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| American Institute of Building Design
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| Society News, Happenings & Important Information to Use | WINTER - 2012 |
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:
It is my hope, that you are planing on a visit to San Diego to attend the Annual Society Conference, March 22-24, 2012. You should be able to obtain at least 8 CE credits if you attend all three days. If you enter the Design Competition, you will receive an additional 1 CE credit.
If you have not received conference registration materials, please contact me at the office, and I will forward you the materials.
Ron and Garalyn Snow have invited us to their home on Thursday March 22 for a hosted reception. We have a bus for 30 reserved. There are 7 guests on the bus already. Don't get left behind, the bus leaves the Hotel at 5 PM on Thursday.
With the help of Caroline Loisos, a great event is being planned.
I would like to see members for the Los Angeles and San Diego area attending this year. We are in your backyard. Invite a fellow Designer, who knows they may then want to join AIBD.
The National Convention will be in California the summer of 2013. That is next year!!! As hosts, our Society will help with registration and have a welcome event, the first day of the Convention. More to come, but please be willing to help when asked.
Richard L. Emigh
President, California Society, AIBD
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RED LETTER DAYS:
MARK THESE DATES
February 9, 2012, 12:00 to 1:30pm: San Diego Chapter Event: Soundproofing Luncheon Presentation, Sound Away Corporation in Vista, CA
1.0 CE*
February 23, 2012, 12:00 - 1:30pm: San Diego Chapter Event: NCBDC Brown Bag lunch study session, Location TBD. Bring your textbooks and study notes!*
March 12, 2012: Entry deadline for AIBD Designer Awards Competition, contact John Ford, jfdraw@aol.com
March 22-24, 2012: California Winter Conference, San Diego, CA
March 25-26: NCBDC Exam, San Diego, CA
SUMMER, 2012: National AIBD Convention in California!!
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 ANNUAL CALIFORNIA AIBD CONFERENCE!
California AIBD invites you to the Best Western Plus Hacienda Hotel in Old Town-San Diego, for our 52nd Annual Conference!
Room rates at the Hotel will be $119.00 per night.
Thursday evening we will have a welcome reception. The bus will be leaving at 5:00 pm and the first 30 that register for the conference will get to go!!
Friday tours will include a Historic neighborhood walking tour. Some of the homes were built in the early 1900s by Irving Gill, one of San Diego's innovative and influential architects. In the afternoon we will tour the California Center for Sustainable Energy. Friday evening there will be a trade show and cocktail party.
On Saturday, there will be educational seminars that will include speakers on Residential Building Science and Risk Management from an attorney's viewpoint. Also the design competition entries will be available for viewing so that members may vote for the Designer's Choice Award. Closing out the day's events will be the Designer Luncheon, where the winners of the design competition will be recognized.
Start thinking about a design/project that you might want to enter into the Design Competition. There are new categories this year. If you haven't received or have lost the entry form that was sent, go to www.aibdca.org to download it.
NCBDC testing will be given on Sunday and Monday March 25-26, 2012. Applications and fees required by NCBDC at the National Office by Jan 25, 2012.
Richard Emigh, President, American Institute of Building Design, California Society
413 Capitola Ave, Capitola CA 95010
redesigns02@yahoo.com or info@aibdca.org
831-479-1452 office phone
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DON'T MISS THE BUS!!!!! 
San Diego Chapter member Ron Snow and his wife, Garalyn, have invited us to their home on Thursday March 22 for a hosted reception. We have a bus for 30 reserved. There are 7 guests on the bus already. Don't get left behind, the bus leaves the Hotel at 5 PM on Thursday. |
Irving Gill: San Diego's Prominent Architect in the early 1900's (One of the events of our winter conference will be a walking tour of Irving Gill projects!) As the Torrey Pine tree is indigenous to the San Diego region, so is the design work of Irving Gill. If there is anyone who shaped the building landscape at the turn of the 20th century in San Diego, it was he. I'm very fond of Irving Gill. He started his career in his late teens as a drafter and apprentice and was not trained academically nor did he attend college. Rather, he learned on the job and focused on building construction techniques. He first worked in New York and then in Chicago, for a short time. His career overlapped with Frank Lloyd Wright in Louis Sullivan's office. He quickly moved from the Midwest to California to seek the sun and warm climate for health reasons and settled in San Diego in 1893. He brought with him the Arts and Crafts and Prairie School movements from the Midwest, as well as their social ideas that were engrained in him by Louis Sullivan. His most notable work in San Diego in the Arts and Crafts movement was the Marston's House, built in 1904 for George Marston. Not long after that, his work took a sharp turn in style. At a time when architecture was very ornate, he developed his own minimalistic style. Some notable peers, such as Gustav Stickley, referred to him as a Californian Progressive. He began to strip away ornamentation and simplify building elements. The simple arch, arcade and white walls became his signature - the straight line, the cube, and the circle became his basic elements. Though nature was still part of his design, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, he created his own unique interpretation.
His most prominent client, Ellen Browning Scripps, who supported the California Progressives, commissioned him to design her home and other public buildings from 1910-13. But not all his clients were as well-to-do. He focused much of his work on homes for common workers and laborers, providing well-designed cottages and enclaves of small homes for them. These are by far my favorite Irving Gill works to study because the proportions and scale of these homes are so well composed. They can be appreciated from the street curb so easily today. He experimented with indoor / outdoor living and terraces, and with daylight and the configuration of windows. His designs achieved maximum penetration of light and air. He also experimented with tilt-up concrete for ease of construction, at a time when the concept was first being developed. Other innovative elements in his designs included skylights, flat roofs, and clean lines, so that materials would have a minimal break for ease of cleaning. He innovated so much for the building landscape and many of those concepts are still practiced today, one hundred years later. Though many of his works are on the National Registry, his designs blend in so well today, that one does not feel they are of a past era. His classic works, my favorite years to study, were from 1908-1916. Our tour at the state conference in March will cover Gill's Marston House, inside and out, and the viewing of other homes in the neighborhood from the curb. There are approximately twenty plus works by him within a three-mile radius of the Marston House, but I expect we will only have time to visit a few. I've taken clients on such tours in the past and hope that you will find the same inspiration that they found from this local architect, who was way ahead of his time and is still impressive to this day. -Caroline Loisos AIBD, CS San Diego Chapter Director 
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CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES!
SIMPSON STRONG-TIE free workshops in California: Go to www.strongtie.com/workshops for information about subject matter, locations, dates, times, etc. AIBD Continuing Education Credits awarded for meeting workshop completion requirements. Contact Donna Gallegos dgallegos@strongtie.com or call 800-999-5099, Ext 1055 to register
CE ACADEMY, INC, an affiliate of Ron Blank & Associates, Inc. offers Live Continuing Education Seminars. Please contact Shannon Dewey with any questions at shannon@ronblank.com or 800-248-6364
Ron Blank & Associates, Inc. offer a variety of on-line courses. Generally any course that qualifies for AIA CE credits will also qualify for AIBD CE credits. Check out their website for course descriptions! www.RONBLANK.COM
International Code Council holds frequent Webinars that also qualify for CE credits. Check their website for http://www.iccsafe.org/Education/Courses/Pages/schedule-webinars.aspX
CertainTeed offers webinars for CEUs. Check out http://www.certainteed.com/learning-center for a variety of offered subjects.
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OUR CONFERENCE SPONSORS!!
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CONTACT US: 
413 Capitola Ave
Capitola, CA 95010
Phone: 831-479-1452 Office
831-479-1476 Fax
www.aibdca.org |
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 Doug Rhodes, Sacramento dirhodes@comcast.net
CALIFORNIA SOCIETY
AMERICAN INSTITUTE
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BUILDING DESIGN
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board elections are coming up and our organization is in need of "new blood" to fill the board positions. Our current board has been serving for several terms (in some cases more than the term limits allow and special exceptions had to be passed!)
Now is your chance to get involved in your organization! There are only 4 board meetings per year, 2 via web/telephone conference, one mid-summer and one at winter conference.
Please consider becoming involved! Not only does your organization need you, serving on the board can, actually, be fun!!! There is plenty of help and advice available. It's not hard and the rewards are many!!!
Take the time to talk with current board members at the conference or via phone. Following is a list of current board members:
OFFICERS: Richard Emigh, President redesigns02@yahoo.com
John Ford, 1VP JFDRAW@aol.com Gordon Hoehle, 2nd VP GNH001@aol.com Caroline Loisos, Secretary caroline@loisosdesign.com Doug Rhodes, Sacramento dirhodes@comcast.net CHAPTER PRESIDENTS: Alan Austin, San Diego agenthavana@cox.net Doug Rhodes, Sacramento dirhodes@comcast.net John Ford, Central State JFDRAW@aol.com Mike Roeder, Golden Gate mikeroeder@vintagehomedesign.com Richard Emigh, Monterey redesigns02@yahoo.com CHAPTER DIRECTORS: Phillip Lombardino, Monterey pjlomsr@sbcglobal.net Rodger Griffin, Golden Gate rgriffin@paragondgi.com Scott Turner, Central State smtresidentialdesign@yahoo.com Carole Chapman, Wine Country chapco@comcast.net Gordon Hoehle, Southern California GNH001@aol.com Caroline Loisos, San Diego caroline@loisosdesign.com STAFF: Diane Emigh, Executive Director gardenkatz@yahoo.com |
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 BACK TO THE OLD DRAWING
BOARD
Musings of Veteran Designer
Carole Chapman
Conferences and conventions, why bother?? They cost money, take time and, generally, don't do much for me, right???
WRONG!!!!!
Aside from the business of the organization, which is conducted at them in the form of board meetings and delegate sessions, conferences and conventions provide immeasurable opportunities to re-charge and revitalize your inner business self. I always come away with new ideas, a renewed energy and enthusiasm for this wonderful business which has allowed me to make a living drawing pictures all day!!!
Over the years, the number of timesaving techniques I've learned from fellow Designers have saved me countless hours in the drudgery side of the business (remember "sticky backs?") Years ago, an AIBD-CA conference in San Francisco that included a "shoot-out" between software companies influenced me to purchase and use the computer software that I still utilize (I'm on my 6th version, I think!)
One of the BEST conferences ever was in Morro Bay. It rained so hard and so much, roads were impassable. Our speakers, sponsors and judges couldn't get there. Our tour of Hearst Castle was cancelled because the Castle employees couldn't get past the washed out bridge to the north. Some of us had no hot water. We had no electricity. We self judged the design competition by the light of Coleman lanterns. We made coffee in the hotel kitchen by boiling water and pouring it over coffee grounds. Thank goodness the cooking appliances in the kitchen were gas!! We sat around in the lounge and traded "war stories" and philosophies. It was great!!!
Most of our conferences and conventions run smoothly and we schmooze, share a story or two, learn a lot, and celebrate the business in which we are so lucky to be involved. I can truly say I've never regretted the money or time I've spent on an AIBD Conference or Convention. In fact, I've always returned home feeling as if I've received far more than whatever I've spent.
I hope you all will find time and money to attend this year's conference in San Diego in March. I guarantee that you will not regret the time or money spent to get there!! |
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