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AIASF 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Serving the Bay Area for nearly 150 years, the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter, represents more than 2,300 members and 4,000 allied trade community professionals in San Francisco and Marin Counties. Headquartered in the historic Hallidie Building, which is on both the California and National Register of Historic Places, AIA San Francisco (AIASF) is the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading destination for architecture and design. One of the largest of nearly 220+ AIA chapters, AIASF is a resource for architect and allied community members, as well as the general public. AIASF strives to improve the quality of life in the Bay Area by promoting architecture and design. We further this goal through community involvement, education, advocacy, public outreach, member services, and professional excellence.

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Jennifer Jones, CAE, IOM Executive Director

Stacy Williams Deputy Director

Kendra Lee Adams Sponsorship + Partnership Manager

Alicia Arroyo Marketing + Communications Manager

Karsen Maruca Manager, Member Programs

Annabelle Udo-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malley Manager, Public Programs

Dolma Chuteng Finance Manager

Laura Ng Membership Coordinator

Jonathan Sessler Office Coordinator

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER AIASF’s 136th year has been productive and robust. We have advanced our mission of improving the quality of life in the Bay Area by promoting architecture and design by listening to our members, presenting exciting programs, advocating for our profession, and strengthening our organization.

We also advocated for our members on the local, state, and national level, and looked at new ways to improve outreach and advocacy. We went to Capitol Hill to discuss the importance of considering vertical infrastructure projects, such as schools, civic centers, and hospitals.

The chapter represents over 2,300 members practicing architecture and 4,000 allied community professionals. Our membership continues to grow, as do the activities of our 15 active AIASF committees. This year, we have listened to our members by holding three town hall meetings as an effort to strengthen relationships across all levels of the Institute: National, AIA California Council and our local chapter. Town hall meetings will continue in 2018.

We made the organization stronger financially with a balanced budget and will be adding funds to our reserves this year. Our reserves are currently at about sixty percent of our annual operating budget, and our goal to meet the nonprofit industry standard of a full year of reserves.

AIASF nurtured and organized over 300 programs in support of our members and the practice of architecture. Here are just a few highlights from 2017’s programs: • AIASF partnered with the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza on a successful international competition to redesign Harvey Milk Plaza, located at Castro and Markets Streets, as an LGBT memorial and public gathering space. • The AIASF NEXT/EVOLUTION Conference centered on architecture in support of social justice, and how architects can evolve as designers and business leaders to remain relevant. • This year’s Architecture and the City Festival, Secret City, included over 40 events in September and drew over 2,600 people. • We promoted residential architecture by leading several home tours, including the featured tour “Made in Marin.” September’s San Francisco Living: Home Tours featured four of our members’ prestigious projects. • The ARE Pact supported 41 members pursuing licensure.

We rely on our incredible leaders and staff at the AIASF. Jennifer Jones has now been at the helm as our Executive Director for over three years and continues to work hard with our Board and staff to expand our outreach, influence, and partnerships at local, state, and national levels. We have worked together to improve the core services and support of our committees with new tools, policies, and procedures to be a more effective on behalf of our membership and emerging professionals. Thank you for all that you do as members. You are the core of the organization and the key to our success. Please continue to spread the word of the good work happening here, and get involved and engage with our outstanding programs and people: it’s why we all do this. I’m pleased to welcome Rosa Sheng as our Board President for 2018. Her advocacy, perspective, and leadership will surely guide the chapter through a successful 2018! It has been an amazing and humbling honor for me to serve the AIA San Francisco Chapter as your President.

Paul I. Cooper, AIA AIASF 2017 President

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LOOKING FORWARD TO 2018 If you have not been involved, now is the time to engage with AIASF and support our chapter’s strategic goals to: 1. Promote the Profession 2. Advance the Professional Practice of Architecture 3. Advocate for and Advance Quality of Life in the Bay Area

I am very excited to be your 2018 AIA San Francisco President! In 2018, we have ambitious plans for AIASF, including the third annual NEXT Conference, fourth annual Community Alliance Awards, and fifteenth annual Architecture + the City Festival! But most exciting for me is the five-year anniversary of Equity by Design. If you have been inspired by our research, knowledge and engagement programs in the past, we ask for your support in 2018 to further our ambitious goals for equitable practice in architecture. If you are a firm leader, this is an investment in the professional development and retention of your staff. If you are a staff person, this is a leadership opportunity to champion relevant information about talent retention and success to your firm.

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We are continuing to build upon AIASF Advocates, where firms build a stronger relationship with the chapter by having a representative of the AIASF visit. If you’re interested in a firm visit, reach out and let us know. We are also continuing a tradition of quarterly New Member Orientations, which are attended by board members and committee leaders - and gets new members engaged in committees. And there is the quarterly social mixer called FILLET UP! If you haven’t attended yet, make sure you mark your calendars in 2018. We have exciting and engaging initiatives ahead in the coming year. Please join us in becoming engaged and active citizen architects in 2018!

Rosa Sheng, AIA 2018 President, AIA San Francisco

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE AIASF derives its successes and strength from the skill and knowledge of our individual members. This year the chapter offered opportunities for our members and general public to engage and explore the SF Bay Area built environment in a number of public forums, lectures, exhibitions, tours, as well as networking and professional development programs. As one of the largest chapters among AIA’s 200+ components, we are dedicated to being a resource to the built community promoting architecture and design in the Bay Area, that aims to improve the quality of life. We strive to reach this goal in our mission to provide education, community engagement, advocacy, public outreach, member services, and professional excellence. I hope that you will continue to collaborate and engage with us in 2018. There are many ways to take part in what’s happening at AIASF. Please contact me at jjones@aiasf.org if you are interested in lending your skills and expertise to our efforts. Best,

Jennifer Jones, MS, CAE, IOM Executive Director, AIA San Francisco

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SPONSORSHIP www.aiasf.org/sponsoropportunities

Thanks to our sponsors, we were able to present high quality programs in support of initiatives this year, and expand AIA San Francisco’s impact on the San Francisco Bay Area’s built community. SUSTAINING SPONSORSHIP

PROGRAM SPONSORS

GOLD LEVEL // $10,000 +

Architecture + the City Festival

ARUP Autodesk, Inc. D&J Tile Company, Inc. HOK SmithGroup JJR WolfVision, Inc.

SILVER LEVEL // $7,500

Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc. DPR Construction HDR, Inc. HGA Architects & Engineers

BRONZE LEVEL // $5,000

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson EHDD Guidepost Solutions, LLC Ideate, Inc. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Plant Construction Company, L. P. RMW architecture & interiors Syska Hennessy Group STUDIOS Architecture T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc. TEF Architecture & Interior Design, Inc. Thornton Tomasetti Walter P Moore WEBCOR BUILDERS WRNS Studio

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MEDIA SPONSORS

San Francisco Magazine Modern Luxury Interiors

SILVER LEVEL Nichiha USA Seele, Inc.

BRONZE LEVEL

Devlin McNally Construction West Berkeley Design Loop

Community Alliance Awards California College of the Arts TEF Architecture & Interior Design, Inc. DLR Group | Kwan Henmi

NEXT Conference American Warming & Ventilation (AWV) Autodesk, Inc. ConstructConnect GRAPHISOFT HGA Architects & Engineers Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc. RMW architecture & interiors SAFTIFIRST Fire Rated Glazing Solutions TerraCORE Panels, LLC

Design Awards Presenting Partner PG&E Pacific Energy Center Bronze Sponsors Affiliated Engineers Dealey, Renton & Associates Eckersley O’Callaghan Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc. Handel Architects Rutherford + Chekene Studio VARA Architecture, Urbanism + Design Thornton Tomasetti

Additional Support Received From ConstructConnect Dorken Systems Focus-Grow Bookkeeping Hensel Phelps Construction INTERFACE Engineering OrePac Tyvek Pacific Sash & Design Swinerton Builders Joel A. Tomei, FAIA WR Meadows

PARTNERS 100 Resilient Cities 3M 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center AARP AEBL AGC AIA East Bay AIA Redwood Empire AIA San Mateo AIA Santa Clara Valley AIACC AIGASF ALR/Associated Lighting Representatives ARB Digital Architect Magazine Architectural Record Arterra Landscape Architects Asian Neighborhood Design ASID ASLA - Northern California Association of Architecture Organizations BOMA Build San Francisco Institute Buttrick Projects California College of the Arts (CCA) California Historical Society Cambria CASA UC Berkeley CCA Center for Art + Public Life Center for Architecture + Design Chronicle Books CleanPowerSan Francisco Community Arts Stabilization Trust Contemporary Jewish Museum Cosentino CREW Crossville CUESA David Baker Architects DBIA Dropbox DSEGNARE Exploratorium Friends of Urban Forest Gehl Studio Griggs Systems Hanley Wood Heller Manus HenryBuilt

Herbst War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Houzz IFMA IIDA INTERSTICE Architects Jensen Architects La Cocina LCP/Lowercase Productions LEAP Legrand, North America Little Free Library Lower Polk Neighborhood (LPN) Lutron Marin Builders Association Marin Magazine Mark English Architects Mechanics’ Institute Minnesota Street Project Modern Luxury Interiors Magazine NNWA Oliver Ranch Foundation PARK(ing) Day Port of San Francisco Precita Eyes Muralists Association Premier Scaffold Prospect Silicon Valley PROXY Public Architecture Public Utilities Commission RICS San Francisco Architectural Foundation San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission San Francisco Bike Coalition San Francisco Board of Supervisors San Francisco Building Inspection Department San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Department of Public Works San Francisco Department of the Environment San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission

San Francisco Housing Authority San Francisco Magazine San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development San Francisco Mayor’s Office on Disability San Francisco Planning Commission San Francisco Planning Department San Francisco Public Library San Francisco Public Utilities Commission San Francisco Recreation and Park Department San Francisco Small Business Office and Commission San Francisco Urban Film Festival SEAONC San Francisco SF Beautiful SF Heritage SF Travel SFHAC SFMOMA Sketchy Tuesdays SMPS SPUR Sunday Streets Swissnex Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center The Concordia-Argonaut Hotel Three Sixty One Architecture Toto UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Urban Land Institute San Francisco US Green Building Council Waterworks, San Francisco Wells Fargo Yerba Buena Engineering Zinc Details

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2017 HIGHLIGHTS In 2017, AIASF put on over 450 programs as the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading destination for architecture and design. AIASF offers many dynamic programs and opportunities to explore the local built environment throughout the year. Geographically, AIASF covers San Francisco and Marin counties, and represents over 2,300 members practicing architecture and 4,000 allied community professionals. As a community hub, AIASF encourages its members, committees, volunteers, students, and partners, to propose programs to be considered for presentation at AIASF.

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This year’s Architecture + the City Festival, Secret City, included over 40 events in September and reached over 2,600 people. As a signature event of the festival, San Francisco Living: Home Tours featured four prestigious projects designed by AIASF members.

The ARE Pact program supported 41 members pursuing architectural licensure. Through ARE Pact, AIASF provides members with assignments to peer study groups, team leaders and coaches assigned to groups, free admission to monthly study sessions, and much more.

AIASF’s monthly publication, archSF, is viewed by over 6,000 community members.

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AIASF’s DESIGN AWARDS

AIASF supported the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza to lead a successful international competition for the Harvey Milk Plaza at Castro and Market Streets—a plaza named after the civil rights icon. Out of 33 entries submitted, three finalists were selected. Of those three, the local firm Perkins Eastman took the top honors.

The second annual 2017 NEXT Conference was centered around architecture that promotes social justice, and how architects can evolve as designers and business leaders to remain relevant. In 2018, the NEXT Conference will focus on United Nation’s New Urban Agenda—a bold roadmap to promote sustainable, regenerative, and equitable growth in our cities.

AIASF’s Design Awards program celebrates the best of architecture and urban design in the Bay Area each April. In 2017, the Design Awards Jury took place in Portland, Oregon. The Design Awards Gala was host to over 500 community members, AIASF members, and industry affiliates.

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Photo Credit: 2017 Architecture in the City Festival, Home Tours, SOMA: Loft by Interstice Architects, ©Dirk Wyse Photography

Photo Credit: Rendering courtesy of Perkins Eastman

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ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE FOR JUSTICE BAY AREA

ARCHITECTURAL LICENSING COMMITTEE (ALC)

CHAIR:

Tamara Clarke, AIA // HOK

Roland Lau, AIA // Perkins Eastman Archibald Woo, AIA // Barcelon Jang Architecture

AAJ fosters the exchange of information and knowledge between members, professional organizations, and the public for high-quality planning, design, and delivery of justice architecture.

Serves as an educational resource designed to support individuals in their pursuit of licensure.

The Academy of Architecture for Justice Bay Area (AAJBA) is a local component of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Knowledge Community. AAJBA promotes and fosters the exchange of information and knowledge between members, professional organizations, and the public for high-quality planning, design, and delivery of justice architecture. The AAJBA organizes regular presentations and tours of regional justice projects.

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The Architectural Licensing Committee (ALC) runs three year long programs:

The ARE Pact is a fast-track program designed to help licensure candidates get through the Architectural Registration Examination (ARE). In 2016, 42 enrollees convened in three peer study groups led by recently licensed architects, and engineers. In the spring 30 members completed the Pact by fulfilling their commitment to take all divisions of the ARE. Architectural Registration Examination (ARE) Classes The committee organized 23 ARE classes from April through November, attendance averaging between 15 to 35 students per class, with additional MEP and structural engineering site visits. The majority of attendees were members of the 2017 ARE Pact, for whom instruction was reformatted for the transition of ARE 4.0 to 5.0. This significant revision was prefaced by an invitation to NCARB/CAB to present and brief candidates on ARE 5.0 which will fully transition by June 2018. California Supplemental Examination (CSE) Reviews CSE Reviews are offered in quarterly, two-day (Friday and Saturday) weekend sessions, with between 20 to 30 attendees per class, several of whom came from beyond the Bay Area, as well as out of state, looking to get licensed in California.

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BAY AREA YOUNG ARCHITECTS (BAYA)

BUILDING ENCLOSURE COUNCIL

CHAIR:

Patrycja Dragan, Assoc. AIA // MBH Architects

Christopher Decareau, AIA // Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.

Connects designers, students and newly licensed architects through networking, volunteer opportunities and social events.

Increases awareness of building envelope design as a critical aspect of the successful construction and sustainability of buildings, and fosters the education of building industry professionals regarding proper design, construction, and maintenance of building envelopes tailored to local practices and climate.

Bay Area Young Architects continued its recipe for success in curating a mix of professional, academic, and networking events for the Bay Area design community. The year started off with an educational “OAC+E” panel (consisting of an Owner, Architect, Contractor, and Engineer). The BAYA Firm Tours showcased the range of local architect talents, specializing in everything from sustainability/integrated design to branding strategies, providing insight for young professionals to witness the breadth and scales of the opportunities within the profession. This year along, with monthly happy hours, BAYA featured a new program to the committee, monthly “PopUp” grassroots efforts organized and led by members beyond the steering committee as opportunities for leadership development. BAYA again partnered with AIA East Bay, SEAONC, ASHRAE, and other professional organizations to help open the lines of communication within the industry for both educational and informal sessions, and actively provided resources for students who were entering the profession through portfolio seminars, culminating with a Jumpstart Your Career panel discussion.

BEC-SF is a committee of AIA San Francisco, and is part of a network of Councils in cities around the U.S. initiated by AIA National and the National Institute of Building Sciences. To the goal of increasing awareness of building envelope design as a critical aspect of the successful construction and sustainability of buildings, and to foster the education of building industry professionals regarding proper design, construction, and maintenance of building envelopes tailored to local practices and climate, the committee curated a series of lunch and learns that encompassed presentations from Meeting Energy Code with Continuous Insulation and Cladding Supports to Exterior Wall Flame Spread Requirements of NFPA 285 and Mid-Rise Building: Considerations When Selecting Glazing.

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COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (COTE) CHAIR: Mark Kelly, AIA // BAR Architects Elizabeth Radtke, Assoc. AIA // STUDIOS Architecture

The Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate design practices that integrate built and natural systems, and enhance both the design quality and performance of the built environment. COTE serves as the voice of AIA architects for sustainable design, building science, and performance as a way to generate solutions to address the needs of our industry and the community, including our clients, by: • Extending public outreach to general forums and audiences, especially youth • Knowledge sharing between the AEC industry and developers, and building operators and tenants as to the costs and benefits advancing sustainability/highperformance standards to meet the goals of AB-32 and beyond • Calling for legislative change to facilitate increased design and construction industry transformation to realize net-zero buildings as the “normal” for an eventual net-positive or “restorative” built environment

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2017 Event Highlights include: • Politics and Architecture: Supporting Our Values and Our Profession panel • Solar in the City workshop • Water Conservation Showcase – participating in the organizing committee, as panel moderators, and an exhibitor at Pacific Energy Center • Soapbox on Sustainability (SOS) series’ The Climate Change Discussion: How to Include Everyone discussing approaches to foster common ground around climate and the environment, recounted on the AIASF COTE blog • EPDs/HPDs with Urban Fabrik /COVO • Architecture + the City: Secret Presidio Tour – led by Rob Wallace, discovering the green design within this national landmark

DESIGN FOR AGING COMMITTEE

EQUITY BY DESIGN (EQXD)

CHAIR:

Tom Brutting, FAIA // HKIT Architects

Lilian Asperin Clyman, AIA // WRNS Studio Julia Mandell, Assoc. AIA // Wilson Associates

Brings together interested parties to foster design innovation and disseminate knowledge necessary to enhance the built environment and quality of life for an aging society.

Equity by Design is a call to action to realize the goal of equitable practice for everyone, advance the profession and communicate the value of architecture to society. Our mission is to understand the pinch points of career progression and promote the strategic execution of best practices in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of our profession’s best talent at every level of architectural practice.

Design for Aging (DFA) celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a strong network of more than 100 subscribers with wide participation beyond architects and AIA members, including industry leaders, providers, gerontologists, landscape architects, and interior designers interested in fostering good design for those who are aging into senior years. Monthly meetings and presentations revolve around current topics in senior living design, including repositioning of current elder communities for more Memory Care, logistics for building senior (affordable) housing in the Bay Area, and universal design concepts. A tour of the new assisted living community Belmont Village in Albany, co-presented with AIA East Bay, was attended by more than 50 people. The San Francisco chapter committee is closely connected with other affiliated components across the country in the AIA Design for Aging Knowledge Community, with committee chair Tom Brutting recently moving from the AIA National component committee organizer to be on the advisory group. As an affiliated group of architects in this area of practice, members hosted a booth at the national conference for senior living, LeadingAge, and participates in Environments for Aging.

The Equity by Design (EQxD) Committee’s work and associated programs for 2017 mirrored the structuring frameworks of the 2016 Equity in Architecture Survey: Career Dynamics and Career Pinch Points. Organized as quarterly focus areas, key findings from the Survey and the most popular break-out sessions from the 2016 EQxD Symposium served as the foundation for monthly meetings and the following quarterly workshops: • Winter: Disrupting Bias • Spring: Articulating Values • Summer: Charting Your Path • Fall: Designing Culture The four topics also informed EQxD Metrics Deep Dive, related blog post content and #EQxDActions resources on the www.EQxDesign.com website throughout the year. Along with EQxD Hackathon: Architecture and the Era of Connections held at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando, these participatory gatherings provided productive means for professional development, broadened the understanding of what contributes to meaningful engagement in our work, and elevated the conversation regarding equity to a national level.

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FELLOWSHIP NOMINATING COMMITTEE

HEALTH AND SCIENCE COMMITTEE

CHAIR:

David Meckel, FAIA // California College of the Arts

Phillip Bahr, AIA // DGA Lamona Wood, AIA // Perkins Eastman

AIA San Francisco’s Fellowship Nominating Committee reviews the submission packets of possible Fellowship candidates and nominates the strongest candidates to the National office.

In the heart of a leading hub of biotechnology research and health-focused communities, the AIASF Health & Science Committee is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving practice of Bay Area professionals engaged in the design, construction, and operations of healthcare facilities, healthy communities, and research facilities that drive innovation and discovery.

The AIA Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to Fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of the architect as an individual, but also honors before the public and the profession a model architect who has made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level. Each summer, AIA San Francisco’s Fellowship Nominating Committee convenes for a concentrated review of Fellowship submission packets from the chapter membership and nominates the strongest candidates to the National office.

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AIASF’s Health + Science Committee kicked off 2017 with a red-carpet event, 15 Minutes of Fame, featuring process innovations using cardboard by Boulders Associates, updates on projects from CannonDesign, and the low-down on creating a net zero energy allelectric building from Integral Group. A panel discussion of the latest Pharmacy regulations with representatives from Sutter Health, El Camino Hospital, and leading engineers and architects discussed not only the technical requirements from the newly issued OSHPD guidelines, but also ambiguities in the current code and their unintended consequences affecting healthcare providers and patients. Healthcare planners from Stanford, Kaiser, and Sutter shared their perspectives on medical planning from the owner’s point of view. A tour of the Stanford Health Center Emeryville Project included Stanford, KMD, and Hansel Phelps’ sharing their experiences, challenges, and successes of working as a Design-Build team to convert an existing building shell into a specialty ambulatory clinical center. OSHPD previewed their latest initiatives and upcoming changes. Then rounding out the year, HGA and Perkins+Will led a delightful tour of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion.

HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMITTEE

HOUSING COMMITTEE

CHAIR:

Elisa Skaggs, Assoc. AIA // Page & Turnbull Lisa Yergovich, AIA // Page & Turnbull

Paul Adamson, FAIA // TCA Architects

HRC presents programs to promote awareness and appreciation of the diverse historic resources issues, including historic building codes, endangered buildings, and preservation technologies.

The Housing Committee aspires to engage and educate members and the community through discussion, events, and informal sharing of expertise to further excellence in housing policy and design.

The Historic Resources Committee began 2017 with their annual mixer in February to catch up with friends and colleagues, and discuss upcoming events. In June the HRC hosted an investigative tour of the restored Bayview Opera House, led by Ruchira Nageswaran of Knapp Architects, together with Arfaraz Khambatta from the Mayor’s Office on Disability and Rommel Taylor of DPW Building Design and Construction. The tour highlighted the integrated approach to restoring the opera house and improving accessibility to better serve the community and was followed by a happy hour at the historic Sam Jordan’s bar. Coinciding with Architecture + the City in September, the annual Historic Pub Crawl visited Mission neighborhood bars with connections to Prohibition and LGBTQ history in San Francisco. A sold-out tour of the rehabilitation work on St. Joseph’s Church and its adaptive reuse as office space wrapped up the program year.

The Housing Committee committed to an examination of housing assessed at several scales, from the affordable apartment to the urban composition at large, approaching the concept of housing from the context as a whole, with the shared public spaces we occupy as extensions of our homes in the city. Recognizing the housing crisis from a wide-angle view, in March the committee composed the half-day Housing Forum: Envisioning San Francisco in 2100 to imagine ways in the near-to-distant future that the urban form we know now might adapt to accommodate our rising population. Moderated by the venerable architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright, the forum included expert speakers from the public and private sectors— developers for profit and non-profit, planners, engineers, a renters’ advocate, writers and architects—highlighting an important conclusion that we are more united in our ambitions for positive change than we had previously imagined, and that we could build upon this unity. Members of the committee also advised on the curation of the yearly SF Living: Home Tours and the preceding Architects’ Forum: Private Lives of Private Spaces panel moderated by Kenneth Caldwell. Momentum from these events grew the committee’s membership and agenda to address the housing crisis with direct engagement of public officials and community representatives. This effort will be developed for presentation at the NEXT Conference in the spring/ summer of 2018.

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LATINOS IN ARCHITECTURE (LIA)

MENTORSHIP COMMITTEE

CHAIR:

Homer Perez, AIA // SEPHORA Americas Diana Montoya Webber // Peter Engel, Architect TBC

Alexandria Evans, Assoc. AIA // Backen, Gillam, Kroeger Architects James Kaentje, AIA // SmithGroupJJR

LiA serves and supports local communities, strengthens networks between design professionals and enriches our practices through diverse cultural views.

Promotes collaborative learning by bringing people with different career experiences and perspectives together. This program introduces a new intergenerational model for partnering mentors and mentees, reinspiring the way architects think about mentorship.

In the first joint LiA-CASA (Chicano Architectural Student Association) Alumni Scholarship cycle, a partnership expanded under the fiscal sponsorship of the Center for Architecture + Design, the fund dispersed $10,200 among 52 underrepresented, in-need architecture students at the School of Environmental Design at Cal Berkeley, garnering a mention in ByDESIGN. Furthering LiA’s goals to foster participation in educational, professional and community-oriented programs, their From an Architect’s Bookshelf: Book Drive collected almost 300 books from architecture firms over the summer for redistribution to young students throughout Bay Area schools in 2018. LiA PERSPECTIVAS 2017 exhibited the works of 15 architects, urban planners, artists, photography, and sculpture curated around this year’s Architecture + the City theme “Secret City.” The co-presentation at California College of the Arts had over 300 people attending the opening reception, followed by an associated lecture from Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao. Local firms Barcelon Jang and A+D Architecture were featured in the tandem PERSPECTIVAS exhibition at the Texas Society of Architects convention in Austin, where the first convening of all LiA chapters across the country coalesced and the session moderated by San Francisco architect Sandra Vivanco called Breaking Down Walls: Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture Practice became a focal point for building alliances to affect culture changes in the industry.

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The Mentorship Program encompasses four core events: an annual party, this year hosted by Interface; the program kickoff in April, featuring keynote speaker Peter Bohlin, FAIA; the mentor-mentee SpeedMatch; and the Group Announcement held in June at One Workplace, followed by the program’s first Mid-Summer Meetup hosted by Zinc Details. The 2017 program cohort comprises 50 participants organized into seven groups of mixed emerging to seasoned professionals, including three people joining an alumna group, that meet throughout the year. In 2017, the steering committee added a Portfolio Review day for local architecture students, and arranged ever-popular educational excursions, including a waitlisted tour of the recently renovated/restored 9th Circuit Court of Appeals led by Thomas Rex Hardy with a hardhat viewing of its seismic base isolation system, an annual joint Mentorship and BAYA build day with Habitat for Humanity, and docenting Architecture + the City’s Home Tours. Participation in the global, opensource PARK(ing) Day event was expanded from the committee’s own parklet installation inhabiting the street in front of the Hallidie Building to adding a touring critique of other parklet sites, published in their first blog post on the new AIASF web platform.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michael Chambers, FAIA // HGA Architects and Engineers Peter Mueller, AIA // SmithGroupJJR

The Professional Practice Committee identifies significant issues and develops and deploys tools, resources, and educational opportunities in support of more effective local practice. In its first year of existence, the AIASF Professional Practice Committee explored what exactly, or perhaps inexactly, professional practice encompasses. The classic dichotomy seems to always swing between business and technology. The committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge to address both aspects in useable and applicable explorations has identified a series of three programs that are being developed for presentation in 2018 around the theme Integrated Practice in the 21st Century, with the subtopics BIM LOD, Early Builder Input Design, and Project Delivery Systems. The committee looks forward to growing its membership with outreach to small firms and women-owned firm practitioners.

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PUBLIC POLICY & ADVOCACY COMMITTEE (PPAC) CHAIR: Neal J.Z. Schwartz, AIA // Schwartz and Architecture

The mission of the AIASF Public Policy & Advocacy Committee (PPAC) is to strengthen the constituency for progressive design in the Bay Area through direct engagement with neighborhood, advocacy, political, regulatory and legislative bodies. PPAC’s steering committee reviewed and honed their mission statement and Strategic Plan that was developed in its inaugural 2016-2017 year. The committee continued its collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department on residential design review policies and procedures—including proposed revisions to the residential design guidelines, tantamount to demolition policies, and historic review—putting in place systems for Policy Rapid Responses as well as programming for longer-term advocacy efforts, primarily focused on building relationships at all neighborhood and institutional levels.

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SMALL FIRMS COMMITTEE CHAIR: Jack Verdon // Verdon Architects

Provides a forum and resources to address the unique issues that are of concern to the small business practitioner and promote small firms work. The Small Firms Committee provides a platform to collaborate and share resources on issues relevant to small firm growth and practice with monthly roundtable meetings, online discussion forums, and outreach to the broader local membership, adding 29 new members to a growing following of 221 members. The San Francisco Planning Department continues to be an area of important interest for the group. Meetings with Kate Connor and Marcelle Bourdreaux discussed the existing process and proposed changes to the Accessory Dwelling Unit program to bring more residential units online quicker. The committee coordinated as an SF Planning Department ADU public outreach event on this at AIASF. The group also met with Maia Small to stress the importance of design professional project advocacy in the Planning Department Design Review process.

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The committee organized the 2017 NEXT Conference’s first-day deep-dive symposium Many Paths Home: the State of Homelessness in San Francisco, which included presenters from the Mayor’s Office; SF Homeless Coalition; Julia Laue, AIA at SF Public Works; and Richard Stacy, FAIA, and Vanna Whitney, AIA, of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. Discussions with business consultants Hana Brown and Michael Bernard shared office management systems for profitability, fee negotiations, and client management; while presentations by Jim Zack, AIA: (Architect as Builder), John Russell from WaterSprout (Domestic Grey Water & Rain Collection Systems), and Matthias Oppliger, R.A., ETH Dipl.-Ing (Anchor Bay House: Passive Haus Case Study) rounded out professional practice topics. Small Firms members, in conjunction with the AIA Redwood Empire chapter, donated time to the Local Assistance Center in Santa Rosa to answer questions to help those in need to rebuild the 7,500 homes and business loss in the Tubbs fire.

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2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOMINATING COMMITTEE

2017/2018 FELLOWSHIP NOMINATING COMMITTEE

This committee is charged with making recommendations of members to serve on the AIA San Francisco Board of Directors and the AIA California Council. MEMBERS:

AIASF Nominating Committee reviews the submission packets and selects the AIA Fellows to be recognized with the AIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society.

Doug Tom, FAIA, Nominating Committee Chair TEF Design

MEMBERS:

Aaron Baumbach, Assoc. AIA Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

David Meckel, FAIA |Chair California College of the Arts

Charles Higueras, FAIA Department of Public Works

Paul Adamson, FAIA TCA Architects

Daniel Perez, AIA Studio Perez

Marsha Maytum, FAIA Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

Michael Robbins, AIA Studio Robbins Cortina

Dennis Paoletti, FAIA Paoletti Consulting

Lynn Simon, FAIA Thornton Tomasetti

Ruth Todd, FAIA Page & Turbull Doug Tom, FAIA TEF Design

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Nominations were reviewed by a jury consisting of prominent members of the community.

The 2017 Design Awards Jury took place in Portland, Oregon.

MEMBERS: Doris Anna Guerrero, AIA Gensler San Francisco Mark Jensen, AIA Jensen Architects Marsha Maytum, FAIA Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

MEMBERS: Brian Cavanaugh, AIA Architecture Building Culture Amy Donohue, AIA Bora Architects Joann Le, AIA DAO Thomas F. Robinson, AIA LEVER Architecture Carrie Strickland, AIA Works Progress Architecture

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Lilian Asperin, AIA WRNS Studio

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Cary Bernstein, AIA Cary Bernstein Architects

Aaron Hyland, AIA CannonDesign PRESIDENT-ELECT Rosa Sheng, AIA SmithGroup JJR TREASURER Stan Lew, AIA RMW Architecture & Interiors ASST. TREASURER Carol Corr, AIA Kaiser Permanente SECRETARY Adrianne Steichen, AIA PYATOK Architecture + Urban Design ASST. SECRETARY Paul Adamson, FAIA TCA Architects

Jessica Lane, AIA EHDD Daniel Perez, AIA Studio Perez Richard N. Pollack, FAIA POLLACK consulting Michael Robbins, AIA Studio Robbins Cortina Mark Roddy, FAIA SmithGroup JJR ASSOC. DIRECTOR DESIGNATE Patrycja Dragan, Assoc. AIA MBH Architects STUDENT DIRECTOR Ania Burlinska CCA M.Arch Candidate PUBLIC DIRECTORS David Englund WRNS Studio Shaun Landman ARUP Simin Naaseh Forell/Elsesser Jennifer Suzuki Long & Levit LLP

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AIACC BOARD, AIASF MEMBERS Meredith Bynum, AIA Flad Architects Karen Cribbins-Kuklin, AIA Gensler Mark English, AIA Mark English Architects David Gast, AIA Gast Architects Nora Klebow, AIA Nora R. Klebow & Associates Rona Rothenberg, FAIA County of Alameda

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AIA SAN FRANCISCO PAST PRESIDENTS

John Wright, AIA 1882 Henry C. Macy, AIA 1883 Augusrus Lover, AIA 1884-89 Seth Bobson, FAIA 1890 George H. Sanders, FAIA 1891-95 Seth Babson, FAIA 1896-1903 H.A. Schulze, AIA 1904-06 Alfred Pissis, AIA 1907-09 William Curlett, FAIA 1910 William Mooser II, FAIA 1911 John Golen Howard, FAIA 1912 George B. McDougall, AIA 1913-14 William B. Faville, FAIA 1915-16 Edgar A. Matthews, AIA 1917 John Bakewell, Jr., FAIA 1918 Syvain Schnaittocher, AIA 1919-20 George A. Applegarth, AIA 1921-22 George W. Kelham, AIA 1923 J.S. Fairweather, AIA 1924-25 John Reid, Jr., AIA 1926-27 Harris C. Allen, FAIA 1928-29 Frederick Meyer, FAIA 1930 Henry H. Gutterson, AIA 1931-32 John J. Donovan, AIA 1933 Albert J. Evers, FAIA 1934-35 Will F. Corlett, AIA 1936-37 Warren C. Perry, FAIA 1938 James H. Mitchell, FAIA 1939-40 A Appleton, AIA 1941-42 Eldridge T. Spencer, FAIA 1943-45 Andrew T. Hass, FAIA 1945-46 Hervey P. Clark, FAIA 1946-47 Wm.Clement Ambrose, AIA 1948 Donald B. Kirby, AIA 1949 Ralph Pollack, AIA 1950-51 Francis McCarthy, FAIA 1951-52 Albert Williams, AIA 1952-53 Donn Emmons, FAIA 1953-54 Wendell Spackman, AIA 1954-55 Wayne Hertzka, FAIA 1955-56 William Stephen Allen, FAIA 1956-57 William Corlett, AIA 1957-58 Donald Powers Smith, AIA 1958-59 Richard Banwell, FAIA 1959-60 George Rockrise, FAIA 1961 Cabell Gwathmey, FAIA 1962 Alton Lee, AIA 1963 Eugene E. Crawford, FAIA 1964 Burton Rockwell, FAIA 1965 Robert B. Marquis, FAIA 1966

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William Watson, AIA 1967 Henrik Bull, FAIA 1968 George A. Agron, FAIA 1969 Karl E. Treffinger, FAIA 1970 Elmer Boisai, FA.IA 1971 William B. McCormick, FAIA 1972 Howard H. Friedman, FAIA 1973 John Russell Levikow, FAIA 1974 Allen F. Rosenberg, AIA 1975 John O. Merrill, FAIA 1976 Darryl T. Roberson, FAIA 1977 Donald E. Wudtke, FAIA 1978 Robert E. Allen, FAIA 1979 Jon Peter Winkelstein, FAIA 1980 Peter H. Dodge, FAIA 1981 Ronald G. Brocchini, FAIA 1982 Robert H. Hersey, AIA 1983 Charles F. Schrader, FAIA 1984 Christopher W. Raker, AIA 1985 Donald W. Kennedy, FAIA 1986 Michael J. Stanton, FAIA 1987 Richard E. Walson, AIA 1988 Charles N. Eley, Jr., FAIA 1989 Alexander C. Bonutti, AIA 1990 Gordon H. Chong, FAIA 1991 Bobbie Sue Hood, FAIA 1992 James R. Follett, FAIA 1993 Clark D. Manus, FAIA 1994 Michael E. Willis, FAIA 1995 R. K. Stewart, FAIA 1996 Thomas B. Gerfen, FAIA 1997 Douglas G. Tom, FAIA 1998 Nora R. Klebow, AIA 1999 Bryant Rice, AIA 2000 Gene Schnair, FAIA 2001 Jeffrey Heller, FAIA 2002 Beverly Prior, FAIA 2003 Charles A. Higueras, FAIA 2004 J. Paul Bohn, AIA 2005 Anne Laird-Blanton, AIA 2006 Zigmund Rubel, AIA 2007 Jennifer Devlin, FAIA 2008 Don Rudy, AIA 2009 William Roger, FAIA 2010 Michael Bade, AIA 2011 Carolyn Kiernat, AIA 2012 John Kouletsis, AIA 2013 Marianne Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, FAIA 2014 Irving Gonzales, AIA 2015 Aaron Hyland, AIA 2016

AIA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS

The AIA Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. This year we are honored to have six distinguished members of our chapter elevated to Fellow. The 2017 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony at the AIA Convention 2017 in Orlando. The 2017 Jury of Fellows from the AIA elevated 178 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows. Out of a total AIA membership of 90,000, there are fewer than 3,200 distinguished with the honor of fellowship and honorary fellowship. With the addition of the 2017 Fellows, AIA San Francisco is honored to have 304 members in the College of Fellows. AIASF FELLOWS ELEVATED IN 2017

Maria Theresita Ciprazo, FAIA General Services Administration

Sam Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amico, FAIA SMITHGROUP JJR

Daniel R. Kenney, FAIA Page Southerland Page, Inc.

Bruce Toman, FAIA Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Sharon Woodworth, FAIA Perkins+Will

Willy Yu, FAIA Kris Yao | Artech

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