2015 Directory

24 WYOMING ARCHITECTURE .15 | www.aia-wyoming.org T he 2015 AIAWyomingWinter Conference was held Cheyenne on February 19th through the 21st. The theme of the conference was “Designing Healthy & Sustainable Communities.” The venue for the conference was the First UnitedMethodist Church in Downtown Cheyenne. The conference was well attended with just over 100 participants. Several people from out of town had to cut their attendance short as a severe winter storm rolled in Friday morning. The first speaker of the conference was Dr. Richard Jackson, Professor and past Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. A pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions in both environmental health and infectious disease with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta and re- ceived the Presidential Distinguished Service award. In October, 2011 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sci- ences. InMarch Dr. Jackson received the 2015 Henry Hope Reed award, which is awarded in conjunction with the Richard H. Driehaus Prize in architecture, The Reed award is for “an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the tradition- al city, its architecture and art.” The second speaker of the conference was Mary Ann Lazarus, the Res- ident Fellow with the American Institute of Architects inWashington, DC. An architect with HOK in St. Louis since 1980, she has served as the global firm's director of sustainable design since 2001. She co-authored the second edition of "The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design," an influential textbook used by design professionals and universities. Lazarus won Eco-Structure's 2012 Evergreen Award in the Perspectives category, which recognizes one individual each year for advancing sustainable design. In 2011, based on her significant contributions to sustainable design over her career, the AIA elevated Lazarus to its College of Fellows. The third speaker was Brian Dunbar, Executive Director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University. Professor Dunbar holds two degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and is a LEEDAccredited Professional. Professor Dunbar has taught Interior Design, ConstructionManagement, and Sus- tainability courses at Colorado State and created the graduate emphasis in sustainable building, professional certification courses in green building, and sustainable design and construction courses offered in Costa Rica and on the island of St. John, USVI. Jeremiah Eck was the final speaker. He is the founding partner of Eck|M- acNeely Architects, a Boston based firm that over the past 35 years has completed a wide range of residential and academic projects. The firm has won numerous local and national awards and been published in over 350 newspapers and books. The work includes houses in 14 States and aca- demic facilities comprising teaching, living, and administrative buildings. AIA Wyoming Winter Conference Dr. Richard Jackson Mary Ann Lazarus Brian Dunbar Jeremiah Eck BY RANDY BYERS, AIA, CONFERENCE PLANNING TEAM CHAIR