Nuevo Park’s Dental Clinic Celebrated its Ribbon Cutting on May 7th!
It was a beautiful day for the inauguration of the Jay Hoffman Youth Dental Clinic in honor of Dr. Hoffman’s teaching of the children of Riverside County and his work as Superintendent of Nuview Union School District.
San Lorenzo Unified School District
We are starting Design Development on the San Lorenzo Unified Measure O projects. This includes additional science labs for several campuses as well as a new Digital Arts Studio for the BADA Arts program at San Lorenzo High School.
Office News
Last month Gaylaird gave a presentation on “The Impact of Green Initiatives on Student Learning: Non-Financial Reasons for “Going Green” at the Illinois Association of School Business Officials Conference. He discussed ways to use “green schools” as teaching tools which reinforce the class curriculum. Students learn about the environment through the relationship of their school facilities and the world.
On a Personal Note….
She’s having a baby!! Congratulations to Rachel and Billy on their upcoming parental adventures. The baby is due in December and we are very excited for both of them.
We wish Sasha all the best while she finishes up her Masters in Architecture, complete with a research trip to China. We miss you!
dreamTeam Education Symposium
What a wonderful weekend - very busy, interesting and recorded for posterity! If you weren’t able to join us, but are interested in listening in on our discussions we have video of our activities below. These videos are also available on Google Video.
Introduction
What a wonderful weekend - very busy, interesting and recorded for posterity! If you weren’t able to join us, but are interested in listening in on our discussions we have video of our activities below. Gaylaird Christopher, A4E, introduces our vision, purpose and President Obama’s call to “…transform our schools…”.
Speaker Stephanie Pace-Marshall: The Power to Transform
Ms. Pace-Marshall asks and answers the question “What would it take to create a generative, life-affirming system of schooling that liberates the goodness and genius of all children, and ignites the creative power of the human spirit for the world?”
Environments That Teach
Dennis Roney, A4E, leads the dreamTeam Symposium to develop a ” Pledge < P> to Act?. This will be published shortly.<>
Thanks to Everyone!
We would like to thank all of our participants, speakers, assistants that made this dreamTeam Symposium a reality. Keep an eye our for our updated website that will include even more information that we show here. Please forgive any technical difficulties where the microphone didn’t make it to the questioner!
A4E Blog gets updated!
We are pleased to bring our Blog to the fore, and will make a concerted effort to make these monthly updates truly monthly.
Dream Team Symposium
We are so excited to host our inaugural Dream Team Symposium and look forward to uploading video, images and documentation of the event. Keep visiting the A4E blog for more info!
Projects Progress
As usual we have a variety of projects in various stages: Colusa County Education Village and Rialto Science Labs are both in DSA review; the NuView Library & Administration is in construction and coming along nicely; and the Lewis Center for Movement is at the exciting brainstorming stage.
Oops
Things have been so busy we completely missed June and July is almost over but it’s been a fun summer so far!
SLZUSD Measure E Renovation & Renewal
Construction is moving right along for the three highschool projects at San Lorenzo. Drive by the campuses and you’ll see our project signage on proud display. Thanks again to the San Lorenzo Community for making this project possible.
Carolyn Wiley Child Development Center
After a beautiful opening ceremony, the Center is in its final steps towards getting closed-out by DSA. The kid friendly design is being looked into by First Five of California to become a prototype for future child development centers; we are so proud.
This exciting partnership with Lewis Homes is getting getting reviewed by DSA. We’ll have approval by this fall!
Nuevo Dental Clinic
For the Riverside Economic Development Agency we’re wrapping up CD phase of a dental clinic that will serve the children of Nuevo. Reading and writing aren’t the only skills to teach our children; good health and hygene are very important too!
Wathen Education Center
We are currently in schematic design for a 400-student high school geared towards aviation for the historic Flabaob Airport in Riverside. It is just one part of the larger masterplan to create a community that revolves around aviation, community outreach, education and history.
The ACE Mentor Program for Pasadena Unified
Last night we enjoyed a wonderful banquet honoring the work of our ACE students. All the team’s projects were on display and we were able to see the work of other schools in the program. It’s quite interesting to see the various interpretations of Emergency Shetler. About 10 Pasadena students recieved the ACE scholorship and will be attending various schools for Architecture, Construction and Engineering. We are very proud of them.
SLZUSD Measure E Renovation & Renewal
The Bid Award goes to Arntz Builders. Construction will begin shortly with a busy summer ahead of us.
Round Robin
We decided that we’re not spending quite enough time with one another, so we set up a series of round robin social events. Rachel kicked things off at her place with a party lasting till 3am. Laura is next on the list and we look forward to the musical musings of Misplaced Priorities.
The ACE Mentor Program for Pasadena Unified
Each group is finalizing their Emergency Refuge Design and is starting on the final model. We are also visiting a construction site to see Design in Action as well as speak with a few tradespeople about their craft.
SLZUSD Measure E Renovation & Renewal DSA Approval
The bid period begins with a mandatory job walk on April 3rd.
CEFPI Southwest Conference
Dennis and Gaylaird recently spoke at the CEFPI conference here in Los Angeles
The ACE Mentor Program for Pasadena Unified
The students continue to work on their year long ACE project. Four teams are designing emergency housing that would sit on their football fields after a big california earthquake. They are researching sustainable ideas, structural systems with a little anthropology thrown in. Just last week students visited the offices of KPFF (http://www.kpff-pas.com/) to learn about how structural engineers work.
SLZUSD Measure E Renovation & Renewal DSA Back Check
The team is excited to be wrapping up SLZUSD drawings for the DSA back Check appointment.
Woodleaf Outdoor School
Sutter County Schools is being donated a large swath of land from a local lumber company to construct a permanent home for their outdoor school.Gaylaird is going to join the festivities and present the Phase One Design Concept.Visit www.woodleaf.org to learn more about the organization.
Herget Middle School Wins Award
We are pleased to announce that Herget Middle School is the Grand Prize Winner for the 2007 National School Board Association Architectural Jury. Last year Greenman Elementary (name sound familiar) recieved the grand prize; this is the first time that one school district has won two years in a row, especially with buildings designed by the same architect! We can’t help but be proud. Thanks again to Sherry Eagle for all her hard work.
We are wrapping up a very busy year!
Our holiday contribution this year went to Read to Feed, a program of Heifer International. Through Read to Feed we are helping hungry people all over the world. We are empowering kids to be a part of hopeful solutions to our tough global problems! It you want to know more, visit http://www.readtofeed.org/
The team has been furiously working on a small book titled “A Child Learns: an A4E story”. It will delve a little deeper into
the A4E mission and will be complete early next year.
We have projects at various stages of completition from Pre-Design planning through Construction. Our clients have been integral to making
the process exciting and productive, kudos!
Our A4E team has changed over the year, but the passion for great educational architecture remains. We welcomed Alice to our family
and look forward to Rex joining us after the new year.
The ACE Mentor Program “Big Project” this year is Emergency Housing. It is a timely project to introduce our Pasadena High School Students to
the tough times experienced by people in our country and around the world. The students are excited to work on the design and are using their winter break for brainstorming and research….well, we hope they are :)
The office will be closed from Dec. 25th through Jan. 2nd. We hope you are enjoying your holidays and look forward to seeing you again next year!
Yet another award for Greenman Elementary School!
Greenman is recieving the Award of Distinction at the 2006 Exhibition of Educational Environments during the upcoming Joint Annual Conference of IASB, IASA and IASBO in Chicago. For more information concerning the conference visit http://www.iasb.com/jac06/
October has become very busy, and it just started!
The ACE Mentor Program for Pasadena Unified
This program introduces public high school students to the world of Architecture, Construction and Engineering by providing afterschool meetings in conjunction with a few weekend activities.Scholarships are also given to students who choose to enter an ACE undergrad or apprenticeship program.We have been involved with the program for a number of years now, but this will be our first year as Co-Leader’s of the Pasadena Unified Team.Visit http://www.acementor.org/ and watch our team’s progress in the California/LA Metro Chapter over the school year.
SLZUSD Measure E Renovation & Renewal DSA Submittal
The team is excited to submit the SLZUSD project to DSA for review.We believe there are some really interesting design and education items that are included and this is a big step towards our spring ground breaking.
Woodleaf Outdoor School Land Donation & Phase One Kick Off
Sutter County Schools is being donated a large swath of land from a local lumber company to construct a permanent home for their outdoor school.Gaylaird is going to join the festivities and present the Phase One Design Concept.Visit www.woodleaf.org to learn more about the organization.
LaFornaretta Leaves Pasadena
We are sad to learn that LaFornaretta, a classic in Pasadena cuisine and dear friend close to our hearts, will be closing up shop this week.Where or where will we get those delicious meatballs?We wish Cesare and his family all the best.To learn more about the restaurant and Cesare’s story visit www.lafornaretta.net
Visitors from Chiba University
A4E was please to meet with students and faculty from the Faculty of Engineering at Chiba University, www.chiba-u.ac.jp.
We took a brief tour of the new Southeast Area New High School. We then visited the existing Camino Nuevo Charter High School facilities as well as their new campus that will be completed this fall.
LA Dodgers Baseball Game
The office took a night off to enjoy a baseball game. It was the only dull game in a series of exciting victories, however we all had a great time eating dodger dogs, cotton candy, cracker jacks, ice cream…perhaps our next office outing should be at the gym.
Gaylaird will be leading a 3 hour Pre-conference workshop on Saturday, September 16th entitled “Partnerships Make $cents” at the CEFPI 83rd Annual Conference in
With regards to Clients and Partnering, it is agreed that the community is best served when agencies and institutions combine their resources in order to better serve their constituents. District 129
We are too excited to wait, though the formal announcement isn’t until next month -
Feather River Academy has recieved the Design Share Honor Award. This is the first award for Feather River Academy and A4E would like to thank the design and construction teams, the students who took part in the design process and the Sutter County Superintendent of Schools. The district’s commitment to its students was the driving force behind our work.
Herget Middle School has won the Design Share Merit Award, also its first award. A4E was pleased to work with Cordogan & Clark, our design team partners, and gives special recognition to former superintendent Sherry Eagle.
Position Description & Responsibilities:
As an intermediate architect you will produce schematic design, design development and construction documents under direct supervision of the Project Architect within a team environment. You will prepare design drawings, sketches and models, as appropriate, researching code, accessibility and other regulatory requirements for the project. You will assist/lead design team coordination as well as assist during the construction phase by researching technical or contract document questions, responding to RFI’s and the processing of Shop Drawings
Qualifications:
3 to 6 years of architectural experience
A Bachelors’ or Masters’ Degree from a leading architecture program.
Recently licensed or a goal to become licensed.
Experience on public projects located within California
Experience in higher education and K-12 projects
Proficiency in AutoCAD/Architectural Desktop,
Microsoft Office suite, and Adobe Creative Suite2.
A good understanding of design and construction documents.
Knowledge of different construction types and building systems
Good written and oral communication skills
Accuracy and speed are essential qualities.
Letter of interest and resume:
Architecture for Education, Inc., 46 Smith Alley, Suite 200 Pasadena, CA 91103 Fax 626.356.3080
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A4E is wrapping up a busy summer:
Rubidoux High School is going out to bid. The Carolyn Wiley Child Development Center and King Estates Middle School are both in construction. Designs for SLZUSD Measure E, Jurupa K-8 and the FlaBob Airport are in progress.
However, we can relax to “Ladies Sing the Blues” every friday night at One Colorado, Old Town Pasadena
A4E is proud to announce that Greenman Elementary School has recieved the following awards:
Architectural Portfolio 2004:
Work in Progress Citation
Learning by Design 2005:
Grand Prize Award for Design Excellence
DesignShare 2005 Design Award:
Merit Award
2005 Impact on Learning:
Effective Classroom Design
2005 National Search for Excellence (Knowledge Works Foundation):
Finalist
AIA Inland California Chapter Design 2 Awards 2005:
Merit Award, Built
2006 NSBA Exhibition of School Architecture:
Grand Prize Winner
2006 Education Design Showcase by School Planning & Management:
Honorable Mention for “Outstanding Architecture & Design in Education”
A4E would like to wish Miriam well on her journey to the midwest and welcome new members to our team: Miguel, Stephanie and Haley. We’re excited to have them with us.