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Vol. 18, Issue2020 01 2020 Q1 Vol. 18 Connection Issue 01 The architecture and design journal of the Young Architects Forum This issue: Climate action Emerging professionals are poised to lead the profession’s response to climate change with urgency. This issue shares a diverse group of voices that are driving programs, research, and achievement with positive environmental impact. 1 Connection 2020 Connection editorial committee Editor-in-chief, graphic editor John J. Clark, AIA Senior editor Andrea Hardy, AIA Senior editor Amaya Labrador, AIA Senior editor Beresford Pratt, AIA Senior editor Clarice Sollog, AIA Journalist Arash Alborzi Journalist Gabriela Baierle, AIA Journalist Robyn Engel, AIA Journalist Jennifer Hardy, AIA Journalist Katie Kangas, AIA Journalist Miranda Moen Journalist Katelyn Rossier, AIA 2020 Q1 Contributors Contributing journalist Bridget Geissler, AIA Contributing journalist Stacey Keller, AIA Contributing journalist Jill Maltby-Abbott, WELL AP Contributing journalist Shona O’Dea, BEMP Contributing journalist Joyce Raybuck, AIA Contributing journalist Jason Takeuchi, AIA Contributing journalist Michael Vander Ploeg, AIA Contributing journalist Tate Walker, AIA 2020 YAF advisory committee Chair Ryan McEnroe, AIA Vice chair Abi Brown, AIA Past chair Lora Teagarden, AIA Advocacy director Jennie West, AIA Communications director John J. Clark, AIA Community director Katelyn Chapin, AIA Knowledge director Jessica O’Donnell, AIA Strategic vision director Matt Toddy, AIA AIA National Strategic Council representative Laura Lesniewski, AIA College of Fellows representative Frances Halsband, FAIA AIA staff liaison Jessica Rogers, Assoc. AIA Young Architects Forum an AIA member group Connection is the official quarterly publication of the Young Architects Forum of AIA. This publication is created through the volunteer efforts of dedicated Young Architect Forum members. Copyright 2019 by The American Insititute of Architects. All rights reserved Views expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors and not those of The American Institute of Architects. Copyright © of individual articles belongs to the author. All images permissions are obtained by or copyright of the author. 2 Vol. 18, Issue 01 2020 Contents 05 Editor’s note 26 Embodied carbon: apples to apples John J. Clark An interview with Payette’s Melanie Silver and Rebecca McGee Sturgeon 06 President’s message Jennifer Hardy, AIA Jane Frederick, FAIA 29 Transition design: building a sustainable future 08 YAF chair message Robyn Engel, AIA Ryan McEnroe, AIA 30 Our path to a regenerative future: 09 College of fellows note bnim’s sustainability action plan Frances Halsband, FAIA Joyce Raybuck, AIA 10 Meet the YAF Advisory Committee 36 Pittsburgh equity in architecture report Katelyn Rossier, AIA 12 Meet the Young Architect Regional Directors 38 Healthy space: Walking the talk for indoor air quality 14 A’20 at a glance: YAF edition Michael Vander Ploeg, AIA and Shona O’Dea, BEMP 16 Framework for design excellence, a primer 40 What does resiliency mean in the Midwest? Tate Walker, AIA Bridget Geissler 18 2018/19 ACSA/AIA COTE Top Ten for Students: 43 Transparency in use: A conversation with Phil Riazzi and Cameron Foster Proving materials intentionality in the built environment John J. Clark, AIA Jill Maltby-Abbott, WELL AP 22 Investing in emerging professionals: 46 AIA Wisconsin practice innovation workshop The COF EP component grant program Stacey Keller, AIA Jason Takeuchi, AIA Cover image: ACCLIMATE, a project by Phil Riazzi and Cameron Foster recognized in the 2018/19 ACSA/AIA COTE Top Ten for Students. 3 Connection Editorial team John J. Clark, AIA, NCARB Andrea E. Hardy, AIA Editor in chief Senior editor Clark is an architect with RMKM Hardy holds a MArch from Arizona State Architecture in Albuquerque, N.Mex. University and a Bachelor of Science in Clark is a graduate of the University Architectural Engineering Technology of New Mexico and is the 2019-20 from Wentworth Institute of Technology. Communications Director for the AIA She is a registered architect in Arizona National’s Young Architects Forum. and works at Shepley Bulfinch in Phoenix. Amaya Labrador, AIA Beresford Pratt, AIA, NOMA Senior editor Senior Editor Labrador is a healthcare architect in the Pratt is an Architect and BIM Manager Houston studio of Perkins and Will. She at Ayers Saint Gross with a passion currently serves on the AIA Houston for education spaces, community Board of Directors, and is the Young engagement, and JEDI . He is the Young Architects Regional Director for the region Architect Regional Director for the Mid- of Texas. Atlantic region. Clarice Sollog, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP Arash Alborzi Senior Editor Journalist Sollog is a Project Architect at CDM Alborzi is a doctoral candidate at Smith in Orlando, FL. She was awarded the University of Florida, School of the AIA Orlando Fred H. Pryor Young Architecture in Gainesville, Florida. Architects Forum Achievement Award in Alborzi’s dissertation focuses on feasibility 2014 and is the Young Architect Regional of urban agriculture in existing cities. Director for the Florida Caribbean Region. Gabriela Baierle, AIA LEED AP BD+C Robyn Engel, AIA Journalist Journalist Baierle is an associate architect at Engel is a project architect at IKM Arrowstreet in Boston. She is also co- Architecture in Pittsburgh, Penn. An chair of the Boston Society of Architects ardent reader, Ms. Engel most recently EPNet and an adjunct faculty member at served as jury chair for the 2019 Lynd the Boston Architectural College. Ward Graphic Novel Prize. Jennifer Hardy, AIA Katie Kangas, AIA, NCARB Journalist Journalist Hardy is an architect at Payette in Boston, Katie is a principal architect at Pasque Mass. Hardy is an active member at the Architecture in Minneapolis, Minn. As the Boston Society of Architects and serves North Central States Young Architect on the membership committee and is the Regional Director, Kangas connects founding chair of the women in design emerging professionals with resources to emerging leaders group. position them for success. Miranda Moen Katelyn Rossier, AIA Journalist Journalist Moen is an architectural designer based Katelyn is an architect at SmithGroup in Austin, Minn. Moen is passionate about in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a rural and cultural heritage research, graduate of Kent State University, and collaborating with clients in Minnesota manages the blog, mentorarchitect.com. and Iowa. 4 Vol. 18, Issue 01 2020 Editors note: Leading with optimism At the Young Architects Forum’s annual In addition to these firm approaches leadership transition meeting in 2019, to climate action, we speak with two the YAF Advisory Committee identified Clemson University students that were Editorial climate action as the most urgent topic recognized by the AIA and ACSA’s COTE committee call to address in the upcoming year’s Top Ten for Students program. Robyn editorial calendar. With the first issue of Engel encourages a “paradigm shift in Q2 2020: Connection in 2020, it is encouraging the way that we view and do design” Call for submissions on the that the response of young architects through transition design. To close out topic of civic engagement, and design professionals to this the topic, Bridget Geissler touches on community based design, issue appears to match the intensity the shocks and stressors that affect the and public service. needed to confront the single greatest Midwest, an area without the natural Connection’s editorial comittee challenge that faces our cohort. AIA disasters typically associated with welcomes the submission of President Jane Frederick challenges climate change. articles, projects, photography, our generation to lead the profession’s and other design content. response to the climate crisis (page 6), Architecture is an inherently optimistic Submitted content is subject and we are excited to share a diverse profession, and at our core, we are to editorial review and selected group of emerging voices that are driving holistic problem solvers. Although for publication in e-magazine programs, research, and achievement on daunting tasks, de-carbonization and format based on relevance to this topic. anthropogenic climate change are the theme of a particular issue. solvable problems. The environmental To align the start of our year with the movement that grew in the 1960s and 2020 Editorial Committee: AIA’s Big Move Toward Environmental 1970s has achieved demonstrable Call for volunteers, Stewardship, Tate Walker provides an amounts of progress toward clean contributing writers, introduction to the AIA’s Framework air and water, reduced emissions, interviewers and design for Design Excellence. Formerly known and increased conservation and has critics. Connection’s as the AIA COTE Top Ten Measures, solved problems once thought to be editorial comittee is currently the framework initiates a method for impossible. Because of this progress seeking architects interested designers to optimize their design and the incredible minds and technology in building their writing process to achieve “high performing, that have brought us this far, I remain portfolio by working with equitable, and beautiful buildings.” Joyce optimistic and encourage all design our editorial team to pursue Raybuck of bnim, the ARCHITECT 50 professionals to have a similar outlook. targeted article topics and top ranked firm in sustainability, shares However, this optimism is neither interviews that will be shared more specific