Island Architect Weekly

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Renew Your Membership Today

Renew Your AIA Honolulu Membership by March 31 or Lapse

As of March 31, 2019, your AIA membership will lapse if you haven’t paid for 2019 - retain your affiliation with AIA by renewing today to continue to receive member benefits such as:

Discounts on continuing education courses, AIA Contract Documents, AIAU courses, the AIA Convention and access to AIA online member transcript – perhaps one of the greatest values of all! Maintain eligibility for the prestigious designation of AIA Fellow (AIA architect membership in good standing for at least 10 consecutive years)

Click HERE to renew today - and thank you for being a valued member.

2019 Architecture Month in April

Attend Our Fun and Educational Events

AIA Honolulu is celebrating its 13th Annual Architecture Month and we are pleased to offer free and low-cost activities for members and the public during the month of April. Download Architecture Month Flyer

Mahalo Architecture Month Sponsors!

ATTEND & HELP PROMOTE!

Apr 2: Free Architecture Month Kickoff with Design Presentations, 6:30-9pm
Food | Drinks | Music | Presentations | Join us at the Honolulu Biennial 2019 Hub to kick-off Architecture Month by hosting the 20x19: 20 Slides/19 Seconds event featuring 8 presenters representing a diverse swath of Hawai`i’s architectural, cultural, art, fashion and journalism communities.

Apr 4: Hawaii Pacific Radio Pledge Drive, 8am-10am
Listen, Call and Donate during the AIA Honolulu Shift on FM 88.1 or 89.3.
Call HPR at 944-8800 (KHPR) or 941-3689 (KIPO) to pledge.
Apr 5: Free Design "Firm Crawl" Open House, 5pm-8pm
Visit design firms in the downtown business district and Kaka’ako and learn more about the projects that they are engaged in and the architects behind those design. Register online and receive a map of participating firms and visit in any order.

Apr 6: Park Clean up at Lo‘i Kalo Park, 8am-12pm. AIA Honolulu Members Only
AIA Honolulu members are welcome to register and join us as we beautify a local neighborhood park and reconnect with the ‘āina during this four-hour project. Limited to 15 members.

Apr 18: Free Oahu Public Film Night - Made in Ilima, 5:30pm-8pm
Come watch this incredible film geared toward the Design-Minded!
Cost: Free (suggested donation at the door).
Mahalo Film Night Sponsors!

Apr 20: Architectural Walking Tour: Punahou School, Tours from 8am-12pm
Docent-guided tours exploring a general history of the historic Punahou campus, sharing stories and features of several buildings. Many docents have been involved in the planning and design of the campus, adding to their knowledge of the institution. Must pre-pay and register.

Mahalo Walking Tour Sponsors:
Apr 20 - Free Urban Sketchers Event at Punahou School, 10am-12pm
No RSVP Required! USk O‘ahu and AIA Honolulu Announce Free Sketch Event
Punahou School Campus, 1601 Punahou St (Meet at Dillingham Hall Lanai)
Apr 21: Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday - Build Your Own Tree House, 10am-2pm
No RSVP Required! Join us Sunday, April 21, 10am-2pm, at the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, 2411 Makiki Heights Dr, Honolulu
April 26: Free ASLA Film Night: Jens Jensen The Living Green, 6-8pm
At the AIA Center for Architecture. Jensen's parks were designed to be naturalistic play spaces for adults and children, most of whom lived in destitute squalor.
Apr 27: Architectural Photography Workshop, 8am-4pm
Attend a special photography workshop created especially for AIA Honolulu during Architecture Month. Must pre-pay and register.

BIG ISLAND SECTION EVENTS

Free and Public Film Nights: Made in Ilima
No RSVP! The Hawaii Island Section of AIA Honolulu invites you to free film nights.
Waimea: Thursday, April 4, 5:30pm at the W.M. Keck Observatory Headquarters
Kona: Thursday, April 11, 6pm at the Donkey Mill Art Center

April 13: Kona Young Architects Workshop,10am-2pm
This workshop is co-presented with the Donkey Mill ArtCenter (DMAC) for students grade 6-12. Imagining Paper Architecture. Cost $10/participant, max 15 student.

Upcoming Programs & Events

General Membership Meeting - Only 1 Spot Left!
Mar 28: Artspace Site Tour & Waikiki Brewing Pau Hana (1 HSW)

We will meet 5:00pm at the site and start the tour with an introduction and walk around the building. We will then split up into two groups to go into the building; one group at a time.

At 6:30pm we will walk over to Waikiki Brewing in Kaka’ako where all attendees will receive 1 free drink ticket per person (beer, wine, house cocktail) and pupus. We have reserved the front portion for our group.

Cost: $25 for AIA Honolulu members & $35 for Non-Members. No Walk-ins.

Mahalo GMM Sponsors!

Apr 11: YAF's Hard Hat Tour of Haleola'ili'ainapono

Join the YAF April Tour of Haleola'ili'ainapono - a Bowers+Kubota demonstration project registered under the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge Certification program. The case study, seeks to discover if a typical Single Family Dwelling located in an urban residential zone in Hawaii, can legally achieve what once was commonplace for all of the Hawaiian people - the ability to live 100% off of the land, with the ike kuhohonu (deep knowledge) and kuleana (responsibility) to manage that land for eternal perpetuity.

Cost: Members $15 / Non-members $20. Registration is limited to 20 participants. Part of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Haleola’ili’ainapono to support the ongoing efforts to obtain Living Building accreditation.

May 2: Private AIA Tour of Honolulu Biennial 2019

To Make Wrong / Right / Now Want to see the Honolulu Biennial 2019? Want to learn more about the exhibits? This is your chance during this private AIA tour of the 2019 Biennial. View Tour Flyer.

Honolulu Biennial 2019 features 47 artists and artist collectives from Hawai’i and the countries and continents linked by the Pacific.

Cost: $10 for Kama'aina and $7 for Seniors & Students.

2019 AIA Grassroots Update

Hawaii Delegation (L-R): Joe Ferraro FAIA, Brent Tokita, AIA; Purnima McCutcheon, AIA; Jason DeMarco, AIA and Tom Cannon, AIA (AIA Maui).

Reported by Jason DeMarco, AIA, AIA Hawaii State Council Director & Scholarship Recipient

I was able to attend the 2019 AIA Grassroots conference in Washington DC using a scholarship from the AIA Northwest Pacific Region and AIA Hawaii State Council. This scholarship is available each year to attend Grassroots and preference is given to more remote locations, such as Hawaii and Guam. The AIA HSC also assisted by subsidizing expenses that were not fully covered by the regional scholarship.

A key event of the annual AIA Grassroots conference, attended by your Hawaii delegation, was Capitol Hill Day when we visited the offices and met with senior staff of each of our Hawaii legislators: Senator Schatz and Hirono and Representatives Case and Gabbard.

We shared with their offices two key advocacy issues AIA is pursuing: Revising the federal tax code to incentivize energy efficiency renovations in existing buildings and the valuable role Architects can play in addressing school safety.

Energy Efficiency: Change in the Current Tax Code Section 179D which has expired to reinstate it, and allow for greater participation for commercial building renovations inclusion of energy saving systems such as solar, energy star equipment, high efficiency HVAC systems. Current Tax deduction is $1.80 per SF.

School Safety: Support for safe school design for new and existing schools that keep them positive learning environments. We asked that congress make design services eligible for existing federal grant funding and that the government establish a clearing house of resources on school design best practices.

These great meetings were followed-up with a congressional reception at the Library of Congress where we could interact with members and staff outside their offices.

Following these advocacy events on subsequent days, we heard from the leadership of AIA and attended training workshops. Two highlights were a Mayors’ panel discussion on how Mayors and Architects can work closely together to address the myriad of issues facing each of our communities and a keynote address by Doris Goodwin, presidential historian and author, on her new book: Leadership in Turbulent Times.

Grassroots was a very inspiring and informational event and I would encourage any AIA member interested in advocacy to contact AIA HSC to inquire about this and other available scholarships.

Joe Ferraro, FAIA, 2019 AIA Honolulu President also would like to add:

During the AIA Northwest Pacific Region meeting we met the new EVP Danielle Hurd, discussed need for component cross communication with newsletters; new regional reps needed for 2020-2022 and the Regional Leadership Summit in Bozeman, MT Sept 19-20.

AIA Honolulu News & Update

2019 MCAH Scholarship for AIA Member High School Children

The Mason Contractors Association of Hawaii's (MCAH) Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament benefits AIA Honolulu Members by awarding a scholarship to an AIA dependent.

Scholarship Deadline May 24: The MCAH will be awarding six (6) $2,000 scholarships to high school graduates from the State of Hawaii. Scholarships will be awarded on Thursday, June 27, 2019.

The candidates must be entering or currently attending an accredited college or technical school in the State of Hawaii or the U.S. Mainland. The scholarships are intended to encourage Hawaii's youth to continue studying at an accredited 2-year or 4-year college or technical school.

Click HERE for the MCAH application with more information.

Pip White, AIA and Kupuna Wisdom

In case you missed it! Past AIA Honolulu President Pip White, AIA was just featured on Hawaii News Now "Kupuna Wisdom: Architect Philip "Pip" White looks back at successful life, career.

"Philip “Pip” White began his career in architecture nearly 40 years ago, inspired by an innate sense of aesthetics and environmental sensitivity coupled with personal values of integrity and resourcefulness. He founded Philip White Architects in 1984, now known as WhiteSpace Architects, and instilled a spirit of purpose and a deep understanding of design." Click HERE to view the clip.

Jen Toba-Davila in Morning Beat

Our 2019 AIA Honolulu Secretary Jen Toba-Davila, AIA was part of an article in the Honolulu Civil Beat - Morning Beat titled "Local Artisans Are Thriving Amid Kakaako’s Condo Boom".

Click HERE to read the full article. Thank you AIA Honolulu Public Director Jennifer Pang with Pang Communications assisting in making it happen.

AIA Honolulu Job Board

2 New Jobs Just Listed and 8 Total on our Job Board

Post a job with AIA Honolulu!
Jobs are posted for 1 month. Posting fee: $25/members, $40/non-members.

NEW! Project Architect - Bowers and Kubota Consulting
NEW! Computer Aided Design Engineer - Bowers and Kubota Consulting

.....go to the AIA Honolulu Job Board to view all jobs listed.

AIA National Career Center

The AIA National Career Center is also a great place to look for your next career or post a job. Check back frequently as new jobs are posted every day.

AIA National Update

February ABI Score Shows Softening

The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) demonstrated a softened, but positive score during the month of February. The overall score fell from 55.3 in January to 50.3 in February, flirting with a dip into negative terrain for the first time in more than a year.

“Overall business conditions at architecture firms across the country have remained generally healthy,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA. “Firms in the south recorded continued strong design activity, likely reflecting a healthy regional economy and ongoing rebuilding from the catastrophic 2018 hurricane season.”

The project inquiries index saw a marginal increase of its high score from January, growing from 59.6 to 59.8 last month. Regional averages and the sector index breakdown also maintained positive scores.

To visit the ABI page on the AIA website, click HERE.

Register for AIA Conference on Architecture June 6-8 in Las Vegas

Register Online Today! Early bird rates end April 10, 2019

A’19 is home to a speaker lineup you won’t find anywhere else. Don’t miss this year’s keynote on June 6 at 5pm with Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code and Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% Invisible, one of the world's most popular podcasts about design and architecture.

An unrivaled range of seminars, tours, workshops, and expo credit sessions bring the best new work and trending topics to you. You’ll also earn your HSW, ADA, GBCI, and AIA LU credits for the year.

Upcoming Community Events

Mar 27: SMPS Hawaii: Nonverbal Communication and Relational Messages (1 LU)
Nonverbal Communication and Relational Messages: How to Build Your Professional Credibility Without Speaking a Word
When/Where: Wednesday, Mar 27, 11:30am-1:30pm, Plaza Club (20th floor)
Cost: $35 SMPS Members and $55 Non-Members
Register: Click here to register online with SMPS Hawaii

Mar 28: Window Selection, Glazing & Building Envelope Optimization (3 HSW)
Join Coastal Windows for a factory tour and seminar.
When/Where: Thursday, Mar 28, 9:30am-1pm, Coastal Windows, 94-533 Puahi St
Cost: Free
Register: Click here to register online with Coastal Windows

Apr. 3: Business Exit Planning Hawaii
Have an experienced Attorney, CPA, Business Valuator, and Certified Exit Planner in one room making your retirement more realistic and predictable.
When/Where: Wednesday, April 3, 7:30am-9am, The Pacific Club
Cost: 50$. Tax Deductible, Breakfast Included
Register: Click here to register online (limited to 30 first business owners)

Apr 3: APAHI Lunch Talk: Honolulu's Climate Action Planning and Inter-County Collaboration
Discuss Honolulu’s Climate Action Planning to date and what’s ahead; Honolulu’s Bloomberg Philanthropies’ American Cities Climate Challenge award and work; and inter-county climate action coordination and collaboration.
When/Where: Wednesday, April 3, 12-1pm, AIA Center for Architecture
Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members, and free for students
Register: Click here to register with APA online.

2019 AIA Honolulu Annual Sponsorship Opportunities

Join Us! Start Your Sponsorship Early and Pick Your Programs

Get On Board Early! In 2019 you will see lots of exciting sponsorship and networking opportunities. Support your profession and become an AIA Honolulu Annual Sponsor Today!

Pick which program-specific sponsorship opportunities your firm would like to align with and at what levels. Your options are limitless!

Email or call us at (808) 628-7245 for questions.