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This Thursday at Three
Your AIA chapter is plenty busy this month. You still have a couple of weeks to get to the People's Choice Awards art show at OPUS VII. Craftsmanship Awards are coming up, but the deadline for nominations is just weeks away. Plans are beginning to form for a spring gala. DesignSpring is looking for new ways to engage the Emerging Professionals among us. Affiliate members are being welcomed in new ways, and some members are preparing to visit Tokyo for the Region Conference in mid-November. Read on for details, details, details.

What Would You Like a Gala to Be?
AIA-SWO is considering putting on an event to raise awareness of Architecture and Architects in the area, raise money, give something to the community, and have some fun as a chapter. This may occur March 1-April 11, 2012 with some kind of exhibit/displays at OPUS VII and another event possibly in the later Spring. We will need your support as members by volunteering and attending. Some of the ideas are indicated below thru some questions that will help us make some decisions. Please respond to the questions to linn@awjarchitects.com within the next week.

1. If we were to have a Design Competition of a small structure of some sort that will be built would you be interested in participating? Y____N____
2. If we were to display the ‘Art’ of Architects……what else you do besides buildings…sculpture, painting, paper making, furniture design /building, model building, free hand drawing/renderings, etc….at OPUS VII.
Would you have something(s) you would be interested in displaying? Y___N___
Would someone from your office be interested in displaying something? Y___N___
Would you be interested in donating an item of your special interest for an auction? Y___N___
3. If we were to have a big GALA type event of AIA-SWO, community awards, auction, public recognition of supporters in architecture, dinner, dance, maybe formal, maybe funky…?
Would you help work on the event? Y___N___
Would you attend? Y___N___
Would you encourage other office people to attend? Y___N___
4. In lieu of an event or two, in order to raise some money, where we would need your volunteer time to put it on and attend, would you prefer to pay a one time assessment? Y___N___

Please copy and past on an e-mail response.
Thank You….. Linn West

2011 DesignSpring Charrette
Main Street Façade & Street Front Improvements in Springfield, OR
Potential Date: November 12, 2011
Location: Pending

The City of Springfield as well as many other organizations, programs and volunteers, have been working hard to return civic pride to the area, and this year DesignSpring has offered to assist by hosting the 2011 DesignSpring Charrette - Main Street Façade & Street Front Improvements in Springfield, OR. The public process workshop will focus on Downtown Springfield between Mill & 8th Street. The charrette intends to support business owners by providing tools for feasible facade and street front improvements. Though the charrette, DesignSpring hopes to provide merchants with ideas to improve business in the area while helping to develop relationships and connections from the Downtown to its surrounding neighborhoods, parks, schools and landmarks.

More information will follow, as the charrette is currently being developed. To add your name to the 2011 DesignSpring Charrette - Main Street Façade& Street Front Improvements in Springfield, OR email list please email designspringEP@gmail.com

Portland-Bound?
The Portland Architecture & Design Festival begins tonight! That's the bad news. (Probably too late to make plans to attend the Opening Night Party.) The good news is that events continue for a month, so plan a trip north and take in some of the events.

For details, click here.

2011 Craftsmanship Awards
Last week we celebrated the People’s Choice Award winners. The success of these projects was based on the hard work and talent of the individuals in the construction industry who turned our designs into well crafted, beautiful buildings and spaces.

In November our chapter will be hosting the 2011 Craftsmanship Awards. The awards are an opportunity for architects and designers to let the construction industry know that we value their craftsmanship, and recognize their outstanding work.

To make the 2011 Craftsmanship Awards successful, we encourage each of you to think back on your projects and nominated individuals within the construction industry that have demonstrate exceptional craftsmanship and/or have taken then extra step to ensure an outstanding final product. The AIA-SWO considers anyone in the construction industry, from the cost estimator to a job site superintendent worthy of this recognition. Nomination forms are available in both PDF and word formats and are to be submitted to Kurt Albrecht AIA by October 20, 2011.

Nomination Forms: here (pdf) or here (docx).
List of past winners: AIA-SWO Craftsmanship Awards 1956-2006 here.

Inquires and submissions to:
Kurt Albrecht AIA – AIA-SWO, President Elect
Chuck Bailey Architect AIA LLC
1740 Willamette Street, Eugene OR 97401
Kurt@cba-aia.com
541-485-3315 (phone & fax)

Thank you in advance for supporting this great program!

Cool Furniture at BRING
BRING has recently obtained a LARGE selection of stainless steel industrial shelving, carts, tables and furnishings. These are remaindered from Hynix Semiconductor Co., they are fabricated with finish, fit and quality seldom found in consumer or commercial goods. Mainly used in “clean rooms” most possess an electro-polished finish. Could be a good fit for a new architecture space.

To see pictures, click here or here.

Larry Levinson
Business Manager
BRING Recycling
4446 Franklin Blvd.
Eugene, OR 97403
(541)746-3023

UO Lecture
MODERN SCHOOLS-LECTURE: A CENTURY OF DESIGN FOR EDUCATION
R. Thomas Hille, AIA

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 6:00 P.M.
115 LAWRENCE HALL (1190 FRANKLIN BOULEVARD)

For details, click here.

Bored?
Click here (but remember, you were warned.)

Architects in Schools
Click here for the 2011-2012 architects in schools program information and application. Call Kim Knowles if you have any questions.

Thank you! We hope to have many Eugene architects and schools participating this year.

Kim Ruthardt Knowles
Architects in Schools
Architecture Foundation of Oregon
503-317-7537
kim_ais@msn.com
www.af-oregon.org


Oct. Chapter Meeting
Our October meeting will focus on the Oregon Reach Code. Or should we say, the award-winning Oregon Reach Code?

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Building Codes Division received a national honor for its work in energy efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy recognized the division with the sixth annual Jeffrey A. Johnson Award for “Excellence in the Advancement of Building Energy Codes and Performance.”

Oregon has long been recognized as a national leader in energy efficiency. The Oregon energy code has consistently been one of the strongest in the nation, spearheaded for more than two decades by the Oregon Department of Energy. Two years ago, official state support for the energy code moved to the Building Codes Division, which immediately began to aggressively pursue further improvements to the code.

The Building Codes Division developed and adopted the Oregon Reach Code on July 1, 2011. This optional code provides a 15 percent to 20 percent energy efficiency improvement over Oregon’s mandatory commercial energy code. The residential provisions, scheduled for adoption Oct. 1, 2011, are anticipated to provide another 5 percent improvement over mandatory residential code standards.

“Our new mandatory residential energy code will save Oregon families over $165 in energy costs per year. The Residential Reach Code will save $250 above that, and energy savings in commercial buildings will be even bigger,” said Patrick Allen, acting administrator of the Oregon Building Codes Division.

Affiliates Wanted
The membership committee started the year with a lofty goal: 90 new affiliate members in 2011. You've probably seen an email or two from Heidi Peschel. A few of you have replied, and she's grateful. The rest of you should expect a phone call from Heidi pretty soon. (If you've worked with Rubensteins Contract Carpet, you know that no one successfully hides from Heidi and her cohorts.)

She's looking for leads, candidates, referrals. Who would you like to see join AIA-SWO as an affiliate? You could save yourself (and Heidi) a little trouble by clicking here. (Thanks.)

NWPR Conference
Crafting the Future, is a conference in two parts. The first portion will be held in Tokyo and serves as the AIA NW&P Regional conference. The second portion will consist of travel south and west of Tokyo over a four day period and is hosted by AIA COD. You may register for each conference independently or may select both conferences. The discounted rate ends this week!

Following the devastating earthquake in northern Japan, members of AIA Japan, AIA Committee on Design and the AIA Northwest & Pacific Region have been working to refine a dynamic program for the conference. Risks have been carefully assessed regarding travel to Japan. Colleagues in Tokyo have counseled the AIA regarding contributions architects can make to their fragile economy by visiting their country. In addition, significant and unique learning opportunities exist for this conference directly following the event of the recent earthquake. It is therefore with great care and a sense of responsibility that the AIA NW&P Region is moving forward with the Region Conference in Japan.