AIA 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

The Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIAH) and Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) are moving in Spring 2017. Looking to the long-term stability of our two organizations, we are purchasing almost 8,000SF of space in the historic 1906 B.A. Riesner Building located at 900 Commerce St. in the heart of Houston’s original downtown just steps from Allen’s Landing, the site of Houston’s founding. The space consists of an approximately 5,400SF store- front space on the corner of Travis and Commerce and an approximately 2,200SF boiler room building located behind the storefront. Murphy Mears Architects was selected to design the new center through a competitive process. AIA HOUSTON 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

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      PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATES CONTINUING EDUCATION GALA

The 2016 Celebrate Architecture Gala raised funds for the Houston Architecture Foundation, as well as granted the opportunity to recognize esteemed members of AIA Houston.

Gala chair Caryn Ogier, AIA spearheaded the event with the theme Rendezvous Houston. The event had record attendance, with over 900 people in attendance and raising over $300,000.

2016 AIA President David Bucek addressed the party to announce the year’s Firm of the Year Award winner and Ben Brewer Young Architect Award winner: StudioMET Architects and Brett Zamore, AIA.

Musical guest The Swatchmen played into the night, fueling the dance party and auction revelers.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS • Raised over $300,000 • Over 900 in attendance • Ben Brewer Young Architect Award: Brett Zamore, AIA • Firm of the Year: StudioMET Architects HEALTH SES

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS GULF COAST GREEN AIA Sandcastle Competition

Saturday August 20,2016 East Beach, Galveston Island

AIA Sandcastle was rained out on Saturday June 3 and was rescheduled for August 20. Thanks to a record number of sponsors, we still managed to have a financially successful event even though we incurred many budgeted expenses twice.

Kirksey took home the Golden Bucket for the second year in a row while HDR captured the Sydney LeNoir Public Favorite Award and the Prairie View A&M won the College Challenge.

Texas Adopt A Beach , Galveston Bay Foundation and several Boy Scout troops joined us in our efforts to reduce our impact on the environment and educate the public.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS • 46 of the original 66 registered teams competed on August 20 • 42 Sponsors • $53k raised for AIA and ArCH Foundation HOME TOUR

The 2016 Home Tour featured nine homes created by eight residential architecture firms. The 2016 Tour was attended by over 1,500 people.

The Tour was widely lauded by local media sources. Media sources include: , CultureMap Houston, Houstonia Magazine, Swamp Lot, Paper City Magazine, Modern Luxury , Houston House and Home Magazine, and the Houston Press. AIA HOUSTON 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

DESIGN AWARDS

The AIA Houston Design Awards program recognizes design excellence in architecture, residential architecture, interior architecture, restoration/renovation, and urban design. Criteria to be used by the jury include quality of design, resolution of the program idea, sustainable responsibility, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique.

See the winners or purchase the 2016 Design Awards catalog at aiahouston.org Government Affairs & TAC

The Government Affairs committee serves as advocates to the Texas legislature regarding issues affecting the practice of architecture and the built environment. In 2016, AIA Houston raised $22,096 for the Texas Architects Committee (TAC), leveraging the collective voice of our members to advocate on behalf of the profession.

SOCIAL EVENTS • Dinner with Mayor • BOWL-A-TAC • A very successful annual fundraising event • 23 competing teams from local architecture, engineering, and construction firms AIA HOUSTON 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

HOLIDAY PARTY

AIA Houston honors a Houston architect at its annual holiday party by donating an architect designed object to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The 2015 holiday party took place on December 8, in Cullinan Hall at the MFAH. This year’s event honored Jim Furr, FAIA with the addition of E.W. Godwin’s 1880 Tea Table to the museum’s collection.

A listing and images of past acquisitions can be found at aiahouston.org/mfahacquisitions. GINGERBREAD BUILD-OFF

Over 3,000 spectators attended the 8th annual Gingerbread Build-Off.

18 teams competed for awards and bragging rights, while droves of children created their own structures in the Kids Construction Zone. The event featured sweets, friendly competition, and an appearance by Santa Claus.

Brave / Architecture took the Grand Prix de Show with their minimal landscape composed of colored fondant.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS • 18 participating teams • Over 3,000 in attendance • Raised 5,000 in sponsorships • Diverted over 550 lbs of food waste to compost

Judges: • Tom Ba r row, P. E, I. A. Naman + Associates President, Architecture Center Houston • Sarah Darro Houston Center for Contemporary Craft • Kathleen Morgan Honey Child's Sweet Creams • Tino Ramirez Candylicious & The Chocolate Bar AIA Annual Meeting & Affiliate Appreciation Party

October 19, 2016 Architecture Center Houston

AIA Houston membership met on October 19 to elect new members and officers to the Board of Directors for 2017 and hand out Chapter Honor Awards and Presidential Citations.

Honorees Include • Civic Vision: Mary Anne Piacentini, Katy Prairie Conservancy • Citation of Honor: The Hermann Park Conservancy & Houston Parks Board • Educator of the Year: Sarah Whiting, Assoc. AIA, Dean , Rice School of Architecture • Artist of the Year: Patrick Renner • Associate Member of the Year: Ashley Heitmeier, Assoc. AIA • Affiliate Firm of the Year: La Nova Tile •Presidential Citations: Ashley Heitmeier, Assoc. AIA, Ricardo Martinez, AIA, Luisina Basilico, AIA, Anthony Furino, Assoc. AIA, and Caryn Ogier, AIA. Interior Architecture Committee

AIA Houston Interior Architecture Committee hosted the first annual Interior Architecture Tour in September. Four Houston architecture firms, DLR Group, Gensler, Page and PDR, all located downtown were toured with a special emphasis on exploring the practice of Interior Architecture.

Urban Design Committee

In 2016, the AIA Urban Design Committee partnered with the City of Houston Planning & Development Department to initiate an going series of open conversations about city code and our built environment. The first of which focused on parking and walkability. AIA Houston brought other community partners to this discussion, including the ASLA, APA, RDA , ULI and some real estate developers.

The AIA Houston Urban Design Committee mission statement:

IDENTIFY issues at an urban scale affecting the development, growth and the quality of life in Houston. Keeping sustainability at the center of our focus.

EDUCATE our members and the greater community about these issues.

SUPPORT and COLLABORATE by bringing the design expertise of our members to the community through charrettes, competitions and other partnerships with non- profit and government organizations.

COMMUNICATE with elected officials about these issues along with our vision, solutions and strategies. Kids & Architecture

AIA Houston Kids & Architecture Committee focuses on architectural themed education programs for students in elementary and middle school. The committee also volunteers to assist the MGMC committee at their programs.

In 2016, Kids & Architecture partnered with Citizen Schools at Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School and Sugar Grove Academy to teach architecture in a 10 week after school program in the Fall semester.

The committee hosted it’s annual Merit Badge Workshop in August and hosted 3 successful sketching classes.

Additionally, the committee provided career day speakers for schools throughout the Greater Houston area including Owens Intermediate School, Becker Early Childhood Center, Lawhon Elementary, and Mendell Elementary School.

AIA Members also volunteered with the Houston Hispanic Forum Career Fair at the George R Brown Convention Center in February of 2016, offering bilingual career presentations about architecture. Historic Resources Committee

AIA Houston continued their partnership with the William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library at the to collect the oral histories of people who strongly impacted the built environment in the Houston Area. Architects, developers, scholars and philanthropists discuss their work, projects, and the influences that shaped Houston. Each subject is interviewed by an architect or architectural scholar who frames the discussion and provides context. New content is being collected and added each year.

Interviews posted online include: • Gerald D. Hines • John Staub • Eugene Aubry • John Zemanek • Elinor Evans • Barry Moore • Stayton and Ila Nunn • Joe Colaco •Raymond Brochstein

The Historic Resources Committee also participated in hosting the National trust for Historic Preservation’s national conference in Houston, November 15 – 18. Members helped in hosting events and leading tours. Walking & Bicycle Tours

Architecture Center Houston offers 9 Walking and 2 bicycle tours Saturday mornings and some Thursday evenings September though May.

ArCH Tours are lead by trained docents working with scripts researched and written by architects, historians and preservationists.

2016 Tour s : Downtown Towers & Trees Downtown Buffalo Bayou Downtown Rock Buildings Stone Downtown Urban Art Montrose Museum District Texa s Me d ic a l Ce nte r University of Houston Art & Architecture Heights Bicycle Tour Third Ward Bicycle Tour

ArCH also offers private group tours. In 2017 we gave private tours to groups with Lone Star College, Clear Lake ISD, the YMCA, Destination English and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Past Forward Conference as well as university students from Mexico studying abroad in Houston. Women in Architecture

Women in Architecture Houston is a community working to promote equal opportunity, celebrate advancement, empower success, and foster future generations of all women in the architecture, design, and construction industries of Southeast Texas.

Event highlights: WiA Houston Movie Screening of Suffragette WiA Speed Mentoring

Universities

AIA Houston and Architecture Center Houston Foundation maintain an active relationship with the three local architecture schools. The Deans of the schools sit on the AIA Houston Board of Directors, students are invited to participate in our committees, we host an annual Back to School Bash and collaborations between our members and professors at the school are common.

The 2016 Texas Student Biennial was hosted at Architecture Center Houston from September 16 - December 16, 2016. AIA Houston is the only chapter in Texas that hosts a statewide exhibit of student work. Intern/Associate Network & A.R.E. Prep

IA/N hosts monthly workshops, study and information sessions to help young professionals complete their IDP credit and pass the A.R.E. exams.

Young Architects Forum

YAF hosted 3 firm visits with Morris Architects, Dillon Kyle Architects and HOK.

YAF continued its partnership with Toastmasters, hosting bi-monthly meetings to help members develop presentation skills.

YAF hosted the annual Connect Dinner to honor newly elevated Fellows. The dinner connects young architects and fellows in a social setting to help establish and foster mentoring relationships.

The committee hosted the Ben Brewer Award Mixer in honor of 2016’s recipient, Brett Zamore, AIA, LEED AP.

Kiza Forgie, AIA, 2016 Design Make Resident, presented her project. During her presentation the committee announced it’s 2017 Design/Make Residency program for AIA members. Danny Rigg and Nathaniel Vice were selected for the 2017 residency at TX/RX Labs. FELLOWSHIP

AIA Houston congratulates the newest Fellows from the Houston Chapter:

Jeffrey Brown, FAIA Powers Brown Architecture (pictured left)

Charles Griffin, FAIA EYP former known as WHR (pictured right) Michael G. Meyers High School Scholarship Competition

An annual ideas competition with an emphasis on creative problem solving and graphic presentation, the Michael G. Meyers Design & Scholarship Competition is sponsored by the Architecture Center Houston Foundation, the Houston Chapter of AIA and local architectural firms and affiliates.

This year students were challenged to design a dog and cat shelter for the near eastside of Houston. The Competition Committee hosted a series of events to help the students learn basic architectural design skills and understand the competition requirements. Projects were due in April and the winners were announced at an awards ceremony at Architecture Center Houston.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS • All Houston area high school students are eligible to participate regardless of class affiliation or age. • $10,000 in scholarships were awarded. • A special Dedication to Architecture Scholarship funded by AIA National was awarded to Vasily Sufuev ,incoming freshman at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. Exhibitions

Houston: Uncommon Modern November 24, 2015 – February 12, 2016

YAF Emerrging Voices March 3 – April 29, 2016

MGMC 2015 Winners May 6 - 20, 2016

Environmental Graphics June 23 – August 26, 2016

2016 Texas Student Biennial September 16 – December 16, 2016

HIGHLIGHTS • ArCH exhibits were funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Susan Vaughan Foundation.

•The Uncommon Modern exhibit and publication received the 2016 Modernism in America Awards Survey/Inventory Citation of Merit from DOCOMOMO US.

• The Women in Architecture exhibit continued to travel exhibiting in Austin and Iowa. Houston Uncommon Modern is preparing to travel to the Lower Rio Grande Valley in January 2017. ARCH FILM FEST AND AUTHORS IN ARCHITECTURE

The ArCH Film Fest is a collaboration between ArCH and the Houston Cinema Arts Festival to bring recent films about the world of architecture to Houston.

Authors in Architecture is a collaboration with the that encourages discourse in the field of Architecture and our built environment.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS • The Architect: on 11/11 at Sundance • Provenance: on 11/12 at Menil Collection • Gray Matters on 11/14 at ArCH • The Land of Many Palaces on 11/16 at ArCH • The Infinite Happiness on 11/17 at ArCH • Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack book talk: Eighth Wonder of the World on 12/8 AIA HOUSTON 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

25 & 50 YEAR AWARDS

25 Year Award: Sesquicentennial Park

In 1986 the Rice Design Alliance organized a national design competition for the site along Bu alo Bayou that is now known as Sesquicentennial Park. The competition was won by a group of young Houston architects, Guy Hagstette, John Lemr and John Liner entered under the name of TeamHou. The was completed in 1989 to commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the founding of Houston. It was a Sesquicentennial Park catalyst for the further development of parkland along Houston’s bayou system that we see coming to fruition nearly 30 years later.

50 Year Award: The

The vision of Harris County Judge Roy Hofheinz, the 8th Wonder of The World opened in 1965. Designed by two Houston architecture firms, Lloyd Morgan and Jones with Wilson, Morris, Crane and Anderson along with Walter P Moore engineers, the dome was a quintessentially Houston achievement. It led the way for other domed stadiums around the world, but the Astrodome was the first, and with its restrained mid-century modern design, it remains the most beautiful. It is now our job as a community to find a new use for it and ensure that it survives for future generations. The Astodome AIA HOUSTON 2016 END OF YEAR REPORT

THE 2016 AIA BOARD

David Bucek Jim Evans Catherine Callaway Derek Webb John Clegg Alyssia Makarewicz Jake Donaldson Jesse Hager Julie Hendricks Shelly Pottorf Chris Royster President Past President President Elect Treasurer Secretary TSA Director Director Director Director Director Director

Bayardo Selva Christian Sheridan Steve Stelzer A.J. Sustaita Chudi Abajue Julie Kinzelman Margaret Brown Sarah Whiting Patricia Oliver Ikhlas Sabouni Director Director Director Director I/AN Director Public Director City of Houston Rice University UofH Prairie View Liaison Liaison Liaison A&M Liaison THE 2016 ArCH BOARD

Tom Barrow Kathleen English Amy Moen Ned Dodington Anna Mod Marc Bellamy Janis Brackett Karen Brasier Charles Browne David Coleman Jim Evans President Past President President Elect Treasurer Secretary Director Director Director Director Director Director

Benito Guerrier Khris House Lisa Johnson Caryn Ogier Susan Rogers Dennis Wittry Director Director Director Director Director Director