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Minneapolis Chapter
Online registration for AIA Minneapolis’ monthly luncheon programs is available.
View the program description and sign-up today.
Merit Awards
Unique in its approach to creating a jury, these awards encompass the views of business professionals, real estate developers, community advocates, and academic leaders as well as architects. The Merit Awards are bestowed to projects by AIA Minneapolis architects that tell a “story of excellence beyond design,” reflecting the variety of forces that shape a building.
Dates:
Submissions due Friday, May 9, 2008
Awards presented at the AIA Minneapolis luncheon on Thursday, July 17, 2008
2008 AIA Minneapolis Merit Award Entry Form
2008 Golf Outing
AIA Minneapolis will host its annual Golf Outing on Monday July 28, 2008. Please mark your calendars! If you are not a golfer, there are plenty of other ways to participate in this fun social event – there is a dinner-only option and volunteer opportunities as well. Sign-up today!
2008 Golfer Registration form (PDF)
Bus Tours
In the coming months, the AIA Minneapolis Urban Design Committee will host a series of Friday afternoon bus tours of each of Minneapolis' five planning sectors. The tours will be led by the Sector Planners from the City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) Department. Each tour will highlight planning successes and the Sector Planners will talk about how development opportunities become realities from a planner's perspective. How can Architects contribute to these successes? How does the City help design ideas to materialize? Join us for a unique perspecive into how Minneapolis is shaped. Details will be announced in future issues of Matrix. For more information, please contact Emily Dowd at dowd@aia-mn.org.
Great City Design Teams
Five Minneapolis neighborhoods were chosen for some make-over design help from Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s Great City Design Teams. Teams of volunteer architects, landscape architects, urban designers and developers worked with residents and community groups in five key neighborhoods throughout 2007 to develop design visions for future possible changes. Read more.
AIA Minneapolis sponsors these events
Skyway Mini-Golf Open, annually in February
Building Community Exhibit, annually in May
PARK(ing) Day, annually in September
College of Design, School of Architecture, events and seminars throughout the year
Harrison Neighborhood Design Charrette
On Saturday, March 25, 2007, the AIA Minneapolis Urban Design Committee facilitated a design charrette with the Harrison Neighborhood focusing on the redevelopment of the intersection of Penn & Glenwood Avenues. With the gracious volunteer help from MASLA Landscape Architects, urban planner Bill Smith of BIKO and developer Ross Fefercorn, AIA members worked with neighborhood residents to craft several possible design alternatives for the corner and for broader neighborhood connections. Some ideas to come forward were: turn the abandon car station into a park until the site is ready for development; redevelop the southeast and northwest corners with mixed-uses, transit stop sculptures, green roofs and other sustainable techniques; line Glenwood Avenue with three-story brownstones from the Target Center to Albinsons/Procolor and install the first of the new streetcar lines on Glenwood Avenue connecting the heart of downtown to the under appreciated Theodore Wirth Park.
The Urban Design Committee would like to thank the Harrison Neighborhood for the opportunity to work with them, for their leadership and for the wonderful lunch from The Lucky Dragon. We would also like to thank all who volunteered their time for what was unofficially the first of the Mayor’s Great City Design Team’s design charrette.
Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Awards
On Thursday, May 22, the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission and AIA Minneapolis Chapter will recognized award-winning projects and leading organizations at the 16th Annual Heritage Preservation Awards. Sign up on the registration page.
Read more about the 2007 award winners.
AIA Minneapolis and St. Paul CDes Scholarships
Every year, scholarships sponsored by AIA St. Paul and Minneapolis chapters are given to students at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, School of Architecture (CDes). Four recipients have been chosen for this year. Learn more about the scholarships and the 2005 winners are... more…
AIA Minneapolis 2008 Chapter Committees
AIA Minneapolis members – get involved with your chapter! Below are your chapter’s committees for 2008, make the most of your membership and join a committee today! Contact the staff liaison for more information, or fill out and return the 2007 Member Profile Form.
Membership Connection Committee
Co-chairs: Elena Peltsman, AIA; Ken Stone, AIA
AIA Staff Liaison: Amber Allardyce
Organized to promote AIA Minneapolis members, this committee strives to strengthen the organization and the profession by sharing professional expertise, providing learning and networking opportunities, and encouraging fellowship.
Minneapolis Public Awareness Committee
Chair: Marc Partridge, AIA
AIA Staff Liaison: Jennifer Gilhoi
This committee plans four luncheons a year to provide architects with information and resources to improve their practice, and generate a dialogue among architects, other design professionals and community leaders.
Minneapolis Special Events Committee
Co-chairs: Craig Hall; Kyle Williams, AIA
AIA Staff Liaisons: Jennifer Gilhoi
The committee plans many events including Heritage Preservation Awards, the annual Golf Outing, a holiday gathering, and the Minneapolis Merit Awards.
Minneapolis Urban Design Committee
Co-Chairs: Ryan Kronzer, Assoc. AIA; Alissa Pier, Assoc. AIA
AIA Staff Liaison: Emily Dowd
This committee advocates for good architecture and urban design. Through organizing four Minneapolis Chapter luncheons per year, the committee explores the relationship among planning, urban design and development, architecture and public policy, engaging with policy makers and media for this purpose.
AIA Minneapolis
2008 Board of Directors
AIA
Minneapolis Bylaws (pdf, 18 pages)
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