Chapterletter

Blue Ribbon | |

Commission to
Meet with BSA

Date:

Wednesday, January 31
Reservations accepted until 5
P.M., Monday, January 29. Can-
cellations accepted until noon,
Tuesday, January 30.

Time:

6p.m. Drinks
7p.m. Dinner
8p.m. Program

Place:
Boston Architectural Center

The Chief Counsel of the Blue
Ribbon Commission, Bancroft
Littlefield, Jr. of Harvard Law
School, will join Peter Forbes
AIA, Architect member of the
Commission, in a special pre-
sentation to members of the
Chapter.

They will discuss the activities of |
the Commission to date and wish

to hear from Architects what the
profession wishes the Commis-
sion to accomplish.

In April 1978 the Commonwealth |
of Massachusetts House of
Representatives passed “a
Resolve providing for an investi-
gation and study by a Special
Commission relative to corruption
involved in certain State and
County building contracts.”

The mandate of the Commission
is twofold: (1) to investigate al- |
legations of corrupt practices and
maladministration in the awarding
and implementation of state and
county contracts for design and
construction of buildings; (2) to
propose recommendations for
legislation to improve the public
building process.

The Commission was legally con-
stituted in July with the appoint-
ment of its seven members:

| and “user” agencies, particular

Newsletter of the Boston Society of Architects
A Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
January 1979

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney
General of the Commonwealth; |
Frances Burke, Chairperson of
the Department of Public Ad-
ministration, Suffolk University;
Peter Forbes, AIA, President of
Forbes Hailey Jeas Erneman,
Inc., Architects, Boston; Daniel
O. Mahoney, Partner in the
Boston law firm of Palmer &
Dodge and Executive Committee
member of the Massachusetts
Bar Association; Walter
McCarthy, P.E., professor of
engineering at Southern
Massachusetts University; John
William Ward, Chairman,
President of Amherst College;
and Lewis H. Weinstein, Partner
in the Boston law firm of Foley,
Hoag & Eliot. The Commission
appointed Bancroft Littlefield, Jr.
as Chief Counsel.

A,

| Panagore

MSAA Officers
Elected

The MSAA Annual Meeting
elected Peter Panagore AIA,
President, Mark L. Sirulnik AIA,
Vice President, and Kendall P.
Bates AIA Secretary /Treasurer. A
budget of $19,600 with dues of
$28 per member was adopted.
(MSAA dues are included in local
chapter assessment.)

The MSAA Executive Committee
is made up of the following
members:

From BSA

Kendall Bates AIA (Sec./Tr.)
John M. Clancy AIA

David R. Johnson AIA

A. Anthony Tappe AIA

Initially, all the design and building
contracts awarded through the
Bureau of Building Construction
and the Designer Selection Board
from January 1, 1968 to the
present were computer pro-
grammed to provide an acces-
sible record of projects,
designers, builders, projected
costs, actual costs, fees, change
orders, litigation, etc. With this
data in hand the investigation has
been focused to examine specific
state and county administrative

projects which are typically rep- |
resentative of the procurement
process or which appear to have
had unusual problems, and |

individual design firms and build-
From Central Mass.

chapterletter

Bookshop News

We now stock over 130 architec-
tural book titles in our recently
opened Bookshop. By January
30, 1979, we will have more than
150 titles in stock!

Some of our most recent acquisi-
tions include: A/A Standardized
Accounting for Architects
($16.00 for members), A/A Life
Cycle Cost Analysis 2 ($14.40 for
members), America’s Forgotten
Architecture, Solar Houses,
Designs for Wood, Inside Today's
Homes, The Craftsman Builder,
New York/New York, Old House

| Plans, and Natural Solar

Architecture.

These are but a few of the new
titles available. We also special
order specific books that you
request.

If you haven't come by yet, come
by and browse. BSA members
get a 10% discount on almost
every book in the store.

In addition, we continue to carry

| all of the AIA Documents, at the

lowest price available anywhere
in Massachusetts. Now's the time
to buy anew Handbook of
Professional Practice or to
update your Handbook and buy
the latest editions of this year’s
revised forms: A401, A701,

B151, G701, G702, G703, G704,
A107, A111, B181.

Check your Document supply
today and call the Chapter Office

| at 267-5175, with your next

ing companies which have had order.
| extensive experience in the state | Peter Panagore AIA (Pres.)

and county system. | Charles D. Schmitt AIA

John H. Wadsworth AIA

More immediately, the Commis-

sion actively solicits the involve- From Western Mass.

ment of the architectural Com- | Leon J. Pernice AIA

munity as a source of information, | Mark L. Sirulnik AIA (V.P.)

to be held in strictest confidence, | David Spencer AIA

concerning allegations of
| Continued on page 4 | LIBRARY

BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL CENTER

News from President Clancy
and the Board of Directors

Boston Exports

Annual Design
Award

Prologue

In 1977 the BSA announced the
creation of anew annual design
award category titled, “Boston
Exports.” This award was con-
ceived to complement the
Harleston Parker award and to
act as a showcase for BSA |
members’ buildings constructed
in other cities, states, and
countries.

Eligibility

The awards program is open to all
current members of the BSA. The
same rules apply to this jury as
apply to the Harleston Parker jury,
i.e. a jury member has to agree
that none of his work or that of his
firm is eligible for an award. Struc-
tures or buildings of any type
must have been completed within
the last ten years (after January
1969) and situated anywhere on
the globe outside the Boston
metropolitan area which for this
purpose is designated as follows:

The City of Boston and the
Metropolitan Parks District. Sec-
tion 3 of Chapter 407 for the year
1893 includes in this district the
cities or towns of Cambridge,
Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, Malden,
Medford, Newton, Quincy, |
Somerville, Waltham, Woburn,
Arlington, Belmont, Braintree,
Brookline, Canton, Dedham,
Dover, Hingham, Hull, Melrose,
Milton, Nahant, Needham,
Revere, Saugus, Stoneham,
Swampscott, Wakefield,
Watertown, Wellesley, Weston,
Weymouth, Winchester, and
Winthrop.

Submission Deadline
All submissions must be received |
at the BSA Chapter office at 320
Newbury Street before 5:00 P.M.
on February 23, 1979.

6. Aminimum of two and a max-
imum of six exterior photos of
different facades (B & W or
color).

7. Aminimum of one and a max-
imum of four interior photos (B_ |
& W or color). |
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|

All material must follow the AIA
rules for anonymity. A sealed
blank opaque envelope contain-
ing the firm name should be
enclosed on the last page.

Jury

The jury will make the selections
based upon the materials pre- |
sented. No field trips will be
undertaken. Members of the jury
are:

Earl R. Flansburgh FAIA, Ch.
Richard Bertman AIA
Sherrie Culter AIA

W. Easley Hamner AIA
Wilson F. Pollock, Jr. AIA

Awards

The awards will be publicly
announced at the annual BSA
Awards Dinner. Winners will be
confidentially notified prior to the
dinner to encourage their
presence. Awards will be in the
form of a printed certificate
bearing the Chapter’s Seal.

Obligations of Winners

The selected winners may be
asked to provide to the BSA for a
period of one year:

1. Aset of slides of the submis-
sion entries, suitable for
incorporating into atravelling |
slide show.

2. One or two (to be determined)
foam core boards with
mounted material similar to the
submission requirements for
use in travelling display spon-
sored by the Society.

Submission Requirements
All material must be submitted in a
black spiral binder and confirm to
an 8% x 11 format.

1. A typewritten description not
to exceed one page, of the
project, its location, client,
program and approximate
value.

2. Atypewritten description not
to exceed one page of the
design solution and major
materials used.

3. Site plan.

4. Ground floor plan and typical
upper floor plan if applicable.

5. Typical section or sections.

Submission Fee

Acheck or money order for $20
to cover handling must be
included with each submission.

| Check is to be made out to the

Boston Society of Architects. It

should be placed in an envelope
and taped to the inside cover of

the submission.

Schedule

1 January Receipt by members
of announcement

23 February Deadline for
submission

1 March Confidential notification
of winners

30 March Deadline for slides

| and boards of winners
| 4 April Annual BSA awards
| dinner & announcement of

winners

1979 Committees

The following is a listing of the
committees under the Profes-
sional Society Commission. A full
listing of the BSA committees will

| appear in the February

Chapterletter.

Commission on
Professional Society
Marilyn Fraser AIA
Commissioner

Elected Committees

Honors and Awards
Peter Chermayeff AIA
Sarah P. Harkness AIA
J. Timothy Anderson AIA
Thomas G. Green AIA
Joseph Maybank AIA
Robert S. Sturgis FAIA

Nominating Committee
George M. Notter, Jr. FAIA
Peter Steffian AIA

Robert Kramer AlA
Douglas Cole Smith AIA
Joseph L. Eldredge FAIA
Terry Rankine AIA

Membership Committee
John L. Davies AIA
Frederick A. Norris AIA
Antonio P. deCastro AIA
Peter Forbes AIA

| Gail Flynn AIA

Michael J. Kraus AIA

Ethics Committee
Henry C. Boles AIA
John L. Davies AIA
John F. Miller AIA

If you have not been assigned to
a committee but would like to
serve, contact the Chapter office.
Names can be added to the com-
mittee rosters at any point. For
this purpose a list of BSA com-
mittees and the Commissions
they fall under follows:

Commission on
Professional Society
Marilyn Fraser AIA
Commissioner

Program Committee
Space Search Committee

Commission on
Education and Research
Sarah P. Harkness AIA
Commissioner

Education Committee

Rotch Travelling
Scholarship Committee

BSA Scholarship Committee

Energy Committee

Continued on page 4

New England Regional Council/ AIA Awards 1978

soa

Restoration Mechanics Hall, Worcester

Citations in the 1978 NERC
Awards program were presented
on October 21 at Hanover, New
Hampshire as follows:

Photo by Steve Rosenthal

The Ainsworth Gymnasium,
Smith College
The Architects Collaborative

Restoration Mechanics Hall
Worcester, MA
Anderson Notter Finegold, Inc.

Kimball Carriage House, Andover

Exeter Street Theater /Friday's
Boston, MA
Childs, Bertman, Tseckares &

| Casendino, Inc., Architects

| Kimball Carriage House
| Andover, MA

Crissman & Solomon Architects

Photo by Steve Rosenthal

Members of the Jury were:
Peter Blake FAIA, Robert Burley

| AIA, and Robert Campbell.

Boston Society of Architects
320 Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

First Class Mail

News from the Chapter Office

Calendar

January 1
Deadline for Preservation
Award Nominations

January 10

Preservation Film Festival
National Park Service Building
12-2 p.m.

January 17
Lighting Symposium
BAC, 4;6 p.m.

January 22
Deadline for Rotch Travelling
Scholarship application requests

January 31

Dinner Meeting

Blue Ribbon Commission
BAC, 6p.m.

January 31
Preservation Film Festival
Brattle Theater

12-2 p.m.

February 23
Deadline for Boston Exports
submissions

Order AIA Documents from the
Chapter office.

Blue Ribbon
Commission to
Meet with BSA

Continued from page 1

misconduct and disfunction in the
public building system.

The Special Commission Con-
cerning State and County Build-
ings is located on the 21st Floor
of the John W. McCormack State
Office Building, One Ashburton
Place, Boston; telephone (617)
727-1270.

Plastics Seminars

The University of Lowell is spon-
soring a series of Plastics
Seminars which will be held at the
Hyatt Regency Cambridge during
the month of March. All members
will shortly be receiving more
information from the University of
Lowell.

Lighting Symposium

Aworkshop, conducted to inform
the local members of BSA,
ASHRAE and IES about the
AIA/RC Program and resultant
Federal energy performance
standard will be held at the
Boston Architectural Center on
Wednesday, January 17.

Joint Sponsors

Boston Society of Architects
Boston Chapter of ASHRAE

New England Section of IES

Topic

AIA/RC’s Design for Energy
Conservation Program and the
resultant Energy Performance
Standard

Time and Place

Wednesday, January 17, 1979,
4-6 PM

Boston Architectural Center

320 Newbury Street, Boston

The AIA/RC Program was funded
through HUD and involved the
redesign of 168 projects across
the country. The workshop will
discuss the redesign activity and
the resultant standard which is
planned to be published in the
Federal Register in February,
1979, and will become effective
in August, 1979. Copies of the
proposed standard and data
about the AIA/RC program will be
distributed to all attendees.

Reservations are $4 per person
and are required in advance.
Send to: IES New England
Section, c/o Electric Institute
Inc., 100 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA 02116. (617) 542-
8755.

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Historic Preservation

Film Festival

Two additional dates in the Pres-
ervation Film Festival series:

January 10, 1979
National Park Service Building
15 State Street, Boston

January 31, 1979
Brattle Theater
Harvard Square

Featured will be continuous
showing of films, and a display of
current literature on preservation
techniques and the new
preservation tax act. Bring a
brown bag lunch and join us any-
time between noon and 2:00 p.m.

1979 Committees
Continued from page 2

| Commission on

Professional Practice

| Carleton R. Richmond, Jr. AIA
Commissioner

|

Practice Management Committee

Construction Industry Affairs
Committee

Professional Services Committee

Commission on
Architectural Design
Howard Elkus AIA
Commissioner

Urban Design Committee
Historic Resources Committee
Boston Exports Committee

Commission on

Public Affairs

Herbert W. Eisenberg AIA
Commissioner

Housing Committee
Legislative Committee

| Codes Committee

| Announcement

The Book about Arcangelo

| Cascieri FAIA is in its final stages

and funding for it is in progress. If
any BSA member (who has not
already done so) would like to
make a contribution, please
contact James Clapp FAIA at One
Court Street, or call 742-1400.

Building Industry Guide
Available

The BSA has made a special
arrangement with Slater Publica-
tions, Inc. for members to
purchase at a special price of
$10.00 (saving you $30.00) both
THE BIG BOOK (Building
Industry Guide) and Update, the
BIG BOOK'’s new quarterly
update bulletin. The Guide brings
the entire New England building
industry together in one well-
organized reference.

Members will shortly receive a
mailing from Slater Publications

| enabling them to order this pub-

lication at the reduced price.

Membership

New Applicants for Membership
John H. Cunningham, Ill
Jonathan S. Lane

James H. Piatt

Applicants for

Associate Membership in AIA
Wendall C. Kalsow

Alfred J. Spagnolo

Applicants for
Emeritus Status
John S. Bilzerian AIA
John W. Peirce FAIA
Mario P. Pfaff AIA

Applicant for
Unassigned Membership
Daniel Sullivan AIA
Virgin Islands Chapter

Energy Code Guide

The State Building Code
Commission has recently
published an illustrated guide to
the Massachusetts Energy Code
for One and Two Family
Dwellings. This guide is available
at the State Book Store, State
House, Room 116, Boston, MA
02133 for $2.50 per copy
(including postage) payable to
the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.