering. The guidelines continued to be re- erty owners have been exploring downtown loft fined and improved, yet relatively few businesses housing at several properties, and some buildings were taking advantage of the ADA’s program. In have recently been purchased for renovation. January 2010, The Engle Music Company submitted the only qualified application and received So maybe we can call it a small miracle on Main a grant to restore the façade of the Firey Build- Street. And it can happen where you live too. ing, originally constructed in 1912. The project www.aiasouthdakota.com 53 AIAUPD Happenings ATE

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AIA members can now easily update information AIA National is launching two new initiatives that about their firms for Architect Finder, including staff, will help AIA better serve and align with the goals and contacts , and specialty areas. They can log in to the activities of state and local chapters. A new template, members section of aia.org and update their profile the Weave, is a tool to help chapters (officially called information—it will automatically be updated in Ar- components) examine their areas of work and connect chitect Finder as well as in the national and state AIA with the newly crafted plan to create a stronger, uni- member databases. fied AIA. Another complimentary tool, Component Plan for Excellence (CP4X), will help state and local Whether someone is dreaming of a new home or plan- chapters craft their own action plan and help chapter ning commercial space, involving an architect from leaders run a great local organization. the start is the key to success. The public can use the AIA Architect Finder to locate architecture firms any- AIA staff from Washington, DC, will host a retreat in where. Users can search by city, state, ZIP Code, and 2011 to train the AIA South Dakota board and staff on surrounding area or by firm name at architectfinder. using both tools effectively. aia.org.

New Continuing Education System Launched New Options for Paying Membership Dues in 2012

In November 2010, AIA overhauled its Continuing Beginning with 2012 dues, AIA members will have Education System (CES) for AIA members. The new more options in paying their annual dues. A new CES Discovery system makes finding, registering, and monthly payment plan will become available, in addi- receiving credit for educational sessions anywhere in tion to the current payment options. Learn more about the country easy and simple. It also allows members to AIA membership options at aia.org/join. check their credit transcript in both health, safety, and welfare (HSW) and sustainable design (SD) annual continuing education requirements. CES Discovery will improve interaction between education providers and members, as well as strengthen the educational offering guidelines. To find out more, including tuto- rials and tips for using CES Discovery, visit aia.org/ education.

2011 National Convention in the Big Easy

New Orleans, LA, will welcome thousands of AIA members from around the world to the AIA National Con- vention, May 12-14, 2011. For more information or to register, visit http://convention.aia.org/. If you’d like to coordinate your travel with other AIA South Dakota members, contact us at aiasouthdakota.org.

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www.aiasouthdakota.com 57 Design:SD Hill City

The 2009 charrette in Hill City produced many firsts for with that it made what could have been a disaster of coordi- design:South Dakota. nation, decision making, and logistics into one of the most enjoyable charrette experiences thus far. In October, the largest (15 member) design:South Dakota team thus far descended on Hill City to participate in a The road to the Hill City charrette started back in Novem- charrette process with challenges and opportunities never ber 2008 when local groups decided to figure out what Hill before experienced: unpredictable Black Hills weather, a City really wanted to be in the future. The Hill City Arts L. W L. A A A lives in Sioux Falls with his wife and two sons. lan loves woodworking and does architecture to help pay for his woodworking habit. He l work space still under construction, community members Council and the Heart of the Hills Economic Development n who had done their homework and came ready to partici- Corporation partnered with the City of Hill City in a collab- pate and challenge the team like no other group had done orative effort to create a sense of direction that the team had i

e before, and a city rich in history with a vision to become a never experienced before. Hill City did not want to become s ka center of culture and art for the Black Hills. another tourist stop that only catered to the Sturgis Bike m Rally but instead wanted to tout its history as the “heart” of p, AIA, L AIA, p, • Hill City was the first community in which the design the Black Hills, with a central location to many attractions. team had community residents who participated in the production of the drawings: local artists Jon Crane and The city provided the members of the design team with E

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BD+ • Hill City was the first community in which design:South Dakota used its formal application process. The busi- On the first night, team members and hosts gathered at Prai- C ness owners of the community rose to the challenge rie Berry Winery for a meet and greet. In the early morning with tremendous participation. Ray Berberich of Ber- of the next day, the team set up the charrette space at the berich Designs developed Design Guidelines to help. South Dakota State Railroad Museum—even while final • Hill City was the first community west of the Missouri touches were being made to its restoration. After presenta- River to work with design:South Dakota. tions by community leaders, a bus tour took the team to • Hill City was the first community to invite the charrette the welcome center, a main crossroads that serves as the to work in the fall, rather than the spring. “entrance” to the city. The next stop was a foundry that heralds the desire for Hill City to be a hub for artists, and • Hill City was the first charrette in which co-founder Design board sketches in progress, posted for community comment. Joe Bartman did not lead the team. • Hill City was the first charrette in which no members of the design team were returning members. Only Lind- sey Karlson and Tom Reasoner had been through the process before. Yes, the Hill City charrette was a watershed of firsts, with unique challenges and so many “opportunities” that the design team had a tough time deciding what it should con- centrate on. And it had a community that was so excited to participate and trust in whatever the design team came up

58 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Design:SD team leads community work session, “design visioning,” where community members rotate to different groups to provide input on various community issues. finally to Main Street. Team members were able to experi- Hill City design team members are: ence the issues with a main street that was developed and still maintains buildings from the 1880s, but must serve as Thomas Baffuto, Architect from Rapid City, SD a designated DOT highway with design parameters that are Ray Berberich, Graphic artist from Hill City, SD in conflict with the use and feel of a downtown pedestrian Paul Boerboom, Architect from Sioux Falls, SD area. Ollie Byrum, retired community developer/ engineer from Northfield MN The local groups gave a clear vision of what they wanted Jon Crane, Artist from Hill City, SD for the community’s future and trusted the design team to Tanya Davis, Architectural Intern from Rapid City, SD develop ideas and designs to help them get there. The chal- Gene Fennell, Architect from Custer, SD lenges put forth were altering the town grid and paths to Matt Fridell, Landscape Architect from Rapid City, SD create better places to hold art festivals; link town ameni- Michelle Holter, Architectural Intern from Sioux Falls, SD ties like the school, railroad museum, Black Hills Museum Lindsey Karlson, Community Outreach from Howard, SD of Natural History, and Mickelson Trail; and make connec- Dan Oedekoven, Community Extension Service from Rap- tions to various art galleries and other main street business- id City, SD es more user friendly. Whitney Parks, Architectural Intern from Sioux Falls, SD Timothy Roach, Architect from Rapid City, SD As in all other design:South Dakota charrettes, the AIA’s Alan Wieskamp, Architect from Sioux Falls, SD Ten Principles of Livable Communities was used as a guideline for the design team to address the “look and feel” of the place they wanted to create:

1. Design on a human scale 2. Provide choices 3. Encourage mixed-use development 4. Preserve urban centers 5. Vary transportation options 6. Build vibrant public spaces 7. Create a neighborhood identity 8. Protect environmental resources 9. Conserve landscapes 10. Design matters

www.aiasouthdakota.com 59 S outh Dakota Le go’cy The late Samuel Mockbee, FAIA, less) is another enterprise altogether. pointedly, if not poetically, said that There is no Corn Palace kit produced an experience with architecture was by the LEGO Group; this is modular like being “snakebit.” I don’t know invention and adventure. Pat likes to if Mockbee had anything to say about work with standard LEGO shapes, not S Midwest. He can be reached at [email protected]. Tom is a free range architect practicing in the upper m T o LEGOs, the ubiquitous building-block units developed for themes or other

R and “Toy of the Century” system de- special kits, which adds a real-world e

a veloped in Denmark during the 1950s, aspect to his design and construc-

o but Pat Amundson of Vermillion has tion process. (There is LEGO kit for ner, AIA ner, just completed a LEGO model of the Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in 1889 Sioux City Iowa Corn Palace. It New York City—69 pieces.) After will be unveiled to the public in early he’s chosen a building, Pat starts with 2011 at the Corn Palace in Mitchell be- its most prominent element, the “icing fore going to a permanent home in the on the cake.” Once this has been con- Sioux City Public Museum now under structed, the rest of the building’s pro- construction in downtown Sioux City. portions and dimensions will fall into Pat had always appreciated building place—and scale. and architecture and has been twice Pat didn’t start serious LEGO-ing un- bit, so to speak, by the two different til after high school. His grandmother but related serpents. lived on a farm in Minnesota, and he Pat says that “LEGO allows you to had wonderful childhood memories make mistakes and correct them”, so of its beautiful Victorian house. After building a LEGO kit is as easy or hard his grandmother passed away in 1983 as any instruction-based endeavor; and the house was sold, Pat decided to however, creating with LEGO (kit- make a LEGO model of the house as

Pat Amundson Stands proudly with his first large-scale LEGO model of the University of South Dakota’s Old Main.

60 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Pat’s latest model, the 1889 Sioux City Corn Palace will be unveiled at the Mitchel Corn Palace in early 2011.

high, this seems like a lot until you see and then “sacrificed” to build others. “There are actually more than 900 that the roof comes off and inside Far- Even LEGOs have embodied energy. million different ways of combining ber Hall has also been recreated, bal- While cost is not an object here (some six eight-stud bricks of the same conies and all. This model, first exhib- $10/pound) and as interesting a prem- colour.” – The LEGO Group ited in the USD Alumni/Foundation ise as building costs by weight, instead Center, was refurbished (with interior of square foot, might be, it comes as a way of revisiting beloved childhood lighting) in 2006 and then displayed no surprise that Pat has a VIP card to memories. It was LEGO at first bite, in the Belbas Center on the USD cam- the LEGO Imagination Center in Min- with spousal and filial support from pus, adjacent to its namesake. nesota’s Mall of America. Jill, Megan and Morgan, respectively. Models of the St. Agnes Catholic As you may have already guessed, this Pat’s first large-scale building rendi- Church (1906), now the Washington is not Pat’s day job, and like many oth- tion was Old Main on the University Street Arts Center, and the Austin- er bite victims, he does this because he of South Dakota’s (USD’s) campus. Whittemore House (1883), currently wants to, not because he has to. What An inspiring Georgian fruitcake, this the home of the Clay County Historical next? “Monticello,” Pat said smiling, phoenix by South Dakota’s first mas- Society and Museum, both in Vermil- “is under consideration.” LEGO is ter architect W.L. Dow, has graced the lion, were completed in 2006. These the Danish abbreviation of the words campus since the late 1800s. Pat’s were followed in 2009 by an 1890s “play/build well” and so he has. Michigan Fire Station as a tribute to 2004 model of Old Main contains And as a result, so have parts of our his grandfather who was a fire chief. more than 10,000 LEGO pieces. Even building legacy. for a model some 4 feet long and 2 feet There were more, of course, some built

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The Whitwam Legacy 5 8 1 Bank, Clear Lake 2 Krall Clinic, Mitchell 3 St. John’s Lutheran, Sioux Falls 4 Club David, Sioux Falls 5 Fire Station #6, Sioux Falls 6 Naused Residence, Sioux Falls 7-8 The Architect’s Home, Sioux Falls 9 The Architect’s Office, Sioux Falls

6 9 Wr a d Whitwam, FAIA

South Dakota does not have a state ar- alize how much of our lives are played chitect; yet, if we did, it would have out and around his enduring legacy, to be Ward Whitwam, FAIA (more on we can pay tribute to one of our best the “F” later). Anyone who lives or set designers, whose contributions to

has traveled through our bipolar state the built environment are as diverse as S Midwest. He can be reached at [email protected]. Tom is a free range architect practicing in the upper m T o has experienced Ward’s work. Our they are diverting.

gateways are signposted by his lodge R So next time you cross our Missouri e pole structures (affectionately called a

at Chamberlain and stop at the Lewis o Ward’s Wigwam’s by the cognoscen- and Clark Interpretive and Keelboat AIA ner, ti) at South Dakota’s visitor centers. Center or circle up to the CorTrust These iconic concrete assemblies Bank in Yankton or just kick back and beckon us to embark on a journey, not enjoy the ambience of Club David or just in space, but in time and place. A Ward’s own bungalow in Sioux Falls, design solution as potent in its clarity say thanks for the memories and the as it is in elegant simplicity. surprises yet to come. And yes, the Ward has said “form first,” rather than “F” means Fellow of the American following the Modernist formulas of Institute of Architects. This title goes the 20th Century taskmasters. A true only to those architects that have not Romantic, his works transcend tra- only mastered their profession, but dition and take us into the realm of have changed it. An honor well de- imagination and inspiration. Ward served. has no style other than his own unique A rebel with a cause—architecture. blend of Whit (had to do it), grace, and Thank you, Ward. “cool.” This is the architecture of a native son who grew up in Watertown and returned after interludes at a West Coast college and war in Europe. He opened his Sioux Falls office almost 60 years ago, and his shingle is still swinging.

Ward has never been mainstream, and he and his work remain outside of conventions. They delight us with their virtuosity—each creation unique in concept and detail. As we look at the images of Ward’s portfolio and re-

www.aiasouthdakota.com 63 The Whitwam Legacy, cont’d 2 1 Sweetman Building, Sioux Falls 2 Good Samaritan Home, Sioux Falls 3 Augustana Chapel, Sioux Falls 4 Methodist Church, Luverne 5 Restaurant, Mobridge 6 Gym Interior, Brookings 7 Catholic Church, Humboldt 8 Yankton Savings & Loan Interior 9 SD Interstate Rest Stop Building 10 Huey Building, Sioux Falls 11 Office Building, Sioux Falls 12 Law Office, Pierre 13 Savings & Loan, Luverne 14 First Cong. Church, Sioux Falls 15 SD Interstate Rest Stop Model 16 Good Samaritan Bldg, Sioux Falls 17 Kibbee Residence, Mitchell 18 Wrangler Motel, Mobridge

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Architecture Firm Description/Philosophy Architecture Baffuto Architecttura Incorporated Founded in 1976, Architecture aUTOMATED, iNC. Incorporated in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has firmly established it’s

reputation as a regional leader in 1408 W. RUSSELL ST. SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA (605) 336-3722 innovative and award-winning design. In 2010, we broadened our state-wide presence by opening an Burnside Business Center office in Rapid City, South Dakota. 2108 W Burnside St, Ste 3 623 West Boulevard As a well-diversified design firm, Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Rapid City, SD 57701 our awards are as varied as our 605.336.3722 605.341.7501 portfolio. Indeed, we are proud to Fax 605.336.3708 Fax 605.341.7501 be architects of distinction, earning [email protected] [email protected] national recognition and designing Established: 1986 Established: 1998 for international clients. However, 415 S. Main Ave our pride is deepened by the fact Principals Principals Sioux Falls, SD 57104 that many of our awards represent Gene Murphy, AIA, NCARB Thomas Baffuto, AIA/NCARB - 605.339.1711 the priority we place on listening. Principal Architect & Owner Fax 605.339.2331 We listen to our clients. We listen Firm Personnel By Discipline [email protected] Licensed Architects 1 to each other. Our philosophies Firm Personnel By Discipline www.architectureinc.com Administrative 2 are simple. Respect History. Licensed Architects 1 Established: 1976 Other 3 Preserve Beauty. Build Longevity. Administrative 1 Embrace Stewardship. Advocate Additional Location Firm Description/Philosophy Sustainability. Create Innovation. Firm Description/Philosophy Rapid City, SD AAI is a full service Architectural Enhance Living. Imagine Better. A design oriented architectural firm Firm offering a wealth of experience established by the desire to offer Principals in all parameters of design, Recent Projects meaningful design through the “art” but especially in the fields of Alan Richard Dempster, AIA, New Classroom Building at and “technology” of architecture, ® Educational, Ecclesiastical, and LEED AP - President University Center, Sioux Falls, SD; baffuto architecttura seeks to work Governmental Design. Mark Aspaas, AIA – Vice President University Center, Rapid City, SD; with enthusiastic clients interested Steven Jastram, AIA – Corporate Children’s Museum of South Dakota, Our geographical range extends from in creating a new vision for their Secretary Brookings, SD; the far reaches of South Dakota to special projects. Mr. Baffuto, AIA Elizabeth Squyer, AIA – Principal Career & Techical Education Southwestern Minnesota. We pride is known for his creative design Academy, Sioux Falls, SD; Architect ourselves in our dedicated service work that integrates client needs in Harrisburg High School, Harrisburg, Patti Monson, Assoc. AIA, LEED® to our clients with representation programming and planning, into SD; extending through the one year AP – Principal Production Manager building solutions that are alive with Prairie Club Golf Resort, Valentine, construction warranty period. architectural detail and functional Sarah Aldinger, AIA, LEED® AP – NE; expression. Principal Architect Dakota Middle School Theatre Recent Projects ® Mitchell Aldinger, AIA, LEED AP – Renovation, Rapid City, SD; School Facilities Expansion, Sioux Recent Projects Principal Architect Brandon High School Addition and Valley School District 05-5, Volga, SD; Rapid City Fire Stations #3, #6 & #7, Lisa VandeVoort, LEED® AP – Remodel, Brandon, SD; School Facilities Expansion, Dupree Rapid City, SD; Principal Business Manager Presentation College Multi-Use School District 64-2, Dupree, SD; Harding County School District New Facility, Aberdeen, SD; Sioux Falls Arena Complex, South K-12 School, Buffalo, SD; Firm Personnel By Discipline SDSU Harding Hall, Brookings, SD; Dakota Dept. of Transportation, Jenny’s Floral, Custer, SD; Licensed Architects 7 Dell Rapids Elementary School, Dell Sioux Falls, SD; Hickok’s Historic Hotel, Deadwood, Certified Interior Designers 3 Rapids, SD School Facilities Expansion, SD; Other Architectural 10 Colman-Egan School District 50-5, Meade County Housing Commission Contract Administration 1 Colman, SD; Office Expansion and Remodeling, Marketing 2 Worship Center Expansion, St. Sturgis, SD; Administrative 5 Matthews Lutheran Church, First Western Bank and Foothills Worthington, MN Family Clinic, Piedmont, SD

66 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Baldridge & Nelson Recent Projects Banner Associates Inc. experienced professionals backed by Architects and Science Lab Renovations, MeWalt- skilled technical and support staff, Engineers, Inc. Jensen & Krikac Buildings, Northern to provide the level of expertise and State University, Aberdeen, SD; service that is precisely right for SD State Library Renovation, Pierre, each project. Banner’s wide range SD; 409 22nd Ave South of expertise includes architecture; Base Civil Engineering Complex, PO Box 298 civil/transportation, municipal, South Dakota Air National Guard, Brookings, SD 57006 and structural engineering; land Sioux Falls, SD; 605.692.6342 development; water resources Kramer Hall Dormitory Renovation Fax 605.692.5714 planning and development; water into Suites, Northern State [email protected] storage, distribution and treatment; University, Aberdeen, SD; www.bannerassociates.com wastewater collection and treatment; 408 West Lotta Street, Suite 2 New Office Building, Pierre Established: 1947 GIS and surveying. Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Economic Development Authority, 605.334.7179 Pierre, SD; Additional Locations Recent Projects Fax 605.334.2841 Tri-Valley High School Addition and Sioux Falls, SD SDSU Innovation Center, Brookings, SD; [email protected] Renovation, Colton, SD Rapid City, SD SDDOT Region/Area Office Addition, Pierre, SD; Established: 1982 Vermillion, SD Camelot Intermediate School, Pipestone, MN Additional Location Brookings, SD; St. Peter, MN SDDOT Brookings Area Maintenance Amherst, VA Facility, Brookings, SD; Principals Larson Manufacturing - Distribution Principals Daryl Englund, PE - President Center, Albert Lea, MN; Jeffrey J. Nelson, AIA - President David Odens, PE - Principal Boys and Girls Club of America, Sherry R. Nelson, AIA - President Richard Salonen, PE - Principal Brookings, SD; Timothy Connor, PE - Principal URC Child Development Center, Firm Description/Philosophy Dennis Micko, PE - Principal Brookings, SD; Baldridge & Nelson Architects Larson Ice Center Front Entrance and Engineers, Inc. believes that Firm Personnel By Discipline Upgrad & Red Rink Improvements, quality design comes from a total Licensed Architects 2 Brookings, SD commitment to each individual Other Architectural 2 project. Every client has unique Interior Designer 1 and important needs. Our team Licensed Engineers 33 of professionals ensures that these Other Engineers 6 needs are met through programming, Surveyors 4 design and communication. Our goal Construction Observation 2 in working toward the successful GIS 1 completion of each project is CADD Technicians 8 exemplified in our design philosophy. Administrative 5 It simply states: Firm Description/Philosophy “Quality architecture is never an Banner Associates is a accident. It is the result of good multidiscipline engineering and design, sincere effort, intelligent architectural firm dedicated to direction and skillful execution.” developing innovative solutions for our client’s specific needs. To best serve our clients we offer the personalized service that a small firm provides, along with the proficient and knowledgeable staff and resources that a large firm offers. Virtually all projects have numerous disciplinary facets. As a multi-disciplined firm with a cross section of expertise available, we will tailor a team of qualified and

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Fennell Design, Inc. FourFront Design, Inc. Firm Description/Philosophy G aLYArdt Architects Inc. The name FourFront Design, Inc. reflects both services offered and core values of our firm. Our primary disciplines include Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Surveying, Planning, and Geographic Information Systems. These services 1506 Mt View Road, Ste. 102 237 N. 6th Street 517 7th Street are backed by our promise to serve Rapid City, SD 57702 Custer, SD 57730 Rapid City, SD 57701 Clients with leading edge, award- 605.343.5282 605.716.0520 605.342.9470 winning services in professional Fax 605.343.2378 Fax 605.716.0521 Fax 605.342.2377 practice. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FourFront Design, Inc., originated Established: 1968 www.fendesinc.com Established: 2006 as Brady Consultants in Spearfish, Established: 2006 SD in 1950. In 1980, it reorganized Principals Additional Location to form the Alliance of Architects Gary E. Galyardt, AIA - President Principals Spearfish, SD and Engineers. In January 2006, the Gene Fennell, AIA - Principal Alliance of Architects and Engineers Firm Personnel By Discipline Principals merged with Thurston Design Group, Licensed Architects 1 Firm Personnel By Discipline Bryan S. Vulcan, PE - President/CEO LLP, to form FourFront Design, Inc. Administrative 1 Licensed Architects 1 Curt Huus, PE/LS - VP/COO Sustainable Design has long been a Interior Design 1 Ken Anderson - VP/CFO Firm Description/Philosophy Architectural Interns 2 primary focus of the firm, and we are GAI provides architectural and ® the first South Dakota professional LEED AP 3 Firm Personnel By Discipline planning services for educational and ® design firm to become a member of LEED CI 1 Licensed Architects 4 recreational facilities, commercial the United States Green Building LEED AP Professionals 10 offices and retail buildings, Council. Several staff have become Firm Description/Philosophy Licensed Engineers 9 government and community use LEED Accredited Professionals. Enter into Planning & Design Licensed Land Surveyors 4 facilities, industrial and warehouse relationships that guide the client, Interior Designers 2 As a Service Disabled Veteran facilities and multi-unit housing. builder & community to innovative GIS Manager 1 Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Out philosophy of combining strong & sustainable environments; Certified Energy Manager 1 with nearly 50 professionals, design skills with equally strong providing prideful expression of Technical 14 FourFront Design, Inc. proudly practical technical skills. We provide profession and lifestyle. Administrative 6 serves clients from throughout the personal attention to our clients and Landscape Architect 1 continental United States from create projects that are responsive Recent Projects Mechanical Engineer 1 offices in Rapid City and Spearfish, to our clients programs and budget Custer County Courthouse, Custer, SD; IT Professional 1 South Dakota. constraints. This has resulted in Custer Sky Blue Restaurant, Custer, SD; successful projects and satisfied Custer Liquor Store, Custer, SD; Recent Projects repeat projects for over 40 years. Custer Ambulance Service, Custer, SD; Dahl Arts Center Expansion and Apple Springs Golf Lodge, Boulder Remodel, Rapid City, SD; Recent Projects Canyon, SD; Ketel-Thorstenson CPA’s Office St. Francis Mission New Prairie Berry Winery - Phase III, Hill Expansion, Rapid City, SD; Administration Building and City, SD; Health Sciences Facility, Gillette, WY; Recovering Addition, St. Francis, SD; Highmark FCU, Rapid City, SD; Joint Forces Headquarters, Lead-Deadwood School Boys Historic Fairmont Creamery, Rapid SDARNG, Rapid City, SD; Locker Renovation and Elevator City, SD; Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Arena Replacement, Lead, SD; Fire Station #1 Upgrades, Rapid Expansion, Rapid City, SD; United Blood Services, Rapid City, City, SD; South Dakota Housing Development SD; New K-12 School Building Hart & Beshara Residences, Association Offices, Pierre, SD Conceptual Design, Buffalo, SD; Handicapped Access Additions St. Charles Church, Historical (Pro-bono) Restoration and Miscellaneous Improvements, St. Francis, SD; St. Ambrose Catholic Church Elevator Addition, Deadwood, SD

68 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 HKG Architects Hula Design/Build i avnnov ti e design & L.L. Jirsa, Architect management Services, LLC 123 N Main Street Mitchell, SD 57301 605.996.8185 Fax 605.996.8185 [email protected] Established: 1992 524 South Arch Street Aberdeen, SD 57401 9 2nd Ave SE id Principals 3800 West Technology Circle, Ste 202 605.225.6820 Aberdeen, SD 57401 Sioux Falls, SD 57106 Larry L. Jirsa, AIA - Owner Fax 605.227.7770 605.225.6820 605.335.1011 [email protected] Fax 605.725.4852 [email protected] www.HKGarchitects.com [email protected] Established: 2004 Established: 1952 www.huladesignbuild.com Established: 2008 Principals Principals Lanny J. Auringer - Architect/Owner Dean Marske, AIA - Principal Additional Location Sioux Falls, SD Firm Personnel By Discipline Firm Personnel By Discipline Licensed Architects 1 Licensed Architects 1 Principals Other Architectural 1 Architectural Designers 2 Thomas Hurlbert, AIA - Principal Administrative 1 Project Managers 2 Administrative 1 Firm Personnel By Discipline Firm Description/Philosophy Licensed Architects 1 Innovative Design was started Firm Description/Philosophy General Contractors 1 in response to the demand by For more than five decades, HKG Project Managers 2 contractors, developers and owners Architects has been empowering Wiener Dog 1 searching for an architectural firm our clients to grow and expand by that would provide a high level bringing their visions to life. Our Firm Description/Philosophy of service, quality and efficiency. technical know-how means your We’re a South Dakota firm with a Innovative Design has been able to project stays on schedule. And our simple philosophy, “Let’s have better respond to this need and our list of years of experience mean we know architecture in our own backyard!” satisfied clients continues to grow. how to operate easily within any Innovative Design & Management budget. From beginning to end, Recent Projects Services, LLC is a highly qualified we keep you in the loop through Presentation College Multi-Use architectural firm capable of every phase of the project. With Facility, Aberdeen, SD; designing and managing even the unparalleled access to our experts, O.M. Tiffany Elementary School most complex and challenging you get the personal touch you Classroom Addition, Aberdeen, SD; projects. deserve. Lamont Office Building, Aberdeen, SD; 2nd Street Corridor Development, Recent Projects Recent Projects Rochester, MN; Thurston Trading, Sioux Falls, SD; Faulkton Area Medical Center, Splitrock Center Retail Building, St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church Faulkton, SD; Aberdeen, SD; Multi-Purpose Room Addition, Sioux Mobridge High School, Mobridge, SD; Gold Dust Renovation, Deadwood, SD; Falls, SD; Sisseton Fine Arts Center, Sisseton, SD; Simmons Elementary School Sterling Drug, Worthington, MN; Aberdeen Public Safety Building, Renovation & Addition, Aberdeen, SD; Pace Manufacturing, Brandon, SD; Aberdeen, SD; Engel Music Facade Renovation, Big Cheese Pizza, Sioux Falls, SD Aberdeen Fire & Rescue Facilities Aberdeen, SD; 1,2 & 3, Aberdeen, SD; Olive Drive Patio Homes, Aberdeen, SD Highmore Multi-Purpose Addition, Highmore, SD

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Koch Hazard Architects and cultural facilities, churches, Lund Associates ltd. Mannes Architects multi-family and senior residential and mixed-use facilities, sustainable 800 Douglas Avenue development, preservation, Yankton, SD 57078 restoration and adaptive reuse. 605.665.1852 Koch Hazard’s work has received Fax 605.665.1875 numerous professional and civic [email protected] awards. www.mannesarchitects.com Established: 1982 Recent Projects 431 North Phillips 200 National Music Museum, Vermillion, 1621 Sheridan Lake Road Principals Sioux Falls, SD 57104 SD; Rapid City, SD 57702 Glenn H. Mannes, AIA - Principal/ 605.336.3718 Heartland Consumers Power, 605.348.3555 Owner Madison, SD; Fax 605.336.0438 Fax 605.348.6254 Sarah Mannes Homstad - Project Jackrabbit Village, SDSU, www.kochhazard.com [email protected] Architect Established: 1961 Brookings, SD; www.lundltd.com Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Established: 1980 Firm Personnel By Discipline Principals Sioux Falls, SD; Licensed Architects 2 Jeff Hazard, AIA, LEED® AP - Rural Learning Center, Howard, SD; Principals Other Architectural 1 Senior Principal and CEO Longfellow Elementary, Mitchell, SD; Cam Lund - President Brookings High School, Brookings, SD; Administrative 1 Chris Schiltz, AIA - Senior Principal Cherapa Place, Sioux Falls, SD; Firm Personnel By Discipline and President Firm Description/Philosophy ® USD Sanford School of Medicine, Stacey McMahan, AIA, LEED Licensed Architects 3 Vermillion, SD; Architectural Interns 2 Glenn Mannes began his AP BD + C - Principal and Vice Sioux Falls Airport Expansions, Civil Engineers 1 architectural practice in 1982 President Sioux Falls, SD; Interior Designers 2 and continues to serve as the sole Todd Stone, AIA - Associate Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Sioux CAD Technicians 2 principal of the office. His daughter Principal Falls, SD; Administrative 2 Sarah joined the firm in 2005 Cory Bleyenburg, Assoc. AIA - Sammons Financial, Sioux Falls, SD; and has been registered in South Associate Principal Washington Pavilion of Arts and Recent Projects Dakota since 2007. Commitment to community, pursuit of simplicity, and Tony Taylor, Assoc. AIA - Associate Science, Sioux Falls, SD Deadwood Mountain Grand – Hotel/ an emphasis on practicality guide Principal Casino/Entertainment Center, Deadwood, SD; the processes behind each project. Deadwood Gulch Resort Remodel, Our experience and expertise help Deadwood, SD; save our clients time and money. Firm Personnel By Discipline Chadron Community Hospital, Clients range from families and Licensed Architects 4 ® Chadron, NE; congregations to businesses and LEED AP 9 Black Hills Community Bank, Rapid municipalities. Project Manager/Designer 8 City, SD; Technical/Graphics 4 Days of ‘76 Museum, Deadwood, SD; Recent Projects Interior Design 1 VA Black Hills Health Care System, Yankton School District Marketing 1 Renovation of Primary Care, Hot Administrative and Bus Facilities, Administrative 1 Springs, SD Yankton, SD; Yankton Fire Department Station No. Firm Description/Philosophy 2, Yankton, SD; Koch Hazard Architects focuses on Yankton Women’s/Children’s Center, client mission and vision, providing Yankton, SD; thoughtful advice, responsive Cedar County Courthouse expansion and management, insightful design, remodel, Hartington, NE; comprehensive documentation and Services Center Federal Credit diligent follow through, building Union, Yankton, SD lasting relationships. The firm provides architecture, planning and interiors services in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. Firm expertise includes education, healthcare and recreation facilities, commercial, governmental

70 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 Miller Sellers Heroux Perspective, inc. Randall Stanley Recent Projects architects Architects, Inc. North Commons Dining Hall Renovation, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; Human Services Center Dietary Addition, Yankton, SD; SH Watertown Police Department, City TE 196 E 6th Street, Ste 100 405 South 3rd Avenue of Watertown, Watertown, SD; Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Sioux 605.271.9877 605.336.6891 Falls, SD; 625 S Minnesota Ave, Ste 204 Fax 605.271.9879 Fax 605.335.5858 East River Electric Corporate Sioux Falls, SD 57104 [email protected] [email protected] Headquarters, Madison, SD; 605.332.7850 www.perspective-inc.com www.rsarchitects-sd.com Hope Haven Training and Fax 605.332.3539 Established: 2007 Established: 1989 Administration Facility, Rock Valley, IA; [email protected] Hy-Vee Stores (projects in SD and MN); www.msharch.com Principals Principals Good Samaritan Society (projects in Established: 1989 Larry Crane, AIA - Architect/Partner Gary L. Stanley, AIA, NCARB – SD, MN, and IA) Jim Bruget - Project Manager/Partner Principal Principals Keith Neuharth, AIA, NCARB – Robin Miller, AIA - CEO Firm Personnel By Discipline Licensed Architects 1 Associate David Sellers, AIA - Principal Other Architectural 3 Jeremy Christopherson, Assoc. AIA, ® James Heroux, AIA - Principal Interior Designer 1 LEED AP – Associate Adam Alrubaie, International Assoc. Administrative 1 Jeri Breck – Associate AIA, ARB, RIBA - Healthcare Design Partner Firm Description/Philosophy Firm Personnel By Discipline Perspective: to visually process Licensed Architects 2 Firm Personnel By Discipline information, objects, and space in LEED® AP 2 International Licensed Architects 1 their true relation. Perspective is Other Architectural 2 US Licensed Architects 3 Sioux Falls’ newest architectural Administrative 2 Other Architectural 5 and interior design studio providing Administrative 3 a fresh vision, purposeful design, Firm Description/Philosophy LEED AP BD+C 4 and client-focused service. Full The firm was established in 1989 by LEED AP 2 of energy and passion for design, Gary L. Stanley to provide vision & Perspective’s team works with clients design solutions that are functional, Firm Description/Philosophy to create a vision for their project. economical and aesthetically MSH Architects specializes in The team has extensive experience represent our client’s needs. healthcare, sports, commercial, in hospitality, healthcare, and church and government projects. corporate building projects. Each RSA serves a variety of markets MSH boasts international healthcare team member contributes unique locally and nationally. RSA is design partner, Adam Alrubaie, talents to the studio, including committed to implementing LEED whose experience was the Lead architecture, interior design, and standards of sustainable design into Design Architect of a $5B hospital. project management. all of our projects to ensure the Our principals come from 4 major development of high performance Recent Projects markets with extensive national buildings. experience. The firm draws from this CNA Surety, Sioux Falls, SD; SDSU McCrory Gardens Education rich national experience. Establish, cultivate and nurture is Center, Brookings, SD; our approach to building solid client Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union, Recent Projects relationships. Our philosophy is Arrowhead Branch, Sioux Falls, SD Capitol Lake Plaza, LEED simple…to listen, learn, and design Government Energy Study, Pierre, SD; around YOUR unique project goals. Plastic Surgery Clinic and Same Day Surgery, Sioux Falls, SD; Veterans Administration, Sioux Falls, SD; GSA, Region 8, Denver, CO; USF NCAA Division II Athletic Complex, Sioux Falls, SD; LDS Church; Multiple Locations

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Tom Reasoner, Architect Robert J. Rysavy, LLC Sandra Lea Dickenson Todd Architects ltd. Architecture 2801 W. Oak Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105 605.610.7786 [email protected] 915 Ridgecrest Drive Established: 2009 203 S Yale Street Vermillion, SD 57069 Vermillion, SD 57069 PO Box 23 605.624.7076 Principals 605.624.6670 8 East Kemp [email protected] Bob Rysavy, AIA [email protected] Watertown, SD 57201 Established: 1997 Established: 2001 605.886.7730 Firm Personnel By Discipline Fax 605.886.7733 Principals Licensed Architects 1 Principals [email protected] Thomas E. Reasoner, AIA Sandra Lea Dickenson, AIA Established: 1969 Firm Description/Philosophy Firm Personnel By Discipline Our firm practices architectural Firm Personnel By Discipline Principals Licensed Architects 1 services from the initial Licensed Architects 1 David J. Todd, AIA - President programming/planning and design, Firm Description/Philosophy and through the construction phase. Firm Description/Philosophy Firm Personnel By Discipline A general practitioner practicing Our approach to quality design is to Sandra Lea Dickenson Architecture Licensed Architects 1 generally in South Dakota. form a long-term relationship and provides services in Southeast South Administrative 1 Classically trained and romantically understand the project goals and Dakota for small building projects, Other 1 inspired design. Somethings are expectations. We have found that both commercial and residential. bigger than others, but nothing is by listening and hearing the client, Firm Description/Philosophy too small. Architecture and design we are able to develop solutions We recognize that small projects are Our philosophy is to have a principal services scaled for the client and that meet the program and design often more design intensive than in charge and in direct contact with performed as a partner in the quality requirements. larger projects and are positioned the project through all phases of the and care of the built environment. to provide the special attention that work. Our sound reputation ability Recent Projects small projects require. to establish good communications Recent Projects Masonry Restoration, SD School for with our clients and meet tight Dove Meadows (Plans/Model), the Deaf, Sioux Falls, SD; Recent Projects project schedules. Plymouth County, IA; New Dormitory, Pierre Indian SESDAC Inc. Office Renovation, Pettersen Residence Green Remodel, Learning Center, Pierre, SD Vermillion, SD; Recent Projects Clay County, SD; (Construction Phase Services); Center for Children and Families, Lake Area Technical Institute Visitors Center/Monument Model, Youth & Family Services Center, Vermillion, SD; (Building Expansion Phase I), Roberts County, SD; VOA, Sioux Falls, SD (Consultant to Coker Residence, Vermillion, SD; Watertown, SD; Bradbury Residence Garden Pavilion By Design, LLC); Boomer Homes for Easy Living, Watertown municipal Unilities, Plan, Vermillion, SD Addition/Remodel, Buffalo Lake Vermillion, SD Watertown, SD; Healthcare Center, Buffalo Lake, MN; Faultless-Nutting (Manufacturing Blackhawk Community Center, Facility), Watertown, SD; Winnebago, NE (Energy Upgrade Codington-Clark Electric Studey) Cooperative, Inc, Watertown, SD; McKinley Elementary School, Watertown, SD; Mobridge Game, Fish & Parks, Mobridge, SD

72 ARCHITECTURE SOUTH DAKOTA | 2011 TSP, Inc. Firm Description/Philosophy U pper Deck Architects, Inc. Ward Whitwam, TSP is a full-service firm employing Architect almost 120 skilled professionals offering architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction services. We believe that successful projects are the result of experience, knowledge, and team leadership. We

are committed to the development 401 east eighth street suite 200m 1112 N West Avenue of long-term relationships with our 1301 W Omaha St, Ste 212 sioux falls south dakota 57103 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 clients. Our high quality planning Rapid City, SD 57701 401 East 8th Street, Ste 200C 605.336.1160 services and appropriate design 605.721.0237 Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Fax 605.336.7926 solutions illustrate this dedication Fax 605.721.0240 605.376.7633 and committment. [email protected] 600 Kansas City Street Firm 605.334.2422 www.upperdeckarchitects.com Rapid City, SD 57701 [email protected] Recent Projects Established: 2007 605.343.6102 Established: 1953 SDSU Dairy Micro-Biology Fax 605.343.7159 Building,Brookings, SD; Principals [email protected] Principals Valley County Health System, Ord, NE; www.teamtsp.com Timothy D Cheever, AIA - Principal Ward Whitwam, FAIA Memorial Community Hospital, Established: 1930 Blair, NE; Firm Personnel By Discipline Firm Personnel By Discipline ID 287 North Education Center, New Additional Locations Licensed Architects 2 Licensed Architects 1 Hope, MN; Minneapolis, MN Administrative 1 Rapid City Airport Concourse Terminal Firm Description/Philosophy Interior Design 1 Rochester, MN Enhancements, Rapid City, SD; Upper Deck Architects is a unique Marshall, MN South Dakota Public Universities and company with the goal of providing Firm Description/Philosophy Marshalltown, IA Research Center, Sioux Falls, SD a personalized service that is Creative Design tailored to the Omaha, NE unequaled in the region. Dedicated individual client. Sheridan, WY to client satisfaction, we pride ourselves on listening to our clients Recent Projects Principals to completely understand their David and Erika Billion Guest Sioux Falls project needs and goals. House, Yankton, SD; Paul Boerboom, AIA Established in 2007, Upper Deck Lam Vietnam Restaurant, Sioux Richard Gustaf, PE Architects is a new firm comprised Falls, SD Tony Dwire, PE of familiar faces. While working Sean Ervin, AIA, LEED® AP together at a large architectural firm, Michael Jamison, PE our personnel had the desire to work Kent Larsen, AIA in a fun, creative and collaborative Ron Mielke, PE environment.

Rapid City Recent Projects Bob Morcom, PE Calvary Lutheran Church, Rapid City, SD; Firm Personnel By Discipline Arrowhead Country Club; Rapid Licensed Architects 26 City, SD; Other Architectural 11 Belle Fourche City Hall, Belle Construction 10 Fourche, SD; Engineering 22 Hill City Middle School, Hill City, SD; Other Engineering 16 Tuscany Square Shopping Center, Interior Design 4 Rapid City, SD; Administrative 29 Douglas Elementary School. Box LEED Accredited Professionals 23 Elder, SD

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Widseth Smith Nolting Why we do it . . . Our goal is to be The winkels Group inc. successful by contributing to the success of our clients and building partnerships with them, one at a time. We strive to be recognized as good stewards of public and private facilities, infrastructure, and resources; to preserve and enhance 4601 S Louise Avenue the quality of life in our region; and Sioux Falls, SD 57106 3800 W Technology Cir, Ste 202 to make our communities safer and 605.361.2537 Sioux Falls, SD 57106 better places to live, play and work. Fax 605.362.7210 605.335.1011 [email protected] Fax 605.335.5874 Recent Projects www.thewinkelsgroup.com [email protected] Prairie Rehabilitation, Worthington, MN; Established: 1981 www.wsn.us.com Eye Site by Howlin Vision, Sioux Established: 1975 in Crookston Falls, SD; Principals 2004 in Sioux Falls (Innovative Design) Emporium on 41st, Sioux Falls, SD; Robert J. Winkels Jr. - President JDS Industries World Headquarters, Additional Locations Sioux Falls, SD; Firm Personnel By Discipline Alexandria, MN Historic Loop Center Redevelopment, Licensed Architect 1 Bemidji, MN Sioux Falls, SD; Other Architectural 3 Brainerd/Baxter, MN Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sioux Administrative 2 Crookston, MN Falls, SD Red Wing, MN Firm Description/Philosophy Rochester, MN On approximately half of our Grand Forks, ND projects, TWG offers conventional architectural services. On the Principals other half, we provide project Lanny J. Auringer, AIA - Vice President management, owner representation, criteria development for Design Firm Personnel By Discipline Build, and real estate development Licensed Architect 2 services. Licensed Engineer 1 Recent Projects Firm Description/Philosophy Architecture: Who we are...We are a group of O’Gorman High School, Sioux professional engineers, architects, Falls, SD; land surveyors, environmental C.J. Callaway’s, Sioux Falls, SD; scientists, technical designers, Carnegie Town Hall, Sioux Falls, SD; and administrative staff providing Broom Tree Retreat Center, Irene, SD; professional consulting services in Al’s Oasis, Oacoma, SD the A/E industry. Project Management and Owner What we do...We provide consulting Representation: services to public and private Augustana Football Stadium, Sioux clients in their communities and Falls, SD; throughout the states surrounding Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD; our offices. We do so by listening Lincoln County Courthouse, to and understanding our client’s Canton, SD; needs, being proactive, and providing Minnehaha County Jail, Sioux exceptional professional services. Falls, SD; We integrate our multiple disciplines and utilize talented and dedicated employees to provide quality services by striving to create long- term partnerships with our clients.

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For more information, check out: plaingreen.org Membership Roster Arci h tects Randal J. Fisher, AIA Gerald E. Lindberg, AIA Loren D. Schaefer, AIA Designworks, Inc. TSP, Inc. Brosz Engineering & Architecture Patricia E. Acevedo, AIA 526 St. Joseph Street, Suite B 1112 North West Avenue 750 W 2nd St AcV2 Rapid City, SD 57701 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Pierre, SD 57501 1116 Ninth St Rapid City, SD 57701 Tim J. Fonder, AIA Glenn H. Mannes, AIA Christopher M. Schiltz, AIA Banner Associates, Inc. Glenn H. Mannes, Architect Koch Hazard Architects, Inc. Mitchell Aldinger, AIA 2307 West 57th Street, Suite 102 800 Douglas Avenue 431 N. Phillips Avenue, Suite 200 Architecture Incorporated Sioux Falls, SD 57108 Yankton, SD 57078 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 415 South Main Avenue PO Box 2140 Rex Alan Hambrock, AIA Dean A. Marske, AIA Jeffrey J Schlepp, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57101 TSP, Inc. HKG Architects, Inc. Southeast Technical Institute 1112 North West Avenue 524 S. Arch Street 2320 N. Career Avenue Sarah Johnston Aldinger, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Aberdeen, SD 57401 Sioux Falls, SD 57107 Architecture Incorporated 415 South Main Avenue Hern Harms, AIA Stacey L. McMahan, AIA Kimberly K. Schmidt, AIA PO Box 2140 Puetz Corporation Koch Hazard Architects, Inc. FourFront Design, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57101 800 North Kimball Street 431 N. Phillips Avenue, Suite 200 5010 Stoney Creek Drive P.O. Box 968 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Rapid City, SD 57702 Mark I. Aspaas, AIA Mitchell, SD 57301 Architecture Incorporated Robin J. Miller, AIA David G. Sellers, AIA 415 South Main Avenue Roger G. Hartman, AIA MSH Architects MSH Architects PO Box 2140 Hartman Architecture & Associates 625 S. Minnesota Avenue 625 S. Minnesota Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Industries Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 2117 E. Tricia Lane Thomas Baffuto, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Bradley D. Mollet, AIA Elizabeth S. Squyer, AIA Baffuto Architecture 898 Wynstone Drive Architecture Incorporated 1025 Duffer Drive Jeffery A. Hazard, AIA Jefferson, SD 57038 415 South Main Avenue Rapid City, SD 57702 Koch Hazard Architects, Inc. PO Box 2140 431 N. Phillips Avenue, Suite 200 Eric C. Monroe, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57101 David Owen Bertelson, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Chamberlin Architects Mills Construction, Inc. 725 Saint Joseph St, Ste B1 David Bruce Stafford, AIA 1311 Main Avenue S James M. Heroux, AIA Rapid City, SD 57701 809 South St Brookings, SD 57006 MSH Architects Rapid City, SD 57701 625 S. Minnesota Avenue E.J. Murphy, AIA Kristine E. Bjerke, AIA Sioux Falls SD 57104 Architecture Automated, Inc. Gary L. Stanley, AIA Architecture Incorporated 2108 W Burnside St, Ste 3 Randall Stanley Architects 909 Saint Joseph St, Ste 202 Michelle L. Holter, AIA Burnside Business Center 405 S. 3rd Avenue Rapid City, SD 57701 TSP, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 1112 North West Avenue Paul H. Boerboom, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Jeffrey J. Nelson, AIA Todd R. Stone, AIA TSP, Inc. Baldridge & Nelson Architects & Eng, Koch Hazard Architects, Inc. 1112 North West Avenue Sarah Homstad, AIA Inc 1400 Parkview Boulevard Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Glenn H. Mannes, Architect 408 West Lotta Street, Suite 2 Brandon, SD 57005 800 Douglas Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Elizabeth R. Tellekson, AIA Bradley P. Burns, AIA Yankton, SD 57078 Banner Associates, Inc. Chamberlin Architects, PC Jared P. Nesje, AIA 2307 West 57th Street, Suite 102 2939 Country Club Drive Thomas J. Hurlbert, AIA TSP, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57108 Rapid City, SD 57702 HULA Architecture 1112 North West Avenue PO Box 1402 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 David J. Todd, AIA Timothy D. Cheever, AIA Aberdeen, SD 57402 Todd Architects Upper Deck Architects, Inc. Keith A. Neuharth, AIA PO Box 23 1301 West Omaha Street, Suite 212 Steven R. Jastram, AIA Randall Stanley Architects Watertown, SD 57201 Rapid City, SD 57701 Architecture Incorporated 405 S. 3rd Avenue 415 South Main Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57101 David A. Van Nieuwenhuyzen, AIA Sheryl Coley, AIA PO Box 2140 Fiegen Construction Company Upper Deck Architects, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Elizabeth Obaka, AIA P.O. Box 1687 1301 West Omaha Street, Suite 212 TSP, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Rapid City, SD 57701 David J. Jolly, AIA 1112 North West Avenue FourFront Design, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Nathan G. Vollmuth, AIA Larry Joe Crane, AIA 517 7th Street The Evangelical Lutheran Good Perspective Inc. Rapid City, SD 57701 Kim D. Otten, AIA Samiritan Society 196 E 6th Street, Suite 100 The Evangelical Lutheran Good 1210 S Jefferson Ave Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Leonard S. Kemnitz, AIA Samaritan Society Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan 4800 West 57th Street Alan Dempster, AIA Society PO Box 5038 Alan L. Wieskamp, AIA Architecture Incorporated 4800 West 57th Street Sioux Falls SD 57117 TSP, Inc. 415 South Main Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57105 1112 North West Avenue PO Box 2140 Steven C. Pedersen, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Jeffrey R. Kreiter, AIA By Design, LLC Sioux Falls School System 807 W 17th St Steve K. Williams, AIA John P. Engelhardt, AIA 1101 North Western Ave. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Williams & Associates Architecture Architectural Guild, LLC Sioux Falls, SD 57104 125 E. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 2A 219 East 12th Street Garrett W. Peters, AIA Spearfish, SD 57783 P.O. Box 1084 Jean R. Kroeger II, AIA Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Kroeger Company 800 East 21st Street Robert J. Winkels, AIA 630 Westwind Drive Sioux Falls, SD 57117 The Winkels Group Inc. David E. Erickson, AIA Rapid City, SD 57702 4601 S. Louise Avenue Van De Walle Associates, LLC Heather Michelle Rederth, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57106 212 S. Phillips Avenue, Suite 200 William S. Lamont, AIA FourFront Design, Inc. Sioux Falls SD 57104 Lamont Associates 517 7th Street Ascas o i tes PO Box 18 Rapid City, SD 57701 Sean O. Ervin, AIA Aberdeen, SD 57401 Jeremy B. Altman, Assoc. AIA TSP, Inc. Gordon L. Rosby, AIA 4Front Design, Inc. 1112 North West Avenue Kent E. Larsen, AIA OFMC – Great Plains 517 7th Street Sioux Falls, SD 57104 TSP, Inc. 220 S. Main Street Rapid City, SD 57701 1112 North West Avenue Aberdeen, SD 57401 Gene A. Fennell, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Scott Amundson, Assoc. AIA Gene A. Fennell, Architect Spencer R. Ruff, AIA Baldridge & Nelson Architects & 237 North 6th Street Meredith Larson, AIA Spencer Ruff Associates, Inc. Engineers Inc. Custer, SD 57730 Henry Carlson Company 405 S 3Rd Ave, Ste 302 408 W Lotta St, Ste 2 5109 E. Fairway Place Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Sioux Falls, SD 57110

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Scott F. Anderson, Assoc. AIA Dudley Rumrill, Assoc. AIA CMI Architectural Products, Inc. Lavelle Company Architecture Incorporated SHP Engineering & Architecture c/o Philip Leonard c/o Steve Skedsvold 415 South Main Avenue 301 West Capital 2800 Freeway Blvd, Suite 205. P O Box 2583 PO Box 2140 Pierre, SD 57501 Minneapolis , MN 55430 Fargo , ND 58108 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 800-334-1533 701-371-6450 E umerit s Kristine Booze, Assoc. AIA Concrete Materials Midwest Masonry Promotion 7022 East High Meadows Drive Earl E. Angle, AIA c/o Casey Scheidt Council Black Hawk, SD 57718 1105 W. Material c/o Craig Hinrichs, AIA Herbert M. Aslesen, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 275 Market Street, Suite 54 Jacob T Bunde, Assoc. AIA 605-321-6332 Minneapolis, MN 55405 Baldridge & Nelson Architects & Don R. Baltzer, AIA 612-670-9412 Engineers, Inc. Combs & Associates, Inc. 408 W. Lotta Street, Suite 2 Gary E. Galyardt, AIA c/o Paul Lepeska, AHC Molin Concrete Products Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Galyardt Architects, Inc. 6190 Olson Memorial Hwy Attn: Bob Clauson 1506 Mountain View Rd, Suite 102 Golden Valley , MN 55422 415 Lilac Street Jan N. Buri, Assoc. AIA Rapid City, SD 57702 763-746-3666 Lino Lakes, MN 55014 TSP, Inc. 651-786-7722 1112 North West Avenue Terry J. Geisler, AIA Dakota Granite Sioux Falls, SD 57104 c/o Bill Ruoff Rausch Granite Interiors Trent R Christiansen, Assoc. AIA Raymond J. Hengel, AIA PO Box 1351 c/o Susan Stinson Fiegen Construction Company PO Box 1601 Milbank, SD 57252 14450 468tj Avenue P.O. Box 1687 Rapid City, SD 57709 Big Stone City, SD Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Dakota Wall Systems 605-880-0297 Ralph R. Koch, AIA Attn: Steven Frey Jeremy J. Christopherson, Assoc. 1400 E. 39th Street N. Skold Specialty Contracting, LLC. AIA August M. Massa, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57104 c/o Clark Bruellman Randall StanleyArchitects 605-357-9301 P O Box 84628 1701 East Edgewood Road Olin E. Odland, AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57118335-6444 Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Architectural Services Don Johnson Construction 6216 West Chad Circle c/o Don Johnson Syverson Tile & Stone Diane S. de Koeyer, Assoc. AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57106 8600 East 38 th Street Attn: Chad Nordling Architecture Incorporated Sioux Falls, SD 57110 4015 S. Western Avenue 415 South Main Avenue Gary A. Ohnstad, AIA 605-359-6570 Sioux Falls, SD 57105 PO Box 2140 Ohnstad Architects 605-336-1175 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 27207 Fountain Cir. DeSco Architectural, Inc. Harrisburg SD 57032 Attn: Debra Combs Wells Concrete Bradley J. Dietzenbach, Assoc. AIA 716 3rd Street, SE c/o Sam Nesius Van De Walle Associates, LLC James R. Pope, AIA De Smet, SD 57321 1 North 2nd Street 212 S. Phillips Avenue, Suite 200 605-854-9126 Fargo, ND 58102 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Richard R. Robinson, AIA 800.732.4261 Fabcon, Inc. Andrew Eitreim, Assoc. AIA Robert J. Rysavy, AIA Attn: Dick Duck Wilsey Company Architecture Incorporated Robert J. Rysavy, LLC 6111 West Highway 13 c/o Bill Carney 415 South Main Avenue 2801 W Oak St Savage, MN 55378 3225 Business Hwy 75 N. PO Box 2140 Sioux Falls, SD 57105 852-882-7224 Sioux City, IA 51105 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 712-2589-4474 Orrin H. Wendt, AIA Fargo Paint and Glass Co. Robert P. Everett, Assoc. AIA Orrin H. Wendt Architects c/o Dave Skoglund Everett Design, Inc. 204 W 23rd Street 400 East 5th Street North 1315 N. Holbrook Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57105 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Sioux Falls, SD 57107 605-336-9484 Philip R. White, AIA Ronald A. Griebel, Assoc. AIA DLR Group Gage Brothers Architecture Incorporated 2700 S. Groveland Avenue Attn: Eric Kurtz 415 South Main Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57110 P O Box 1528 PO Box 2140 Sioux Falls, SD 57101-1528 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Ward B. Whitwam, FAIA 605-336-1180 AIA South Dakota Brian W. Heidbrink, Assoc. AIA PO Box 1596 Hardlines TSP, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD 57101 c/o Mike Gall 1112 North West Avenue 1006 120 th Lane NW Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Alil ed Coon Rapids, MN 55448 612-719-0545 Katie L. Krantz, Assoc. AIA Automatic Door Group Van De Walle Associates, LLC c/o Paul Page 4020 W. 91st St. 1109 S. Enterprise Street Jasper Stone Company Sioux Falls, SD 57108 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 c/o Brian Phelps. 605-335-1425 300 South Phillips, Suite 200 Megan E. Kullerd, Assoc. AIA Fax 605-335-1426 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Populous Group, LLC 605-330-6587. 2405 N. 2nd Street Ayres & Associates Spearfish, SD 57783 c/o Larry Ayres, PE K. R. Kline & Associates 4814 S. Caraway Drive c/o Eric Johnson. David F. Lorang, Assoc. AIA Sioux Falls, SD 57106-2817 3050 Metro Drive, Suite #214 Banner Associates, Inc. 605-359-3835 Bloomington, MN 55425. 2307 West 57th Street, Suite 102 Fax 605-373-987 952-854-8723 Sioux Falls, SD 57108 [email protected] Building Products Inc. Patti E. Monson, Assoc. 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