We have a very exciting event planned this year for the 2008 Design Awards! We are learning greener ways to host our events and are finding sustainable alternatives to what we’ve done in the past. For our venue we have chosen the Event Center at Sonoma Mountain Village, a sustainable mixed-use community in Rohnert Park. There will be an elegant Gala Evening with dinner on Saturday night and the jurors will be presenting and discussing their work in a more casual atmosphere on Friday evening. New for this year is an awards category recognizing Excellence in Sustainable Design. Awards in this category will be given to projects that exemplify sustainable design excellence using the criteria of AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE).
The jurors for this year’s awards are:
• Henry Siegel from Siegel Strain Architects in Emeryville
• Marsha Maytum from Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects in San Francisco
• Ming Fung from Hodgetts + Fung Architects in Los Angeles
We’re excited to have them as jurors and look forward to seeing presentations of their work. We plan to have music and dancing on Saturday evening after the awards presentation so wear your dancing shoes and plan to stay and have fun with your friends!
Look for the ‘Call for Entries’ next month. There’s an excellent article in last year’s 07.3 arcCA magazine by Ann E. Gray, FAIA entitled “Why Award?” that identifies many of the reasons for having design awards.
It can be found at www.aiacc.org/site/docs/award.pdf
Alima Silverman, AIA, LEED AP
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects
636 Fifth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
707.576.0829
www.qka.com
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