“Nilew Urbanism”
and alternative
futures explored
In this issue...
Events (pp. 1-3)
Design (pp. 4-5)
Marketing (p. 6)
The Network (p. 7)
Practice (pp. 8-9)
Bricks (pp. 10-11)
Opportunities (p. 12)
Fame (pp. 13-15)
Membership news (p. 15)
Calendar (p. 16)
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February 1998
Volume 85, Number 2
In a special BSA presentation on February
18, non-profit housing developer and theo-
rist Robert Kuehn examines urban, subur-
ban, and rural growth in a presentation titled
“The ‘New Urbanism’ and Rebuilding Com-
munity.” Kuehn’s presentation, the February
installment in the BSA Lecture Series, grows
from his belief that “our cities have become
less liveable, less walkable, less hospitable
...smaller towns are distressed as main
streets are replaced by malls...and subur-
ban sprall continues to erode our country-
side.”
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Kuehn believes that the “New Urbanism”
movement addresses these concerns by
prescribing a set of planning principles for
building or rebuilding our cities and towns.
Kuehn’'s presentation, which allows time for
audience interaction, begins on February 18
with a 5:30 pm reception at the BAC, 320
Newbury St., Boston. There is no charge for
BSA members; all others are welcome and
pay $3.00 or may join the BSA at the door.
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EVENTS
Event:
Sponsors:
Dates:
Times:
Place:
RSVP:
Cost:
Event:
Date:
Time:
Place:
RSVP:
Cost:
1/6 - 2/27
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“The Chestnut Hill Waterworks”
—a BSA exhibit of this extraor-
dinary architectural and engi-
neering achievement (see p. 3)
Suffolk Construction Company
and several others (see p. 3)
1/6-2/27
9 am - 5 pm weekdays
The Architects Building
not required
free
2/18
BSA Lecture Series — housing
developer and preservation/ur-
ban design wizard Bob Kuehn
provides this month’s presen-
tation on “new urbanism” and
rebuilding community (see p.
1)
2/18
Reception: 5:30 pm
Lecture: 6:00 pm
BAC, 320 Newbury St.,
Boston
not required
$3.00 (free for BSA members)
Special Events in February
2/19
2/26
Event: BSA President's Reception —
this year we honor Ann_ Event: “Work-in-Progress” —Wood and
Hershfang, a local and national Zapata principal Carlos Zapata
leader in the development of provides this month's opportu-
transportation policy (see p. 3) nity for architects and interns to
Host: BSA President Peter Kuttner AlA critique a significant project still
Date: 2/19 in design (see p. 3)
Time: 6:00 pm Hosts: Douglas McCallum AIA, Chair
Place: The Architects Building Afshan Bokhari, Co-Chair
RSVP: 617-951-1433x221 "Works-in-Progress"
Cost: $15.00 donation supports BSA Date: 2/26
public education programs Time: 6:00 pm
Place: The Architects Building
RSVP: paid reservations should be re-
ceived at the BSA no later than
two days prior to the event; those
who pay at the door
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Fast-approaching BSA deadlines
cation symbol to in-
dicate Learning Units
opportunities.
Mar 15— Deadline for listings in the Spring edition of the BSA Guide to Consultants
& Contractors (see p. 6)
Apr 2 — Deadline for Build Boston '98 workshop proposals (with speakers identified !)
Apr 16 — Deadline for submissions in the BSA Housing Design Awards Program
(see p. 3)
Apr 23 — Deadline for submissions in the BSA Interior Architecture/Interior
Design Awards Program (see p. 3)
For more information on any of these deadlines, call 617-951-1433x221.
RSVP today... call 617-951-1433x221 to RSVP for any event on this page.
See p. 16 for a full schedule of BSA committee meetings open to all readers.
2 BSA ChapterLetter
February 1998
Waterworks exhibit now on view at BSA
Sa
photo: Steve Rosenthal
The Chestnut Hill Waterworks (above) is the
subject of stunningly beautiful photographs
by Steve Rosenthal on exhibit at The Archi-
tects Building through February 27.
The Richardsonian Romanesque pumping
station houses the magnificent Gallery of
Machines. It is a singular combination of
19th-century architecture, water technology,
landscape, and civic foresight. The Water-
works is on the National Register of Historic
Places and is both a designated Boston
Landmark and a National Historic Mechani-
ets
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cal Engineering Landmark. Sadly,
it is deteriorating. This exhibit,
ger Curated by Didier Thomas and
rea ye Steve Rosenthal, focuses on the
pap
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. +s chines, their historic significance,
ores and the need to prevent their fur-
ther decay.
The BSA exhibits program is spon-
sored annually by Suffolk Construc-
tion Company and this exhibit is
co-sponsored by the ASME, the
Friends of the Waterworks, the Na-
tional Trust for Historic Presenta-
tion, the New England Waterworks
Association, the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, and the Boston Foundation for Archi-
tecture.
Robert J. Taylor AIA, Chairman
BSA Exhibits Commitee
Ed. note: The Exhibits Committee welcomes
members and friends who are interested in
helping to plan and/or design and/or install
the exhibits in The Architects Building during
the year. Join us for our informal planning
sessions on the third Thursday of each month
at noon at the BSA; we provide lunch if you
RSVP a day before the meeting.
“Works-in-Progress” hosts Carlos Zapata
ge eS eal
Carlos Zapata, Principal of Wood and Zapata
Architects, Inc. leads off the Winter season
of “Works-in-Progress” on February 26.
“Works-in-Progress” is the monthly opportu-
# nity for architects and interns to dis-
_ cuss and critique our guests’ work-
in-progress. These are free-wheel-
~_, ing discussions and are often excit-
ing, always stimulating and
‘E@ provocative...and often lead to de-
§ sign changes in our guests’ work.
Zapata will be focusing on his firm's
unusual and internationally ac-
claimed design of projects such as
the Landes House (left) in Florida.
We invite you to join us for hors
d'oeuvres and conversation. Youcan
reserve your spot for this February
26 event at the BSA by making your
reservations now; see the
details on p. 2. Attendance = ,»vc4,
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Doug McCallum AIA, Host
“Works-in-Progress”
EVENTS
Hershfang to be honored
by BSA
Ann Myers Hershfang (below), a leader in
local and national transportation policy-mak-
ing, will be the guest -
of honor at this year’s
BSA Presidents Re-
ception on February
19 at the BSA. All
readers and friends
are invited to join us
for this delightful
evening.
Hershfang, who served as Undersecretary
of Transportation for the Commonwealth in
the 1980s and also served as a Director of
MassPort in the late 1970s, currently serves
on the Board of the Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority. She is also a National Board Mem-
ber of the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, Chair
of the Transportation Research Board's
Committee on Pedestrians, a Board mem-
ber of Move Massachusetts 2000, and is
Past National President of the Women’s
Transportation Seminar.
Hershfang is also a former Loeb Fellow at
Harvard and is a founder of Walk Boston.
In an evening of BSA applause and humor,
Hershfang will be regaled — sometimes seri-
ously, sometimes not — by a delightful and
surprising collection of BSA members and
other Boston community leaders and avid
Hershfang-watchers.
The evening begins at 6 pm on February 19
and we invite you to join us. For details, call
the BSA at 617-951-1433x221.
Peter Kuttner AIA, President
New AIA Documents
- are at the BSA
The new AIA B141 and all the other
| new documents in the A201 family
| are now available at the BSA. For a
| complete list of AIA Documents and
| an order form, call the BSA at 617-
951-1433x221, fax your request to
617-951-0845, or e-mail yourrequest |
to me at bsarch @architects.org. |
| Kate Gilbert
\ Documents Manager
BSA ChapterLetter February 1998 3
DESIGN
“Beyond the Drawing
Board”...the sequel !
“Beyond the Drawing Board” was the sur-
prisingly successful and popular exhibit in
the Build Boston Resource Center in No-
vember; it included original works of art by
architects and artists and architectural pho-
tographers, all of which was for sale.
The success of this first-time event has led
curator Kimberly Richter to prepare a sec-
ond edition for Build Boston ‘98 and plans to
include this year a juried, silent auction. For
more information or with suggestions, call
Richter at 617-354-0340 (her e-mail address
is krichter@nefa.org).
Film series offered
by MFA and BSA
“Architecture on Screen ‘98” is the title of a
February 19-March 12 film series co-spon-
sored by the BSA at the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston. The series, which is underwritten in
part by CBT, includes films on Gwathney
Siegel/Zaha Hadid, Carlo Scarpa, Peter
Eisenman/Jorn Utzon, Mary Jane Colter,
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Wright
and Japanese art, Luis Barragan/Louis Kahn
and more.
BSA members enjoy admission fee dis-
counts. For more details on dates, times,
and reservations, call the MFA directly at
617-369-3770.
Want a subscription ?
Our goal is to mail this newsletter to
everybody on Earth. If you are an
architect in Massachusetts, you can
join the BSA and get this publication
as part of the package. Any other
reader anywhere in the world may
subscribe for a nominal fee. For
membership information (for archi-
tects) and subscription information
(for everyone else), call the BSA at
617-951-1433x221.
4 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
Urban design “focus
teams” target major public
projects
Boston's just-released plan for the redevel-
opment of the city’s waterfront, the continu-
ing debate over the renovation of City Hall
Plaza, the location of a new convention
center, the proposal to construct a pedes-
trian bridge over Congress Street between
City Hall Plaza and Quincy Market, and air-
rights development over the Massachusetts
Turnpike, the development of the Fort Point
Channel district, the proposed development
of a Stop ‘n’ Shop in Needham are — along
with the Central Artery Project — the types of
major public projects now being addressed
by the BSA Urban Design Committee.
Through its “focus teams,” the Urban Design
Committee became a pivotal player in the
devleopment of this city during the late 1970s
and throughout the building boom of the
1980s. The focus team approach enabled
the architectural profession and its allies to
address virtually every significant project
coming before the Boston Redevelopment
Authority in those years. The creation of the
Boston Civic Design Commission evolved
from the work of and at the impetus of the
Urban Design Committee.
The “focus team” approach receded in the
early 1990s when the Recession closed the
door on Boston development for several
years. But those days are gone and develop-
ment is back.
The Urban Design Committee is now seek-
ing members and allies in the building indus-
try interested in working on one of the major
“focus teams” now being formed around the
major issues noted above.
If you have a special interest or expertise
you are willing to bring to the table on the
Congress Street Bridge or City Hall Plaza or
the new seaport plan or air-rights develop-
ment or new convention center, call the BSA
now at 617-951-1433x225 and we will con-
nect you to the “focus teams” now forming.
These “focus team” efforts, each of which
will address a single public project, also may
include exhibitions, community hearings,
mini-competitions, recommendations to the
City and other mechanisms that prove effec-
tive.
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Peter Smith AIA & John Stebbins AIA
BSA Urban Design Committee
Educating the next
generation is the mandate
This is an invitation to lunch on February 26
with architects and allies who enjoy connect-
ing design to kids.
For the past several years, the BSA
YouthVisions Committee has been quietly
and persistently exposing schoolchildren in
the greater Boston area to architecture, the
evolution of their neighborhoods and com-
munities, and a broader range of design
issues. Working with public school teachers
and students to integrate design into school
curricula, the Committee has been develop-
ing and implementing a variety of “outreach”
programs.
Developed originally in the early 1980s by
former BSA President Roger Goldstein FAIA,
this early effort was significantly enhanced
by current Committee co-chairs Kay Barned-
Smith AIA and Cammie Henderson AIA.
Through their programming throughout the
1990s and through Barned-Smith’s recent
term on the BSA Board of Directors, the
focus on schoolchildren as the next genera-
tion of both clients and architects led the
BSA Board and its 1997 Long-Range Plan-
ning Group to move the BSA’s program
focus more clearly toward elementary school-
children.
Barned-Smith and Henderson and their col-
leagues on the Committee (which also annu-
ally administers the BSA’s nationally re-
nowned Career Day in Architecture every
October) is now expanding its K-12 pro-
grams and is soliciting BSA members and
friends to join them as they research, plan,
and implement the new 1998 programs.
If you are interested in curriculum-develop-
ment issues, inculcating design sensibilities
in schoolchildren, working as architects in
brief school residences, talking with faculty
and school staff members, and otherwise
carrying the message of architecture to a
much broader audience than we have done
in the past, join us for lunch at noon at the
BSA on February 26 (call 617-951-1433x221
to reserve your free lunch now)...or call
Barned-Smith at 617-547-0100 or Henderson
at 617-426-1300 or call BSA Deputy Director
Nancy Jenner at 617-951-1433x227. We
need you and we will get you in-
volved in what are extremely re-
warding activities with kids through-
out eastern Massachusetts.
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What will become of City Hall Plaza ?
The redesign of Boston City Hall Plaza has
become a project that defines us a commu-
nity. Can we work together to create vital
new common ground ? The BSA Urban
Design Committee believes that all of us in
Boston can and must work together to as-
sure the realization of a world-class design
that is appropriate to Boston and provides a
full-range of public use and participation.
Our committee’s City Hall Plaza Focus Team
was formed several months ago to advise
the profession and the community at large
about the appropriateness and implications
of the proposed changes to the Plaza. After
several months of work, the Focus Team
has made a series of proposals that the
Urban Design Committee and the BSA Board
of Directors have endorsed and wish to
summarize here:
@ City Hall Plaza must be revitalized and
this will require significant change. The
Trust for City Hall Plaza has established
a goal to transform the Plaza into a
lively, welcoming, public place that con-
sists of defined spaces that have active
edges and are programmed to draw a
diverse mix of people. The Focus Team
strongly supports this goal.
@ tis absolutely necessary for the Trust
to prepare and to distribute widely a
report that documents the Trust's envi-
ronmental, financial, and programmatic
analyses and findings so that they can
inform public comment.
@ The Trust is pursuing the appropriate
broad urban design goals. The next
round of work needs to focus on trans-
lating these goals into a worthy plan.
The Focus Team is eager to continue to
assist the Trust, the City, and all of the
Plaza’s neighbors in this effort.
@ ifthe Trust's findings prove to be valid,
improvements on the Plaza will need to
be privately funded. According to the
Trust, the City has more compelling
demands — such as education — on its
limited resources. All new buildings on
the Plaza, therefore, will need to sup-
port cultural and other civic activities.
The discussion then should focus on
defining urban design qualities of the
Plaza’s public environment and the cre-
ation of vital public spaces. Once these
qualities are convincingly defined, they
will set the stage for the discussion of
buildings, their uses, locations, height,
massing, street-level activities, and simi-
lar concerns.
@ Ultimately, two mechanisms — both very
familiar to this community — are in place
in order to bring closure to this stage of
project review: the Boston Civic Design
Commission (BCDC) and the Citizens’
Advisory Committee (CAC), which the
Mayor has asked to review planning
and design for the Plaza. The BSA Fo-
cus Team will continue its participation
in both groups.
@ One or more town meetings should be
held at a time convenient to all residents
and reachable by public transportation
from every one of the City’s neighbor-
hoods to carry the public design-review
process to its conclusion.
The Urban Design Committee is excited by
the opportunity that currently exists to revi-
talize City Hall Plaza. One design has been
formulated and it will be reviewed by the
Focus Team and by the Committee. There
are those who are concerned that we cannot
resolve the conflicts presented by this op-
portunity. We are confident, however, that
these conflicts can be resolved and we be-
lieve quite strongly that the City must move
to finish the Plaza design process.
Peter Smith AIA and John Stebbins AIA
Co-Chairs, Urban Design Committee
Architects are on the air
The BSA Urban Design Committee recently
was awarded a grant from the AlA’s Ameri-
can Architectural Foundation to assist with
the production of four National Public Radio
programs. Taped in front of a live audience,
these programs were developed by the Cam-
bridge Forum, the local institution that has
been producing broadcasts for NPR.
The first broadcast is February 4 at 7:30 pm
and focuses on the privatization of public
space with a panel that includes Pete Smith
AIA, Hubert Murray AIA, and Shirly Kressel
BSLA. Subsequent broadcasts are sched-
uled to focus on other urban design issues
on February 18, March 4, and March 18 (all
at 7:30 pm).
These events are free, open to the public,
and are recorded at the Unitarian Church in
Harvard Square at 3 Church Street near
Massachusetts Avenue. Each broadcast in-
cludes an hour or more of audience interac-
tion and BSA members are encouraged to
attend so that our views are heard through-
out the country.
John Stebbins AIA, Co-Chair
Urban Design Committee
DESIGN
Credit is due
Among the exceptionally interesting exhibits
at Build Boston in November were the sev-
eral that focused on the work of New En-
gland design professionals. Architects, land-
scape architects, interior designers, and
engineers each prepared a special juried
exhibit for Build Boston to promote the work
of New England design professionals.
Unfortunately, the lists of exhibitors distrib-
uted as part of each exhibit contained a few
errors and we wish to rectify that here. The
New England Architects exhibit reference
list distributed during the first day of Build
Boston failed to include Doreve Nicholaeff
Architect (P.O. Box 1034, Osterville MA
02655; 508-420-5298). Although this firm’s
name was added to the list distributed the
second and third day at Build Boston, we
apologize for the initial omission.
Three design firms were also inadvertently
omitted from the list distributed in connection
with the New England Landscape Architects
exhibit: David Berarducci Rutledge Land-
scape Architects (12 Farnsworth St., Boston
MA 02210; 617-350-5190), John Copley +
Associates/Lynn Wolff Associates Joint Ven-
ture (160 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116;
617-454-9000), and Marc Mazzarelli Land-
scape Architecture (10 Lindall Place, Boston
MA 02114; 617-227-2312). We apologize
for these omissions as well.
The 1998 editions of these two exhibits and
of the exhibits of work by New England
Interior Designers and New England Engi-
neers is scheduled for Build Boston in No-
vember.
Juries can be confused
In the last issue of the ChapterLetter, we
acknowledged the exceptional work of the
1997 Harleston Parker Jury...however, we
omitted the names of two members of the
jury and inadvertently included two jurors
from another design awards program.
The Harleston Parker Jury, chaired by
Michael Davis AIA (Bergmeyer Associates),
included Jeff Brown AIA (Dyer/Brown), Mark
Dolny, Linda Haar (BRA), Cammie
Henderson AIA (Elkus/Manfredi), Jack Hobbs
AIA (RF Walsh Company), Chris lwerks AIA
(TAMS), Suzanne deMonchaux, Ray Porfilio
AIA (Stahl Associates), and Catharine
Verhulst, Assoc. AIA (4 Architecture).
BSA ChapterLetter February 1998 &
MARKETING
New advertising
opportunities here
As reported last month, the BSA has devel-
oped a new BSA magazine that will be
published quarterly beginning in June of this
year. With a focus on design, practice, in-
dustry technologies, education, social policy
and related architecture issues, this new
magazine will carry display advertising. For
information on this new advertising opportu-
nity and a copy of the editorial calendar, call
me at 617-951-1433x227.
Nancy Jenner
Advertising Director
BSA Guide to Consultants
and Contractors is free
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tractors, according to BSA President Peter
Kuttner AIA, “is the one place where building
industry professionals can find all manner of
local contractors and consultants ranging
from environmental engineers to fine wood-
workers and photographers. It is an increas-
ingly valuable resource for architects as we
navigate through the ‘90s,” said Kuttner.
A free copy of the current issue of the Guide
was inserted in last month’s ChapterLetter;
for additional free copies, call 617-951-
1433x221.
To be included in the Spring 1998 issue of
the Guide, complete the listing form included
in this issue of the ChapterLetter and return
it with payment to the BSA. The deadline is
March 15. For additional copies of the listing
form, call me at 617-951-1433x221
Kate Gilbert, Editor
Guide to Consultants and Contractors
6 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
It’s a marketing and
practice opportunity
Over 400 building industry leaders through-
out the nation came to Boston in November
to participate as panelists in 180 Build Bos-
ton workshops. Over 11,000 design and
construction industry professionals regis-
tered for these workshops and other Build
Boston events. Perhaps you should con-
sider participating as a workshop participant
this year.
This is the time of the year that the BSA
assembles the Build Boston program from
hundreds of proposals we receive from build-
ing industry professionals interested in the
opportunities offered to workshop leaders
and panelists.
It is easy to propose a Build Boston
workshop...all you need to do is call 617-
951-1433x221 and ask for Build Boston
workshop proposal form BB14 (a simple
form that allows you to tell us what you'd like
to do).
This is a chance to market your ideas, your
expertise, your firm, and yourself. If you
have recently learned something unusual
about your profession or about project man-
agement or about effective marketing or firm
management or career development or fee-
setting, consider proposing a Build Boston
workshop now.
The deadline for all proposals is April 2.
There is no other deadline...Call now for
workshop proposal form BB14.
Residential firm survey
elicits marketing data
Thank you to all the firms and sole practitio-
ners who responded to the BSA’s Residen-
tial Design Survey. The survey results are
valuable for their candid evaluation of the
residential design process and suggestions
on how the BSA can better promote mem-
bers and serve the public through related
programs and services. We will keep mem-
bers informed as we analyze the survey
results and develop new programs. If you
didn’t get a survey and you do residential
work — or if you would like to help design
programs that serve you — call me at 617-
951-1433x227.
Nancy Jenner
Small Firms Services Director
Calls for entries:
homes/housing and
interiors
The BSA administers two Winter/Spring de-
sign awards programs for design profes-
sionals in Massachusetts and design pro-
fessionals throughout the world who work in
this region. Among the opportunities avail-
able now are these:
@ The 1998 Housing Design Awards pro-
gram solicits all types of residential design
from single-family homes to multi-family and
institutional projects and every other resi-
dential project type. All architects in Massa-
chusetts are eligible to submit projects
throughout the world and architects outside
Massachusetts are eligible to submit projects
built in Massachusetts. The deadline is April
16; for additional copies of the Call for En-
tries, call 617-951-1433x221.
@ The 1998 Interior Architecture/Interior
Design Awards program invites architects
and interior designers throughout Massa-
chusetts to submit work they have done
anywhere in the world. Architects and inte-
rior designers outside Massachusetts are
invited to submit their Massachusetts
projects. The submission deadline is April
23; for additional copies of the Call for En-
tries, call 617-951-1433x221.
Awards schedule available
from BSA
The BSA’s annual one-page listing of BSA,
AIA New England, and national AIA honors
and awards programs is now available for
1998. For your free copy of the listing — which
includes information on design awards, ser-
vice awards, scholarships and fellowships,
and similar programs — call the BSA at 617-
951-1433x221.
More is less
With this issue, the ChapterLetter returns to
monthly publication for the first time since
the Recession, which means — among other
things — that the information in the
ChapterLetter will be more timely, the dead-
lines will be easier for you to meet, and the
monthly edition will be 12 pages shorter than
the bimonthly editions have been. It’s good
to be back; thank you, Alan Greenspan.
Woodman seeks national
office as AIA VP
-@ Jonathan Woodman
_ AIA (left), founding
principal of Woodman
Associates Architects
in Newburyport, has
announced that he is
a candidate for Vice-
President of the AIA, a
national office that fre-
quently leads to the
national AIA presidency.
Woodman, a long-time BSA activist, has
served on the national AIA Board of Direc-
tors for the past three years and, when his
term expired in 1997, several of his national
Board colleagues — as well as his New
England colleagues — urged him to consider
running for Vice-President.
Woodman is currently one of four candi-
dates seeking the three existing vice-presi-
dencies. The elections are held at the na-
tional convention in San Francisco in mid-
May.
We are moving
to the green
It is never too early to think about golf and
now is the time to think about registering for
the 10th Annual BSA Golf Tournament on
June 4.
As many readers know, last year we had to
turn away over 50 players so we are urging
BSA members and allies to register as soon
as possible to beat the rush. This is going to
a very special 10th-anniversary tournament.
Last year, we expanded the format for the
Tournament to include 27 holes of great golf
in one of the loveliest settings in New En-
gland. It is the Far Corner Golf Course in
Boxford.
If you are interested in participating either as
a player ora sponsor (or both), call Alexandra
Lee today at 617-951-1433x225. We also
are seeking volunteers to enjoy a day on the
links helping us run this tournament.
| look forward to seeing you on the fairway.
Kurt Rockstroh AIA, Chair
BSA Golf Tournament
Memory of Kloko spurs
new contributions
As reported in the last issue of the
ChapterLetter, the Boston Foundation for
Architecture has established The Dennis W.
Kloko Fund in memory of this unique archi-
tect who died in November.
This new fund was created by Payette Asso-
ciates, for which Kloko served as COO after
having served in similar roles for CBT and
Hoskins Scott & Partners.
In addition to the numerous contributions to
The Kloko Fund reported last month, addi-
tional donations have been received from:
Ruth Brumbaugh
Susan and Dennis Emmons
Malinda Funk
Gladys B. Kloko
James L. Mitchell
Robert and Patricia Slater
E. Barry and Christine Thayer
G. R. and Peter Walacavage
Peter Paul and Ann Marie Walacavage
As the year came to aclose in December, the
Foundation also received a generous dona-
tion from BSA members Nancy Goddwin AIA
and Tony Platt FAIA, who have been provid-
ing annual contributions to the Foundation
since its establishment in 1984.
For more information on The Kloko Fund or
the Foundation in general, call 617-951-
1433x232.
Peter Madsen FAIA, Chair
Boston Foundation for Architecture
Do you want or have
office space ?
The BSA maintains an informal information
clearinghouse for architects and allied pro-
fessionals seeking to sublet space from/to
other industry professionals. If you want to
share space, sublet, rent a drafting station,
etc., call Richard Fitzgerald at 617-951-
1433x232.
THE NETWORK
The BSA staff is changing
In late 1997, the BSA Board and member-
ship at the Annual Meeting at Build Boston
approved a 1998 BSA operating budget that
reflects an intensive re-focusing of BSA op-
erations on the promotion of Boston design-
ers, communications tools for this and other
purposes, significant enhancement of key
membership services, and the enhancement
and development of programs designed to
make elementary and secondary schoolchil-
dren (future clients and future architects)
more aware of the impact of design on their
lives.
This enlargement of BSA activities has also
enabled the BSA staff, for the first time in
BSA history, to create a full-time staff posi-
tion for a marketing/communications/PR pro-
fessional. The search for this person is now
under way and readers interested in more
information on this should call the BSA at
617-951-1433x227.
Jenner named Deputy Director
In another significant
move, | have been able —
also for the first time in
BSA history — to identify
and appoint a Deputy
Director of the BSA to
work with me on the full
range of BSA programs
and services. Nancy
Jenner (left), who has
been with the BSA for several years and is
known to many BSA members, is the new
BSA Deputy Director.
Finally, Jenifer Marshall recently joined the
staff as Receptionist/Administrative Assis-
tant. Marshall and the marketing profes-
sional soon to be hired will be the eighth and
ninth members of the BSA staff that, at its
peak in the late 1980s, totalled nine full-time
and two part-time employees. In addition to
Jenner and Marshall, the staff includes Kate
Gilbert (Membership Services/Front Office
Manager), Alexandra Lee (Special Projects
Director), Penny Mitchell (Membership Di-
rector), Sarah Lainie Smith (Production Man-
ager/Technical Administrator), and Karen
Snow (Comptroller).
This is an exciting time for the architectural
profession in Boston and | believe that the
BSA in 1998 finally will have staffing ad-
equate to respond to the extraordinary range
of opportunities and challenges the profes-
sion provides. For more information on these
changes at the BSA, please call me at 617-
951-1433x232.
Richard Fitzgerald
Executive Director
BSA ChapterLetter February 1998 ri
PRACTICE
Promoting architects, educational facilities design, IAQ, and homelessness
are on the agenda
Defining and promoting the value of archi-
tectural services, serving our communities,
strengthening our professional networks, and
otherwise becoming more effective and suc-
cessful at what we do as architects are at the
core of the BSA network. Among the mecha-
nisms available to Massachusetts architects
and to our allies are the scores of issue-
oriented working groups that constitute the
BSA. Here are a few examples of the efforts
in which members and non-mem- ie
bers are engaged today. Select .“°
one for yourself and join us...and = €
earn AIA Learning Units in the pro- ,
cess.
@ PR leaders divide terrain — BSA Presi-
dent Peter Kuttner AIA and 1997 Board
Member Missy Sittler AIA led the year-long
effort to develop better BSA communica-
tions tools: a redesigned ChapterLetter (com-
ing soon) and the new quarterly BSA maga-
zine announced in these pages last month.
Now that those efforts are on automatic pilot
and the results will be seen this year, Kuttner
and Sittler have divided the communications
terrain —Kuttner will chair the BSA magazine
editorial board and
Sittler (left) will chair
a new Communica-
tions & PR Commit-
tee to focus on the
broad range of com-
munications and
public relations op-
portunities available
to the architectural
profession and to the BSA. The goal is to
enhance significantly client awareness of
the broad scope of architectural services
available and to underscore, with much
greater specificity than traditionally is the
case, the value that good architecture brings
to any project economically and otherwise. If
this is the opportunity you have been waiting
for, Sittler urges you to join her and your
other colleagues on this new Communica-
tions and PR Committee. For details, call
Committee staff liaison Nancy Jenner at
617-951-1433x227.
@ Designing schools — On the first Tues-
day of each month at 9:30 am, a dozen or
more architects who design elementary and
secondary schools in Massachusetts gather
at the offices of Earl R. Flansburgh + Asso-
ciates in Boston to discuss the full range of
design, regulatory, project-delivery and re-
lated issues surrounding school design. This
is the group that organized the statewide Fall
1997 workshop on project-delivery alterna-
tives for school superintendants, school
board representatives, and school business
managers from municipalities throughout
8 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
Massachusetts. Join us
if you are a school
designer...and earn AIA
Learning Units in the pro-
cess. For more informa-
tion, call Earl Flansburgh
FAIA (left) at 617-367-
3970.
@ IAQ is design issue — Two years ago,
Jeanne Perrin came to the BSA as a layper-
son seeking design professionals to help her
address a broad range of indoor air quality
issues no one else seemed to be address-
ing. She quickly became the founding chair
of a new IAQ Committee at the BSA and
ensuing years has drawn in a number of
design professionals, builders, health offi-
cials, and laypeople who suffer from indoor
air quality-related illnesses to develop a se-
ries of workshops and publications address-
ing |AQ issues. Most recently, as reported in
last month's ChapterLetter, Committee mem-
Want the data but can't
make the meeting ?
With dozens of BSA committees, users
groups, task forces, and social net-
works gathering in and around Boston
every month, it is no surprise that you
can't find the time to do everything you
wish you could. However, there is an
alternative and that is to get your name
on the mailing lists of the committees or
other working groups that produce mini-
newsletters or minutes for their com-
mittees. Some of these are quite ex-
traordinary. For example, the Historic
Resources Committee minutes pro-
duced every month by Henry Moss AIA
and the Regional Design Committee
reports written monthly by Bob Sturgis
FAIA are models of concise, substan-
tive, eloquent, and very useful summa-
ries of committee discussions. Evan
Shu AIA's newsletter for the DataCAD
Boston Users Group for years has been
the model of a sophisticated monthly
report on DataCAD and Pete Smith
AIA's monthly mini-newsletter for the
Urban Design Committee is a continu-
ally delightful visual and substantive
flyer. Many other BSA committees and
task forces produce useful reports of
this kind. For a list of BSA committees
to help you explore the availability of
such mailings, call the BSA at 617-951-
1433x221 and ask for the annotated
committee list.
ber Wagdy Anis AIA of Shepley Bulfinch
Richardson and Abbott wrote and edited an
extraordinary new BSA publication titled “In-
door Air Quality/A Design Guide.” (It is avail-
able from the BSA; see the Special Publica-
tions catalog inserted in this issue of the
ChapterLetter.) This committee also has
sponsored dozens of Build Boston work-
shops over the past two years focusing on
IAQ issues in a variety of building project
types. In a short time, this committee has
had a major impact. Join us at our meetings
...and earn AIA Learning Units in the pro-
cess. For details, call Perrin at 617-284-
9884.
@ It is our issue — If architecture is about
anything, it is about shelter...and the BSA
Task Force to End Homelessness is funda-
mentally about shelter and our primary cul-
tural obligation. Recent meetings with sev-
eral Boston officials responsible for human
services issues, emergency shelter issues,
planning and development, AIDS services
(developing a masterplan for Mattapan Hos-
pital), and private-sector groups such as
the Social Action Ministries, Homes Not
Jails, the Veterans Respite Center in
Fitchburg, Pressed Street (the street poetry
and art paper that is a cousin to Spare
Change) and Greater Boston Legal Ser-
vices are among the issues on the monthly
agenda of our task force. Under the leader-
ship of Task Force member Charles Brad-
ley of Finegold Alexander + Associates, we
are also attempting to develop a building
materials warehouse. There are over 100 of
us and we need your participation. All BSA
members and friends
are urged to join us in
this extraordinary effort.
For more information,
call Task Force co-
chairs Nancy Sullivan
(617-923-3433) or John
Wilson AIA (left; 617-
342-8200).
*
Members and non-members, architects, and
non-architects are invited to taste the oppor-
tunities offered by these and over five dozen
similar BSA networks of architects and allied
professionals. For more information on any
of these groups, call 617-951-1433x221 and
ask for the Guide to Committees and Task
Forces. Chairs of all BSA committees and
task forces are invited to contribute to this
column regularly and to ensure that meeting
notes are conveyed to the BSA Web site by
calling Nancy Jenner at 617-951-1433x227.
Peter Kuttner AIA
President
“Professional Practice 101”
is the new source
for architects
Professional Practice 101/A Compendium
of Business and Management Strategies in
Architecture is a new publication from John
Wiley & Sons by Andy Pressman AIA, who
teaches architecture and planning at the
University of New Mexico.
The book, which is available from the BSA,
offers a huge amount of material on firm
organization, group dynamics and teamwork,
communication and leadership skills, mar-
keting, financial management, client and
contractor relations, project management,
project delivery, design and information tech-
nology, legal and licensing issues, risk man-
agement and professional liability insurance
issues, and also includes firm profiles, case
studies and analyses, and real-life anec-
dotes. Pressman also includes brief contri-
butions from architects such as Charles
Gwathmey, Gene Kohn, Mario Salvadori and
dozens of other design professionals.
In the course of 345 pages, Pressman and
his contributing authors (including Boston
financial management consultant Jim
Cantillon) manage to explore just about ev-
ery aspect of managing a design firm today.
To order this book, use the BSA “s
Special Publications Catalog in- > <
serted in this issue of the =
ChapterLetter; it is item #187. *03
edUCay
Ed. note: Unusually perceptive readers of
this book will notice that the cover is a
photograph of the offices of Cambridge Seven
and, with exquisite timing, BSA President
and Cambridge Seven Principal Peter Kuttner
AIA can be seen smiling at the camera. This
cover photo was taken by Steve Rosenthal.
B141 is explained
in February workshop
In late 1997, Hill & Barlow and the BSA co-
sponsored a special half-day, interactive
workshop on the new edition of AIA Docu-
ment B141. This workshop was significantly
over-subscribed so Hill & Barlow has agreed
to run it again on February 24 (8:30 am-
noon).
For details and registration infor-
mation, call Hill & Barlow at 617-
428-3376. aS
PRACTICE
CFA placement and training services have expanded
Consulting For Architects (CFA), the BSA-
related job placement and training service,
is expanding rapidly in order to respond to
the needs of design firms in this strong
economy. CFA offices are now located in
Boston, New York City, and Chicago and all
job offerings are now posted by CFA on the
Internet. You can visit CFA’s Web site at
www.cons4arch.com where you can browse
through short-term and long-term job oppor-
tunities for architects at all levels. CFA up-
dates its Web page weekly.
In Boston, the CFA office has expanded so
significantly that it is relocating its CAD ser-
vices division down the street from the BSA
at 171 Milk Street; the job-placement ser-
vices will remain in The Architects Building.
The new CAD services offices on Milk Street
include CAD and multimedia software sales,
training, and support and are equipped with
new Dell Pentium Il PCs with all the latest
bells and whistles. This new space also
enables CFA to provide a multimedia soft-
ware display and demonstration area open
to CFA clients and to the general public by
appointment. Software programs you can
preview here include AutoCAD AEC
ProSuite, AutoCAD R.14, AutoCAD LT 97,
Softdesk AEC Solutions, 3D Studio VIZ, 3D
Studio MAX, RadioRay, Lightscape,
HumanCAD, MiniCAD, AllPlan FT, and R14
Plug-ins.
CAD skills testing is available from CFA to
help you evaluate the skills of job candidates
or those already working in a CAD depart-
ment. CFA President David McFadden has
also written a brief article on “Networking
CAD Stations,” which is intended to be a
basic guide for those considering network-
ing, stand-alone workstations, peer-to-peer
WITH THE fORTUITOUS CONVERGENCE
OF AIA? INTEREST IN PUBLIC
APYERTISING AND THE RECENT
AVAILABILITY OF CAMELS
SPOKESANIMAL, WE HAVE FIL
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vs. client/server systems, training, timeframe
and cost, etc. For a copy of this article and
information on other CFA services, call 617-
261-0090.
Architect said to be in
“fiduciary” role
“Using an unusual legal theory, a judge in
state court in Oakland, California, instructed
a jury deliberating over a lawsuit that the
architect had a fiduciary responsibility to the
building’s developer during construction,”
according to a report in the June 30, 1997
issue of Engineering News Record. The jury
in this case ordered the architect to pay the
owner about $7 million in damages in con-
nection with a leaky curtainwall system.
“If this decision is not overturned in the
appellate process,” said HOK President/CEO
Jerome Sincoff, “it will fundamentally change
the relationship among architects, engineers,
and clients.” HOK was the defendant in this
trial, which focused on a 27-story building in
Oakland.
Engineering News Record noted that a fidu-
ciary responsibility “goes beyond a fitness
standard and poses an even more ominous
danger of far-reaching liability.” Former BSA
Board member Arthur Cohen AIA, who re-
ported this story to the ChapterLetter, noted
that architects “now need to be even more
vigilant in the selection of our clients and in
constructing the agreements we make.”
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Bricks
The new energy conservation provisions
of the State Building Code for low-rise
residential new construction are the focus of
a series of training sessions being held
throughout the state by the State Board of
Building Regulations and Standards. This
series began in January and continue in
February in West Bridgewater (2/3), West
Springfield (2/10), Wareham (2/11), and
Lowell (2/26). These Code provisions take
effect on March 1, 1998. For more details on
these training sessions, call 800-689-7953
(David Weitz).
“Design Village” is a mentoring program
established by the interior designer commu-
nity to develop relationships between pro-
fessionals and students in that profession.
For interior designers and interior design
students and for architects and other profes-
sionals interested in this program as a model,
call Stephanie Deshaies at TRO (617-969-
9400).
The Gropius House in Lincoln has extended
its Winter hours. It is now open through May
31 for tours every weekend from 11 am to 4
pm. Interpretive tours occur on the hour. For
tour details and directions, call Annabel
Hanson at the Society for the Preservation of
New England Antiquities (781-259-8098).
Walter and Ise Gropius on their screened porch in
1948; photograph by Robert Damora.
The Massachusetts Housing Investment
Corporation has published its 1997 Annual
Report describing its loan and equity pro-
grams. The reportalso describes three dozen
projects MHIC helped finance in 1997. Fora
copy of the report, call 617-338-6886.
Newton’s city architect, Abraham Aly AIA
of Jamaica Plain, has been charged with
soliciting and receiving substantial kickbacks
and a new roof for his home from a now-
jailed contractor; the charges are fraud and
bribery, according to a report in The Boston
Globe.
10 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
The redevelopment of Vietnam was the
focus of one of the most intriguing Build
Boston workshops in November. Among the
panelists in this lengthy session was Binh
Vinh AIA, a partner in the Philadelphia firm of
Kling Lindquist. Vinh prepared and distrib-
uted a 12-page history of Vietnam, its reli-
gions, ecology, culture and art, and how
business is currently being done in Vietnam.
As he outlines the issues American archi-
tects should address as they plan to work in
Vietnam, he is also providing a generic road
map for architects planning to work in any
foreign culture. For a copy of Vinh’s paper,
AIA members in Massachusetts should send
their requests with a 55¢ SASE to Vietnam
Paper/RF, BSA, 52 Broad St., Boston 02109;
non-members should enclose, along with
the SASE, a $10.00 handling fee payable to
the BSA. This document is available only by
mail.
The ChapterLetter
The BSA ChapterLetter is published monthly
by the Boston Society of Architects/AIA, 52
Broad St., Boston 02109-4301. The Chapter-
Letter is a service provided by AIA members in
Massa-chusetts to the profession, the public,
and everyone else with a sense of humor or an
interest in 20th-century America. (For out-of-
state subscriptions and other information, call
617-951-1433x228/fax: 617-951-0845/e-mail:
bsarch @architects.org.) The BSA is a non-
profit, membership service organization for the
architectural profession, allied industry profes-
sionals, and the public and has been an advo-
cate of architectural excellence and public
awareness of architecture since 1867.
BSA
Letters to the editor, suggestions, criticism,
encouragement, and manifestations of the light
touch are welcome. Typed, double-spaced
material intended for publication must reach
the BSA by the deadline dates listed on page 1;
PC diskettes with hard copy and e-mail submis-
sions are appreciated and should be in Text-
only (.TXT) or Microsoft Word 6.0 (.DOC) for-
mat. Submissions may also be e-mailed to the
BSA at bsarch@architects.org. Appropriate
submissions are edited and published as space,
temperament, and prejudices permit.
© 1998 Boston Society of Architects
Peter Kuttner AIA
Charles Tseckares FAIA
Paul Nakazawa AIA
Rebecca Barnes AIA
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary
Editor
Art Director
Photo Editor
Richard Fitzgerald
Sarah Lainie Smith
Kate Gilbert
“J.B. Jackson and American Landscape”
is the title of an October 1998 University of
New Mexico/Albuquerque conference in-
tended to “provide a unique opportunity for
an interdisciplinary assessment of the future
of cultural landscape studies in addition to
an evaluation of Jackson’s ideas and im-
pact.” For details on the conference and on
opportunities to present 15-20-minute pa-
pers/presentations during the conference,
get in touch with Stephen Schreiber (tel:
505-277-2053; fax: 505-277-0076; e-mail:
schreib@unm.edu).
DPIC’s Small Firm Program now is open to
firms with up to $500,000 in annual fees; the
limit had been $250,000. DPIC notes, how-
ever, that size is not the only determining
factor — good management and risk control
are critical. The application process includes
the option for small firms to “pre-qualify” over
the Internet at www.dpic.com or you can call
800-227-4284.
Clients’ association leader comes to AIA.
Mark Hurwitz, Ph.D.
has been named the
new Executive Vice-
President/CEO of the
national office of the
AIA. Hurwitz (right) has
been Executive Vice-
President of the inter-
national Building Own-
ers and Managers As-
sociation (BOMA) forthe past decade; BOMA
is the oldest and largest trade association for
building owners and managers, developers,
facilities managers, asset managers of com-
mercial real estate in North America and
abroad. Hurwitz’s uniquely valuable back-
ground and experience with BOMA is bound
to be of enormous value in his new role as
CEO of the national AIA.
Are you in it ? The new 1997-1998 edition
of the BSA's Directory of Architecture Firms
in Massachusetts has now been mailed free
to all AIA members in Massachusetts and all
BSA Corporate Affiliate members. Readers
who wish to purchase copies of the Directory
may use the Special Publications catalog
inserted in this issue; it is item #80. If you are
an architect anywhere in Massachusetts and
your firm is not included in the Directory, call
800-662-1235x228 or, in Boston, call 951-
1433x228 and we will make sure that your
AIA membership is current so that you are
included in the next edition.
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You and your LUs...too late ? No! The first
deadline has passed for AIA members at-
tempting to earn their 36 AIA/CES Learning
Units for 1997. All AIA members in Massa-
chusetts and throughout the U.S. will receive
a transcript in March detailing the record of
Learning Units you’ve earned. And remem-
ber that you can check your transcript any
time by calling AIA/CES Records at 800-
605-8229 or through AlAOnline at
www.aiaonline.com under “Continuing Edu-
cation”. If you have not met the 1997 require-
ment, you now have a one-year grace period
to make up your shortfall and to earn your 36
LUs for 1998. Questions ? Call Penny Mitchell
at the BSA (617-951-1433x232).
Safdie’s design and theory publications
are now at BSA. Ata special booksigning
event at Build Boston in November, Moshe
Safdie FAIA was among the guest authors
who autographed copies of recent books.
Autographed copies of two of his books are
available to the BSA. The extraordinary com-
pendium of Safdie’s work — titled Moshe
Safdie — was edited by Wendy Kohn and
includes an exceptional array of work de-
signed by Safdie in Canada, Israel, and the
U.S. over the past 30 years. This 344-page
book includes over 800 images and draw-
ings, most of them in color. It is BSA publica-
tion #185. The City After the Automobile is
the second Safdie publication available from
the BSA. Co-authored with Wendy Kohn,
this is Safdie’s defense of the city and how to
rescue Cities from the current threats to their
existence. Safdie and Kohn assess historic
visions of the city, how to make cities work in
the face of current realities, and how to think
about the future of urban life after the auto-
mobile. This is BSA publication #186. Both
of these publications are limited in supply,
both are autographed by Safdie, and both
may be ordered using the BSA Special Pub-
lications Catalog inserted in this issue of the
ChapterLetter.
BSA partnering service proves valuable.
About a year ago, the BSA developed a new
partnering consulting service for BSA mem-
ber firms and others with an interest in this
and related organizational management
skills. This BSA service is provided by Dr.
William Ronco, the founding principal of
Gathering Pace Inc., who has over 15 years
of experience working with organizational
team and communications issues in the build-
ing industry. Ronco is also the author of the
Partnering Manual for Design and Construc-
tion, which is available through the BSA. For
a two-page description of the BSA's "Organi-
zation Team Building and Partnering Con-
sulting Service," call 617-951-1433x221 or
call Ronco directly at 617-275-2424.
“CAD Layer Guidelines” is the popular AIA
publication that has been revised, finally,
and is available from the BSA. Subtitled
“Computer-Aided Design Management Tech-
niques for Architecture, Engineering, and
Facility Management,” this 42-page publica-
tion helps us communicate construction
document data in a universal language. It
focuses on basic organizing concepts, guide-
lines for naming files, layer name formats,
master layer lists, sample applications, and
a good deal more. Use the Special Publica-
tions catalog inserted in this issue of the
ChapterLetter to place your order now; it is
item #139.
The Boston Civic Design Commission,
which reviews major development propos-
-
| BSA warmlines |
| |
| Koning the BSA extension numbers listed |
below for the antique BSA telephone system
means you don't need to listen to the voice-mail
message when you call the BSA at 617-951-
l 1433 or 800-662-1235. You also can skip the |
personal message on each extension simply
| by whacking the “#” key when the personal
| message begins.
Services & Programs
|
|
| |
| Architects referrals service 221 |
| AIA Documents & other publications 221 |
| BSA meetings/events RSVPs & reg. 221 |
Classified ads & ad inserts 222
| Membership & dues 228 |
| Accounting 235 |
| Build Boston workshops 232 |
Build Boston exhibit sales 301
| Architects Building Exhibit Gallery 227 |
| Partnering consulting service 232 |
| Marketing & management service 304 l
BSA magazine 227
| ChapterLetter editor 232 |
| Boston Foundation for Architecture 232 |
l AIA Massachusetts 232 l
Western Massachusetts AIA 225
| AIA Central Massachusetts 227 |
| ASAP 225 |
| All other services/programs 221 |
Full-time staff
| Richard Fitzgerald 232 |
| Kate Gilbert 234 |
| Nancy Jenner 227 l
Jenifer Marshall 221
| Penny Mitchell 228 |
| Sarah Lainie Smith 222 |
| Karen Snow 235 |
Part-time staff
| Alexandra Lee (M-Th) 225 |
SS ee ee =]
als in Boston, regularly holds its public meet-
ings on the first Tuesday of each month. All
meetings are at 5:15 pm in the Piemonte
Conference Room on the 5th floor of Boston
City Hall; meetings are open to the public.
"Client Advisor" is the BSA/AGC's concise
but comprehensive explanation of alterna-
tive project-delivery systems intended as a
guide for clients. Ranging over linear, paral-
lel, and fast-track options, the "Client Advi-
sor" describes five primary project-delivery
systems: design/bid/build, negotiated con-
struction management, construction man-
agement/limited bid, design/build two-phase,
and turnkey design/build. To order copies
(bulk discounts are available), use the Spe-
cial Publications catalog order form inserted
in this issue of the ChapterLetter (it is item
#176). For additional copies of the catalog,
call 617-951-1433x221.
Fee-bidding for design professionals is a
major mistake. That is the position taken by
consultant John Bachner in a new booklet
titled "Purchasing the Services of Engineers,
Architects, and Environmental Profession-
als." As an advocate of qualifications-based
selection (QBS), Bachner argues forcefully
against fee-bidding, which he describes as a
disservice to the client as well as the design
professional. The booklet asks and answers
21 of the most common questions about
these issues, questions such as: "Who in his
right mind would select a design firm without
considering its fee?" For ordering informa-
tion on this booklet, which you probably
would want to share with your clients, call
301-589-9181.
Architects can get better competitive bid
results from contractors, according to Carr
Enterprises’ Jim Mitchell III. Writing in the
last issue of the ChapterLetter, Mitchell of-
fered a series of very specific recommenda-
tions designed to help owners/clients and
architects dramatically improve the results
of their efforts to solicit construction bids. He
focuses on numbers of bidders to solicit, bid-
list disclosure, bid documents, bid period,
bid day, bid time, bid addenda, faxed vs.
hand-delivered bids, etc. For a copy of this
ChapterLetter reprint (which is available only
by mail), AIA members in Massachusetts
should send a 32¢ SASE to Bid Results/RF,
BSA, 52 Broad St., Boston 02109; non-
members should enclose, along with the 32¢
SASE, a $10 handling fee payable to the
BSA.
BSA ChapterLetter February 1998 Lt
Opportunities
Competitions/Awards/Grants Workshops/Conferences
BSA Design Awards Programs (see p. 3)... Van
Alen Prize in Public Architecture for proposals
on the future of New York City’s East River and its
waterfronts; $15K in prizes; 4/8 reg. deadline; Van
Alen Institute, 30 W. 22nd St., NYC 10010/fax:
212-366-5836/e-mail: vanalen@vanalen.org
...New American Architecture Award; new
awards program highlighting new architecture; 3/
2 deadline; 312-251-0175/fax: 312-251-0176
(Leonard Kliwinski, The Chicago Athenaeum)
...Annual Photography Competition open to
architects in the U.S., AIA Associate members,
and AIAS student members; 3/1 deadline; cash
awards and publication in the AIA Engagement
Calendar; 314-621-3484 (Patricia
Bausch)...Justice Facilities Review juried pub-
lication; March submission deadline; 202-626-
7300 (Glennette Clark)... Business Week/Ar-
chitectural Record Awards; March appl. dead-
line; 888-242-4240..."Competitions" magazine
reports regularly on competition results and new
competition deadlines and related information; for
a subscription, call 502-451-3623...Victorian-era
buildings (exteriors or interiors), public places,
open spaces, etc.); Jack Grinold, 48 Greycliff
Rd., Brighton MA 02135...Massachusetts His-
torical Commission Preservation Awards; 617-
727-8470 (Leslie Sampou) for nomination
forms...A schedule of annual BSA, AIA New
England, & national AIA design awards pro-
grams is available from the BSA; 617-951-
1433x221...AIA Honors & Awards Programs
including the Gold Medal, Kemper Award, Whitney
Young Citation, Honorary AIA Membership, De-
sign Honor Awards, 25-Year Award, Urban De-
sign Awards, AIA College of Fellows, Honorary
Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public
Architecture, Young Architects Citation, Library
Building Awards, Institute Honors, Architecture
Firm Award, Henry Bacon Medal, Topaz Medal-
lion for Education, Brick in Architecture Awards,
Interior Architecture Awards, Concrete Masonry
Design Awards, Cedar Design Awards, etc.; dead-
lines vary; 617-951-1433x221 (ask for the Annual
Awards Schedule)... Minority/Disadvantaged
Scholarship Program; annual AIA/AAF Scholar-
ships; 202-626-7511 (Mary Felber)... Aga Khan
Award, Program Procedures, 32 chemin des
Crets-de-Pregny, CH-1218 Grand Saconnex, Ge-
neva, Switzerland ($500K in prizes; rolling dead-
lines) . .. AIAS student competitions: programs
& deadlines vary; 202-626-7472... NIAE student
competitions; 212-924-7000 ...Fulbright grants
for architects and urban planners; 202-686-4000
(fax 202-362-3442) .. . NEA design project grants
& individual grants/fellowships (up to $20K) for
designers; 202-682-5437...The MacDowell
Colony Residency for architects; 603-924-3886
or 212-966-4860 for applications & deadlines...
For details on the $15,000 American Architectural
Foundation Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship and
numerous AIA-related fellowships and scholar-
ships for minorities/disadvantaged individuals,
professional degree candidates, health facilities
design, research, and other purposes, including
The RTKL Traveling Fellowship, call 202-626-
7511 and, for the AIA/AHA Fellowship in Health
Facilities Design, call 202-626-7429.
12 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
Build Boston; 11/17-19; workshop proposals due
4/2;617-951-1433x221 (ask for form BB-14)...Mar-
keting workshops sponsored by SMPS: Finding
Clients (2/5), Managing Information (2/12), Devel-
oping Marketing Materials (2/19), and Preparing
Display Boards, Tradeshow Exhibits, and Design
Awards Submissions (2/26); 617-576-
5756..." Guidelines for Lab Design” (Harvard
School of Public Health conference); 4/6-10; 617-
432-1171/e-mail: contedu @sph.harvard.edulfax:
617-432-1969...North Bennet Street School
workshops (veneering, fine woodworking, refin-
ishing, etc.); through 5/9; 617-227-0155...North-
eastern University Center for Continuing Educa-
tion Building Design and Management courses;
617-320-8000... Wentworth Institute of Tech-
nology professional and continuing studies pro-
grams; 617-442-9010x446... BAC continuing
ed. program; 617-536-3170... GSD professional
development program ;617-495-1680... Jewish
Vocational Service career, job-hunting and re-
lated workshops; 617-965-7940...Women’s Edu-
cational and Industrial Union career services
workshops and other services on job-hunting and
other career issues; 617-536-5657 ... MIT Center
for Real-Estate Professional Development
Courses; 617-253-4373.
Exhibits/Lectures/Tours
BSA exhibits (see pp. 2 & 3)...Northeastern
architecture lecture: Alice Friedman on “Women
and the Making of the Modern House”; 2/26; 617-
373-2347...Brazil Tour of modern and colonial
architecture; 3/1 1-22; 602-991-1442/fax: 602-991-
0243/e-mail: paintedd @aol.com...Historic archi-
tectural drawings exhibit at the Library of Con-
gress; 800-551-7328...BAC exhibit program; 617-
536-3170...Wentworth exhibit & lecture programs;
617-442-9010... “The Four Shapes of Boston,” a
slide-lecture on Boston’s architectural history
available to rent (with speaker); 617-367-2345...
Art & architecture tours of the BPL; 617-536-
5400x212.
Other Opportunities
New BSA quarterly magazine scheduled for
1998; for article submission requirements, call
Nancy Jenner at 617-951-1433x227 ...First Night
visual and performing arts proposals; 3/24
deadline; 617-542-1399...Restoration '98, the
preservation exhibition and conference, is seek-
ing workshop proposals for its March 12-14, 1998
eventin Boston; 508-664-6455 for details... Teach-
ers: the BAC is seeking instructors for courses
such as wood-frame construction, mechanical/
electrical systems, materials, methods and con-
tract documents, structures (many of these re-
lated to the A.R.E.); call Ron Ranere AIA at 617-
536-3170x258...Boston Herald critic David Eisen
is seeking your work on housing, interiors, urban
design, great public projects, tiny private retreats,
etc.; mail non-returnable information to Eisen at
186 South St.--5th Floor, Boston 02111...Banker
& Tradesman is seeking BSA members to write
editorial columns, news articles, and similar pieces
for its weekly newspaper and its quarterly maga-
Design-review roles
open for architects
The BSA's Committee on Professional
Appointments (COPA) is seeking Mas-
sachusetts architects interested in serv-
ing on state, city and town design-re-
view, designer-selection, historic pres-
ervation, and similar bodies. If you are
anarchitect in Massachusetts interested
in such roles, please send a letter of
interest along with your resume to Nancy
Jenner, COPA, BSA, 52 Broad St., Bos-
ton 02109.
zine "Structures"; call Brad Seawell at 617-428-
5100... Architecture magazine is seeking projects
under 1,000 s.f. of extremely high design and
construction quality for possible publication; work
must have been completed after 7/96; send pho-
tographs and drawings to Reed Kroloff, Architec-
ture, Suite 625, 1130 Connecticut Ave. NW, D.C.
20036...BSA members' home office designs
are being sought for publication in Home Office
Computing magazine; for details call 301-654-
1988/fax 301-654-1994/e-mail alvin @al.net
...Robert Campbell FAIA would like to publish
your residential work in the Globe; mail materials
directly to Campbell, 54 Antrim St., Cambridge
MA 021339 (fax: 617-576-4784)...Duo Dickinson is
seeking residential design/landscape projects
for inclusion in his sixth book, /nside/Outside;203-
245-0405 (Karen Thiel)...idioTEXT design journal
invites designers to submit competition projects
for publication; 617-482-6958 (Jordan
Williams)...Places, the quarterly journal edited by
Donlyn Lyndon, invites submissions of articles
related to sustainable design; 718-399-6090 for
details... The Central Artery/Tunnel Project is cre-
ating a registry of artists interested in working
on the Artery; call 617-951-6329 (Artery Arts
Program) for details... The Boston Museum of
Science is looking for professionals to teach
problem-solving, computer applications, your fa-
vorite interdisciplinary topics, and a variety of
other courses; call 617-589-0364 (Brent
Jackson)... The Classicist, the journal of the Insti-
tute for the Study of Classical Architecture, is
seeking examples of work done in the Classical
manner; 212-570-7374...The Hardwood Manu-
facturers Association is seeking professional pho-
tography showing the use of solid U.S. hardwoods
in furniture, flooring, kitchen cabinets, or decora-
tive woodworking to illustrate in various publica-
tions the use of American hardwoods; call Susan
Regan at 412-829-0770... Wentworth Institute is
seeking constructive and compassionate archi-
tects to serve as design critics; call Herb Fremin
at 617-442-9010x425...Energy-conscious de-
signs are being sought for a new book on alterna-
tive architecture; for details, call Alfred Kemper
(909-920-9753) ...See a wide variety of paid &
volunteer opportunities in the “Classified” listing
inserted in this issue.
Fame
Margulies & Associ-
ates has named Dan
Perruzzi AIA (left) a
Principal of the firm...
Mostue & Associates
» has announced that
Anne Daw, who has
special experience in
affordable housing de-
sign, has joined the
firm...Stopfel Archi-
tects has announced that Edward Jacques,
Assoc. AIA has been elected VP of the firm; he
also serves as Director of Project Management
and Computer Operations Manager...Shepley
photo: George M. Loring
ft a i~
Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott has announced
the appointment of three new Directors of the firm
(above left to right): Wagdy Anis AIA, Ron Finiw
AIA, and Jonathan Ross AIA...Anthony Tappé
and Associates has announced the appointment
of three new Associates: Drayton Fair AIA,
Charles Hay AIA, and Brooke Trivas...Einhorn
Yaffee Prescott has announced the appointment
of two new Associates: Eric Ward AIA and Lisa
Hellmuth (Marketing Manager); the firm also has
announced the appointment of Keri-Kathryn Will-
iams as Office Manager, Ellen Whitman as AA/
Receptionist, Julia Gerald as Intern Architect, and
Christopher Sylvia as Office Assistant...Jeremy
Scott Wood AIA, APA has joined Elkus/Manfredi
Architects...David Lee FAIA recently served as
a juror for the Village Center Design Competition
in Channahon, Illinois...HNTB has received a
Design/Build Institute of America award for de-
sign/build excellence for the firm’s work on the
Rhode Island Convention Center with Gilbane
Building Co....John Rossi, Assoc. AIA and
Michele Gibbons-Carr, Ph.D. are conducting a
“future search” program in California in March for
the Association of College Unions International
Conference...SBA/Steffian Bradley Associates
has announced the election of Richard Schmidt
AIA as a stockholder of the firm...Graham Gund
Architects has received a Merit Award from the
U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology for the firm's
renovation of the Shubert Theatre in Boston; the
firm also was featured in the November issue of
Contract Design for its design of the Case West-
ern Reserve University School of Law...HMFH
principal Stephen Friedlaender FAIA and Linda
Snyder, former Director of the Chelsea Schools
Program, were featured speakers for the Con-
necticut Department of Education Facilities Con-
ference; the presentation was “The New Chelsea
Schools: Politics & Process”; and HMFH was
honored with Association of School Business
Officials’ design awards for the firm's work on the
Koll Colat-1B-lalem e)are)Come(-1-(el|[a(-1- ce) aml -a
and other sections of the ChapterLetter
are listed on p. 1 of each issue.
Chelsea Elementary School Complex and on the
West Somerville Neighborhood School...Symmes
Maini & McKee has named Debra Nichols (below
left) a Principal of the firm and also has named
Mark Zarrillo FASLA, AICP (below right) a Senior
Associate...Ellenzweig Associates has been
honored with design awards from the Precast/
Prestressed Concrete Institute for the design of
the Abramson Pediatric Research Center in Phila-
delphia and by the Metal Construction Associa-
tion for the design of the MIT Cogeneration Facility
on which Parsons Main was the architect-of-
record and design engineer... Thompson and
Rose has received an Honor Award from the
American Wood Council for its design of the Barn
at Straitsview Farm in Washington state; Charles
Rose AIA and Maryann Thompson AIA, while
visiting critics at RISD in the Fall, also were guest
lecturers at the University of Virginia, the Univer-
sity of Florida in Gainesville, Roger Williams Uni-
versity, and are currently exhibiting five recent
projects at the University of Michigan...In recent
issues, Banker & Tradesman has highlighted the
work of CBT (The Goddard House in Brookline),
Tsoi/Kobus (a special feature on the Suffolk Law
School), and Anthony Tappé and Associates
(the Morse Institute Library in Natick, reviewed by
critic Jonathan Hale); the paper also recently
included articles by John Rossi, Assoc. AIA on
Bruner/Cott's design of 1640 Washington Street
and a guest editorial by David Lee FAIA on design
as an economic redevelopment engine for the
city...In a recent issue of The Boston Globe, Tsoi/
Kobus’ design of two University Park facilities for
Forest City Development was the subject of a
feature story; and in recent issues The Boston
Globe Magazine published a letter by Joan
Goody FAIA on “the new urbanism” and a delight-
ful article by architectural photographer Peter
Vanderwarker, BSA Affil. on architectural gems
in the greater Boston area, including the Deer
Island Wastewater Treatment Plant by Chisholm
Washington Architects and the Nantasket Beach
Bathhouse by Todd Lee/Clark/Rozas...Dennis
Keefe AIA was the guest speaker at the Boston
Archdiocese’s first Boston Congress on Worship
in November.
BKA Associates is designing Meadox Medical’s
corporate HQ, R & D, and manufacturing facilities
in New Jersey, a new building for Intertek Testing
Services in Boxborough, a new outlet store proto-
type for The J. Peterman Co., and international
retail stores for Reebok...Stahl Associates has
completed work on the extensive renovation of
The Old South Meeting House (photo #1 on p. 14)
in downtown Boston for the National Park
Robert C. Dean FAIA
Robert Dean FAIA, a Principal of Perry Dean
Rogers & Partners, died in December at 94.
He received his undergraduate and gradu-
ate degrees in architecture at MIT, won a
travelling fellowship to the Fontainbleau_ |
School of Fine Arts in 1925 and the Rotch
Travelling Fellowship upon graduation. After
teaching architecture for two years at Geor-
gia Tech, Dean returned to Boston to join the
firm of Perry Shaw and Hepburn in 1930 to
become a major project architect on the
restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. He be-
came a partner of the firm in 1940 and was
responsible for the design of The American
Military Cemetery in England, Bentley Col-
lege, the Fine Arts and Science Centers at
Macalester College, the County Library and
Little Theater in South Carolina, Liberty Mu-
tual Insurance Company buildings in Bos-
ton, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, the
Houghton Library and Aldrich and Kresge
Halls at Harvard, and the Hydrodynamics
Lab at MIT. In 1948, Dean served as Presi-
dent of the BSA and was a member of the |
AIA College of Fellows.
Dean, who lived in Wellesley for 65 years,
won the design competition for the Wellesley
High School and, in addition to designing
major additions to churches in Wellesley,
served on the Wellesley Housing Authority,
often as Chair, for over 20 years. During
World War II, Dean served in Europe during
the Battle of the Bulge and, after the War,
joined the Army Reserves to end his military
career as the Commanding General of the
94th Division Artillery. For his service in the
War, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the
Croix de Guerre, and similar extraordinary
honors from Belgium and the Netherlands.
He is survived by his son, Andrew Dean AIA
of Boston, and by three other children, 14
grandchildren, and two siblings.
Service...Keefe Associates is designing the reno-
vations of the Emmanuel College Chapel in
Boston...Mostue & Associates has completed
work on the Brownstones Apartments renovation
in the South End, the renovation of 808-812
Memorial Drive in Cambridge, and the adaptive
reuse of former attic space at The Landmark
School in Beverly...Prellwitz/Chilinski Associ-
ates has completed work on the Galaxy Cafes at
the Boston Museum of Science, a new airport
terminal concessions project for CA One Services
at the new Greater Buffalo-Niagara International
BSA ChapterLetter February 1998 13
...more Fame
Airport, the new Fire & Ice restaurant in Harvard
Square, the restoration and addition of the
Stoneham Senior Center, and the Settler's Green
Outlet Village in New Hampshire; the firm is cur-
rently working on the first phase of the Paramus
Park Shopping Center in New Jersey for The
Rouse Companies, the first phase of the Tower
Square Retail Center in Springfield, and
streetscape and facade improvements and 38
new entries for The Mandella Housing Project in
Boston for Beacon Residential Properties...
Jeremiah Eck Architects has completed design
of the Berg Residence (photo #2 below) in New
York...HMFH Architects is designing the addi-
tion and renovation to the Boston Latin School
including a new library, new arts and music center,
new theater, and a school-wide technology up-
grade (Chisholm Washington Architects is as-
sociated architect for the project) and HMFH is
designing several facilities for the McCallie School
in Chattanooga...Payette Associates is provid-
ing programming and design for a new science
center at Ohio Wesleyan University and is design-
1 — Old South Meeting House by Stahl
Associates
OT a nd eee
photo: Peter Vanderwarker
14 BSAChapterLetter February 1998
4 — Marriott's Custom House
Tower by Jung/Brannen
ing a life sciences building at West Virginia
University...ADD Inc has completed design of the
new Wang worldwide corporate HQ (photo #3
below)...Jung/Brannen Associates has com-
pleted the renovation and conversion of Boston's
Custom House Tower (photo #4 below) into luxury
vacation residences for The Beal Cos. and Marriott
Vacation Club International...Bruner/Cott is de-
signing 45 units of new housing for Campus
House in Newton, conducting an historic preser-
vation study of the Phillips Andover Academy bell
tower, and has completed work on the Marriott
Residence Inn in Kendall Square in Cambridge...
Arrowstreet has completed design of
Connecticut's Brass Mill Center and the Hoyts
Cinema in the Center... Thompson and Rose
Architects is designing a new visitors’ center for
the Polly Hill Arboretum in Martha's Vineyard and
a new elementary school in Chilmark; the firm is
also designing the new shrub and vine collection
at the Arnold Arboretum in collaboration with
Douglas Reed Landscape Architects and is de-
signing a new amphitheater, community center,
q
|SSBID uOjuy
on
2 — Berg Residence by Jeremiah Eck Architects
ge Lambros
S photo: Geor
— Loyola's School of Medicine by
Ellenzweig Associates
and bathhouse in Acton...Graham Gund Archi-
tects is designing a new college-prep school for
the Stratton Mountain School in Vermont and is
designing the Taft School masterplan in
Connecticut...Gorman Richardson Architects
is designing the new EMC manufacturing facility in
Franklin... Ellenzweig Associates is designing
new chemistry facilities and establishing program-
matic requirements for the Department of Chem-
istry at Stanford and has completed work on the
School of Medicine (photo #5 below) at Loyola
University and a science facility (photo #6 below)
at Bowdoin...Wallace, Floyd, Associates has
completed work on the Mass Pike’s Operations
Control Center, a project that also included Elkus/
Manfredi Architects and Weidlinger Associates
Consulting Engineers...Architectural Resources
Cambridge is completing work on the Tufts Uni-
versity Biomedical Research & Nutrition Com-
plex, preliminary design for the Shanghai munici-
pal complex in China, the new Show Chwan
Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, the expansion of
corporate facilities for Polaroid and for GTE, pre-
3 -— Wang HQ by ADD Inc
6 — Bowdoin Science Facility by Ellenzweig Associates
7 — Mendon-Upton Regional Middle/High School by Earl R.
Flansburgh + Associates
JeyjuesoYy are|g :ojoyd
...and more Fame
liminary design for Andover Middle School and
Wilmington Middle School, athletic facilities for
the University of Massachusetts/Lowell, Princeton
University, and Milton Academy; and has com-
pleted work on the Tewksbury Elementary
School...Earl R. Flansburgh + Associates is
designing two new elementary schools and reno-
vations to two other elementary schools in
Stoneham and the expansion and renovation of
the Triton Regional High School in Rowley; and
has completed work on phase two of the Boston
College Law School expansion, the expansion
and renovation of Lynn English High School, and
the new Mendon-Upton Regional Middle/High
School (photo #7 on p. 14) in Upton.
News of Corporate Affiliates
Hill & Barlow attorneys Penny Cobey, Esq. and
Jay Wickersham AIA, Esq. write on the new AIA
Document B141 in a recent issue of Banker &
Tradesman...The Karsten Company is doing
extensive bathroom renovations at Babson Col-
lege (Wilson Garside Architects was the designer)
and at several Boston College dormitories...
Acentech is designing a sound-masking system
for Cigna in Connecticut...Vanasse Hangen
Brustlin received an APA Comprehensive Plan-
ning Award for the report it prepared for MassPort
on environmental planning for Logan
Airport...Wrenn Associates is building the ex-
pansion at Chem, Inc. in Stoneham (a project,
designed by DTS Shaw, that includes a linear
accelerator addition) and has completed con-
struction of the new Desmond O'Malley's Irish
Pub (designed by Vision Ill Architects) in
Framingham ...Beacon Skanska is GC for the
new Hilton Hotel at Logan Airport; the firm also
announced that Leo Grace has joined the firm as
Chief Estimator for the Special Projects Group
and Martin Denny Brown has joined the same
Membership news
group as an estimator...Kennedy & Rossi has
announced the promotion of Kevin O'Rourke
(above left) to Senior Estimator and the promotion
of Brian Baynes (above right) to Project
Manager...The George B. H. Macomber Co. is
building the ENC manufacturing plant in Franklin
(Gorman Richardson is the architect), the expan-
sion/renovation of Higgins Hall for Boston College
(Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott is the
architect), renovation of the Spring Meadow Apart-
ments in Springfield (Dietz & Company is the
architect), and the conversion to office space of a
building for WGBH in Allston (Keyes Associates is
the architect); company VP John Henderson re-
cently served as a GSD panelist on the subject of
collaboration...A. J. Martini, Inc. is restoring Odd
Fellows Hall for The Savings Bank in Wakefield
(Thomson Design Associates is the architect and
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger is the engineer), a
new residence hall at Dean College (Bruner/Cott
is the architect), renovations to 636 Beacon Street
(ADD Inc is the architect), and a new Star Market
in Cambridge (Arrowstreet is the
architect)...Payton Construction has opened a
new office at 75 Market St., Portland, Maine (207-
772-7222); Dorwin Thomas AIA will serve as VP
Maine/Operations, Dennis Landry is Senior Project
Manager, Kenneth Southworth is General Super-
intendent, and Karen Huard is Office Manager;
the company recently completed renovations of
Filene’s Stores in the Maine Mall in Portland, is
BSA President Peter Kuttner AIA is privileged
this month to welcome these new BSA Corpo-
rate Affiliate Members: ARA/RES, Ford Con-
struction Corp., Kilstrom Distribution Inc.,
and S+H Construction. Watch this column in
future issues for news on these and other
Corporate Affiliates. If you would like informa-
tion on Corporate Affiliate membership, call the
BSA at 617-951-1433x221.
completing a design/
build fast-track project
for Nextel in Boston, and
is building the new TGIF
restaurant in the Boston
Theater District...
Shawmut Design and
Construction has an-
nounced that Tom Beck
(left) has joined the com-
pany as National Con-
struction Manager; Beck will be based in Califor-
nia and will focus on expanding Shawmut's na-
tional clientele; the firm recently has completed
work for NikeTown, Morton's of Chicago, HMV
Records, The Cheesecake Factory, FAO
Schwartz, and The Capital Grille... Rolland/Tow-
ers (site planners and landscape architects) have
received the ASLA Award of Excellence for the
firm's 25 years of landscape architecture design;
recent work has included the new hospital in New
York (Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
was the architect), the renovation at Yale (Perry
Dean Rogers and Partners was the architect), and
anew education building at Loyola Medical School
(Ellenzweig Associates was the architect)...The
Massachusetts Building Congress has moved
to Suite 328 A, 100 Cummings Center, Beverly
MA 01915; 978-921-9222.
Advanced to Emeritus
Joef T. Brozek AIA
Yu Sing Jung FAIA
Sylvan Limon AIA
New AIA Members
Quentin Jay AIA
HMFH Architects
Returning AIA Members
Michael R. Contre AIA
Beacon Architectural
Associates
**Christine Toupin Hoelter AIA
Christine Hoelter Architect
Richard H. Walwood AIA
Richard H. Walwood
Architect
NewAssociate AIA Members
Robert A. Carroll
Cole and Goyette
Architects and Planners
Christopher A. Fox
Cole and Goyette
Architects and Planners
Nicole Grdeau
Cole and Goyette
Architects and Planners
New to Boston
Moira Breen
Sasaki Associates
Leaving Boston
Richard L. Bloom AIA
(to Wisconsin)
John Rafuse AIA
(to New Hampshire)
Daniel Sullivan AIA
(to California)
New Corporate Affiliates
ARA/RES
Ford Construction Corp.
Kilstrom Distribution Inc.
S+H Construction
New Individual Affiliates
A Clark-Heider
Mark W. Clancy, Jr.
Matthew Curley
Roland Harpin
Eric Hill
Perry Pratt
New Student Affiliates
BAC
Paul M. Fitzpatrick
John J. McCarthy
Laurie Soave
Harvard GSD
Twig Gallemore
** Western Mass. Chapter
BSA ChapterLetter
To join your friends and
colleagues on this list, call
the BSA at 617-951-
1433x221. Callthe same
number forinformation on
out-of-state subscriptions
to this newsletter, AIA
Documents, gift member-
ships, Build Boston work-
shops and exhibits, spe-
cial publications on mar-
keting & management,
Classified ads, job-place-
ment services, the “AIA
Guide to Boston,” the
BSA electronic bulletin
board, and a trillion other
things.
February 1998 15
Building codes available at BSA
The new State Building Code, the Architec-
tural Access Board Regulations, and other
codes publications are now available di-
rectly from the BSA. All publications may be
ordered using the Special Publications cata-
log inserted in this issue of the ChapterLetter.
For additional copies of the order form and
catalog, call 617-951-1433x221. Among the
codes tools available, these may be of spe-
cial interest:
@ Massachusetts State Building Code/
6th Edition — This is the new, revised
edition of the State Buiding Code published
in April 1997; it is item #177 in the BSA
catalog. (The understandably high level of
interest in the new edition of the Massachu-
setts State Building Code led to the develop-
ment of a special three-day, 10-workshop
BSA CALE BOSTON AnUri*s
series at Build Boston in November focusing
specifically on the critical chapters of the
new code. For details, see p. 39 of the Build
Boston program; for additional copies of the
program, call 617-951-1433x221.)
@ Massachusetts Architectural Access
Board Regulations — This is the official
State Publication of the Access Board regu-
lations and it is available in the BSA catalog
as item #178.
@ Comparative Analysis of 780 CMR:
Massachusetts State Building Code/6th
Edition and 780 CMR: Massachusetts
State Building Code/5th Edition — Pre-
pared for the BSA by The Sullivan Code
Group, this is an extensive, 116-page, sec-
tion-by-section comparison of the new edi-
Al. CBNTER
tion of the code to its predecessor; it covers
Chapters 3-10 and 34 of the new 6th edition
and it is item #171 in the BSA catalog.
@ The Codes Guidebook for Interiors —
Authored by Sharon Koomen Harmon, this
guidebook addresses occupancy classifica-
tions and loads, construction types and build-
ing sizes, egress, fire and smoke separation,
plumbing and mechanical, electrical and
communications, finishes and furniture, etc.;
it is item #129 in the BSA catalog.
u
qble Ary,
= BSA events, workshops, committee meetings,
S publications and other services earn
2 AIA Learning Units for members.
February
3 9 12 17
Educational Facilities * Public-Sector Historic Resources * Small Firms Practice
Cte, 9:30 am, Earl R. Architects Cte, noon, Cte, 8 am Cte, noon
Flansburgh + Assoc.,
77 No. Washington
St., Boston
Society for Design
Administration, 5:30
pm
Alvar Aalto is 96 ;
4
* Membership Cte,
noon
5
Small Firms Design
Cte, 6 pm
Nat Owings is 95
DCPO, Rm. 1609,
100 Cambridge St.,
Boston
Building Envelope
Cte, 4:30 pm
International Markets
Cte, 6 pm
10
Legislative Affairs
Cte, 8:30 am
“Corporate Advisory
Council, noon
11
AllPlan Users Group,
6:30 pm, Bereznicki
Assoc., 9 Wendell
St., Cambridge
Society for Design
All meetings are held in The Architects Building
unless otherwise noted.
16
BSA ChapterLetter
Administration, 5:30
pm
February 1998
Corporate/Institutional
Architects Cte, 6 pm
Editorial Board, 8 am
Executive Cte, 10:30
am
* Professional
Practice Cte, noon
* Board Meeting, noon
BGLAD, 6 pm
Healthcare Facilities
Regional Design Cte, Cte, 5:15 pm
6 pm (Robert Sturgis
FAIA, 617-647-7633) _ Architrion Users
Group, 5:30 pm, BAC
13
* Sole Practitioners BSA Lecture on “New
Cte, noon Urbanism,” 5:30 pm
7 (see p. 1)
14
DataCAD Boston
St. Valentine’s Day
(commemorating the
day late-paying clients
were driven out of
Ireland)
Users Group (DBUG),
6 pm (Evan Shu AIA,
617-662-0020)
Urban Design Cte, 6
pm, Cambridge
Seven, 1050 Mass.
Ave., Cambridge
Alberti is 594
19
Honors & Awards Cte,
8am
Exhibits Cte, noon
BSA President's
Reception (see pp. 2
& 3)
BGLAD, 6 pm _
20
Housing Cte, 8:30 am
* IFRAA, noon
Louis Kahn is 97
23
The AIA held its first
meeting in the office
of Richard Upjohn
FAIA in New York City
in 1857
24
Design Cte, 8 am
Architects for Social
Responsibility, 6 pm
25
Society for Design
Administration, 5:30
pm
AutoCAD Users
Group, 6:30 pm
26
“Works-in-Progress”,
6 pm (see pp. 2 & 3)
First U.S. subway
opened in New York
City in 1870 -
27
* Codes & Regula-
tions Cte, noon
*Lunch
meetings
Call 617-951-
143.
123
by 9:30 am on
the day of the
(S le Co)
reserve lunch
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