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aicc design awards issue 08.3 architecture california the journal of the american institute of architects california council Autobahn Motors, Belmont Peter Dodge, FAIA / EHDD Seismic Experience and Non-Prescriptive Design Professional Relationships in Transition Getting on the Same Page Engineering Invention Engineering Water: the Work of WET engineering + architecture Engineers Are Square, Architects Are Spiral Ralph Rapson and UC Santa Cruz Clever Beyond Engines The Other Academy Awards ARCAD_991-994.indd 991 9/10/08 11:41:39 AM arcCA design awards issue 08.3 engineering + architecture Content Square Wheels or Round?: 11 ➔ Charles F. Bloszies, AIA Professional Relationships in Transition Engineers Are Square, 15 ➔ Kate Simonen, RA, SE Architects Are Spiral Engineering Invention 19 ➔ Grace S. Kang, SE Clever Beyond Engines 23 ➔ Paolo Tombesi Getting on the Same Page: an Interview 27 ➔ Kenneth Caldwell with Susie See and Andrew Corney Seismic Experience 31 ➔ Yosh Asato and Non-Prescriptive Design The Paradox of Green Engineering 35 ➔ Peter Rumsey, PE Fluid Boundaries: the Philosophy of WET 38 The Other Academy Awards 40 ➔ Therese Bissell AIACC Design Awards 47 Savings By Design Awards 82 05 Comment 07 Contributors 09 Correspondence 91 ... and Counting 92 Coda 3 Cover photo: Peter Aaron, ESTO Photographics ARCAD_01-92.indd 3 9/23/08 4:31:27 PM arcCA 08.3 arcCA, the journal of the American arcCA is published quarterly and distributed to AIACC members as part Editor Tim Culvahouse, FAIA of their membership dues. In addition, single copies and subscriptions Culvahouse Consulting are available at the following rates: Institute of Architects California Single copies: $6 AIA members; $9 non-members. 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Director of Marketing and Communications AIACC 2008 Board of Directors AIA Golden Empire AIA San Diego The American Institute AIA Regional Directors Bruce M. Biggar, AIA Michele McLain, AIA of Architects, California Council Stephan Castellanos, FAIA AIA Inland California R. Kirk O’Brien, AIA 1303 J Street, Suite 200 Anne Laird-Blanton, AIA Pasqual V. Gutierrez, AIA Paul E. Schroeder, AIA Sacramento, CA 95814 R. Kent Mather, AIA Gary L. McGavin, AIA Jeanne M. Zagrodnik, AIA 916.448.9082 p 916.442.5346 f Pamela M. Touschner, FAIA AIA Long Beach AIA San Fernando Valley www.aiacc.org Associate Director North Peter K. Phinney, AIA Miguel C. Renteria, AIA Gray Dougherty, Associate AIA, AIA Los Angeles AIA San Francisco 2008 Executive Committee AIA East Bay Hsin-Ming Fung, AIA Michael D. Chambers, FAIA AIACC President Associate Director South John E. Kaliski, AIA Karin L. Payson, AIA Jeffrey T. Gill, AIA Lucas W. Reames, Associate AIA, David D. 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Phillips, AIA Lance Christopher O’Donnell, AIA Mark S. Gangi, AIA AIACC CACE Director AIA East Bay AIA Redwood Empire AIACC Staff Nicola Solomons, Hon. AIA/CC Anko A. Chen, AIA Alima Silverman, AIA Executive Vice President AIACC VP of AEP Philip A. Erickson, AIA AIA Santa Barbara Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA Jason D. Pierce, Assoc. AIA Gregory C. Rech, AIA Director of Marketing Executive Vice President AIA Santa Clara Valley and Communications Lori Reed Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA Elizabeth A. Gibbons, AIA Thomas F. Horan, AIA 4 ARCAD_01-92.indd 4 9/23/08 4:31:28 PM Comment Here we are in the midst of the election season, and it’s so difficult to stay clear of Whenever I see a new prototype proposed for a shotgun lot, I ask myself whether that partisan thoughts. But I shall try. dashed circle and the conversation going on in it can be transposed into it, whatever it looks like. (Note that the two people in the circle needn’t belong to the same politi- We’re also in the midst of the hurricane season over in the Gulf. As I write, Gustav cal party.) has come and gone, but hurricanes H, I, & J are lined up behind him. Meanwhile, the rebuilding of New Orleans from Katrina proceeds, though still neither smoothly nor For those of you who have work in New Orleans, or friends in New Orleans, or drinks evenly. waiting for you in New Orleans, here are a few resources: In the three years since the flood—yes, it has been that long—we have seen a few —for more little sketches, www.culvahouse.net/new-orleans/ high-profile design responses to the disaster, all well-intentioned and some produc- —for streaming sounds from the Big Easy, www.wwoz.org tive, while innumerable low-profile responses, largely volunteer-driven, have accom- —for inside tips from local architects, www.studioedr.com, click on plished much of the actual rebuilding of people’s homes. “lagniappe”: and www.studiowta.com, click on “friends” —for Architecture School, the new reality TV show produced at Tulane The rebuilding of shelter is the first priority in the rebuilding of lives, but it is not the School of Architecture by Woodbury University (Burbank/San Diego) only priority, a fact particularly appreciated in the city that inspired the alternative architecture professor Stan Bertheaud and directed by Queer Eye for ending to the old aphorism: “I used to complain that I had no shoes, until I met a man the Straight Guy director Michael Selditch (also trained as an architect), that had no . rhythm.” www.sundancechannel.com/architecture-school Yes, functionality is important, but ya gotta have style—in the nightclub sense of that On another (beach)front, Richard Neutra’s Mariners Medical Arts Center in Newport word, not the architectural sense. Buildings don’t have to be of a certain style, but Beach has been saved at least temporarily from the wrecking ball through the efforts they have to behave with style. Engage you, charm you, escort you home. of John Linnert, AIA, historian Barbara Lamprecht, and others. Read more in The Architects Newspaper, http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=2152, and Here’s a little sketch that suggests one way that traditional New Orleans buildings weigh in. behave. Hoping that, by the time this Comment reaches your mailbox, Center City New Orleans will still be dry ground, I remain, Yours faithfully, Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, editor [email protected] A correction: In “Proving...Ground: the Potential of Landscape Urbanism in California,” arcCA 08.2, the authors of the LA River Revitalization Master Plan (p. 35, center column) and the Compton Creek Master Plan (labeled “LA River Open Space Network,” caption, p. 33) were not accurately credited. The authors of the LA River Plan are Mia Lehrer + Associates, Civi- tas, Inc., and Wenk Associates; Mia Lehrer + Associates authored the Compton Creek Plan. 5 ARCAD_01-92.indd 5 9/23/08 4:31:29 PM Contributors Yosh Asato is a communications con- Kenneth Caldwell is a writer and Kate Simonen is a practicing sultant specializing in the architecture communications consultant based in architect and structural engineer who and design industry and the co-editor San Francisco. He may be reached at teaches structural and architectural of LINE, the online magazine of AIA [email protected]. design in the Architecture Department San Francisco.