2018 Directory

30 WYOMING ARCHITECTURE .18 | www.aia-wyoming.org AIA Wyoming College of Fellows BY JOHN CARNEY, FAIA, AIA WYOMING COF REPRESENTATIVE I am writing as your new Fellows repre- sentative for AIA Wyoming, and my first official act is to thank Bruce Hawtin for his service to AIA over his entire career as well as his recent stint in this role. Bruce moved to Jackson Hole in 1971 where he has lived and worked ever since, contributing his profession- al expertise and personal time to making this a better place. Serving on boards, attending countless public hearings, and designing buildings too numerous to name are only part of Bruce’s considerable legacy to Jackson Hole and Wyoming. And he is still at it, not quite ready to retire, though taking a less active role in the firm that he runs with his partner, Arne Jorgensen, AIA. Bruce was awarded Fellow- ship in 1998 for service to the profession. Thank you, Bruce! One of the issues that has galvanized archi- tects in Wyoming is workforce housing. Over lunch recently with another Wyoming Fellow, Stephen Dynia, FAIA, we were reminiscing about the first project we ever collaborated on, which was the master plan for Mountain View Meadows, the first affordable housing project in Teton County back in 1992. Stephen and I had just moved here and were invited by Arne Jorgensen, AIA, and Rich Charlesworth, AIA, to join a charrette to design a 36-unit develop- ment in the Cottonwood Park neighborhood of Jackson for the recently formed non-profit, The Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust. The need for subsidized community workforce housing was not as obvious back then, but the community was concerned enough about it that a number of non-profits and government entities came together to take this first bold step. The pro-bono work that we started was completed by Lisa Carranza and Steve Dynia, who formed a firm to become the design and executive architects for this ground-breaking project. The need for subsidized affordable housing is even more pressing today, where land and construction costs have made home ownership impossible for many members of the community. While Jackson Hole’s affordable housing crunch is probably more drastic than in the rest of Wyoming, this has become a significant problem nationwide. We see this an opportunity for architects to get involved with the skills we possess to come up with creative solutions to this problem, and we encourage our members to get engaged in the process. The recent AIA Conference in Jackson had as its theme “Design for Wellness.” What could contribute more to healthy communities than affordable housing opportunities? The con- ference was well-attended, and we at Carney Logan Burke were happy to host a reception and a talk about the public art piece that we designed, called the Enclosure. It was the first in what is planned to be an annual public art project and is the brain child of Jackson Hole Public Art, a local nonprofit dedicated to forg- ing partnerships for the integration of art into our environment. There was a competition to design a pavilion in the Center for the Arts Park, which our firm was honored to win. Eric Logan, Matt Thackray, and Forrest Britton, who took the lead on the design within our studio, gave a presentation for the conference attendees before heading back to our office for a reception and a PechaKucha. PechaKucha is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each. The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced, was an opportunity for the 40+ participants to collaborate by breaking into groups and coming up with their presenta- tions, all focused on the theme of Wellness in Design. The idea for that lively session came from the Emerging Professionals/Membership Development Committee with the intention of engaging AIA members in a more proactive way than the typical lecture format, and allow- ing architects at various stages of their careers to get to know each other better. Thank you to Rachel Delventhal, AIA, Dale Buckingham, AIA, Carl Kohut, AIA, Danny Wicke, AIA, and Jacob Ernst, AIA for putting that together and for your work on the Membership Devel- opment Committee. All of this is consistent with the efforts of the AIA Fellows in Wyoming to help mentor our young architects and emerging professionals and encourage others toward licensure. We also encourage architects who are consider- ing applying for fellowship to do so. Please feel free to contact me or our other Wyoming Fellows, Bruce Hawtin, FAIA, Fred Hynek, FAIA and Stephen Dynia, FAIA if you want to discuss any of this further. b