AIA SWO President’s Message If you made it to the Eugene Celebration this summer, you might have wandered through AIA-SWO’s 24th Annual People’s Choice Awards competition. Local architects and chapter members submit their best projects to be displayed in a public space. Celebrationers are encouraged to vote for their favorite designs. This year, we stretched out in a new space—the Broadway Commerce Center lobby— on the southwest corner of Kesey Square.
Did I mention this month is also our chapter’s 60th birthday? Yes, we’ll have pieces of an octagonshaped cake for those who stop by during the Art Walk. Friday evening, we will also be introducing you to our new charitable organization, Architects Building Communities. ABC’s mission is “to support public education, community outreach, and well-informed public involvement in planning design excellence for our communities and public spaces.”
This show demonstrates design excellence and the importance of architects in our community. It helps a lot that so many of our members do such good work. You’ll see the winners in this insert, picked from about three dozen submittals. As we look ahead to our next 60 years of architects serving this community, This Friday, October 5, we’re celebrating we’re thrilled to be working together our return to downtown. Our new with the city of Eugene for the best Octagon office at 92 E. Broadway will future we can build together. Check out double as a display space, showcasing the center for a flavor of their work and good design in our community. (It helps “Envision Eugene” with all of us, as you that the space has 14 large windows.) thumb through this section. Enjoy Come to this Friday’s Art Walk to “Making Great Places.” congratulate winners and see their work. Kurt Albrecht, AIA President
Landscape architecture is the profession which applies artistic and scientific principles to the research, planning, design and management of both natural and built environments. Practitioners of this profession apply creative and technical skills and scientific, cultural and political knowledge in the planned arrangement of natural and constructed elements on the land with a concern for the stewardship and conservation of natural, constructed and human resources. The resulting environments shall serve useful, aesthetic, safe and enjoyable purposes.
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MAKING GREAT PLACES | fall 2012
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7 Pillars
7 Pillars envision eugene
A Community Vision for creating great places
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It takes all of us working together to build the vision.
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Provide Housing Provide Housing Affordable to All Affordable to All Income Levels Income Levels
Promote Compact Urban
Promote Compact Urban Development and Efficient Development and Efficient Transportation Options Transportation Options
Low Density Agricultural
Oak Savannah
Protect, Restore and Protect, Repair, and Protect, Restore and Protect, Repair, and Enhance Natural Enhance Neighborhood Enhance Natural Enhance Neighborhood Resources Livability Resources Livability
Wetlands/Rural
Industry
Transit Corridor
Provide Ample Economic
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Provide for Adaptable,
Provide Ample Economic Provide for Adaptable, Plan for Climate Change Opportunities for All Flexible and Collaborative Opportunities for All Flexible and Collaborative and Energy Resiliency an MembersImplementation Implementation CommunityCommunity Members
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PUBLIC/INSTITUTIONAL
MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
AIA SWO Chapter Sponsors LINN WEST MAY O CHO R’S ICE
LCC BUILDING 10 Rowell Brokaw Architects
THE PEARL Dustrud Architecture
HUMMINGBIRD Nir Pearlson Architect, Inc.
LANDSCAPE
UNBUILT PROJECT
AIA,CSI,CDT
ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATION CONSULTANT LLC
2012 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
930 Lawrence Street Eugene, Oregon 97401 Phone: 541-206-0140 (Message) bogie07@comcast.net
Paul Edlund, FCSI Consulting Specification Writer
Each year, the American Institute of Architects, Southwestern Oregon Chapter (AIA-SWO) in collaboration with the American Society of Landscape Architects, Willamette Valley Section of the Oregon Chapter (ASLA) sponsors the People’s Choice Awards for Architecture. The intent of these awards is to educate and inspire our fellow citizens by showcasing architecture, interiors and landscape architecture projects created within the Southwestern Oregon Chapter area or by members of our Chapter. The program demonstrates to the public the role of the architectural profession in enhancing the built environment.
MAYOR’S CHOICE
PACIFIC NW PUBLISHING 2fORM Architecture PC
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WILLAKENZIE CROSSING PiVOT Architecture
1643 Oak St./Eugene, Oregon 97401-4022 Phone 541-485-1941/Fax 541-343-8466 pauledlund@msn.com
THE FINISHING TOUCH Stangeland & Associates
FIRST ON BROADWAY Rowell Brokaw Architects
INTERIORS
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
BARNHART DINING CENTER Robertson Sherwood Architects
RIVER ROAD MINI HOUSE Nir Pearlson Architect, Inc.
Erik Chaparro 2 tickets
James Westfall $100 gift certificate
Mimi Dvorson 2 tickets
Christina Dairs 2 tickets
YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
Lois Reefer 2 tickets
Each ballot cast for the People’s Choice Awards doubled as a drawing entry for one of nine prizes. The winners and the prizes they have won are listed here. Thank you so much to our sponsors!
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Mike Sager 2 tickets
Kathern Dugan 2 tickets
Betsy Hunter 2 tickets
Rainer Rothbacher 2 tickets
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