AIA Spokane335 W. Sprague Ave.
Spokane, WA 99201
Tel: 509-747-5498
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Kyle W. Andersen, AIA, GBD Architects
FR07 - Case Study: Ore. Health Science/LEED
 Kyle is a talented architect who, while at the University of Oregon, was a winner of the 1993 UIA International Competition, World Congress “A Call for Sustainable Community Solutions,” sponsored by the American Institute of Architects and the Union of International Architects.
As well, Kyle completed postgraduate studies in Urban Design from the University of Polytechnic in Barcelona, Spain.
During his time at GBD, Kyle has been instrumental as the Lead Designer on a wide range of complex projects, including Bellevue Towers, a pair of 42-story condominiums in Bellevue, Washington; OHSU Center for Health & Healing in the South Waterfront District, which just received LEED Platinum Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC); The Master Plan of the Gateway district, as well as The Oregon Clinic and Tri-Met Park and Ride in the same District; Edge Lofts in the Pearl District, also the home to REI; CNF Adtech Center in Northwest Portland
In the past, Kyle was also involved in other projects, such as The St. Francis Apartments in the West End of Downtown Portland; Liberty Center, a 17-story office building in the Lloyd District.
A Green Beginning to a New Community
In 2005, Portland saw the groundbreaking for what will become one of the most sustainable new urban communities in the country. The South Waterfront District is a former industrial area along the Willamette River just south of Portland’s downtown. In a pioneering public-private partnership, the city teamed with its largest employer, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), and Portland’s most successful and environmentally progressive development companies to build a dense urban enclave with housing, green spaces, commercial and retail buildings, and an expanded campus for the school.
One of the first buildings to rise from this former shipyard is the most resource efficient large-scale building in the region, and one of the greenest in the country—the Center for Health & Healing. The new jewel of OHSU is expected to achieve a Platinum LEED Certification, and will be the most complex and innovative project to achieve the rating in North America.
In our presentation, our panel—with representatives from the architect, and mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineering firms—will explore how integrated design practices fostered one of the most pioneering buildings in the country. Along the way, we will show how development, architecture and engineering are becoming ever more efficient, sophisticated and responsive to the local environment and to the ever-changing needs of building owners and occupants. This is not just the story of a building, but also one of a process that is changing the design professions and the greater urban landscape for the better. |
David Bates, AIA, Olympic Associates Company
TH01 - Building Envelope Issues
Mr. Bates has been with Olympic Associates since 1991 and a practicing architect since 1995. He is the founding and current president of the Seattle Building Enclosure Council which promotes interdisciplinary communication and assimilation of knowledge and education regarding design, construction and maintenance of building enclosures. His focus is in building enclosure with experience in investigation, litigation, design and construction of building enclosures.
Things to Consider when Designing and Constructing Building Envelopes
The latest edition of the building code has refined the scope of weather protection for buildings. It now requires that greater attention be paid to changes in plane, changes in materials, penetrations through the building enclosure to ensure that water does not accumulate within the building enclosure. The speaker will discuss components that make up the building enclosure including cladding types and systems, weather resistive barriers, air barriers, flashing and flashing transitions, windows, doors and other penetrations. The talk will address design and construction issues along with levels of risk for various details. |
Chris Bowling, K. Norman Berry Assoc. Arch PLLC
TH11 - Didactic Drawing
Chris Bowling received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kentucky in 1998 and relocated to San Diego, CA. Working for a local firm and acquiring IDP units Chris wanted to deepen his knowledge of architecture and desire to live abroad. In 2002 Chris was accepted into Syracuse University’s Master of Architecture II program located in Florence, Italy. Upon acceptance Chris was awarded a DIPA Travel Scholarship and was appointed an Assistant Teaching position to the Pre-Arch program. In the Syracuse program Chris was introduced to the Didactic Drawing concept and has incorporated it into his daily life.
Upon receiving a Master of Architecture degree, Chris relocated to Louisville, KY where he works for K. Norman Berry Associates Architects PLLC as a project architect. In 2003 Chris joined the local chapter of the AIA where he created the Architects in Education Committee that performed educational outreach to local schools engaging children in architecture. The program was awarded an Accent on Architecture Grant from the American Architectural Foundation in 2004. Chris served as a Director on the AIA-CKC board in 2004. In 2005 Chris was elected as the AIA Regional Associate Director of the Ohio Valley. Also in 2005 Chris was elected to be the Community Director of the AIA’s NAC (National Associates Committee) where he oversees the production of AssociateNews, Forward, Emerging Professional Awards, AIArchitect NAC portion, and the NAC Webpage. In 2006 Chris was re-elected as Community Director of the NAC and continued his last year as Regional Associate Director. In the following year of 2007 Chris was appointed as an AIA Observer to NCARB’s Education Committee which is charged with reviewing standards for NAAB Accreditation and EESA acceptance.
Chris is married to his wife Shana for 8 years and has a two year old named Luca.
Didactic Drawing
In this program, one will learn the tactics of learning from drawing. The program will begin in the classroom and will review and discuss strategies on viewing and drawing the built environment. Examples of didactic drawings will be exhibited to further one’s understanding of the program. The program will transition to an on foot excursion to urban areas of Boston where the theories and strategies of the classroom will be put to practice.
Objectives
Participants will be able to analyze the built environment through drawing.
Participants will create drawings that compel them to study what they see.
Participants will be able to identify key design aspects of the buildings and sites they draw.
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Keith Comes, AIA, NAC|Architecture
TH12 - Case Study: Fox Theater
Keith M. Comes, AIA, LEED® AP, a Principal with NAC|Architecture in Spokane, specializes in higher education, K-12 education, recreation and performing arts projects. Keith is currently serving as Principal-in-Charge of Design for the Fox Theater Renovation and Shadle Park High School projects in Spokane, having recently concluded his work in this same role for West Valley High School in Spokane.
A graduate of Montana State University, Keith has been a guest critic for the School of Architecture at Washington State University and the University of Idaho. He presently serves on the Montana State University School of Architecture Advisory Council.
Fox Theater
Opening night for the Fox Theater in 1931 was declared an "event of supreme civic importance." The Fox has undergone many changes since then but remains a well known landmark in Spokane. Today, the Art Deco treasure is in the midst of it's transformation from a movie theater to a multi use performing arts facility with construction scheduled to be complete in November. This tour is a unique opportunity to see the Fox during the final stages of its restoration and renovation process - including the progress of historic wall and ceiling mural painting and the challenges of converting the theater to a state of the art facility. Please bring shoes that can tolerate construction dust and be ready to climb some stairs! |
Brenda Cooper
Lessons for the Future
 Let your imagination run freely into the future, accompanied by curiosity and hope.
Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist.
As a writer, Brenda has worked extensively with the well-known science fiction author Larry Niven. She and Larry's collaborative fiction has appeared in Analog and Asimov's science fiction. They have a current book out from Tor, BUIILDING HARLEQUIN'S MOON. Her solo fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Brenda's latest book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, came out in March, 2007, from Tor, and the sequel, READING THE WIND, will be out in March, 2008.
As a futurist, she has worked with Glen Hiemstra for over ten years. Brenda writes regularly for Futurist.com and gives talks about the future, technology, and writing.
Brenda is a member of the Futurist Board for the Lifeboat Foundation.
As a technology professional, Brenda started out in Aerospace, where she worked on some of the early efforts to apply knowledge engineering to the field. She is currently CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington.
Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She lives in Bellevue, Washington. |
Andy Frichtl, PE, Interface Engineering
FR07 - Case Study: Oregon Health Science/LEED
 Andrew Frichtl, PE, Principal, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Interface Engineering
The recipient of numerous achievement awards, Andy is well known in the world of architecture and infrastructure as a leader in sustainable design. Andy specializes in energy efficiency and conservation, and uses energy modeling and energy analysis studies as a key component of solid sustainable design that is cost effective as well. He has extensive experience in designing mechanical, electrical and architectural systems that offer surprising payback timeframes. As a Principal, Project Manager and Team Leader, he is responsible for the design of mechanical systems and overall project management. Andy began his career at Interface in 1988.
A Green Beginning to a New Community
In 2005, Portland saw the groundbreaking for what will become one of the most sustainable new urban communities in the country. The South Waterfront District is a former industrial area along the Willamette River just south of Portland’s downtown. In a pioneering public-private partnership, the city teamed with its largest employer, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), and Portland’s most successful and environmentally progressive development companies to build a dense urban enclave with housing, green spaces, commercial and retail buildings, and an expanded campus for the school.
One of the first buildings to rise from this former shipyard is the most resource efficient large-scale building in the region, and one of the greenest in the country—the Center for Health & Healing. The new jewel of OHSU is expected to achieve a Platinum LEED Certification, and will be the most complex and innovative project to achieve the rating in North America.
In our presentation, our panel—with representatives from the architect, and mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineering firms—will explore how integrated design practices fostered one of the most pioneering buildings in the country. Along the way, we will show how development, architecture and engineering are becoming ever more efficient, sophisticated and responsive to the local environment and to the ever-changing needs of building owners and occupants. This is not just the story of a building, but also one of a process that is changing the design professions and the greater urban landscape for the better. |
Sylvia Goodwin, A.I.C.P., Planning and Development Director for the Port of Bellingham
TH04 - Reviving a City- Bellingham Case Study
Sylvia Goodwin, A.I.C.P. is Planning and Development Director for the Port of Bellingham, which owns the majority of the waterfront within the City of Bellingham. Sylvia grew up in the Seattle area and obtained a BA in Urban Planning from the Universty of Washington. Prior to working for the Port, she was Planning Division Manager for Whatcom County and worked closely with the City of Bellingham on joint planning for the Bellingham Urban Growth Area and regional economic development planning.
Reviving a City- Bellingham Case Study
An update on the Bellingham Waterfront Redevelopment project. The Port of Bellingham is working closely with the City of Bellingham to transform the 220 acre Georgia Pacific paper mill site into a mixed used waterfront development with a marina, marine industry and a mix of housing, offices, retail, public access and institutional uses. The site was recently selected as a LEED Neighborhood Design pilot project.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide information on the process and challenges of redeveloping a contaminated waterfront industrial site.
2. To summarize the elements of the LEED ND program and how they relate to this project.
3. To provide a preview of the development opportunities which may be available on the Bellingham waterfront over the next two decades as this project unfolds. |
Brian Jennings, Econonic Development Specialist, Project Manager ofr Spokane’s University District
TH03 - Case Study: Spokane’s U-District
Brian Jennings, Economic Development Specialist, is the Project Manager for Spokane's University District. Brian has been with the City of Spokane since 2005 and holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Eastern Washington University. Prior to the City of Spokane, Brian worked for the local planning firm Studio Cascade, as an associate for the International Economic Development Council in Washington DC, and in his past life was an analyst for Hewlett-Packard for eight years.
Case Study - Spokane University District
Overview of the planning/implementation concept for a University District at the eastern edge of the City's CBD with a vision to attract a critical mass of top students, staff and faculty, cutting-edge researchers, and creative entrepreneurs, all of which are the catalysts for increased commercialization of technology, growth in the health care industry, and overall economic prosperity for the Inland NW region. |
Susan H. Jones, AIA , atelierjones llc
EV07 - REnew, REcharge, REinvent: REvitalizing Our Practice
atelierjones is an architecture and design firm focusing on creating delight within sustainable, dense urban environments. Their work has won multiple design awards and been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. A strong emphasis on uniting design, research, and sustainability, the firm engages in competitions, international sustainable research, and revitalizing our dense urban core.
An Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington, its founding principal, Susan Jones, a LEED professional, has worked and taught design in cities around the world including San Francisco, Boston, Vienna and Berlin. |
Kelly Karmel
TH07 - LEEDing Us Into the Future, Design Balance
Kelly Karmel is a sustainable design consultant and LEED Coordinator based in Missoula, Montana. She hold degrees in both architecture and civil engineering, and has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2000. She and her firm, Design Balance, have a national practice that consults on a wide variety of commercial and institutional projects. Kelly founded Design Balance in 1995, after 16 years experience in architecture and engineering, to work more closely with clients and design teams to improve the quality of buildings and reduce their environmental impact. She promotes energy-efficient, high performance buildings that include natural light, resource- efficient and low toxic building materials, good indoor air quality and ecologically-sensitive site design. She is active with the AIA Committee on the Environment, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. She speaks and writes about the design challenges facing architects and business leaders as they integrate sustainable design into their projects and practices. Kelly has authored several design guides on sustainable design topics, including the recently published “Guide to High Performance Buildings."
LEEDing Us Into the Future
The LEED Green Building Rating programs may seem like they are only focused on end-of-project documentation, but they are really opportunities to make early and effective strategic decisions about how to create higher performance buildings. This program will help you identify the key design decisions and when they should be made for the best success on LEED projects. The speaker will discuss strategies for building owners and design professionals on topics such as selecting the right team members, key activities during early design phases, and tracking your progress to achieving your goals. The program will also include suggestions about how to keep current and to adapt to changes in the LEED Green Building suite of programs.
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Tom Kundig, FAIA, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
FR02 - Residential Design: Case Study 1
 Tom Kundig, FAIA, is a principal at Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. Raised and educated in a tradition of art fabrication, his designs successfully combine art, craft and the human experience of space. He is internationally recognized for his sense of the American West landscape and for his integration of elegant architecture with the exploration and reinvention of parts of architecture that are overlooked or ’forgotten,’ such as doors, windows or stairs, as well as for his use of kinetic architectural elements.
Earlier this year Mr. Kundig was awarded a 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Two of his projects, the Delta Shelter and the Tye River Cabin, were recognized this year with American Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum. In 2005, Mr. Kundig was a finalist for the National Design Award for Architecture and was a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. In 2004, he was selected as one of eight North American Emerging Architects by the Architectural League of New York and elected to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). To date, Mr. Kundig has received a total of 20 AIA awards, including four recent National AIA awards (for The Brain, Chicken Point Cabin, Delta Shelter and the Tye River Cabin). He lectures extensively on design and has served as a university studio critic throughout the United States (at Harvard, the University of Texas, the University of Oregon, and as the D. Kenneth Sargent visiting design critic at Syracuse University, as well as in Japan, among other places). This past winter Princeton Architectural Press released, Tom Kundig: Houses. His undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees are from the University of Washington.
Residential Design: Case Study 1
This presentation will focus on recent and on-going work, its sources of inspiration, thoughts on the nature of materiality and craft, and my interest in the exploration of buildings and their landscape. |
Joe Madsen, Camtek, Inc.
FR01 - Safety & Security in the 21st Century
Joe Madsen is currently the Director of Sales and Training for Camtek Inc. Camtek is a safety and security systems design and installation integrator located here in Spokane. Joe has a wide variety of work experiences in his 30 year career in safety and risk management serving both K 12 and Higher Education.
As an Area General Manager for Laidlaw Education Services, Joe was responsible for nine transportation branches in a five state area. For thirteen years, Joe served as the Director, Safety and Risk Management for Spokane Public Schools and was responsible for the Pupil Transportation, Safety, Security, Worker Compensation and Insurance Departments in a school district serving 30,000 students and 5,000 staff. While there, he helped to design the current model of integrated access, security and IP based CCTV systems which serve 50 schools and currently has over 600 cameras being streamed to central NVR servers. As the Manager of Safety Services at Washington State University, Joe oversaw campus safety programs including construction, residence halls, special events, staff safety and worker compensation/training programs. Joe began his safety career with 10 years as a Lt./EMT on both the WSU Fire Department where he supervised resident student firefighter crews, established and maintained the universities fire/police arson task force as well as serving with Spokane County Fire Protection District # 8 as a Lt. / EMT / Fire Prevention Specialist.
Joe has presented at the National Association of Pupil Transportation Conference, WA State K 20 School Safety Forum and provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security during hearing on "The London Bombings; Protecting Civilian Targets from Terrorist Attacks"
Safety & Security in the 21st Century
There are many "technology solutions" that can be implemented or are required to be incorporated into building design such as; Facilities Mapping, Cell Phone/text messaging Systems, Automated PA Systems, CCTV, Access Control, Fire Alarm and Security Systems.
It is the role of the Architect to first understand the client's safety and security needs and then develop specifications to meet their specific needs with not only the technology that is currently available but with what is around the corner. Just as important however is how you design integrated building safety and security systems to prevent, respond too, or investigate an emergency or crisis in a facility after it occurs. Understanding the available technology and where that technology is going along with the customer's business climate, their operations, and their training practices is critical to providing equipment specifications that will provide long term safety solutions that serve to protect buildings, their contents, employees and the clients that they serve. |
Dr. Rene-Marc Mangin
FR08 - Reading the Client
René-Marc Mangin is a management and communications consultant. A former salesperson and social marketer, he has extensive experience marketing and selling “intangibles” such as “green” power, environmental restoration, and land use plans. He is also a former regional director of the Washington Dept. of Ecology and holds a multi-disciplinary Ph.D. and an MBA with emphasis in marketing and strategy implementation.
Reading the Client
This session is about getting clients via marketing and presentations. Put simply, the essence of marketing is listening and imagining on behalf of the customer. Successful professionals figure out what turns a client on and how to deliver it to them. Profiling is an inexpensive way to discern what turns a client on and how to present it to him or her. A profile is simply a set of characteristics or qualities that identify a type of client and their associated wants and needs. This discussion will synthesize knowledge from marketing, psychology, anthropology, and communications to provide the basis for the effective marketing and selling of architectural services. |
Susan Mangin, Group Mackenzie
FR10 - REdevelopment Forum - REviewing Lessons Learned and Tying it All Together - Facilitator
 Susan Mangin is a registered architect with Group Mackenzie, a local architecture/engineering firm. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Washington State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Central Washington University. For eight years, from 1995- 2003, she combined her love for teaching with her passion for architecture by teaching Architectural Drafting and Design at Benson High School in Portland. During that time she received the Oregon Innovators in Education Award of Excellence for 2000. She then moved to Spokane, Washington and worked as an architect at Integrus Architecture, specializing in Higher Education Design. She has worked on projects for WSU, EWU, CWU, WVC, and SFCC. She is now located at Group Mackenzie’s Vancouver Branch office. She is a member of American Institute of Architecture, Design Committee for Vancouver Downtown Assoc. and Benson High School Architecture Advisory Board.
REdevelopment Forum - REviewing Lessons Learned and Tying it All Together
Join your fellow conference attendees for a final panel session tying it all together. The experts on this panel will provide a REtrospective look at the conference goals - to REnew your knowledge, REcharge your practice and give you the tools and inspiration to REinvent your community. Our panelists are experienced in REvitalizing their communities through their work. Each will provide a few insights into their personal experience ranging from single buildings to entire neighborhoods, followed by an opportunity for dialog. Bring your curiosity, your REflections and your questions.
I. INTRODUCTION: Sue Mangin
II. TO BE DETERMINED: Ron Wells
II. SARANAC BUILDING: Randy Vanhoff
III. KENDALL YARDS PROJECT: Tom Reese
IV. SOUTH WATERFRONT PROJECT: Kyle Anderson
V. OPEN FORUM - QUESTION AND ANSWER
VI. CONCLUSION: Sue Mangin |
Alan Ovson, Ovson Communications
Keynote: Letting Go and Falling Up - Making Positive Change
TH05 - Renewing your skills
TH08 - Communicating in Difficult Conversations
 Recharging your life: Letting Go and Falling Up – How to Make Change Positive
Whether you are an individual or a CEO of a company, change is never easy. In fact, change is so hard that 90% of the people who suffer severe heart attacks can’t make critical life changes that could save their lives. Wow! Could you make a change in your life if your life depended on it? Sure you could, you say, but don’t be too sure. Our old habits can sink us likes stones. In this interactive keynote, Alan will talk about and demonstrate why change is so difficult and how with understanding, strategies, and support, we can all learn to align ourselves with change to make it easier so that as individuals and organizations, we can ‘let go and fall up’.
Renewing your skills: You Don't Get What You Want, You Get What You Negotiate - How To Win at the Game of Negotiation
Negotiation can be like combat: just the thought of negotiating can create stress, anxiety, and fear. Worse, a poor negotiation can destroy relationships and obliterate your bottom line. It doesn’t have to be this way. This highly interactive workshop will teach participants the 7 Principles of Successful Negotiation while building their confidence as they work through a non-threatening role-play situation. Want to reduce your negotiation fears and anxieties, increase your confidence, enhance your relationships, ask probing questions that help define your needs and theirs, and, have fun at the same time? If so, I will see you at this session.
Reinventing Communications: How to Communicate Through Difficult Conversations – Without a Hammer
Conflicts - don't you hate them? Most of us do. But the jolts that conflicts provide can lead to very useful epiphanies. Whether you are working with a contractor, boss, co-worker, or a tough as nails client, your success depends on your ability to manage, transcend and work through the strong emotions these difficult conversations and conflicts bring up. This fun, safe, interactive workshop will give you some tools to help establish trust, acknowledge discomfort, and set up ground rules to push through difficult conversations.
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Kurt Rathmann, Kurt Rathmann, Rathmann Design, Inc. and 3LP Builders, Inc.
FR05 - Residential Design: Case Study 2
Kurt Rathmann has been designing and building resource efficient houses, additions, and renovations since 1996 in the Moscow area as 3 Little Pigs Design-Build. In January of 2007, Kurt moved to Spokane, and is the president of Rathmann Design, Inc. and 3LP Builders, Inc.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in architecture from Washington University in 1990, an interest in bioregionalism and climate-responsive design led to further study as a graduate student at the University of Idaho. A thesis project funded through the University of Michigan National Pollution Prevention Center spawned a design-build project using by-product-based materials and an entrepreneurial vision.
Deep Green Design Build
Kurt Rathmann will present several of his residential projects as case studies for deep green design build. A deeper shade of green development requires resource efficient and site specific solutions that are tuned to the microclimate, considerate of "upstream and downstream" costs, and embody the progressive values and personal aspirations of the client. The seamless design build approach fosters a more integrated focus on the ever unraveling issues of sustainability from conception through completion. Sustainable strategies include compact design, effective passive heating and cooling, heat avoidance, super insulation, appropriate use of thermal mass, day lighting, rainwater collection, design for durability, detailing for disassembly, and utilizing locally sourced, salvaged, or recycled materials. |
Ryan Ruffcorn, AIA, Project Manager with Capital Planning and Development at Washington State University
TH03 - Case Study: Spokane’s U-District
Ryan Ruffcorn, AIA is a Project Manager with Capital Planning and Development at Washington State University managing the design and construction of major capital projects throughout the state. Ryan has been with the University since 2001 and has overseen the planning and design of many projects including the University's Research & Education Complex, College of Nursing Building, and Applied Technology Building. Ryan plays a key role in the capital budgeting process and with projects that are being developed as public/private partnerships.
Case Study - Spokane University District
Overview of the planning/implementation concept for a University District at the eastern edge of the City's CBD with a vision to attract a critical mass of top students, staff and faculty, cutting-edge researchers, and creative entrepreneurs, all of which are the catalysts for increased commercialization of technology, growth in the health care industry, and overall economic prosperity for the Inland NW region. |
Dave Shockley , ALSC
EV08- Sense of Spokane Tour
Dave Shockley is an architect with ALSC Architects in Spokane. He has worked with local historic preservation volunteer groups for the past 20 years. Ten years ago he co-founded Spokane Preservation Advocates, a grass roots non profit organization that serves Spokane County and now has over 800 members.
Sense of Spokane Tour
A City overview bus tour through historic South Hill and Browne’s Addition neighborhoods with stops at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Manito Park, a downtown loft project, a Browne’s Addition mansion and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. |
Kevin Sloan, Kevin Sloan Studio
TH11 - Didactic Drawing
Kevin Sloan is founder and director of Kevin Sloan Studio, an urban design, planning and landscape architectural office based in Dallas, Texas, where his awards, lectures and other professional distinctions are numerous. Mr. Sloan holds a Masters of Architecture from Syracuse University where he taught and earned the distinction of Syracuse Fellow, while studying abroad in Florence, Italy. Also, a Bachelors in Landscape Architecture preceded distinctions as Harvard Loeb Fellow finalist in 2002 and runner-up in the Steedman Design Competition in 2000, then returning to Florence to teach in 2003. A prolific writer, articles in the Journal of Landscape Architecture are numerous as contributions, or about his work. The works of his studio include the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, where consultation to a design team that included OMA, Foster & Partners and Allied Architects, focused on the development of the spaces between buildings. Also, Mr. Sloan was the lead planner for Southern Methodist University’s plan to attract the George W. Bush Presidential Library, which prevailed amongst numerous competitors. A prodigious jazz pianist, Sloan sees drawing as the device which connects seeing and knowing.
Didactic Drawing
In this program, one will learn the tactics of learning from drawing. The program will begin in the classroom and will review and discuss strategies on viewing and drawing the built environment. Examples of didactic drawings will be exhibited to further one’s understanding of the program. The program will transition to an on foot excursion to urban areas of Boston where the theories and strategies of the classroom will be put to practice.
Objectives
Participants will be able to analyze the built environment through drawing.
Participants will create drawings that compel them to study what they see.
Participants will be able to identify key design aspects of the buildings and sites they draw.
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Michael Strogoff, AIA, Strogoff Consulting
TH02 - Firm Transition - the Next Generation
 Michael Strogoff, AIA, of Strogoff Consulting, provides ownership transition, strategic marketing, negotiating leadership and training, firm management and project management services to design professionals. Mr. Strogoff is an architect, an advisory group member to AIA’s Practice Management Knowledge Community, and a former managing principal of a 40-person architectural firm, and.
Since 1996, Michael has been serving the profession as a practice management consultant based in Mill Valley, California. He has been guiding architectural and engineering firms through the ownership and leadership transition process, develops valuations of firms, and operates Confidential Clearinghouse for Mergers and Acquisitions. Michael has been a featured speaker at national, state, regional and local AIA events and his articles on practice management and ownership transition have been featured in Architectural Record, Engineering News Record, PSMJ's Best Practices, DPIC's Communiqué, A/E Risk Review and numerous AIA chapter newsletters.
Planning Successful Ownership Transitions
When planning their exit strategy and ensuring the continuity of their firm, many owners of architectural firms wait too long to implement an effective succession plan. This workshop will show you how to develop a timely ownership transition plan that supports your personal and strategic business goals. Attendees will learn how to: develop criteria for and identify future owners; package their firm for either an internal or external sale; identify and respond to prospective owners’ key concerns; approach prospective buyers; develop a preliminary valuation; create greater value for future owners; craft a flexible ownership transfer plan; and ensure that transitions are successful after you leave. This program, intended for owners and prospective owners of architectural firms, draws on Michael Strogoff’s experience facilitating ownership transitions; valuing architectural firms, attracting outside acquirers, and advising future owners. |
Norman Strong, FAIA, Partner, The Miller/Hull Partnership, AIA National Vice President ‘05 – ‘07
TH10 - Practice Futures: Integrated Practice & Delivery
 Norman Strong is the managing partner for The Miller/Hull Partnership a 60-person architecture firm located in Seattle. Established in 1977, the firm has been recognized for innovative sustainable design receiving more than 150 design awards, including 80 AIA awards of which 4 are AIA Earth Day Top Ten Awards—and the 2003 AIA National Architecture Firm Award. Norman is also an elected AIA National Vice President focused on the implementation of the AIA’s Strategic Plan for Integrated Practice and Sustainability.
Norman is the Chair of the AIA’s Sustainability Discussion Group (or SDiG) which was formed to support of the AIA’s position statements focused on high quality, high performance buildings and sustainable community planning. Their work will be the spring point to identify opportunities for architects to be leaders in the design & construction arena to reach the AIA’s goal of carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030.
The Future of Practice- A Sustainable Approach
This session will help analyze emerging changes to the traditional practice model. The "Future of Practice" relates to integrated delivery of projects, a sustainable approach of the process and the practical aspects of implementing this method with attention to new opportunities for contractual relations between owner, designer and contractor. |
James M. Suehiro, AIA LEED AP, NBBJ, AIA National Director, Northwest & Pacific Region
TH10 - Practice Futures: Integrated Practice & Delivery
 Jim Suehiro, AIA LEED AP, Principal at NBBJ, is director from one of the largest AIA regions and an active member of AIA Seattle since 1984. NBBJ provides architecture, planning, and design services to healthcare, corporate/commercial, institutional, educational, laboratory, transportation, and retail clients. Major projects include: Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, WA); Banner Estrella Medical Center (Phoenix, AZ); Telenor Headquarters (Oslo, Norway); Reebok Headquarters (Canton, MA); the U.S. Federal Courthouse (Seattle, WA); and the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport South Terminal Expansion (Seattle, WA).
Jim earned a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design and a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington. He has worked in several firms during his thirty years in practice, notably with the McKinley Architects as a project designer, TRA Architecture Engineering Planning Interiors as an airport design principal, and currently at NBBJ as Principal focused on the Airports and Transportation practice.
The Future of Practice- A Sustainable Approach
This session will help analyze emerging changes to the traditional practice model. The "Future of Practice" relates to integrated delivery of projects, a sustainable approach of the process and the practical aspects of implementing this method with attention to new opportunities for contractual relations between owner, designer and contractor. |
Bruce Thompson, LEED AP, Director of WSU Spokane Capital Planning and Development
TH03 - Case Study: Spokane’s U-District
Bruce Thompson, Architect, LEED®AP, is the Director of Capital Planning and Development at the Washington State University Spokane campus. Bruce has been with WSU for over 20 years moving to Spokane 9 years ago to coordinate the development of the Riverpoint campus. With the completion of a new building for the Intercollegiate College of Nursing in Fall 2008, the facilities managed by the University on the Spokane campus will total approximately 600,000 sq ft.
Case Study - Spokane University District
Overview of the planning/implementation concept for a University District at the eastern edge of the City's CBD with a vision to attract a critical mass of top students, staff and faculty, cutting-edge researchers, and creative entrepreneurs, all of which are the catalysts for increased commercialization of technology, growth in the health care industry, and overall economic prosperity for the Inland NW region. |
Randy Vanhoff, NCARB, LEEDTM AP, Zeck Butler Architects PS
FR10 - REdevelopment Forum - REviewing Lessons Learned and Tying it All Together
Randy Vanhoff, an associate with Zeck Butler Architects, has significant experience in educational, commercial, office, municipal and government agency facilities. His strengths are in facility programming, design, and computer-generated building modeling. Randy is Project Architect and designer of the Saranac Hotel Renovation, which seeks to be the first building in the Inland Northwest to achieve LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.
A graduate of Washington State University, Randy has been a guest speaker and presenter for the School of Architecture and local building design and construction trade organizations. He currently serves as a board member for the Spokane Regional Plan Center. |
David Wang, Washington State University
FR04 - The current status of "Chinese Architectural Style"
David Wang is Professor of Architecture at Washington State University Spokane. He teaches graduate courses in architectural theory and research at WSU's Interdisciplinary Design Institute. He is a licensed architect in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and practiced for 15 years prior to full time university teaching. He received his M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He writes and publishes in the areas of architectural theory and aesthetics, research methods for designers, and Chinese and European philosophy as it affects architectural design.
What is the Current Status of "Chinese Architectural Style?"
Architecture always reflects the worldview of its culture. Given this, what is the current status of architectural style in China? As China enters the twenty-first century poised to play a leading role in the world politically and economically, how is this rising prominence reflected in the "look" of her recently built architecture? This question is significant for the following reasons. Knowing the answer might give practitioners a sense of an overall aesthetic direction for the design of projects in China. Beyond this, it would highlight underlying tensions between past and current cultural values, or the tensions between industrialization (on the one hand) and responsibility to sustain natural resources (on the other), or tensions in maintaining a national identity amidst enormous pressures for China to "globalize." This lecture provides an overview of recurring aesthetic features in current Chinese architecture. |
Jeff Warner, AIA, LEED AP, ALSC
FR09 - Case Study/Tour: 809 W. Main
Jeff Warner, AIA, LEED AP is a Principal with ALSC Architects of Spokane. ALSC Architects has designed many of the adaptive re-use projects and remodels that contributed to Downtown Spokane's recent renaissance. Jeff was Principal-in-Charge for the 809 West Main project that converted an old J. C. Penney department store into a mixed use development that includes high end condos and retail.
Case Study/Tour: 809 W. Main
Adaptive re-use of existing buildings is a cost effective as well as sustainable form of development. Converting buildings to new uses has its challenges. Doing this in a downtown urban environment is even more challenging. Learn how a vacant property in one of Spokane's best retail blocks found new life as a high end condominium and highly desirable retail space. This session will begin with a short presentation highlighting some of the unique challenges of remaking 809 West Main followed by a project tour conducted by Ron Wendle.
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Ron Wendle, Wells and Company
TH09 - Case Study/Tour: Davenport Arts District
Architect for Wells and Company, a Spokane based design-build and property development firm nationally recognized for the successful renovation of older and historic properties.Ron’s historic renovation experience includes: Steam Plant Square (National Trust Honor Award); the Morgan and Freeman buildings (6-story mixed use residential and commercial condominiums); the Carnegie Square neighborhood redevelopment; and the Bing Crosby (formerly the Met) Theater in downtown Spokane. Other projects include the W809 Lofts condominiums, and Riverside Court Townhouses - the comprehensive renovation of a 1920’s auto repair garage into seven upscale urban townhouses designed to compliment the unique architectural character of Spokane’s historic west Riverside Avenue.
Education: Master of Business Administration – 1979 Arizona State University,
Bachelor of Architecture – 1973 University of Idaho
Professional Affiliations:
Spokane, AIA current Board Member,
Spokane Design Review Commission – board member & chair 1999 to 2006,
Spokane Historic Landmarks Commission 1996 to 2002,
Friends of the Davenport – founding member & past president 1994 to present
Case Study/Tour: Davenport Arts District
This session will focus on touring Spokane’s Davenport Arts District to show the relationship between historic renovation projects and urban revitalization. We will be focusing on presenting the unique role historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse plays in district and neighborhood revitalization. We will also be discussing the value of an arts district in enriching a community. |
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Clark Llewellyn, AIA , Dean University of Hawaii at Mănoa
Clark has a Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1973. His teaching areas include design (with a focus on Basic Design and Fourth Year Studio), Introduction to Design (lecture/studio format to 400 students), foreign study (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belize, Guatemala, Ecuador) with a focus on community involvement. Clark was the Director of the School of Architecture at Montana State University until July 1, 2007. He is now the Dean at the University of Hawaii at Mănoa ,School of Architecture, Honolulu, HI. |
Jon Schleuning, FAIA , Principal, SRG Partnership, Inc.
 As a noted designer and team leader, Jon brings an enthusiastic and collaborative approach to a wide range of civic, education, science/technology and healthcare projects throughout the Northwest and Western regions. His innovative designs have earned numerous local and national awards for design and sustainability. Recognized projects include the Oregon Coast Aquarium, the Mount St. Helens Visitor’s Center, the Oregon State University Forest Ecosystem Research Lab, the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine complex, the UC Riverside College of Engineering II, and Genentech’s Founders Research Centers I and II.
Jon is a founding principal of SRG Partnership, Inc., a 70-person architectural, planning and interiors firm with offices in Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. The firm is highly acclaimed for its quality design and fully integrated sustainable principles. A native of the Northwest, Jon is a graduate of the UC Berkeley, has served in numerous civic and professional positions, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. |
Paul Hirzel, AIA , Professor of Architecture, Graduate Program Coordinator, Washington State University
 Paul Hirzel holds Bachelors degrees in Humanities from Washington State University, Art Education and Industrial Education from University of Washington, and Architecture from Cornell University. He earned his Master of Architecture with a minor in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University in 1984 winning both the Eschweiler Prize and Cornell Marshall Award for design excellence. His professional experience includes private practice throughout the country where he has won regional, national and international recognition for projects involving interior design, landscape design and building design. Selected awards include an American Institute of Architects National Housing Award, an AIA-Sunset Western Home Award, and an AIA Seattle Honor Award. In addition to private practice, Hirzel has worked in both landscape architecture offices (The Berger Partnership in Seattle) and architecture offices (James Cutler, Architects, Bainbridge Island, Washington and SOM, Portland, Oregon). His work has been published in Architectural Record, Sunset Magazine, and Inland NW Homes and Lifestyles and was featured in a Rizzoli/Universe book publication by Linda Leigh Paul entitled: The Cabin Book.
His academic experience includes both secondary education where he was a high school art instructor and higher education where he has taught architecture at Washington State University since 1989. Hirzel's academic emphasis at WSU has focused on the introduction of landscape significance into the architecture curriculum. His site design course has won national awards from the American Institute of Architects: The AIA National Education Award (the professions most prestigious award to educators for teaching excellence) and the National Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture: The ACSA Design Studio Award and has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
Ron Tan, FAIA
Ron Tan, FAIA was born in Singapore, an island located on the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula. A graduate of the University of Idaho, he was the recipient of the Arthur L. Swim Award, for leadership and creativeness. He has taught, lectured and been a public speaker reaching countless architecture students, public school students and students of all walks of life in his advocacy of architecture and the arts. He has served the profession as a two-term Member of the Washington State Board of Registration for Architects, chaired the Western Region of NCARB, Master Grader and Design Exam Writer for the Architects Registration Examination and is currently serving his third term on the Washington state Capitol Campus Design Advisory Committee. As artist, sculptor, craftsman, fundraiser, board member, teacher and performing arts enthusiast, he is uniquely identified as The Area Architect/Artist. |
Susan H. Jones, AIA , atelierjones
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