2019 Directory

33 T he 2019 AIAWesternMountain Region Conference was hosted by AIAWyoming on September 19th through the 21st held at the Snow King Resort and Spa within the town of Jackson and within walking distance to the town square. The conference was centered around the theme “Resonance - the quality in a sound of being deep, full and reverberating”; in architecture we find apt analogy to this handy scientific terminology. The depth of the analysis of a site and program lead to the fullness of an architectural response. That response resonates with the occupants of a work of architecture and beyond. Thoughtful architecture enriches the lives of users, of a community, and sets an example for society of the positive influence of a physical environment on the human condition. Resonance in architecture combines an echo of history with a vision of an undiscovered future in perpetuity.” The region came well prepared with leaders and members, ready and willing to share perspec- tives and to celebrate architecture. The WMR conference was well attended with registrants from around the six states of the region, other licensed professionals, sponsors, exhibitors, and students. The sponsors and exhibitors are a great source of building knowledge, whose attendance provides a great opportunity for AIAmembers to see product samples, and to conveniently grab product catalogs with contact information to add to your architecture firm’s material library. The 2019WMR Conference began with a pre-conference leadership workshop by Mary Kelly, PhD, CSP, CDR, US Navy (retired). The three-hour workshop was entitled, ARMED, Attract, Retain, Mentor/Manage, Evolve &De- velop the Next Generation of Leaders. Leadership training has been one of the most requested, if not demanded, component of WMR gather- ings. Mary Kelly brought energy and content to this need for leadership training, in her second appearance at an AIAWyoming conference. This session was sponsored in-part by the Wyoming Board of Architects and Landscape Architects. Another event prior to the conference was provided by Elena Rocchi fromArizona State University and Carl Kohut, AIA who presented The Coyote Project: Reverberating the Intangi- ble. This community exercise stitched together Mies Van der Rohe’s sketches for the Resor house project. Elena and Carl also collected videos to transpose on the interior perspective of the living room and south glass wall to bring the sketch and the idea of the architectural space to life that was later shown during the conference. The WMR conference brings together a region of the AIAmembers fromAIAWyoming, AIA Arizona, AIA Colorado, AIANewMexico, AIANevada, and AIAUtah. The presentations appealed to many; they included professional development, high design, landscape architec- ture, sketching. and community planning. The opening statements came from the AIAWyo- ming chapter President Clint Taylor, AIA, along with AIAWMR Regional Director Nate Hudson, AIA, and Dina Sakellar, FAIA, followed by Dan Hart FAIA, PE, from the AIA Board, who not only provided an update on AIA initiatives about firm culture and building community. The next Thursday afternoon session was a panel discussion that includedWyoming’s Senator Stephan Pappas, AIA, AIA’s Anne Law Esq., NCARB’s Marta Zaniewski, and Former North Dakota’s Senator Lonnie Laffen, AIA. The panelists encourage architects to consider civic leadership, protecting the general public through professional licensure, and engage with larger community issues and public policy. During the welcome reception held at the Grand View Lodge ballroom, BrianMacKay-Lyons of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects presented a number of his firm’s projects called Economy of Ethics- Democracy, Sustainability, Elegance, and Social Agency; the ultimate purpose of Architec- ture is Community. Thursday ended with tours around the town square by local architects show- ing a brewery created within an existing building, a revitalized ice cream parlor, the Silver Dollar bar renovation, and the recently preserved down- town block of green space surrounded by local Jackson establishments. Attendees met in the center of the Town Square to tour the following: • Cafe Genevieve Block (135 E Broadway Ave) - by Adam Janak, AIA • Roadhouse Brewing Co. Pub & Eatery (20 E Broadway Ave) - by Katherine Koriakin • JHDrug (15 E Deloney Ave) - by Jamie Farmer, AIA and RyanWalters