2019 Directory

15 Membership Development Committee Building Relationships – The Impact of the One-On-One Conversation BY DALE BUCKINGHAM, AIA Committee Members: Dale Buckingham, AIA, Chair Rachel Delventhal, AIA Lewis Matthew Miller, AIA Carl Kohut, AIA T he membership development committee has a two-part mission. First, we are always exploring ways to encourage Wyo- ming licensed architects, associate architects, intern architects, and industry partners to join our organization. Second, we strive to educate potential and current AIAWyoming members of the rich heritage and benefits of belonging and serving in our professional organization. In the past couple of years, the membership development committee focused on retaining current members and highlighting the attributes of membership within AIAWyoming. This year, however, the committee concentrated more on recruiting new members. Those of us in the architectural profession know the importance of strategic marketing. As architects and design professionals, we also know that the best marketing tools in the busi- ness are one-on-one conversations and build- ing relationships. The same holds for recruiting new members to AIA Wyoming. As a young architect, I remember visiting with several older practitioners who always spoke about the importance of AIA Wyoming and how getting involved would benefit my career. It was with those words of encouragement that drew me to the organization. These same words of encour- agement from current active members to newly licensed architects, associate architects, intern architects, and industry partners – will benefit the success and future of AIA Wyoming. May we – each member of AIA Wyoming, in con- junction with the membership development committee – strive to have these one-on-one conversations and build relationships to con- tinue the legacy of AIA Wyoming. b AIA Wyoming Technology in Architecture Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community BY LEWIS MATTHEW MILLER, AIA T he AIA National Technology in Prac- tice Knowledge Community has an- nounced the 2019 Innovation Awards recipients. The AIA Innovation Awards recognize the exemplary use and implemen- tation of innovative technologies and progres- sive practices among architects and designers, their collaborators, and their clients in support of the design, delivery, and operation of build- ings or research in practice and academia. The Innovation Award for Design Thinking went to three firm’s based on project entries, which included the COCA-COLA stage at Alliance Theatre project by Trahan Architects, the MIT Sean Collier Memorial by Höweler + Yoon Architecture and the Overhaul the curriculum, not just a course: a new paradigm for design technology curriculum project by the Faculty of the University of Tennessee School of Architecture, along with the Hon- orable Mention for Design Thinking going to the Baxter Parametric CMU Wall project by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects. The Innovation Award for Holistic Design went to the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, by CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab and to IIT Inno- vation Center (Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship) by John Ronan Architects. Please keep a lookout in 2020 for opportunities to submit projects to the AIA TAP Innovation Awards, which begins each year in July. They are collected by TAP at AIA.org/awards For more information go to www.aia-wyo- ming.org and click on the “About Us” tab to find AIA WY TAP b