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To kick off the renovation and remodeling of AIA Wisconsin's Working Homeless Shelter, a special "Wall Bashing" event brought volunteers, political figures and organizers together.
AIA Wisconsin in partnership with AIA Southwest Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Architects Foundation is developing housing for the working homeless in Madison, Wisconsin. The initiative is designed to demonstrate the leadership role architects and other allied professionals can play in developing creative solutions to important housing issues. This grant will be used to document the process and disseminate the information as a model project.
The high school alumni of Mohall, North Dakota are coming together to save an important public building in their hometown. This grant program was approached to bring national attention to a small agricultural community facing the deterioration of its main street. The effort is being spearheaded by Architect Steve Erban, presently of Stillwater, MN. The money will be used to assist with the costs of public meetings which will involve the Mohall community in determining how Hotel Richard can be renovated to best serve the community. A portion of the grant will also be used to involve schoolchildren in the process.
ARCHES is working with staff at Washington's National Airport to make schoolchildren more aware of the importance of art in public buildings. The students will visit the airport and create their own mosaics for public display.
The chapter has an existing program with high school students to expose them to the field of architecture. This year the Explorer Post is working with the Bethel Ensley Community to design, construct, and ultimately donate playground equipment to for the community's revitalization efforts. The leaders of the Explorer Post, many new to the profession, expect that the Explorers will develop leadership skills as well as construction skills.
As part of the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, the local AIA chapter and the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco are working together with residents of a subsidized housing community to bring new self-respect to the residents. In addition to taking oral histories and providing job mentoring programs, planning will be undertaken that may lead to construction of a community center. Valencia Gardens: A Community Commitment to Enhance the Quality of Life for its Residents will be promoted at the AIA National Convention in May 1998.
The BSA is working with the Boston Architectural Center and the Cambridge Forum radio program to produce four public forums to explore various contemporary issues in design and urban development. The forums will be broadcast by Cambridge Forum over National Public Radio stations. The forums will reinforce and supplement ongoing local efforts by the BSA's Urban Design Committee.
This series of events will involve planners, architects, educators, students, politicians, and citizens in exploring regional concerns. Among the topics to be covered are transportation, land use planning, and zoning. AIA Hampton Roads hopes to increase public awareness of the advantages of regionalization and to provide opportunities for the cross-pollination of ideas. The ultimate goal is that the diverse communities of Hampton Roads will begin to work together to address planning issues.
The Foundation requested money to update and transfer a very successful slide program used by schools throughout the region to videotape format. The videotape format is expected to make their existing Architecture in the Schools programs even more useful since so few schools have the capability to use slides anymore. The Foundation will also be producing new study guides for all age levels, lower elementary to adult.
The chapter is working with the Institute for Environmental Education at the University of New Mexico to involve students, teachers, and parents at Governor Bent Elementary School in a pilot integrated design education program which addresses community and urban planning issues. The goal is to establish a viable and cooperative consortium among Albuquerque Public Schools, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, the City of Albuquerque, and the AIA Albuquerque chapter. This grant will fund the program evaluator, workshops, and the preparation of training materials.
As part of the city's annual Architecture Week celebration, AIA Seattle, the Seattle Architecture Foundation, the University of Washington Center for Environmental Design and Education, AIA Washington Council, and other organizations, will engage teams of K-12 students, architects, and architecture students in a visioning/planning exercise culminating in a series of classroom sessions. The results of these exercises was presented at the Architecture Week sessions and to the winner of the city's mayoral race. This event took place in late 1997. The final check will be presented to AIA Seattle upon receipt of a final report.
CNA Insurance Companies and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., sponsored the 1998 grants program. The CNA and Schinnerer professional liability insurance programs are commended by The American Institute of Architects and sponsored by the AIA Trust.
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