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CHAPTER REPORTS AIA Chicago’s Fifth Annual Small Projects Awards PHOTO BY BILL GNECH, THE APPLE GROUP On Friday, May 1, AIA Chicago and its Small Practitioners Group hosted the fth annual Small Projects Award ceremony and reception at Architectural Artifacts in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. The awards program honors the best work from rms with fewer than nine licensed architects and/or architectural interns, and seeks to raise public awareness of the value that architects bring to small projects. More than 400 participants packed the party, where beer courtesy of Revolution Brewing was imbibed and the eight winning projects were exhibited alongside all of this year’s entries. All of the award-winning projects and submissions from 2015 can be viewed online at www.aiachicago.org/spa/. SUBMISSIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S AWARDS WILL BEGIN IN FEBRUARY 2016. 2015 Roche Scholar to Study Impact of “Political Urbanism” in Ecuador Janina Lissette Sanchez, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts, has been awarded the 2015 Martin Roche Travel Scholarship by the AIA Chicago Foundation. Established in 1926, the Roche Travel Scholarship provides a Chicago architecture student with a $5,000 grant to complete a self-designed overseas independent study of a relevant architectural subject. With the scholarship, Sanchez will be traveling to Ecuador to investigate and measure the effects of the country’s Revolución Ciudadana (Citizen Revolution) on its urban development. After years of political turmoil, Ecuador has been transformed over a 30-year period of stability, in which “El Plan del Buen Vivir” (“The Plan for Good Living”) has unleashed a massive amount of government investment in infrastructure and development. Sanchez will travel across the country to document how ‘political urbanism’ is manifested in the built environment. The Martin Roche Travel Scholarship is administered and chosen by the board of the AIA Chicago Foundation, AIA Chicago’s nonprot charitable arm dedicated to supporting activities Janina Lissette Sanchez, the 2015 Martin Roche Travel Scholar, will travel to Ecuador to study its urban development. that promote the profession and the larger plan, faculty recommendation, academic architecture and design community. Selection is background, personal and professional based on individual merit as evidenced by achievement, and general indication of future strength and relevance of independent study promise in the profession. PHOTO COURTESY OF JANINA SANCHEZ 16 JULY // AUGUST // 2015 CHICAGO ARCHITECT AIACHICAGO.ORG
CHAPTER REPORTS AIA Chicago and Rebuilding Together Lead Volunteer Group National Rebuilding Together Day is an annual event organized by the nonprot Rebuilding Together, in which volunteers work together to renovate homes belonging to elderly, disabled and low-income homeowners. AIA Chicago and Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago volunteers joined forces on Saturday, April 25, for a day of home repairs in Maywood. Repairs this year included replacing tile, countertops and appliances in the kitchen, as well as adding grab bars and railings around the home. The group also painted four rooms and exterior trim, repaired damaged joists, and installed columns in the basement. FOR MORE ON REBUILDING TOGETHER, PLEASE VISIT WWW.REBUILDINGTOGETHER.ORG. Applications are now being accepted for AIA Chicago’s highly successful Bridge mentorship program, which pairs emerging professionals and AIA College of Fellows members. Applications are due Aug. 7, 2015, and the program will run from August to November. VISIT WWW.AIACHICAGO.ORG/COMMUNITY/BRIDGE FOR MORE INFORMATION. AIA Chicago and Rebuilding Together volunteers gather in front of the the Maywood home they repaired as part of National Rebuilding Together Day. PHOTO BY BILL GNECH, THE APPLE GROUP 800-874-2333 www.trim-tex.com
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