Issue CXX
Jun 27, 2008
Greetings !
In this issue, you'll read:
AIA Member News
AIA Affiliate Night On Ice - Thanks
Cunningham Bronze Medal Recipant: Jay Anderson, Associate AIA
Nebraska Architecture Firms among Magazine's Top 150
Be Part of the AIA NE Ad in the OWH Arch Supplement
Exhibitor Registration Available - Sign up today
Cunningham Gold Medal Nominations
Iowa Disaster Assistance
AIA NE to Feature KidStructures - Sponsored by the Lauritzen Gardens Guild
E201 Contract Doc Inquiry
AIA Working For You
IDP Outstanding Firm Award Call for Entries
Missing Media Credit?
Call for Presentations Sought
Orlando Design Competition
Calendar of Events - June 27
AIA Member News Brad Behne, Associate AIA, recently joined Davis Design as an architectural designer. Schemmer Associates announces the following have joined the firm - Scott Heaney, AIA, Omaha; Ben Foote, Associate AIA, Lincoln. Tom Pille, Associate AIA, joined Bruce Frasier Architects, P.C. (correction) DLR Group has named Joe Brudney, AIA, an associate. Leo A Daly has promoted Ed Vidlak, AIA, to position of vice president and named John Duensing, AIA, an associate. Congratulations recent graduates of Leadership Omaha: Jeff Monzu, AIA, Leo A Daly and Bill Stott, AIA, The Architectural Offices. The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce recognized affiliate member Weitz for their contribution to the positive growth in the business community with the Omaha 25 Excellence in Business Awards. HDR has signed an agreement with the Omaha Public Power District to purchase 5.2 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy to power the company's headquarters campus for a full year. Randy Brown Architects is a recipient of two New AIA Member: Dennis G. Coudriet, AIA Bahr Vermeer & Haecker Architects, Ltd., Lincoln New Associate Members: Reinstated: John D. Cameron, AIA, HDR Architecture, Inc. In Memory: Ron Ericson, AIA Harry F. Cunningham Medal Description:AIA Nebraska and the College of Architecture award the Bronze Medal for excellence in academic and design achievement. The medal was established to commemorate Harry F. Cunningham, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Harry Cunningham oversaw the completion of the Nebraska State Capitol upon the death of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and established the school of architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The awarding of the medal is determined by a vote of the faculty and AIA-Nebraska after reviewing the Master of Architecture students' final projects. This award is the highest honor a student of architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Architecture can achieve. If you didn't sign up earlier this year and wish your firm to be listed in the advertisement please link to this The Gold Medal is the highest honor that AIA Nebraska can bestow and is awarded in recognition of the most distinguished achievement in architecture or service to the profession of architecture in the State of Nebraska. Contractors: ADS Pipe, Fager Excavating Company, Jamie Reichert, Liquid Foam Insulation, Lumberman's, Nemaha Landscape Construction Firm/Architect: RDG Planning & Design -Bradley R. Milton, AIA Contractors: Charles Vrana & Son Construction Company The IDP Outstanding Firm Awards Program was expanded in January 2008 to recognize firms employing interns that meet 12 essential criteria of the “IDP Firm Award” and those firms that not only meet the 12 criteria but demonstrate excellence in at least three of these categories of the “IDP Outstanding Firm Award.” Summary: Many firms complain about the print media publishing images, both photographs and renderings of projects, without giving appropriate credit for the photos or renderings. Alerting the reporter or publisher after the fact often proves to be futile, so a better strategy is to reach an agreement up front. The matter primarily involves copyright law, which provides a direct means for an architecture firm to protect its own interests. Negotiation and agreement - Typically, an architecture firm owns the copyright in the drawings and renderings it produces for a project (although the firm could transfer ownership to the client in the owner/architect agreement). In addition, a photographer owns the copyright in any photos he or she takes. If an architecture firm’s employee takes project photos, however, the firm will generally own the copyright in those photos. When a firm provides project images (drawings or photos) to the news media, the firm could require the recipient to sign an agreement that states the terms under which the images may be used, such as a credit line and copyright notice. The agreement might also require the firm’s name be mentioned in the article itself, although reporters may not want to consent to that requirement. This is, in any event, a matter for negotiation and agreement between the firm and whoever receives the images. Some suppliers have standard contracts - The major commercial photo suppliers, such as Getty Images and Corbis, have standard contracts under which they sell the right to use their photos and establish requirements for credit and copyright notices whenever those images are published. Those photo suppliers’ standard terms and conditions are available for review on their Web sites. In some circumstances, it is the project owner or developer who provides the architecture firm’s images to the news media for publication. To ensure that those images are published with appropriate credit, the architecture firm needs to discuss the issue with the client early in the project and, where appropriate, include a provision on the subject in the owner/architect agreement. KEVA Planks are back on exhibit at the Nebraskaland Conference of Building Officials and Inspectors - Summer Conference, July 17 & 18, ICC Seminars, Hall of Justice, 575 South 10th Street, Lincoln, NE.
Member News:
Congratulations to James Leach, Associate, AIA and Kris Nelson, Associate AIA, both of Leo A Daly for being selected as a 2nd place award recipients of the AIA Committee on Design "Branding the American House" Ideas Competition. Their design idea entry, "Modulation," was displayed at the 2008 AIA National Convention and Expo, in Boston. Jury Comments: " The jury believes this house expresses a simple and affordable lifestyle that is consistent with the subject family and the intent of the program statement. The house is elegantly designed and detailed with a simple palate of materials."
2nd place Modulation-Submitter: James Leach - Firm: Leo A Daly
Congratulations to the following AIA Lincoln recipients of the 40 under 40 sponsored by the Lincoln Midlands Business Journal: Kristi Nohavec, AIA, The Clark Enersen Partners and Cleve Reeves, AIA, Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects, Lincoln.
Jay D. Anderson, Assoc. AIA Studio 360 Architecture, Omaha
Chad M. Beeson, Assoc. AIA DLR Group, Inc., Omaha
Kristin R. Miles, Assoc. AIA Bahr Vermeer & Haecker Architects, Ltd., Lincoln
Kent R. Rasmussen, Assoc. AIA Lincoln
Andrew Stephens, Assoc. AIA Visions in Architecture, Lincoln
Greg S. Stieren, Assoc. AIA Beringer, Ciaccio, Dennell, Mabrey, Inc., Omaha
Matthew T. Whaley, Assoc. AIA Omaha
Jamie L. Wietfeld, Assoc. AIA Beringer, Ciaccio, Dennell, Mabrey, Inc., Omaha
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AIA Affiliate Night On Ice - Thanks 
Deon Bahr, FAIA and wife, Susan. A note of thanks to the sponsors who made the 1st AIA Affiliate Spring Social, "A Night On Ice" a success. Approximately 75 participated in an evening of ice skating and fellowship. A special thank you to AIA Lincoln Affiliate, Jeremy Montgomery, Executive Director, Nebraska Concrete & Aggregates Assoc for spearheading the event. Sponsors Included: Harry A Koch · Mapes Industries Inc. · ME Group · NEBCO · Nebraska Concrete & Aggregates Association · Parking Design Group · Weitz
Jeremy Montgomery, NE Concrete & Aggregates Assoc. and son.
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Cunningham Bronze Medal Recipant: Jay Anderson, Associate AIA 
Description by recipient Jay Anderson, Associate AIA, Studio 360 Architecture: Throughout southwest Iowa, prime farm land is being acquired by local real estate developers. These developers are creating housing clusters throughout the countryside, especially in the rural Loess Hills area of southwest, Iowa. These housing clusters have similar covenant restrictions imposed by the developers, but few if any address larger and more critical architectural, social, environmental and ecological issues. First, I conducted a critical investigation of this trend and discovered it is occurring across the United States. I examined many such developments and analyzed the ways in which they existed. After looking at the physical, environmental and contextual aspects of the case studies; I interviewed several occupants and asked them why they lived in the development, what they liked and disliked and how they felt conditions might be improved. Then I did several case studies on rural developments and rural dwellings that were located within the United States and abroad. I tried to interpret what the architects true intentions were when designing said precedents. Based on extensive research I made lists of what I felt were successful and unsuccessful features of each case study. Finally I combined the case study and precedent research to form an overall set of criteria, that when coupled with the site research resulted in a series of prototype dwellings which were used to develop a rural community that responds to the issues of today and those of a post-fossil era.
The link to my book. (Can be viewed or downloaded as a PDF.)
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Nebraska Architecture Firms among Magazine's Top 150
The Architecture Record recently released its Top 150 architectural firms list, which included three AIA Nebraska firm members. The firms are selected based on survey data collected for Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms survey.
Member firms on the lists included: #10-HDR; #15-Leo A Daly; #26-DLR Group. AIA Nebraska commends these firms for continuously conducting business in such a way that is representative of architects and architectural firms in the state. To view the entire list, CLICK HERE.
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Be Part of the AIA NE Ad in the OWH Arch Supplement
AIA Nebraska will be supporting the Omaha World-Herald's Architecture Supplement by committing to a full page advertisement highlighting the advantages of hiring an AIA architect. Highlighting this year's design program, the supplement will be published following our fall conference, "Designing Economics" on Sunday, September 14, 2008. Circulation for Architecture is 300,000 households in Nebraska and Southwest Iowa.
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Exhibitor Registration Available - Sign up today 
This year's AIA Nebraska Fall Conference, Designing Economics, is scheduled for September 11-12, 2008, at the Qwest Center Omaha. The conference is an opportunity for suppliers to showcase products and services to Nebraska architects. Deadline is August 8. You can register one of two ways: 1) On-line registration (Processing fees will be applied) 2) Download brochure: Complete and send to AIA Nebraska.
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Cunningham Gold Medal Nominations
Application / Deadline: July 31 
The Harry F. Cunningham Gold Medal for Architectural Excellence in the State of Nebraska commemorates the achievements of Harry Francis Cunningham who came to Nebraska as lead architect for Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's office during completion of the tower phase of construction for the State Capitol following Goodhue's death in 1924. It was Goodhue's revolutionary building design which won the nationwide competition in 1920 for the creation of the state house in Lincoln. Cunningham subsequently established the first school of architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Iowa Disaster Assistance
Governor Culver of Iowa has now listed 80 of Iowa's 100 counties as disaster areas. There is an organization set up to accept donations for the Iowa flood victims called Iowa Speedway. Visit their website if you would like to contribute. Of course, faith communities in the state are also helping and have disaster assistance funds to which people can donate.
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AIA NE to Feature KidStructures - Sponsored by the Lauritzen Gardens Guild 
Bug's World - Be the bug in Bug's World. Experience the shade and shadows of an expansive spider web overhead. Assemble your own flower and climb in and around a bug tunnel. Play in a maze of giant blades of grass, viewed from the perspective of a tiny bug.
Firm: DLR Group
Wouldn't You Know- Wouldn't You Know celebrates the lowly refrigerator box - the ultimate yard toy - rendering it as a garden sculpture that will have reason for being even after the kids have grown.
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E201 Contract Doc Inquiry 
How have you used the AIA E201 Digital Data Protocol Exhibit? The AIA Documents Committee would like to know. Send a sample completed document or your comments to Brad Milton bmilton@rdgusa.com. Brad Milton, AIA, is a partner at RDG Planning & Design, and has for three years been a member of the AIA Documents Committee, serving on Task Group D - Development and Technology. All submittals will be held in confidence.
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AIA Working For You
Interested in learning more about the AIA's new Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) agreements? Learn the basics about these new agreements by listening to the latest AIA Documents podcast, "2008 AIA Integrated Project Delivery Agreements." A 20 minute interview is now available through the AIA website and via iTunes.
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IDP Outstanding Firm Award Call for Entries 
The IDP Outstanding Firm Awards Program is now accepting submissions for the July 15 deadline. This program honors firms who make it a priority to nurture their interns on the path to achieving licensure a priority.
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Missing Media Credit?
Negotiate an agreement before they publish your work
by Gregory Hancks, AIA, AIA Associate General Counsel
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Call for Presentations Sought 
Call for Presentations for continuing education workshops and seminars for the AIA 2000 National Convention and Design Exposition (San Francisco, April 30 - May 1) is open. Review the full text of the Call and FAQs. Proposals will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. PT, July 1, 2008.
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Orlando Design Competition
Mission: to promote awareness and seek the preservation of Florida's mid-century modern architecture. To learn more
Who Can Submit: Architects, intern architects, designers, artists and anyone with a creative solution are invited to submit proposals. Entrants will be able to participate individually or in groups. There is no limit on the number of participants in a group entry. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged. There is no limit to the amount of entries.
Deadlines:
07.14.08 Acceptance of questions deadline
08.08.08 Answers to questions posted on website
08.09.08 Submission deadline
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Calendar of Events - June 27 
Calendar of Events Imaginative KidStructure exhibit to run May 17 through October 5, 2008 - A Project of the Lauritzen Gardens Guild.
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