WMR Silver Medal Submittal - Loos

Stephen K. Loos, FAIA The American Institute of Architects 2021 Western Mountain Region Silver Medal Submittal

Preface

“Steve’s commitment to the AIA’s goals and missions is without equal in my personal experience and his prolific talents are continuously benefiting our region, our profession and the Institute. His resume is nothing short of remarkable, and his performance throughout is hallmarked by endless enthusiasm and boundless energy and a positive “anything can be done” attitude which is an inspiration to me and all who come to know him.”

Edward A. Vance, FAIA 2019 Chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows

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CONTENTS Sections 1

Cover Page

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Candidate Biography

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Statement of Contributions

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Supplemental Information

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Letters of Reference

Graphic Materials

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Section 2 | Candidate Biography Stephen K. Loos, FAIA

Architect Education 1969 - Bachelor of Architecture | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York 1972 - Master of Urban & Environmental Studies Professional Status Registered Architect State of Maryland Registered Architect State of West Virginia* Registered Architect State of Colorado NCARB Certified* Registered Architect State of New Mexico* Registered Architect State of Michigan* *Expired

Professional Career 2008-present The Mulhern Group | Architect | Denver, CO 2004-2008

ACLP Architects | Principal | Denver, CO

1992-2004

RTKL | Principal | Baltimore, MD

1979-1992

O’Malley & Assoc. | Principal | Baltimore, MD

1976-1979

Richard P. Browne Assoc. | Principal | Columbia, MD

1972-1975

Hobart D. Wagener Assoc. | Designer | Boulder, CO

1969-1970

Charles A. Haertling, Architect | Intern | Boulder, CO

1969

Summer Intern

Professional Recognition 1969

AIA School Medal for Excellence in Architecture | University of Colorado

1992

Principal, RTKL Associates | Baltimore, Maryland

2008

Fellowship | American Institute of Architects

2008

Richard Upjohn Fellow, American Institute of Architects

Affiliations American Institute of Architects Architectural Education Foundation, Permanent Trustee 2013-present | Rocky Mountain National Park Volunteer in Parks – 27 years Elk Bugle Corps

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Service to the Institute

AIA

National Board Liaison (presidential appointment), American Architectural Foundation Board of Regents/AIA 2013-2015

Ex-Officio Member, Advisory Group, International Committee 2008

Chair, AIA/UIA Gold Medal Nomination Committee 2011

Guest Speaker - Sustainability Issues, Annual Meeting, Automotive Wholesalers Association 2008

Ex-Officio Member, AIA Strategic Directions Committee 20092010 Secretary (elected), AIA National 2008-2009 Member, Executive Committee, AIA Board of Directors 2008-2009 Chair, AIA Secretary’s Advisory Committee 2008-2009 Board Liaison (presidential appointment), American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)/AIA Board of Directors 2008-2009 Member (presidential appointment) Executive Committee for AIA EVP/CEO Search Committee 2009 Guest Speaker – Sustainability Issues, AIA Wyoming 2008

Guest Speaker – Sustainability Issues, Annual Design Conference, AIA Utah 2008 Member, AIA Secretary’s Advisory Committee 2007-2008 Chair, Strategic Initiatives Sustainability Discussion Group, AIA Board of Directors 2007-2008 Board Representative (presidential appointment), AIA/NCARB Reciprocity Impediments Committee 2007 WMR Director, AIA Board of Directors 2006-2008 Member, Communities By Design Committee 2006

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Western Mountain Region Council Participant 2000-present

Chair, 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee 2008

Regional Representative, Senior Fellows Committee 2019

Regional Director (elected) 2006-2008

Participant, Strategic Planning Summits 2017-2019

Inaugural Recipient, Jason Pettigrew Memorial Leadership Award 2006

Representative (selected), Junior Fellows Committee 2017-2018 Regional Representative to WMR – AIA Colorado 2013-2015

Secretary (elected) 2001-2003 Jury Chair – Design Awards, AIA New Mexico 2002

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Colorado Chair, College of Fellows Committee 2013-2018 Member, Steering Committee, 2013 AIA National Convention 2011-2013

Team Observer, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado at Denver, NAAB Accreditation 2001 Founder, Young Architects’ Gala 1999

Chair, Access and Affordability for Emerging Professionals Committee 2011-2013

Chair, Nominating Committee 1999

Participant, “Repositioning” & New Organizational Structure Retreat 2013

Participant, Collaborative Strategic Planning Retreat 1996

Founder, College of Fellows Art by Architects Art Show and Sale Member, Continuing Education Task Force 2002 Chair, Statewide Membership Recruitment Committee 2001 Founder, Former Presidents Roundtables 2001 Juror, Concrete Institute International Awards 2001 Board Liaison, Architectural Education Foundation 2000

Member, New Office Space and Furnishings Task Force 1999

AIA Colorado North

Architect of the Year Award 2009 President 1998 Coordinator, “Partnership Program” 1996 Chair, Membership Recruitment 1995 Member, Awards Advisory Board 1994

President 2000

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Section 3 | Statement of Contributions

Stephen K. Loos, FAIA began his service as the

AIA Colorado North Chapter President in 1998, some 21 years ago. Since then, he has been a dedicated participant in the Western Mountain Region, serving in a variety of leadership positions and seeking further involvement that extends far beyond his terms in office.

Steve’s commitment to the AIA accelerated when he moved back to Colorado after some 23 years of living and practicing on the East Coast. Returning to his native Colorado without many resources, he found his contacts and associations largely disappeared while he was away. However, the collegial and welcoming communities of AIA Colorado and AIA Colorado North on his return marked an auspicious turning-point. Their genuineness and friendship of these organizations overwhelmed him, and Steve committed to ensuring it would endure—a commitment that has since defined his AIA engagement.

Steve seeks every opportunity for involvement in the AIA. Starting as AIA Colorado North President, he steadily advanced through the ranks. His tenure as AIA Colorado President led to involvement and leadership in the Western Mountain Region, finally culminating with service on the AIA National Board of Directors.

For Steve, this march through the ranks of AIA leadership was important, as his focus has remained on finding mechanisms to build community for everyone and give back at every level of the Institute.

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND RE-ORGANIZATION OF WMR ARCHIVES Having a sound institutional memory is an essential component of any organization’s sense of “self” and its social culture. Immediately on being elected WMR Secretary in 2001, Steve began a comprehensive review of the WMR Archive, which at the time comprised three large boxes of unorganized files and papers.

Steve systematically sorted through this vast volume of material, putting it in chronological order, eliminating extensive duplication, and reassembling the material into a more logical and effective record of the Western Mountain Region’s history.

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COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND UPDATE OF WMR BYLAWS Upon completion of the archive project, Steve set about on a comprehensive review and updating of the WMR Bylaws—a long-needed endeavor. Just as with the archives, the Bylaws document is an important, ongoing component of our organization’s culture and functionality. Steve’s comprehensive review of the document led to recommendations for extensive modifications in wording and updating to align with current organization practices. Steve’s review effort culminated in WMR leadership’s approval of all revisions.

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND UPDATE OF THE WMR OPERATING POLICY MANUAL Steve’s review and update of this essential internal policy manual—the first in seventeen years since its creation in 1991—resulted in innumerable modifications of the language to meet current practices, a complete update of “job descriptions” for organization officers, and an overhaul of regional budget policy, honor awards policy, and WMR Regional Conference and design awards policy and procedures. Regional leadership approved the revised document, which has remained effective and in use today. Effective communications have been forever one of the most daunting challenges by all levels of the American Institute of Architects. The Western Mountain Region is no exception to this ongoing dilemma, a fact made more difficult by our huge geographic expanse and the diversity of our components. Steve’s position as WMR Secretary enabled the foundational knowledge and understanding necessary to complete extensive revisions to regional goals and national initiatives, as well as helping frame and preserve the success stories and challenges of WMR’s state and local components. In this role, he improved communication between components at WMR meetings, including Leadership Discussions where local chapter and state component leaders shared their victories and challenges. The result has allowed open sharing of best practices to better serve our members.

COMPREHENSIVE MEETING PACKAGES Early in Steve’s WMR service, informational materials distributed at WMR business meetings were one-page handouts with widely varying types of content. Steve saw a need to organize and strengthen these communications tools and developed a single format for all future WMR business meeting materials. The new packet includes an agenda, minutes from the previous meeting, a Treasurer’s Report, a Regional Director’s Report, State Reports of significant local endeavors, and all information considered relevant for regional leadership.

This content and format have remained unchanged since Steve’s term, though these packets have moved to digital format for easier distribution and use.

DIGITAL COMMNICATION TOOLS Building on experience as Regional Director on the AIA National Board, Steve incorporated efforts to implement digital communications techniques at the national level regionally. Starting with an eRoom program for WMR, Steve fostered its use for regional communications and led the transition to SharePoint as National’s platforms changed.

REGIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE CALLS Steve saw an opportunity for improved regional communications by instituting regular leadership conference calls before every regional meeting—held with enough lead time to allow for discussion to enable more efficient regional business meetings. As with many of the communications tools Steve put in place, these calls remain a backbone of effective regional communications to this day. While serving as Senior Regional Fellows Representative in 2019, Steve once again used regular conference calls among the components’ Regional Fellows Representatives to ensure sharing of issues and ideas among the region’s Fellows.

WMR YOUNG ARCHITECT REGIONAL DIRECTOR (YARD) Building on Steve’s AIA Colorado experience creating the AIA Colorado Young Architects Gala (YAG) and his service as AIA National Board Liaison to the Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), Steve sought to ensure that WMR was doing its part to mentor young professionals. Under his term as WMR Regional Director, Steve led the effort to include WMR’s YARD representative as a full, voting member of the WMR Executive Committee, giving new strength and credibility to advancing the voice of young people in the organization.

WMR PETTIGREW LEADERSHIP AWARD In recognition of Jason Pettigrew’s significant contribution as a champion of the licensure process and his untimely death in 2004, Steve helped to establish the award that bears his name. With 14 years of experience selecting award recipients, he has helped build a list of recipients that reads like a “Who’s Who” of young leaders from every state in the region. This program introduces the region’s emerging professionals to AIA leadership at the highest levels through attendance at AIA National’s Grassroots Conference and the annual WMR Regional Conference. Today, the Pettigrew Award is the most effective leadership development program developed by the region and any of its individual components. This year, as Senior Fellows Regional Representative, Steve has been forging an alliance with WMR’s emerging professionals to strengthen and expand the program in the future.

WMR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION As Chair of the WMR’s Anniversary Celebration Committee, Steve established and chaired the jury for a design competition for the creation of a regional logo in a year-long celebration. He stipulated the winner had to be a young professional. The prize was an all-expenses-paid attendance at that year’s WMR Regional Conference. A young Nevada professional, Michael Vinh, AIA, designed the winning logo, which was used in all conference publications.

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IBM Thornwood Corporate Technical Institutes Westchester County, NY

Section 4 | Graphic Materials | Projects

IBM Corp. Technical Institutes Westchester County, NY Following selection of his winning design in an invited competition, Stephen Loos, FAIA led a multi-disciplinary design-build team of professionals to develop the design, document it, and build the 286,000 SF, hightech corporate education facility on a wooded, hilltop, 87-ace, site in upstate New York. Residentially scaled to suggest an estate-like compound, the self-contained, multifunction campus provides students with a holistic living and learning experience. Educational facilities include a central communications control center, a presentation auditorium, classrooms, and a library, all extensively fitted out with state-of-the art audio-visual, communication, and computer resources. The residential complement includes 250 guestrooms, a 250-seat dining facility with an outdoor dining terrace, and a fullyequipped gymnasium and workout facilities. All of the facilities surround a central greenspace with arcaded walkways for all-weather access. The complex won the AIA Baltimore Honor Award for 1986 and was published in Architecture Magazine.

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Section 4 | Graphic Materials | Projects

Democracy Plaza Bethesda, MD Located at the gateway of Washington, D.C.’s “high technology corridor” along I-270, the complex consists of two 10-story office buildings and an 11-story, 271key Marriott Suites Hotel for a total of approximately 710,000 SF. Bracketing a central courtyard, the design establishes a strong sense of place with an axial layout for the central office building and symmetrical “wings” for the hotel and second office building. Each building has a well-defined arrival area and direct, second-level bridge connections to adjacent parking structures.

The combination of efficient buildings and structured parking yielded approximately 40% of the site as open space. The project received the Maryland Chapter of the NAIOP Award of Excellence in 1990 and an Award of Excellence Award for Commercial Projects over 150,000-SF from the National Association of Home Builders and National Commercial Builders Council.

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Democracy Plaza Bethesda, MD

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Section 4 | Graphic Materials | Projects

Willow Grove Park Philiadelphia, PA Built on the site of the former Willow Grove Amusement Park—once a very popular destination in suburban Philadelphia and the site of many band concerts by John Phillip Sousa—the new regional shopping center was designed to capitalize on this history and update the amusement park theme. Working on precedents of earlier multilevel shopping arcades such as the Cleveland Arcade, Willow Grove Park provides a skylit promenade of expressed trusswork with a definite period character. Custom lighting, graphics, a threedimensional animal mobile, fountains, and a cluster of vintage carnival banners all work to animate the interior. The three-story, 336,000 SF center is anchored with five major department stores to create a powerful regional economic generator on its 86-acre site. The center accommodates approximately 155 specialty shops, 12 restaurants and food ships, and a 600-seat dining court known as “The Grove.”

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Northfield Retail Center Denver, CO The Northfield Retail Center is a mixed-use town center for the north end of the Stapleton New Community built on the site of the old Stapleton Airport, a longestablished feature of eastern Denver. Northfield’s 120-acre site accommodates approximately 600,000 SF of development in a thoughtfully master-planned town center development.

The center’s vibrant streetscape was considered vital to helping establish the desire for an upscale aesthetic.

As Project Architect for portions of the streetscape design effort, Steve was responsible for many of its defining features: an “anchor” fountain in a forecourt to the 18-screen Harkins Theatres complex, an interactive splash-play fountain, and a children’s tot lot with themed bear climbing sculptures. The diverse character of the facilities included in the project allowed for unique and rewarding design challenges and opportunities.

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Section 4 | Graphic Materials | Projects

DeMatha Catholic High School

Damatha Catholic High School

Hyattsville, MD

Hyattsville, MD

The Mulhern Group, under the project leadership of Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, completed two significant components of its comprehensive master plan for DeMatha Catholic High School’s urban campus along busy Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland. The first component was a new streetscape image for the campus along the thoroughfare to establish a modern and revitalized campus entrance with new parking facilities, a trellised arcade, new street furniture, and two new entrance pavilions.

The Mulhern Group under the project leadership of Stephen K. Loos, FAIA completed two significant components of its comprehensive master plan for DeMatha Catholic High School’s urban campus along busy Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland. The first component is a new streetscape image for the campus along Route 1 which establishes a completely new entrance image for the campus with new parking facilities, a new trellis-defined arcade, new street furniture, and two new entrance pavilions.

The Convocation Center is a three-story, 96,669 SF multi-purpose building set on the main campus’s eastern edge. A primary component of the program is a basketball arena to replace an old gym in the original building. In addition, the Convocation Center incorporates locker rooms, weight-room/ exercise facilities, classrooms, an alumni lounge, and public facilities to accommodate the crowds attracted to DeMatha’s outstanding basketball program.

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The Convocation Center is a new, three-story, 96,669 s.f. multi-purpose building set on the eastern edge of the main campus. The primary component of the building is a new basketball arena to replace the old gym in the campus’ original building. In addition, the Convocation Center incorporates new locker rooms, new weight-room/ exercise facilities, new classrooms, an alumni lounge, and public facilities to accommodate the crowds DeMatha’s outstanding basketball teams generate.

DeMatha Catholic High School

Hyattsville,15MD

Section 4 | Graphic Materials | Projects

Loos Residence Morgantown, WV

The project’s wooded 2.95 acres is set in the prestigious new Falling Water residential community north of Morgantown, West Virginia. Loos was commissioned to design and supervise the construction of a 5,276 SF residence. To take advantage of a local landmark and amenity, Cheat Lake, the design is positioned on the site to offer a dramatic overlook of the lake and the surrounding landscape.

The residence’s “bungalow” styling reflects the owner’s passion for the typology and its era. The 2½-story residence incorporates a great room, family room, library, kitchen, dining, a “cupola” study reached via a spiral stair, a master bedroom suite and three bedrooms to accommodate visitors. A compact game room, wine storage, and hobby space are accommodated in a partial basement.

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Access to the residence is via a gently curving driveway to a porte-cochere and covered entry porch. The house’s form dominates an arrival auto courtyard with direct access to an attached, multi-car garage. Extensive outdoor deck and patio areas take advantage of the project’s sweeping site and views.

Wapiti Crossing Estes Park, CO Estes Park, Colorado is a community challenged by a lack of affordable housing. Constrained by extreme topography, Estes is also on the front line of an urban/ wildlife interface. Located in a valley surrounded by steep peaks and extreme wilderness, this moderatelypriced residential development on a rare 5.882-acre site of open land is zoned for multi-family residential.

The parcel is also a favorite hangout on the route local elk herds take on their way to the nearby Estes Park Golf Course.

The proposed master plan generates 32 clustered townhome units that capture a western mountain ambiance with steeply pitched roofs, deep overhangs, exposed stone, wood siding, covered porches and, recognizing the likelihood of extreme weather conditions, covered parking. The clustered layout maintains generous east-west open space corridors to allow the movement of the elk herds to their golf course destination.

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AIA National Secretary Steve Loos, FAIA addressing the membership at the 2010 AIA Convention in Miami, Florida

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Supplemental Information

“At my initial meeting, Steve was immediately interested in the work of the AIAS and how he and the AIA could better support emerging professionals.”

Jonathan K. Bahe, Assoc. AIA 2006-07 AIAS President

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Section 5 | Supplemental Information

Supporting Emerging Professionals From the beginning of his involvement with the American Institute of Architects, Stephen K. Loos, FAIA has advocated for emerging professionals, encouraged their growth, and showcased their talent. His mission is to elevate their voices and further their role in leading the Institute into the future.

AIA COLORADO YOUNG ARCHITECTS’ GALA In 1998, AIA Colorado President Ned White charged Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, then President-Elect of AIA Colorado, to develop a program for the Chapter to recognize the state’s emerging professional community and engage them in shaping the Institute’s future. Mr. Loos assembled a committee of local professionals and young architects and led the establishment of what would become the AIA Colorado Young Architects Award Gala (YAAG). The effort took most of 1998, with the committee meeting at least weekly to develop the program, set the agenda, and plan and organize the event.

The first YAAG celebration took place on April 15, 2005. Attendance was high, and enthusiasm for it to become an annual event was immense. The committee planned for the Gala’s Young Architect of the Year Award recipient to be made chair of the following year’s event.

YAAG has been an annual event since its founding, continuing to provide high-profile recognition of the work of students and young professionals.

At the Gala, AIA Colorado, in partnership with the Architectural Education Foundation, awards annual academic scholarships of $20,000 to $25,000 to honor outstanding members of the emerging professional community in undergraduate and graduate programs.

A high point of the evening is the announcement of the results of a competition among emerging professionals. The competition focuses on developing opportunities for students to showcase their talent at

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an early stage in their careers. YAAG gives awards for excellence in construction documents, rendering, photography, furniture design and construction, model building, and the fine arts including sketching, drawing, painting, pottery and sculpture. In addition, the University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning awarded its Alpha Rho Chi Medal and the Henry Adams Medal and Certificate.

Supporting Emerging Professionals THE JASON PETTIGREW MEMORIAL LEADERSHIP AWARD Jason Pettigrew, Associate AIA was WMR’s first Associate Director, an Associate Member of the AIA Colorado Board of Directors, and Chair of the fifth YAAG celebration. With Jason’s untimely death in a climbing accident in 2004, a leadership group chaired by WMR Regional Directors Randy Byers, AIA, and Glenn Fellows, FAIA, determined the organization would memorialize the life and contributions of this especially valued member of the Colorado architectural community. Steve was part of that meeting and the initiative to establish a program to honor Jason. The WMR memorial leadership award that emerged annually funds the attendance of at least one regional emerging professional at both the AIA National Grassroots Conference in Washington, D.C. and the Western Mountain Region Conference.

The Jason Pettigrew Memorial Leadership Award is a much sought-after honor among young professionals throughout the region. First awarded in 2005, fourteen young professionals have received the honor. Many of these recipients engage with the AIA and make exceptional contributions at all levels. 2006 recipient, Virginia Marquardt, AIA Arizona, became Chair of the National Associates Committee (NAC). 2014 recipient, Katie Wilson, AIA Wyoming, received the Bethune Fellowship Medal in recognition of her service and to signify her continued commitment to the mission for the AIA and its Strategic Council. All award recipients have made significant contributions at the local, state, and national levels of the Institute. The Jason Pettigrew Memorial Leadership Award has become the most effective and successful leadership development tool ever conceived by the region and its six components.

With the proposed dissolution of the Institute’s regions, the future of the Jason Pettigrew Memorial Leadership Award is uncertain. As 2018-2019 WMR Senior Regional Director, Steve worked tirelessly to preserve

and potentially expand the program by convincing the WMR’s six component states to commit to funding and implementing the program as a collective. This effort’s aim was to expand the program so together, the six state chapters might name six Pettigrew Scholarship recipients, instead of only one from the region. As changes to the region develop, Steve continues to advocate for the region’s components to meet the need to carry on with this exceptional leadership development program.

2011 recipient, Cara Hlad from Colorado, CO with Regional Directors Rick Licata, AIA and Ed Vance, AIA.

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Section 5 | Supplemental Information

Supporting Emerging Professionals AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS (AIAS) Near the close of his term on the AIA National Board of Directors, AIAS President Jonathan Bahe invited Steve to become AIA Board Liaison to the AIAS Board of Directors. With a two-year term, 2008-2009, this position provides an interface to share common issues and concerns between the AIAS Board and the AIA National Board.

The AIAS Board Liaison serves as a resource, brings perspective on the AIA National Board, and provides advice and feedback as needed. The Board Liaison participates in annual AIAS Board meetings, the annual AIAS Grassroots Conference in Washington, D.C., and the AIAS Forum.

Like the AIA, AIAS elects a new President annually.

Over Steve’s two-plus years of involvement, he worked closely with Jonathan Bahe, 2007, Andrew Caruso, 2008, and J.W. Blanchard, 2009. During their years as AIAS president, the three also served as members of the AIA Board of Directors. Steve provided mentorship and coaching to aid these individuals to overcome the potentially intimidating national board dynamic and become active, vocal participants in the meetings. His work ensured the confidence and clarity of thought for these AIAS presidents, which facilitated their ability to make significant contributions.

Steve’s concluding AIAS Board project involved the development of guidelines for future Board Liaisons based on his model, so future liaisons would become successful from the very beginning of their terms.

The final task of every Board Liaison is to help the AIAS Board-Elect find his/her replacement. Steve mentored AIAS members to select Edward T. Zeigler, FAIA, Principal, President & CEO of CGD Architects of Greenville, South Carolina as his successor.

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“Steve has not only attempted but has been overwhelmingly successful in developing creative and effective programs that encourage commitment and involvement of emerging professionals, the general membership, and past leadership, the “institutional memory” of the Institute.”

D.A. Bertram, Esq., FAIA Fellowship Sponsor

Select Honors and Awards Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, has received numerous honors and awards across his almost three decades of involvement as a member of the American Institute of Architects.

AIA NATIONAL Member, 2013 AIA National Convention Committee, 2011-2013 Chair (named), AIA/UIA Gold Medal Nomination Committee, 2011 Representative (appointed), AIA EVP/CEO Search Committee, 2010 Candidate, First Vice President/President-Elect/2013 Institute President, 2010 Secretary (elected), Board of Directors, American Institute of Architects, 2008-2009

Award of Merit, IBM Corporate Technical Institute, The Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1986 AIA REGIONAL Regional Director (elected), Executive Council, Western Mountain Region, 2006-2009 Regional Secretary (elected), Western Mountain Region, 2001-2003 Member, Executive Council, AIA Western Mountain Region 2001-2003 AIA STATE

AIA Board Liaison (invited), American Institute of Architecture Students, 2007-2009

Chair, Access and Affordability for Emerging Professionals Committee, AIA Colorado 2011-2013

Fellowship, American Institute of Architects, 2008

Architect of the Year, AIA Colorado North Chapter, 2009

Upjohn Fellowship, American Institute of Architects, 2008 Representative (appointed by AIA Board), NCARB Reciprocity Impediments Committee, NCARB, 2007 Member, 2001 AIA National Convention Committee, 1998-2000 PROJECTS Democracy Plaza Award of Excellence, Washington, D.C./Suburban Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, 1990 Democracy Plaza Award of Excellence, National Commercial Builders Award for Commercial Projects over 150,000 SF, 1990

Member, Colorado Tomorrow Taskforce, 2004 President, AIA Colorado 2000 Member (elected), Board of Directors, AIA Colorado 1998-2001 President (elected), AIA Colorado North Chapter, 1998 PROJECTS Award of Merit, Volan Design LLC Building Remodel, AIA Colorado North Chapter, 1996 Award of Excellence, Jefferson County Awards, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Photovoltaic/ Solar Testing Facility, February 8, 2000

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Section 5 | Supplemental Information

Speaking Engagements Stephen K. Loos, FAIA has made himself available for speaking presentations whenever possible to help make significant contributions to the Institute, profession, and citizens of the Western Mountain Region.

AIA NATIONAL 2009-2010 | AIA Grassroots Conference - AIA Board of Directors Presentations as AIA National Secretary

2001 | National Renewable Energy Laboratory Conference - Presenter | Innovations in Laboratory Design - Labs for the 21st Century

2009-2010 | AIA National Convention - AIA National Business Meeting as AIA National Secretary and presiding as Moderator/Chair for the AIA Annual Business Meeting.

1998 | AIA Colorado North Annual Design Awards Gala - Master of Ceremonies

2008 | CAWA Annual Meeting - Guest speaker on Sustainability Issues.

AIA REGIONAL 2008 | AIA Utah Design Conference - Sustainability Roadshow presentation of AIA Sustainability Initiatives and Programs 2007 | AIA Wyoming Winter Meeting Sustainability Roadshow presentation of AIA Sustainability Initiatives and Programs 2002 | AIA New Mexico Design Awards Presentation of the Juried Design Awards as Chair AIA STATE 2008 | AIA Colorado Annual Design Awards GalaMaster of Ceremonies AIA LOCAL 2002 | AIA Colorado Board of Directors Colorado Community Design Network overview presentation 2001 | AIA Colorado Community Design Network Workshop - Master of Ceremonies

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1998 | AIA Colorado North Summerfest - Master of Ceremonies

Select Publications Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, advances knowledge and understanding of the profession, the Institute, profession, and citizens of the Western Mountain Region through numerous publications as both the subject and author.

NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS IBM CORPORATE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

MISCELLANEOUS

Conference Center Planning and Design, A Guide for Architects, Designers, Meeting Planners, and Facility Managers, By Richard H. Penner, 1991 (Contributor)

“Physics and Astronomy Building, The Johns Hopkins Limited Competition, Broadsheet, Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, March/April, 1986

“Clients, IBM Returns to Its Roots”, Architecture Magazine, June, 1986

“Perimeter Center North Building, Commons Steps out of Unusual Design for Atlanta Office,” RTKL Newsletter, Fall, 1982

“By Design For the Corporation,” The Baltimore Sun Magazine, by Edwards Gunts, November 16, 1986

DEMOCRACY PLAZA

“Guest Articles written as AIA Board Liaison to the American Institute of Architecture Students,” Crit Magazine, American Institute of Architecture Students, 2007-2009 (Author)

“RTKL Selected and Current Works,” The Master Architect Series II, Images Publishing Group, 1996 (Author)

“A Magnificent Enthusiasm, Robert Reamer was the Master Builder behind the Old Faithful Inn,” Western Art and Architecture, Spring/Summer, 2008

RTKL Newsletter, Fall, 1988 and Fall, 1990

LOCAL PUBLICATIONS

WILLOW GROVE PARK

“Monthly Articles written as the 2000 AIA Colorado President,” AIA Colorado Newsletter, 2000

“IBM Competition,” RTKL Newsletter, Winter, 1983

“Innovation Pays Off for Philadelphia Center, Shopping Center World, July, 1965 “High Tech Development Trends Emerging,” Corporate Real Estate Executive, International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, by Lauren McCracken, May, 1988 “RTKL Brings New LIfe to Willow Grove Park, RTKL Newsletter, Fall, 1986

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Section 5 | Supplemental Information

Energy-Conscious Design and Sustainability THE NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY In 1992, after two decades practicing on the east coast, Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, returned to his native Colorado and joined the small, specialized firm, James D. Copeland Architects, Inc. Copeland had established expertise in highly specialized laboratory and high-technology design. When Loos joined, the firm had a standing-order contract with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. The contract focused on the design and construction of highly specialized laboratory facilities using energy-conscious design. Strategies included siting, passive heating and cooling, natural ventilation, and forward-thinking, energy-conserving materials and construction methods.

Over 14 years, Steve designed and helped implement a wide range of renewable energy laboratory projects on the South Table Mountain campus in Golden, Colorado.

The first was the Alternative Fuels User Facility (AFUF), designed to facilitate research into alternative fuels. A series of energy-focused projects followed including the Photovoltaic/Solar Testing Facility (PSTF), the NREL Shipping and Receiving Facility, the WIND Test Facility (WTF), and a major renovation and expansion of the Field Test Laboratory Building (FTLB), and a major expansion of the Solar Every Research Facility (SERF) (the “flagship” headquarters facility for NREL). Steve performed additional energy-sensitive laboratory design work with Syntex Chemicals, the Higher Education and Advanced Technology Center, the Rocky Mountain Manufacturing Academy, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

AIA STRATEGIC INITIATIVES DISCUSSION GROUP FOR SUSTAINABILITY During his first year on AIA National Board of Directors, the board selected Steve to Chair the Strategic Initiative Discussion Group for Sustainability, which became the

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Sustainability Discussion Group (SDiG). In 2007, the National Board was working to define its direction and approach to the looming energy crisis and issues of energy-conscious, sustainable design. SDiG’s mission became to help develop the objectives, principles, and timeline for advancing leadership in these developing concerns. The Group worked closely with the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) to rapidly develop plans and programs for implementation.

SDiG’s first effort was the development of 50to50, a how-to resource to help architects and the construction industry in moving forward toward the AIA’s public goal of a minimum 50 percent reduction of fossil fuel consumption in buildings by 2010 and carbon neutrality by 2030.

50to50 is a product of the Institute’s Sustainability Discussion Group (SDiG), a task force of the AIA Board of Directors that was formed to seek action on the critical, focused, measurable, and achievable priority of carbon reduction. The 50 strategies outlined in SDiG’s 50to50 report provide readily available and effective tools and techniques to have an effective and immediate impact on architects’ ability to achieve significant carbon reduction.

These strategies span the spectrum from broad-based site and planning objectives to specific, building-based concepts. The 50to50 report spun off several other SDiG “products,” the Sustainability 2030 Toolkit, the Sustainability 2030 Green Meeting Guidelines, the Sustainability Road Show, and an evaluation of the three leading sustainability rating systems.

As SDiG Chair, Steve led the task force to form an Institute in-house speakers’ bureau to hold the Sustainability Road Show in 2008 for all interested members and components. He was instrumental in training other AIA Board presenters and became a leading participant in the effort with presentations for AIA Colorado, the Wyoming AIA Winter Meeting, the AIA Utah Design Conference, and the 2008 Annual Meeting of the California/Nevada/Arizona Automotive Vehicles Association (CAWA) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

SDiG’s programs and initiatives coalesced to become the AIA 2030 Challenge—the Institute’s primary sustainability initiative—and signified the early and prescient involvement

Importance of the Western Mountain Region

required constant, high level communications among the region’s members. He took on the challenge of completely reshaping regional communications systems.

The Western Mountain Region comprises 627,403 square miles. This immense area covers the extremes of the earth’s environment, from the bitter cold of the northern Rockies to the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert. The region also comprises all the most extreme challenges to resilient architecture and design. The region’s design community answers these challenges with a devotion to place, intense environmental stewardship, and an unwavering commitment to providing design that is appropriate, meaningful, and inspirational.

Beginning with the overhaul of the regional archives, the rewriting of the Regional Bylaws and the Operating Policy Manual, he instituted regular conference calls among regional leadership. These sessions provided orientation from new members, information sharing on upcoming conferences, and best practices for seasonal meetings. To enhance ongoing communications among the leadership, Steve also instituted the first digital “home base” for continuing discussions ever applied at the regional level.

Now, as Senior Director of the WMR Regional Fellows Representatives, he is instituting many of the same techniques to improve understanding and discussion among the group’s diverse members.

THE REGIONAL CONFERENCE As a native Coloradan, with the rugged terrain, majestic mountains, dramatic canyons, and desert landscapes as a backdrop, Steve advocates for the benefit of the WMR’s rotating conference venue on the Institute’s leaders and members. The region’s awards program is effective in highlighting the very best work offered by members of the six states to inspire creative and exceptional design.

THE LEADERSHIP PIPELINE Completing his term as AIA Colorado President two decades ago after years as a local representative to WMR meetings and conferences, Steve ran successfully for Regional Secretary and Regional Director. His rise serves as evidence of Western Mountain Region’s highly successful leadership pipeline to national AIA service. This understated leadership recruitment program has allowed relatively unknown members to progress “through the ranks” to the highest levels for leadership in the region and nationally.

ON EMERGING PROFESSIONALS As Steve’s AIA leadership career progressed, his focus on emerging professionals—the future of the organization and profession—has intensified. During his term as WMR Regional Director, he pushed to have the WMR Young Associate Regional Director (YARD) become a full voting member of the WMR Council Executive Committee. This effort has brought dynamic young talent such as Michelle Acosta to Executive Committee deliberations.

In 2004, Steve became part of formative discussions on the creation of the Jason Pettigrew Memorial Leadership Award, the most effective leadership development program in the region.

ON COMMUNICATIONS In rising to WMR’s Regional Secretary, Steve sought to transform the desultory communications he’d seen from the regional organization He believed that maintaining and sustaining the WMR’s values of contextual design, environmental stewardship, and community advocacy

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AIA National Secretary Stephen K. Loos, FAIA speaking at the AIA National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

The following professionals have known Stephen K. Loos, FAIA well and are able to speak to his qualifications for the WMR Silver Medal.

TERRANCE BROWN, FAIA Architect Emeritus Corrales, New Mexico 2000 WMR Silver Medalist CYNTHIA FISHMAN, AIA Principal | Biomimicry Design Alliance Denver, Colorado 2019 AIA Young Architect of the Year NATHANIEL HUDSON, AIA, NCARB Principal | Form Gray Studio Reno, Nevada 2021-22 AIA Board of Directors JOHN A. PADILLA, AIA Principal | JAP Architects Santa Fe, New Mexico 2018 WMR Silver Medalist EDWARD A. VANCE, FAIA, NCARB Principal EV&A Architects Las Vegas, Nevada 2014 WMR Silver Medalist 2019 Chancellor, AIA College of Fellows

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TERRANCEJ. BROWN, FAIA ARCHITECT EMERITUS PO Box 1 CORRALES, NEW MEXICO, 87048 TBLAZESTAR@AOL.COM C 505-350-1641

June 1, 2021 Distinguished WMR Silver Medal Jury

Re: Stephen Loos, FAIA

It is an honor to recommend Stephen Loos, FAIA for the Western Mountain Region Silver Medal for his dynamic leadership and exceptional service to AIA Colorado North, AIA Colorado, AIA WMR and AIA National. Stephen provided our profession with enhanced public outreach, visibility, and vitality. He is an outstanding role model for all architects, especially young architectural students, and interns. His leadership at regional and state levels is remarkable but he is distinguished by his superior AIA National leadership. I understand what is required to earn the distinction of the WMR Silver Medal and am surprised he has not already received this esteemed honor.

Stephen's distinguished service with the American Institute of Architects is a powerful testament to his commitment to our profession. I have known Stephen since 2000, when I was the Senior WMR Director, and Stephen was an emerging leader within AIA Colorado North. In fact, he was eventually elected WMR Secretary, and followed me as WMR Director. I witnessed Stephen's steady rise within the lnstitute's leadership ranks and the results of his successful and unifying initiatives and programs across the country. His momentous dedication, focus and enthusiasm for serving the architectural profession at the national level distinguishes him. Stephen has mentored students and young professionals for over two decades. His fellow National Board members recognize him as a leader with vision, who brought insight and camaraderie to the AIA while raising the value and insight of professional service for our 90,000 AIA members.

Stephen should be considered for the WMR Silver Medal for his unfaltering advocacy, commitment to, and diplomacy on behalf of the AIA. As both WMR and AIA National Secretary, Stephen clarified the business of the AIA and our region. He brought together individuals and components with enthusiasm and collegiality. His service regionally has significantly unified our six states. These efforts also have had a direct impact on the AIA repositioning on a national and international level. · Stephen Loos, FAIA is a powerful advocate for our profession. The numerous letters of support from distinguished architects across the USA attest to Stephen's accomplishments. I enthusiastically support his nomination and urge your selection of Stephen for the WMR Silver Medal.

WMR Silver Medal AIA Edward C. Kemper Award AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award A/A Richard Upjohn Fellow (twice)

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June 10th, 2021 Western Mountain Region Honor Awards Jury The American Institute of Architects Dear distinguished members of the WMR Awards Jury, I am pleased to advocate for Stephen K. Loos, FAIA, for the 2021 AIA Western Mountain Region Silver Medal. Through my current service within our organization, I have found passion committing to future leaders and professional initiatives within our region, however notable individuals prior to myself helped build the framework that much of my own leadership has grown from. Stephen Loos is one of those leaders and has demonstrated time and time again an unwavering commitment and substantial level of engagement for the advancement of this profession for our future generations.

I was first introduced to Stephen through a mutual colleague and mentor of mine, the 2012 WMR Silver Medal recipient Ric Licata, FAIA. Through this, I admired Stephen’s accomplishments in practice, but even more so, his commitment to service and especially the initiatives that laid the seeds to more prosperous future generations of architects. This philosophical approach to architecture manifests itself well in his service to the AIA at large but more so, it’s rooted in the direct contact he has with everyone he meets. Almost a decade after first meeting Stephen, I had the pleasure of working with him together on the WMR Council.

His volunteer leadership has been extensive, serving the AIA in a “vertical” manner from his local component to his state [AIA Colorado], AIA Western Mountain Region, and the National Board of Directors. I am very proud of my work with him most recently within the Western Mountain Region Council. While Stephen recently served as the College of Fellows Representative to the Council while I was a Director, many of the items we were able to work on together began over a decade ago when he was a Director of the region himself. Perhaps most important of many, the WMR Jason Pettigrew Scholarship now on its 16th year. While helping found this monumental program, Stephen has put boundless energy and craft to advocate for and implement methods of endowing the Pettigrew Scholarship. He has worked with me, providing invaluable guidance on increasing the breadth and reach of this program and thus, the positive impact it has on our region’s emerging leaders. His years of volunteer commitments and countless moments of positive impact provide unparalleled opportunities for countless future leaders from within the WMR. Stephen has been widely recognized for both his design and leadership abilities throughout his professional career.

Beyond this, however, and perhaps most importantly, he truly understands the service of mentorship and the irreplaceable footing it gives for our profession’s youth to transform voice into action. He has translated incredible success in practice to a level of generosity, openness, and energy of sharing that is rarely seen in a profession often so devoted to the work itself. Embodying this combination, Stephen has become a truly rounded professional, deeply embedded in the profession, the experience of the many diverse individuals and communities he serves, and in creating new inroads into leadership for young people. His notable achievements and unwavering investment into our profession’s future merit regional recognition. I support his nomination for Western Mountain Region Silver Medal.

Respectfully,

Nathaniel Hudson, AIA, NCARB

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June 18, 2021

Stephen K. Loos, FAIA - Candidate for 2021 AIA WMR Silver Medal

Dear members of the Jury: It is with great pleasure that I write you today extending my support for Stephen K. Loos, FAIA to receive the 2021 AIA Western Mountain Region Silver Medal. Having known, worked, and served with Steve in many capacities for over fifteen years in service to the Institute I can speak to his record of service to the profession and the greater AIA community. I have witnessed Steve’s leadership, his passion for service, and commitment to advocacy for the members of the American Institute of Architects at local, state, regional and national levels.

I have been fortunate to serve in many capacities with many talented architects with the Institute, and Steve stands out as one of the best and most committed. Through his dedication and commitment to serving the members he has impacted the practice of architecture in the Western Mountain Region. His commitment to the next generation of architects is evident in his support of the efforts to have a dedicated position on the WMR Board for the Young Architect as a Regional Director. As a member of the AIA WMR Board, he worked to establish the WMR Jason Pettigrew Leadership Award that recognizes Associate AIA leaders early in their careers providing them access to the AIA National Grassroots Leadership Conference and WMR Regional Conference.

Steve’s leadership at the regional level is evident through his work with archives organization for the region along with a comprehensive bylaws and operating policy manual update. He also developed the WMR’s comprehensive meeting packages allowing the members of the region to be noticed and prepared for the business of the region at the annual meetings. His commitment to improving communications within the Region is evident in his improvement of the regional leadership conference calls and he instituted the regional digital communications effort allowing the six states in the region to be informed and prepared for robust and informed deliberations at the regional meetings.

It has been an honor to have served with Steve as a member of the WMR Board of Directors, as a WMR Director on the National Board, and as Vice-President on the AIA National Board. I count myself lucky to have served on the AIA National Board while Steve served in the capacity of AIA National Secretary. This experience motivated me to seek the position of AIA Secretary and his mentoring allowed me to successfully serve as AIA National Secretary working everyday to meet his level of commitment to our members.

Steve’s passion for the AIA and the profession is limitless. He always leads by example, and you cannot help but want to mirror his commitment to the members. He not only meets expectations but exceeds them while encouraging and inspiring those around him. As the WMR looks for the best example of regional leadership, I cannot think of a more deserving candidate than Stephen K. Loos, FAIA. I respectfully request that the AIA WMR Honors Awards Jury give serious consideration of Steve for recognition of his service to the AIA by presenting him with the 2021 AIA WMR Silver Medal.

Sincerely, John A. Padilla, AIA

AIA WMR Regional Director 2007 - 2009 AIA Vice-President 2011 - 2012 AIA Secretary 2015 - 2016 FPAA North Region Vice-President 2017-2020

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AIA College of Fellows July 7, 2021 Dwayne Eshenbaugh, AIA Chair | Honor Awards Jury AIA Western Mountain Region Re: Letter of reference for Stephen K. Loos, FAIA Dear Distinguished Members of the Jury, It is my distinct honor to write this letter of support for Stephen K. Loos, FAIA as he seeks the AIA WMR Silver Medal. I have personally served with this outstanding leader on the Regional and National Boards of the AIA and have come to admire his deep and continued dedication to the institute, the profession, and society making him an unquestionable candidate for this recognition.

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Steve and I have known each other for many years, certainly more than ten of them and I am indeed fortunate to call him my friend. Through that time, I have come to realize how greatly his talents and his work have elevated our profession transcending local, state, regional and national levels. Steve’s impact has been nothing short of extraordinary.

It is broadly known that Steve has served as our National Secretary and that he deftly led the Institute playing a critical role communicating and informing our members nationally.

But it is less widely understood that his committed leadership has transformed our the Region’s archives, by-laws, operating policies, comprehensive meeting packages, and digital communication tools which have enhanced the value of the institute resulting in substantial improvements in services to our members that are still in effect today.

His commitment to use his talents to further our goals and missions is without equal in my personal experience and his prolific talents are continuously benefiting our region, our profession and the institute. His resume is nothing short of remarkable, and his performance throughout is hallmarked by endless enthusiasm and boundless energy and a positive “anything can be done” attitude which is an inspiration to me and all that come to know him.

The WMR Silver Medal recognizes an individual architect who has made significant contributions to the Institute, the profession and the region while transcending their local boundaries. Stephen Loos, FAIA has done just that and so much more. For these reasons I strongly urge you and the jury to grant him this distinct honor.

Respectfully, Re esp spectfful u ly,

Edward A. A Vance, Vance FAIA Founder & CEO | EV&A Architects

2019 Chancellor | AIA College of Fellows Richard Upjohn Fellow 2014 AIA WMR Silver Medalist 2006 AIA Nevada Silver Medalist

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“As the highest honor presented by the Western Mountain Region, the Silver Medal recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the Institute, the profession and the citizens of the Western Mountain Region, their community, and who has transcended local boundaries in making these contributions.

Steve’s contributions to the profession through the Institute have been nothing less than extraordinary. His impact will be felt for generations to come.”

Glenn H. Fellows, FAIA Principal Emeritus | SMPC Architects | Albuqueque AIA College of Fellows | Regional Representative Richard Upjohn Fellow 35

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