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December 2006
Dear
Friends of Public Architecture:
With the
recent Thanksgiving holiday, we'd be remiss if we didn't
extend our thanks to the many of you that we have met or
worked with over the past year. 2006 has been a year of
constant growth for Public Architecture--from the "Structures
for Inclusion" conference that we co-hosted in March to the
expansion of our 1% Solution program, the airing of our
ScrapHouse documentary, and significant progress on our
various design projects.
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addition to new friends, donors, sponsors, partners,
volunteers, and consultants Public Architecture has welcomed
two incredible new staff members. Liz Ogbu, Designer &
Project Manager, was introduced in September, and today we are
pleased to introduce Deborah
Grant, our first fulltime Director of
Development.
Deb comes to Public Architecture with
over 25 years of development, fundraising, and nonprofit
management experience. She has worked for a number of
distinguished Bay Area organizations, including the Jewish
Family & Children's Services, the California Autism
Foundation, and the Marin Conservation Corps. A native of
Florida, Deb earned her Bachelor of Science in journalism from
the University of Florida and her Master of Arts in
administration with a special emphasis in nonprofit management
from the University of San Francisco.
With Deb's good
counsel, we will be stepping up our fundraising and
development efforts. As we make Public Architecture a major
shaper of the built environment, we will be calling and
relying on your support. And we hope you are as excited about
the months and years ahead as we are.
John
Peterson
Founder & Chair
Contents:
1.
HOK and PWA Sign on as 10 for 1 Partners
2.
1% Solution Welcomes Six New Firm Pledges
3.
Schemata Workshop Issues RFP for Pro Bono Services
4.
"design: e2" Documentary Film Series
5.
Places Journal: A Forum for Design of the Public
Realm
6.
Berkeley Prize Essay Competition
7.
Loeb Fellowship Call for Applications
8.
What You Can Do to Support Public Architecture
1. HOK and PWA Sign on as 10
for 1 Partners
We are pleased to announce two
more firms in our 10 for 1 program: Hellmuth, Obata +
Kassabaum (HOK) and Peckham & Wright Architects (PWA).
Founded in 1955, HOK is headquartered in St. Louis with 24
offices and more than 1,900 employees worldwide. Founded in
1978, PWA is a 12-person firm based in Columbia, Mo. Both of
these relationships are direct outcomes of our participation
in the recent Design Futures Council (DFC) Summit on
Sustainable Design.
PWA and HOK join Perkins +
Will (Chicago), McCall Design Group (San Francisco), Elness Swenson
Graham (Minneapolis), and HKS (Dallas). We remain in close
conversation with a range of firms, who we hope to soon count
among our 10 for 1 participants.
Our new 10 for 1
program is an effort to better support and celebrate the pro
bono and public interest design pursuits of leading firms. The
program represents a $10,000 annual investment by these firms
as a demonstration of their commitment to pro bono service and
the 1% Solution. An official announcement about the program is
expected in January.
For more information, email
mailto:%20jcary@publicarchitecture.org
or call 415/861-8200.
2. 1% Solution Welcomes Six
New Firm Pledges
.tmp) During the month of
November, Public Architecture welcomed six new firms as 1%
Solution pledges. Collectively, they have committed nearly
2,000 hours in the year ahead, raising our annual pledge total
to over 40,000 hours.
The six firms include:
Architecture+ (New York, NY)
Coates Design,
Inc. (Bainbridge, WA)
DeForest Architects (Seattle, WA)
organicARCHITECT (San Francisco, CA)
Paul Minor, AIA (Concord, MA)
PWA (Columbia, MO) We remain in
conversation with a range of firms, including HGA
(Minneapolis), KKE (Minneapolis), MBH Architects (Alameda,
CA), Pyatok Architects (Oakland), Ratcliff (Emeryville, CA),
SBRA (Boston), SOM (San Francisco), SMWM (San Francisco), SRG
Partnership (Portland, OR), and many others to join the 1%
Solution.
Is your firm part of the solution? Click here to pledge your 1% today.
3. Schemata Workshop Issues
RFP for Pro Bono Services
.tmp) After making its pledge to the 1%
Solution, the Seattle-based architecture practice of Schemata
Workshop has moved forward with its pro bono promise. That
annual promise of one percent amounts to approximately 90
hours for the firm's four fulltime and one part-time staff
members. In an effort to find the right pro bono client, the
firm took the initiative to develop a detailed RFP
(Request for Proposals), outlining their intentions, offer,
and desired project attributes. The firm distributed a
one-page announcement about the RFP through their
personal network and ultimately a much larger database of over
400 nonprofit organizations maintained by the Seattle-area
United Way. Organizations that expressed interest were sent
the actual RFP,
also posted on the firm's website.
Earlier this week,
Schemata Workshop proudly announced Peace for the
Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) as the recipients
of their first service grant. Founded in 1995, PSKS was a
response to the growing number of homeless youth coupled with
the significant shortage of available services for them. In a
brief press
release, Schemata Workshop noted their admiration for
PSKS' mission as well as the organization's need for a larger,
more usable, permanent space. Through their work together,
Schemata Workshop anticipates providing PSKS with the
information necessary to determine whether to proceed with a
renovation to their existing space or acquire new property.
We are extremely proud to have an innovative and
proactive design firm like Schemata Workshop as part of the 1%
Solution, and we look forward to following their work with
PSKS.
Has your firm developed a process or
guidelines for eliciting pro bono clients? We'd like to hear
about it; email jcary@publicarchitecture.org
or call 415/861-8200.
4. "design: e2" Documentary
Film Series
.tmp) Among our many trips last
month, our executive director, John Cary, was privileged to
serve on a panel in response to the "design: e2: The
economies of being environmentally conscious" at the
University of Texas at Austin. Narrated by architecture
aficionado and actor Brad Pitt, the 30-minute "Green for All"
segment follows architect, activist, and professor Sergio
Palleroni as he and teams of students generate architectural
and design solutions for regions in social and humanitarian
crisis.
The "e2" film series is produced by New
York-based kontent real, including Karena Albers, who
also served as a respondent on the UT-Austin panel. The series
has been underwritten by Autodesk, and broadcast on PBS.
Twelve additional episodes are now in production. A DVD of the
first six episodes is available for purchase through the PBS website.
Visit http://www.designe2.org/ for more
information.
5. Places Journal: A Forum
for Design of the Public Realm
.tmp) Public Architecture is delighted to be
included in the "Forum" section of the current issue of Places, which is a peer-reviewed
journal that incorporates writings from a variety of fields in
design, the arts, and social sciences.
Guest-edited by
Roy Strickland, Director of the Master of Urban Design program
at the University of Michigan, the current (Summer 2006) issue
of Places pays special attention to digital
technologies and the way new media are becoming ever more
deeply embedded in the fabric of the city. Such pervasive
media presence has introduced new dimensions of practice that
designers and planners must consider and address, and it has
altered general public modes of interaction with the urban
environment and the sense of community and place.
Visit http://www.places-journal.org/ for more
information.
6. Berkeley Prize Essay
Competition
Submission deadline: December
10, 2006
.tmp) The Berkeley
Prize Competition was established to promote architecture
as a social art through research, writing, and criticism:
traditionally under-represented aspects of the architecture
curriculum. The topic of this year's competition is "Making
Social Architecture." Students enrolled in any undergraduate
architecture program around the world are invited to submit a
500-word essay proposal responding to a question posed by the
competition committee.
The ten top-scoring
semifinalists will also be invited to participate in the Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship
Competition. This year's Travel Fellowship winner will
receive airfare and a stipend to attend and participate in the
Global Studio to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in
July 2007.
Public Architecture is proud to have our
own Liz Ogbu serving on the essay competition jury and John
Peterson serving on the travel fellowship jury. John Cary has
been a committee member and advisor to the competition since
for the past seven years. The competition was established and
is chaired by Raymond Lifchez, a special friend and supporter
of Public Architecture.
Visit http://www.berkeleyprize.org/ for more
information.
7. Loeb Fellowship Call for
Applications
Application deadline:
January 3, 2007
.tmp) The Loeb Fellowship was established in 1970
through the generosity of the late John L. Loeb and is based
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The program offers
ten annual post-professional awards for independent study at
Harvard. Application forms for the 2007-2008 Fellowship year
are now available online.
John Peterson, Public
Architecture's founder and chair, as well as board member
Allison Williams, are alums of the Loeb Fellowship program.
Visit www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/
for more information.
8. What You Can Do to Support
Public Architecture
Click
here for 10 ways to contribute to our work.
Established in 2002, Public Architecture identifies
and solves practical problems of human interaction in the
built environment and acts as a catalyst for public discourse
through education, advocacy, and the design of public spaces
and amenities. Visit http://www.publicarchitecture.org/
for more information.
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