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By Justin A. Mihalik, AIA New Jersey President
Did you know that 50 percent of our military forces are made up of the part-time personnel? I did not either until I attended an event at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst called Seven Seals Boss Lift, which is an annual event hosted by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves. The ESGR is a Department of Defense office that was established in 1972 to promote cooperation and understanding between Reserve Component Service members and their civilian employers.
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AIA New Jersey
The AIA announced Carl Elefante as 2018 President.
The Institute also named a new secretary and at-large director during its annual meeting, held in Philadelphia.
AIA members attending the Institute's annual Convention, held in Philadelphia, had the opportunity to vote for the elected board positions of 2017 first vice president/2018 president-elect, 2017-2018 secretary and 2017-2019 at-large director.
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AIA New Jersey
AIA Convention is the architecture and design event of the year, featuring hundreds of speakers and education sessions on practice strategies, emerging trends, and thought-provoking topics. If you're a subject matter expert with a great concept for an education session, we invite you to submit your proposal by July 15, 2016, for the 2017 Convention in Orlando.
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AIA New Jersey
AIA NJ President Justin Mihalik, AIA, was interviewed on May 25 on News 12 NJ regarding the AIA-NJ Taskforce on Lightweight Construction. The task force issued it's findings, hoping for positive changes that foster greater public safety.
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AIA New Jersey
The 2016 AIA Convention just finished and Philadelphia was a great host to architects and design professionals from around the world. AIA New Jersey members were able to take advantage of the close location of convention this year and it was wonderful to see so many of us attending.
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AIA New Jersey
Presenting a Design on the Delaware Program is your chance to share your expertise with our local community of architects, planners, engineers, and designers.
This Friday, June 3, is the last day to submit your proposal for the 2016 Design on the Delaware taking place at NeoCon East, November 9-11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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AIA New Jersey
The application process is now open for the 2017-2019 class of Enterprise Community Partners' prestigious Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, which places emerging designers on the ground to bring together a commitment to community-based development with best practices in design.
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AIA New Jersey
During the AIA National Convention in Philadelphia, AIA South Jersey President, Bruce D. Turner, AIA, was among a group of architects who helped deliver 136 gift boxes to patients at St. Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia. Dubbed the Big Green Boxes of Cheer, the event was organized by Andersen Windows and Cheeriodicals, a national corporate team building company that conducts philanthropic events benefiting children’s hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses, Veterans Hospitals and other charities across the country.
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NorthJersey.com
Immediately after fire destroyed an Edgewater apartment complex last year, there were calls to make sure nothing like that happened again. Proposals were made to upgrade fire codes, laws were introduced and all seemed to agree quick action was needed.
But nothing has happened. In the 16 months since the fire at the Avalon at Edgewater, no new laws have been passed and fire codes have not been strengthened.
The inaction in Trenton is shameful.
The state chapter of the American Institute of Architects tried to prompt movement with a report highlighting some of what should be done.
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Architect Magazine
Feeling isolated as a sole practitioner, San Antonio architect Roberto Treviño, AIA, reached out to city council member (now mayor) Ivy Taylor in 2010 to ask how he might leverage his design expertise on local issues. She invited Treviño to join city committees on building and fire codes. When a council member resigned in 2014, Treviño was appointed to fill the spot. He was re-elected in 2015 and continues to serve on the council.
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Curbed
The art, and often science, of high-end architectural renderings can play tricks on viewers. It's not uncommon for glossy images of potential projects to look nearly indistinguishable from actual photos. That uncanny valley of representation is, of course, by design, since architectural paintings and renderings have for centuries been the profession's greatest sales tool. The ability of today's architects to create renderings (and even virtual reality models) that lets clients evaluate an unbuilt project would make previous generations of draftsmen and painters jealous.
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ConstructionDIVE
Sarafian told Dezeen that fabric-casting can create a curved form that would be demolished by the removal of traditional formwork. The method also uses less material and labor, appealing to sustainable building proponents, and can achieve a reduced schedule. High-profile architects Wolf D. Prix and the Bjarke Ingels Group's Kai-Uwe Bergmann have said this method is "the future of the construction industry," Dezeen reported.
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Reuters
Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing.
The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast "favelas" in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Builders continue to get mixed signals as to whether conditions are improving. Data reports from the nonresidential sector show a month-over-month decline from March to April but a general positive trend for the year. On the residential side, sales were up in April but have remained flat or are down slightly compared to the same period last year. Industry experts nonetheless remain cautiously optimistic that demand will increase in the second half of the year.
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Madison Eagle
The grades K-12 district's selection of architects to work on the district’s STEM initiative sparked outcries from several members of the public.
The Board of Education agreed by a 7-1 vote Tuesday, May 24, to enter an agreement for with Rockaway-based Parette Somjen Architects to complete renovation work at Madison Junior School for the district-wide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiative. The agreement would cost $85,000 in fees and an additional $10,000 "reimbursable expenses."
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