Young Architects Forum of Atlanta

more chairs for people

support this awesome FLUX installation if you can in any way. it will bring more ‘seats’ to our city and we all know we need some.

E/B Office, the practice of Yong Ju Lee and GSAPP faculty member Brian Brush, is in the final leg of their Kickstarter campaign to realize their winning entry for this year’s Freedom Park Project in Atlanta, a pavilion of 400 simple woden chairs arrayed in a wave. 

*read more about the project here

*if you feel like donating some money, ikea chairs, screws etc… click here

10up-2012 winners announced!

Congratulations Tim Frank and Chip Clark!

Honorable Mentions:

Circular Knit - Brian Peters - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dynamic Terrain- Rachel Dickey and April Tann- Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Runner Up:

Signal Box- Nicholas Ho and William Liow, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Check out all finalists here

Emerging Architects YAF Summit

by Deepika Padam

As we, at the American Institute of Architects’ Young Architects Forum (AIA YAF) www.aia.org/yaf celebrate our 20 year anniversary, we find ourselves at a critical moment regarding the future of our chosen profession. Every day and too often we hear talk about losing a whole generation from the practice of architecture. Though new grads have the highest unemployment rate, the situation isn’t much better for those who have been around for a while, whether they’re going through the licensure process or are already licensed architects. And the hidden resentment of those who do have jobs is growing; they see a bleak outlook for their immediate future. This emerging professional group is clearly a victim of the economic downturn. So, with YAF’s focus on architects licensed less than 10 years, we decided it was time to get a handle on this sad situation.

Earlier this month 65 young leaders headed to Washington DC from all directions of the nation. The YAF Summit20, taking place just prior to the AIA Annual Grassroots Leadership Conference, was organized by the AIA National YAF Advisory Committee to dig into the issues facing the new generation of practitioners. We wanted to know what YAF and the AIA can do to help, and what our action plan should be for the next five years and beyond. YAF summits are held every five years and it was intriguing to see that the top three issues from Summit15 (mentorship, leadership, and fellowship) did not appear in the top six issues of the Summit20. We have a lot of work to do!

check out the entire article here

It is with heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of Jeremy Smith. He passed away on Tuesday after a motorcycle accident in downtown Atlanta. We have lost a bright member of the Atlanta architecture community. We will be releasing a formal statement in remembrance of Jeremy in the coming days, but we wanted to share information about the funeral arrangements for those of you who knew him.

Funeral services will be held Sat., March 24, at 11 a.m. at New City Church, 3355 Old Jonesboro Road, Fairburn, Ga. Donations to support the widows and orphans, as Jeremy felt called to do, may be made to the Foster Care Support Foundation (www.fostercares.org), or to the missionary work of Jeremy’s cousin in Peru: Bryan Davis, Global Consulting Group, P.O. Box 7254, Waco, TX 76714. Carl J. Mowell Funeral Home, Fayetteville-www.mowellfuneralhome.com.

10up on the Beltline- Are you ready for the challenge?

10up is an annual competition hosted by AIA Atlanta, Young Architects Forum and Modern Atlanta. We’re calling on designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! This year Modern Atlanta and YAF Atlanta are teaming up with Atlanta Beltline Inc. to create a temporary installation on the Atlanta BeltLine

Kemp Mooney. Constructions, 58 years in Architecture and Other Comments

Kemp Mooney, the architect and the educator, is an influential part of the art and architecture scene in Atlanta and beyond. Mooney graduated from Clemson University and received his Master of Architecture from Yale University before he was 25 years old, and presented at the Venice Biennale in his early 30s. He is known for stating, “This is the hand that has shaken the hand…” of many important personalities of his time and our time (Paul Rudolph, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Venturi, Steven Holl, and Rem Koolhaas to name a few). Through his extensive studies, travels, and amazing library, he is a delightful storyteller, artist, and architect. 

Mooney has influenced the life and careers of many of his students in the last 40 years. His devotion to education goes beyond preconceived parameters. If you haven’t traveled to New York with the architecture map conceived and drawn by Kemp Mooney, then you haven’t really been to New York. It is a map, and an experience, that should be patented and published.

Constructions, 58 years in Architecture and Other Comments is a retrospective of the work of Kemp Mooney so far. The exhibition will open this Wednesday, March 14^th, 2012 at Southern Polytechnic State University. 

Date: March 14^th, 2012

Time and Place:

Lecture/ 5pm/ I-Building Auditorium (Design Bldg 2)

Reception/ 6.30pm/ N- Building Architecture Gallery

In case you missed it…

The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta), a program of the American Institute of Architects Atlanta, is pleased to announce the third Annual competition entitled 10Up. We’re calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! This year Modern Atlanta (MA) and YAF Atlanta are teaming up with Atlanta Beltline Inc. to create a temporary installation on the Atlanta BeltLine.

Each year MA (Modern-Atlanta) hosts a celebration of architecture and design with a week of events in and around the city of Atlanta. This year the executive directors and founders of MA have once again asked the YAF Atlanta to create a competition for a temporary outdoor installation which will act as a beacon for this week of events. The structure is to be installed before and operational during the MA 2012 “Design is Human” events, currently planned for May 26-June 10, 2012. The project is not only to accentuate the series of events organized by MA, but will also be an event of its own celebrating young talents exhibiting their work to the public.

The Winning Submission will be built and published!

Visit the yafatlanta.org/10up for more details, and register for the competition at AIA Atlanta.

creative mornings atlanta

If you haven’t attended one of creative mornings yet, I highly encourage you to go, not only they have great (free) lectures but also great coffee. Today, the guest speaker was photographer Zack Arias. He wasn’t just a creative speaker he was an inspirational one appealing to a great range of creative fields. If you didn’t attend you should check out his video here

A bit more about creative mornings (in Atlanta and around the globe)

CreativeMornings is a monthly, free breakfast lecture series, started by swissmiss (swiss-miss.com) in NYC. The Atlanta chapter is hosted by Blake Howard (matchstic.com/blog).

Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings/Atlanta are free of charge!

Be the first to know when r.s.v.p’s open up, follow CreativeMornings/Atlanta on twitter! twitter.com/Atlanta_CM

Flickr Photos 

All of the Atlanta Talks on Vimeo

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Michael Arad (WTC Memorial) Lecture at GATECH

Michael Arad, the architect behind the World Trade Center Memorial will be discussing the memorial’s design this Wednesday Feb 1st at GATECH’s Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium.

image from: architizer

Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012(6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
Location: Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium

‘Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad’s memorial to those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, opened to virtually unanimous rave reviews recently.

“Reflecting Absence” is a serene, public space for collective contemplation and remembrance. Two 30-feet deep reflecting pools create footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. The names of the 2,983 people whose lives were lost are etched across bronze panels surrounding the two pools. The placement of each name was determined through family requests and a complex algorithm in order to recognize personal connections among the departed.

The memorial was dedicated on the 10th anniversary of the attacks in September 2011. An accompanying Memorial Museum and pavilion are expected to open in September 2012.

In the eight years since his vision was selected out of 5,201 entries from 63 nations, Arad has revisited Georgia Tech on multiple occasions and will once more to share his experiences with students, faculty, and alumni.’ - gatech, school of architecture

For more information about this lecture click here

We had a great time at EV 11!

Emerging Voices 11 was a great success. The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) was our host this year and we had amazing food from wow food truck, a great evening overall!

We announced the winners for our 48hr competition and our new book MASS is now for sale ($10.00) If you are interested please send us an email to communications@yaftatlanta.org

Check out all event photos here