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AIA Peconic Design Awards are Announced
AIA Peconic announced the winners of the 2011 Design Awards Program at a public event on October 22 at 7:00 pm, held at the Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton.. The Awards were announced by a Jury comprised of Mark Simon, FAIA, Paul L. Whalen, AIA and Jeffery Povero, AIA
As part of the Daniel J. Rowen Memorial Design Awards Symposium, the jurors were led, under the guidance of Richard Stott, AIA LEED AP, as Chair of this Awards and Exhibit Committee, in a discussion of the projects that garnered their attention.
Left to right: Paul Whalen AIA, AIA Peconic AIA Awards & Exhibit Chair – Richard Stott, AIA LEED AP, Jurors Jeffery Povero AIA and Mark Simon FAIA
| Award | Architect | Firm | Project | Locations |
| Honor Award | Paul Masi AIA | Bates Masi Architects | Genius Loci | Montayk |
| Merit Award - Adaptic Re-Use | Steve Schappacher AIA | Schappacherwhite Ltd | Farm House | Shelter Island |
| Merit Award - Project | Paul Masi AIA | Bates Masi Architects | Mothersill | Water Mill |
| Jurors' Award - Economic Transforation | Paul Masi AIA | Bates Masi Architects | Robins Way | Amagansett |
| Jurors' Award - Economy of Means | Hideaki Ariizumi | studio a/b architects | Intertwinning Walks | Water Mill |
CLICK HERE to view images of all submissions and CLICK HERE to view the winning entries or contact Kay Jones at: (631) 728-7832 or aiapeconic@usa.net for additional information.
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AIA Peconic Monthly Member Dinner reservation can be made, with your credit card by clicking here . You can also reserve for the December Holiday dinner.
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We have an exciting 2012 calendar ahead so please visit our page 7 "CALENDAR" to get an update on our special programs and events.
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Code Hurricane Rules Opposed....
The AIA Peconic CODE's Committee has been engaged in an ongoing effort to improve the NYS Building Code. Using the above menu, go to # 5 NEWS and you will find press releases and relating position papers.
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B. Kay Jones, Executive Director |
AIA Peconic, Inc. |
P O Box 327 |
Hampton Bays, New York 11946 |
phone: 631-728-7832 |
fax: 631-728-7831 |
e-mail: aiapeconic@USA.net |
web site: http://www.aiapeconic.org |
2012 AIA PECONIC OFFICERS
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President
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Vice President
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Secretary
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Peter C. Wilson, AIA |
Treasurer
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| Past President | Shawn Leonard, AIA |
| AIA NYS Rep. | Richard Stott AIA LEED AP |
AIA PECONIC CHAPTER CHARTERED Presidents
| 2005 | Douglas Moyer AIA |
| 2006 | Richard Stott AIA |
| 2007 | Richard Stott AIA |
| 2008 | Ian McDonald AIA |
| 2009 | William Sclight AIA |
| 2010 | Anne Surchin AIA |
| 2011 | Andrew A. Weiss AIA |
EAST END SECTION CHARTERED Presidents
1992 Andrew Weiss AIA
1993 Joseph Deppe AIA
1994 Anthony DiSunno AIA
1995 Robert Ortman AIA
1996 Armando Ortiz AIA
1997 Richard Stott AIA
1998 Henry Flynn AIA
1999 Shawn Leonard AIA
2000 Debbie Kropf AIA
2001 Andrew Weiss AIA
2002 Maziar Behrooz AIA
2003 Armando Ortiz AIA
2004 Christopher DiSunno AIA
2005 Douglas Moyer AIA
2012 AIA Peconic President’s Message
Happy New Year Folks!
Thank you for supporting me with another term as your President. My instincts tell me that this year will be AS, if not MORE, challenging than 2011 for our profession. Primarily, we need to stay focused on leaving our profession in a better place than where we found it.
Let’s start by looking at our successes in 2011 and how AIA Peconic’s standing has advanced in our community:
- Our Golf and Scholarship Committee’s continued hard work in developing
their programs to distribute scholarships to local students has successfully finished its sixth year, additionally, chapter finances were helped because of the efforts of these two committees.
- Our Planning Committee has had an impact on political leaders, regulatory
health agencies as well as gaining the attention of the AIANYS Empire State Challenge jury as a grant application finalist. This committee continues its work to advance Edvin Stromsten’s vision for a Sustainable Institute at the campus of Stony Brook University in Southampton – certainly an honorable pursuit that every member should feel proud to support.
- Our Code Committee has worked hard to disseminate their findings on
the issues arising related to the potentially damaging effects of the 2003 code revisions specific to wind borne debris, AKA the Hurricane Code. They have lobbied officials in Albany while the local press has published AIA Peconic’s position papers. Please - let’s support their work in order to receive the backing of Fire Marshalls, Fire Chiefs and other code officials throughout the five eastern townships this year. With their support and validation we hope to make headway with building officials at the statelevel to change what is a truly negligent section of the building code.
- The continued commitment to excellent programing year-round by our
expanded Program Committee has been our greatest challenge. Our programming
will have a slightly different balance this year to reflect a diversity of events that will hopefully meet the requests of our membership. As always, we will continue to provide opportunities for membership to fulfill continuing education requirements both with AIA and New York State. We also are planning programs developed by members for members. Whether it’s a talk about a recent member project or a member visit to a place of architectural significance, we hope that these events will provide lively and stimulating venues. And if any of you have a program along these lines that you would like to propose then, PLEASE, do not hesitate to contact the Program Committee. Lastly, a lecture series, open to the public, featuring prominent figures in architecture is also being planned.
- The Design Awards and Exhibit Committee’s work this past year cannot
be understated. Despite the abysmal economy, the Committee’s commitment to success has prevailed. Although, due to our economy, the results were not what we hoped for – members, nonetheless, were quite excited about being able to display their work without being involved in an Awards Program. The thought of continuing an expanded member Exhibit connected to the Awards Program is a distinct possibility for 2012 and, with active membership support and participation, it could become a reality. The selections by the Design Awards jury produced results that we all should be proud of – without regard to building style. For me, the award winning projects reflect that it’s about the evolution of the creative process rather than a perfected form. Whether it is Neoclassical, Brutalist, or Modern there were no preconceived ideas regarding form and that’s what interests me as a professional. I believe our Design Awards Committee will continue to promote design excellence within our Chapter so, let’s support the Committee’s work again this year –its challenge will be to promote and produce another Awards and Exhibit Program that all members will want to be a part of and participate in without being afraid of making a mistake.
- The House Tour Committee is continuing to organize a Tour for this coming
year. A theme has been chosen and now the hard work in timing the venues with our other programs and with the owner’s personal schedules in order for it to become another successful AIA Peconic program.
- Our dinner meetings have also provided the opportunity for provocative
discussions within the membership – sometimes, dare I say it, far more interesting than the evening’s already interesting program. We should not loose sight of the fact that there is a forum for collegiality offered by AIA Peconic that simply cannot be found anywhere else.
Somewhere along the line we will lose members this year either through attrition, relocation, lack of resources to support dues, apathy, or tragedy as we did this past year. This year my approach will be as positive as you make possible for me, but I ask for your help. We all have friends or colleagues that are not members, full or part-time intern architects in your employ as well as businesses allied to your practices that are not aware of the positive contributions we make to our little corner of the world. Please bring them to an event or meeting or into a Committee that you are engaged with so they may see how AIA Peconic may affect a positive within our community. Ask yourself how you participate within AIA Peconic? Do you find that your participation is enough OR do you find something lacking with your participation? I see that ANY participation is great, but contextually, I equate that to - building a structure to CODE. Of course we do, but we all want our structures to be BETTER than Code.
So, again, remember these people this year. Invite them to join AIA for all of the positive attributes we have to offer outside of programming such as our lobbying efforts, which have influenced legislators to support our causes by backing various pieces of legislation that enhance or improve our practices. I am not going to list the legislative accomplishments of 2011 (see the AIANYS web site for full review) but remember them while talking to these people who are on the fence about joining AIA Peconic. It’s important for them to know how the chapter’s lobbying efforts have enhanced membership value.
Our Associate members are our most important asset! They are our future!
We need to support their pursuit of licensure, education, community, and their involvement with AIA Peconic if we want this chapter to grow and evolve into an organization that works seamlessly. Only then will we become the Chapter we always wanted to be.
Andrew Weiss, AIA - AIA Peconic 2012 President
