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| WELCOME to another edition of “JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE…” Happy Holidays! We hope all of you are enjoying the festive season. Things are winding down for us as we’ve finished preparing for 2008. All we’re waiting for is January 1, 2008 and then things will continue full speed. Thanks for making 2007 a great year! We got a lot accomplished and we look forward to making more progress in 2008.
The news never ends, so enjoy this issue of JTFP and we’ll see you in the new year!
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| AIA OFFICES CLOSED |
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 Closed for the HolidaysAIA offices will be closed from December 24th until January 3rd. If you’re going to need documents between now and then make sure to place your orders soon!
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| ASLA CALL FOR ENTRIES |
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 2008 Design AwardsProfessional entry forms and payment must be received by Friday, February 1, 2008, and submission binders are due by Friday, February 15. Student entry forms and payment must be received by Friday, May 9, 2008, and submission binders are due by Friday, May 23, 2008.
Award recipients, their clients and faculty advisors will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony followed by a special champagne reception during the ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO in Philadelphia, October 3-7, 2008. The award winning projects will be featured in a video presentation to premier at the ceremony. Professional award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture Magazine. Residential category professional award recipients will also be featured in Garden Design magazine.
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| SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE: A NORDIC PERSPECTIVE |
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 Brown Bag Presentation hosted by ASU Stardust Center and the College of DesignArchitect Christina Bodin Danielsson, works as a practicing architect specialist of “sustainable” office environments and is working part time as a researcher at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
She will give a presentation on the discussion of sustainable architecture in Sweden and the Nordic countries. She will then describe a housing project her architect firm, Brunnberg & Forshed Architects, is working on at the Housing Exhibition year 2010. She describes what goals the project started out with and how they had to change during the working process due to the awareness of the climate changes. She will also discuss what can be changed and what can not be changed at the moment.
The presentation will be on Wednesday, December 12 in Room CDS234 from 11:30 to 1:00.
For more information contact Daniel J. Glenn, Associate Director for Design - ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family
daniel.glenn@asu.edu
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| SMoCA’s NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION |
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 “Flip a Strip”Submission deadline: March 31, 2008
Exhibition: October 2008
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] announces a major design competition and public exhibition, “Flip a Strip.” This innovative project will foster creative, new visions for the renovation of the small-scale strip shopping plazas that line the streets of this metropolitan area-and virtually every suburban zone in the country. (Note: this is an idea-generating competition, not a design/build project.)
In oversupply yet vastly underused, such strip plazas (built a generation ago) define the streetscapes of many towns. Many are dilapidated eyesores. Yet many are home to small restaurants, sole proprietorships and mom-and-pop businesses that can be wonderfully unique, entrepreneurial concerns, highly responsive to community needs. Strip malls breed strange and wonderful bedfellows (a yoga studio next to pet grooming next to a mattress store, for example), yet are plagued by interspersed vacant storefronts and the most generic of designs.
Ringed by parking and adjacent to thriving neighborhoods, these strip malls have great potential for adaptive re-use and architectural upgrades. They are an undervalued and neglected building stock. This competition will look at options for making strip malls economically viable, aesthetically interesting and communally meaningful.
To find out more about this competition visit www.flipastrip.com on January 5, 2008. The website won’t be launched until then.
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| CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY AS CIVIC PARTNER |
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 Hosted by PURL & Lincoln Institute of Land Policy February 14-16, 2008
This conference will explore the increasing range and importance of university-city partnerships. A long history of town-grown friction is giving way to a new era of collaboration - and to new possibilities for progressive urban design and dynamic civic culture.
Speakers - including university presidents, senior administrators, academic researchers, urban designers, planning directors, and community leaders from across North America and Europe - will look at new opportunities for innovative place-making, program and policy.
The conference will take place on the emerging Downtown Phoenix Campus of ASU - a collaborator between the largest American university and the fifth largest U.S. city.
Information and registration: design.asu.edu/purl/conf08.shtm or 480.727.9880
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| ROTCH TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP |
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 $35,000 Prize AwardedThe Rotch Travelling Scholarship, founded in 1883, provides funding for young architects to “pursue studies in foreign countries.”
The Scholarship is the oldest of its kind in the United States and the influence of the Rotch has been felt throughout the entire profession in America. The roster of Rotch Scholars includes many of the country’s most distinguished architects - Henry Bacon, Ralph Walker, Wallace Harrison, Louis Skidmore, Edward D. Stone, Gordon Bunshaft, Victor Lundy and many others.
To find out more about the scholarship and how to apply click here.
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| SPRING LECTURE SERIES |
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 CALA Sping Lecturers
Jan. 25
Rick Joy
Feb. 8
Victoria Ballard Bell
www.ballardbell.com
Mar. 28
Edward Allen
April 4
Jack DeBartolo, Jr., Jack DeBartolo 3, and William Bruder
www.debartoloarchitects.com www.willbruder.com
Apr. 18
Tom Kundig
www.oskaarchitects.com
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| GRAND CANYON CHAPTER MEETING |
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 2008 Year Kick-off Banquet Bring your significant others!
Date: January 12, 2007
Time: 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Place: Verde Valley Wine Co. & Recovery Room Winery and Restaurant; 401 N. Calvary Way Cottonwood, AZ 86326
RSVP by January 4th, 2008 to Paul Marx (pmarx@cableone.net or 928-771-0548)
Click here to view the menu. Please include your menu choice when you RSVP.
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| BOX LUNCH |
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 Tucson Reference LibraryMark Eastin, CSI Architectural Consultant for ASSA ABLOY
Presents Specifying Architectural Hardware: Door Control Solutions
ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions is a division of ASSA ABLOY, the global leader in door opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user needs for security, safety and convenience.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, ASSA ABLOY is comprised of over 150 companies in more than 40 countries, all part of the door security industry. ASSA ABLOY’s mission is to provide complete opening solutions, backed by value-added services, to help people feel
safer and more secure, thus creating more freedom in their lives. Mark Eastin, will teach attendees how to identify the various products used to control architectural swinging doors and how to determine proper applications for door control devices based on the use of the opening. This seminar includes how to differentiate between the various quality levels of devices and how to describe the various choices when determining the proper door control device.
Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 11:45 a.m.
11:45 a.m. - Registration & Hosted Lunch
12:00 p.m. - Presentation
1:00 p.m. - Adjournment
The Reference Library Conference Room,
4633 E. Broadway-Suite 101
There is NO CHARGE for this event and lunch is HOSTED by the presenter.
Please RSVP by 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 13, 2007. Please e-mail (preferred) your reservation to donnamcquery@theriver.com or by fax to 520-323-3399 by Thursday at 10:00 AM. Limit of three
attendees from one firm.
Click here for a registration form.
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| AIA SOUTHERN ARIZONA’S HAPPY HOUR |
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 Everyone is Invited! You are cordially invited to AIA SAC’s Happy Hour of December.
Date: Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Time: 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Place: The Bamboo Club at Parkplace Mall; 5870 E. Broadway, Suite 524
RSVP by December 18, 2007 to Tracy Miller (tracy.miller@thomasrepro.com)
Don’t miss a great opportunity to network!
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| FACILITES MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR |
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 Job Opening: Pima County
OPEN UNTIL FILLED
(1st Screen 12/7/2007)
Grade: U5 Minimum Annual Starting Salary: $120,000 - $152,781 DOQ
The Facilities Management Director plans, organizes and directs the operations involving the construction and maintenance of all County buildings, facilities and grounds.
Desired Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering or architecture and nine years of experience in physical plant engineering and administration.
Preferred Qualifications:
-Experience planning and directing a comprehensive construction and maintenance program.
-Experience performing work in several areas of engineering such as general, civil, mechanical, electrical and architectural.
-Experience assigning, supervising, training and evaluating the work of personnel.
-Experience maintaining effective working relationships with others.
-Experience expressing oneself clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
Click here for more information. (Scroll halfway down the page until you see description.)
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| PLANNING AHEAD: SUMMER INTERNSHIPS |
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 Hertiage Documentation Programs Heritage Documentation Programs seeks applications from qualified individuals for summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, landscape and technological significance throughout the country. Duties involve on-site field work and preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collections at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last 12 weeks, beginning in late May or early June. Salaries range from approximately $6,000 to approximately $11,000 for the summer, depending on job responsibility, locality of the project, and level of experience.
http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/summer.htm
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| HAVE A GOOD YEAR? |
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 Help the Working Poor with Part of Your TaxesNo specific charity in mind? Tom Posedly, AIA and Penny Posedly, FAIA suggest Valley Center of the Deaf. Contact them at (602) 267-1921. For the 2007 tax year, submit your donation or call by December 31, 2007.
The Charitable Tax Credit program encourages gifts to charitable organizations that help the working poor. It is separate from the Private School Tuition Credit and the Public School Activity Credits. You may participate in any or all of these programs.
Question on tax credits? Call the Arizona Department of Revenue: 1-800-352-4090 (in Phoenix call 602-255-3381), access the website at www.revenue.state.az.us, or call your tax advisor.
Earn a dollar-for-dollar tax credit (up to $400 filing jointly; $200 single) on your Arizona income tax. Through the “Tax credit” your taxes are reduced by the amount of your donation. If you pre-paid more than you owe, you’ll receive a tax refund.
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| We know that there is a lot going on - so be sure to check out our online calendar: www.aia-arizona.org/calendar
Sincerely,
Tina Litteral, Hon. AIA
AIA Arizona
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