We're excited to announce the First Annual AIA Dallas LiA Sporting Clay Classic hosted by Acme Brick Company! Save the date for Friday, October 14 at ACME Brick's shooting range in Brock, Texas. All proceeds will go towards the endowment of the Latinos in Architecture Scholarship benefiting recent area high school graduates.
This book donation/library development program would provide local educational institutions with books that are essential for the teaching and research of Architecture but too costly for most schools or scholars to afford.
You are encouraged to write a note of insight or encouragement inside the cover of the book to personalize and humanize the gift to the students. You can contribute something from your personal collection or buy a book to donate.Donations can include: Architecture, interior design, photography, engineering, art and construction books.
Your book donation will help:
- Motivate a young student to stay in school and pursue a college degree education; Raise awareness of Architecture as a career path as well as its profile to make the profession more diverse and attractive; Inspire the Architect's of tomorrow: With this program if we touch one student who will pursue a career in architecture, go on to licensure, and become an AIA member, that will make it a success.
BOOKSHELF CHAMPIONS: If you are interested in being one, please let us know.
Collections are NOW - JULY.
There will also be a collection point at the Dallas Center for Architecture (DCFA)- 1909 Woodall Rodgers Fwy., Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75201
Thank you all that attended our Happy Hour Numero Dos! In this meeting we introduced our new scholarship program, launched our annual book drive "From an Architect's Bookshelf", networked, and enjoy some frozen margaritas!! Thanks you Corgan and Material Surfaces for being our sponsors.
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz is an international architecture studio
combining widely honored academic, professional and research activity. The
partners have taught at ETSAM, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell,
Princeton, and the Harvard GSD where Ábalos is currently Chair of the
Department of Architecture.
The studio's projects are internationally recognized with over
20 individual and collective exhibitions including AA-London, Pavillon de
l'arsenale-Paris, MoMA and the Venice Biennale. A + S has received over 80
architecture and design awards. Critic William Curtis chose their Pavilion in
Madrid's Retiro Park as one of the three best works built in Spain during the
last 30 years. Ábalos + Sentkiewicz' professional work has been collected in 10
monographs and their academic research has been compiled in 12 books.
Iñaki Ábalos received his Master´s and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the
School of Architecture of Madrid. He was a Co-Founder and Director of the
esteemed Spanish architecture firm Ábalos & Herreros for over two
decades before establishing his current studio. He also is the Founder and
Director of Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos in Spain.
Ábalos was given a RIBA International Fellowship in 2009. He is the author
of Le Corbusier: Skyscrapers; Tower and
Office and Natural Artificial among many others.
Ábalos also curated the Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice
Biennale.
Renata Sentkiewicz has a Master's of Science from the Cracow Polytechnic
School of Architecture. A Founder and Director of Abalos+Sentkiewicz, she is
also a member of the Zero Energy Alliance and a Design Critic at the Harvard
GSD. Her professional work has been widely published in different national and
international publications. An exhibition about her work, Dualisms:
Abalos + Sentkiewicz was held at the GSD. Sentkiewicz has given
workshops and seminars in architecture and landscape in different international
cities including the Berlage Institute, the IUAV in Venice, the Festarch
Cerdegna, and the Universal Nacional de Colombia.
Their work has been widely published in journals and monographs,
such as Abalos & Herreros; Abalos & Herreros, Grand
Tour; Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos -Thermodynamic Beauty;
Abalos + Sentkiewicz: Form, Matter, and Energy and Essays on
Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty.
What a turn out last night for the AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Committee, a little over 100 attended! Thanks to those of you who joined us for our New Year Kick-Off Happy Hour and presentation. We enjoyed talking and hearing from many of you! A big thanks to The Beck Group andPatcraft for sponsoring the event.
Our committee encourage you as a leader to keep yourself engaged, continuously learn from one another, and create opportunities for educational, social and architectural ideas to activate your workplaces and communities.
ZAIDA BASORA FAIA, LEED AP BD+C
AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Network, is honored to
include Zaida Basora, FAIA as our keynote speaker for the 2015 Enlaces exhibition
and celebration. Zaida’s presence in Dallas has been influential and continues
to transform our buildings, our perception of the city, and the future for a
more sustainable environment.
Zaida is an icon of progressive leadership and a visionary
in the city of Dallas. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University
of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the
University of Puerto Rico. As a champion for sustainability in architecture,
she has scored multiple accolades to exemplify and prove her passion for a more
conscious sustainable environment. In 2003, Zaida began implementation of the
Dallas green building program which resulted in over 40 new sustainable
facilities. Currently, Zaida oversees design, construction, and energy
management in over 840 city-owned facilities.
Uniquely positioned as a leader in our city, Zaida possesses
unmatched insight into policy and a comprehensive understanding of
sustainability initiatives. Over the past 20 years she has held several
positions with the City of Dallas including Purchasing Agent and Chief Building
Official.
She was appointed to lead the task forces for development of
the Dallas green building code in 2008, and not only updated, but adopted the green
construction code in 2012. Her work championing green building codes in Dallas
has been recognized with a 2008 BOAT award of excellence, 2009 CLIDE award in
public policy, and in 2014 two CoreNet Global Sustainability Leadership Awards at
the local and national level.
Zaida is a nationally recognized green building expert whose
professional work has made Dallas a leader in regional and national green
building standards and sustainability. On January 2012, Zaida was elected to
the AIA College of Fellows in recognition of her significant contributions to
architecture and society. She was also recognized by Ford Motor Company as a
Mujer Legendaria in March of 2014 and received the President’s Pillar Award
from the Regional Hispanic Contractor’s Association in 2014. Her vision for a
more sustainable environment and her desire to gather communities around common
goals will continue to be her mission as she transitions to become the new
president of AIA Dallas in 2016.
We hope to see you all there.
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