best of the students: first csr student design competition paul mankins takes aia iowa medal of honor merle hay mall renovations to begin best of the pros: aia iowa and central states region winners aia repositioning winter 2014 ia Awards Issue 2013 AIA Iowa & Central States Region Design Awards sergeant bluffs plant | sergeant bluffs, iowa adel plant | adel, iowa “From Your Grandfather’s Past into Your Children’s Future” sergeant bluffs plant | sergeant bluffs, iowa adel plant | adel, iowa UNITED BRICK & TILE NEBRASKA BRICK & TILE SIOUX CITY BRICK MINNESOTA BRICK & TILE 515.254.0196 402.408.5555 712.258.6571 952.888.9239 SIOUXCITYBRICK.COM editor’s letter Welcome! Welcome to the 2013 awards issue of Iowa Architect, celebrating the best of Iowa architecture. We are pleased to showcase such a diverse range of exceptional projects from Iowa-based architectural firms. 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We hope our programs and incentives empower you to successfully market and sell energy-efficient products and services to your customers. 800-894-9599 www.MIDAMERICANENERGY.com People collected Inspiration Peter Goché 2013 AIA Iowa Educator Award words: brad davison-rippey, aia images: cameron campbell, aia It is an honor to be congratulating Peter Goché, AIA, for the 2013 AIA Iowa Educator Award. Over the past seven years, I've had the pleasure of serving as a visiting critic of his design studios at Iowa State University. He has produced research assemblies specific to the ritualized landscape of Iowa, which form the foundation of his academic lens. From there his studios explore architecture in relation to culture, landscape and fabrication. His students' work has a consistent rigor unique to the anthropology of the site, taking in the culture in which they are intervening. Goché’s studios are about people, ritual and how the stage is set for the activity of life. In addition to his academic pursuits, Goché brings his research to his practice. His work has He is not only a memorable been published many times in this magazine, from his early career with HLKB Architecture instructor, but also a dedicated to the renovation of 422.5 East Locust (see "Ritual Space," in the fall 2011 edition of Iowa mentor who cares a great deal about Architect). He has also installed architectural interventions at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, and the Bemis Center for the intellectual and professional Contemporary Art in Omaha. Goché's dedication to his research is critical growth of every one of his students. to the next generation of architects, and it luis rico-gutierrez, assoc. aia, dean, shows in the appreciation of his students. John college of design, iowa state university Kerner, Assoc. AIA, noted, the "studies in people and ritual have shown me that architecture is not just about the building but perhaps more Above: "The Water Hutch," importantly about the people the building is 2011, installed at the Bemis containing. He has consistently maintained that Center for Contemporary Art, is focused on the production of architecture comes from people, and is specific marks and markers, reminiscent to people’s spatial practice." of waterways that meander And as Nick Lindsley, Assoc. AIA, noted in through the Midwest. It consists his nomination letter, "Goché is an exceptionally of a sinuous line made up of unique and valuable educator with talents going three oxbows that serve as an far beyond the traditional. He has the uncanny ambiguous measure by which ability to push students out of their comfort people may situate themselves. zones and amplify their personal strengths in the classroom and studio environment. His perspectives are wholly important and uniquely applicable to architectural thought and practice." I couldn't agree more with Nick and John. Congratulations, Peter! winter 2014 7 1st Place collected Oklahoma State University, Team Orange, $1000 and Traveling Central States Region Trophy 2013 AIA Central States Region 2nd Place The University of Oklahoma, Student Design Team Crimson, $600 Competition words: anna schwennsen jones, assoc. aia images: courtesy of central states regional student design competition This year's AIA Central States Regional Fall Conference in Oklahoma City, Okla., hosted the first ever CSR Student Design Competition. The competition gave students an opportunity to work on a community based project in a charette format, creating an enriched learning experience. Each team, representing the schools of University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Drury University's Hammons School of Architecture, 3rd Place University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Kansas Kansas State University, $400 State University, consisted of four architecture students and a faculty advisor. All teams were hosted at an architecture firm in downtown Oklahoma City, where they interacted with design professionals, investigated a detailed program, designed