2009 - 2010

NCARB BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Louisiana Tech graduate Blakely C. Dunn, AIA, NCARB, El Dorado, AR is now serving on the NCARB Board of Directors. The NCARB Board of Directors is a volunteer board of 12 architects, one public member, and one executive from a state board. Each region selects regional directors, Member Board Executives select the MBE director, and the public director is nominated by Member Boards and selected by the Board. Officers are elected each June at the Annual Meeting and Conference by our Member Boards. All terms begin on July 1 and end on June 30 each year.

Blakely C. Dunn, AIA, NCARB, El Dorado, AR, has been a member of the Arkansas State Board of Architects since 1999, and served as its president from 2002-2006. He has served on several NCARB committees, including the Committee on Education, Broadly Experienced Architect Committee, Regional Chairs Committee, Committee on Procedures and Documents, and the 2007 Practice Analysis Task Force. Prior to being elected to the Board of Directors in 2007 as the director of the Southern Conference (Region 3), he served as chair of the conference from 2005-2007 and secretary. He also previously served a two-year term on the board of directors of the Arkansas Chapter of the AIA.

Dunn is president of CADM Architecture, Inc., a 10-person, 73-year-old architectural firm in El Dorado, AR, specializing in educational, institutional, healthcare, and senior living design. He is a 1985 graduate of Louisiana Tech University, an NCARB Certificate holder since 1989, and is licensed to practice architecture in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Wisconsin.



Tuesday, September 29th
6:30PM
Wyly Auditorium

Michael Hughes is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas and principal of the Fayetteville-based firm Catovic Hughes Design, will present a lecture entitled "School/Work."

Michael Hughes worked in the offices of Richard Meier and Frank Gehry before starting his own design practice. Hughes’ residential designs have won state and regional awards from the AIA. His design for a Louisiana home was one of four selected nationally to receive the 2006-07 Faculty Design Award from the ACSA. His “Trailer Wrap” project, executed while at the University of Colorado, earned a 2008-09 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. Hughes’ design work has been documented in Architectural Record, Dwell and This Old House; his essays have appeared in Oz Journal.

Further information about Mr. Hughes can be found at:
http://www.mlhughes.com/ http://www.catovichughes.com/



Guy W. Carwile wrote an article about the former Jack Tar Motor Hotel in Galveston that was featured in CITE, the Architecture and Design Review of Houston, Volume 77. The article discusses the history and significance of the Jack Tar, a humble tourist court built in 1940 that became the crown jewel of the nation-wide Jack Tar chain and also the "showcase" resort of the Texas gulf coast by the mid 1950's.

Sung Ho Kim
co-principal Axi:Ome, St. Louis
Assistant Professor at Washington University

"Myth Towards Practice"

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
Wyly Tower Auditorium
free and open to the public.

“Axi:Ome, LLC, derives from the crossing of two Latin words: axiom and forme. [The firm] engage[s] in architecture as research: a mode of representation directly interfaced into social, cultural and economic influences....Architects are on the edge of performance and material opportunities with the developing digital operations that allow for increased participation in the building process. We encourage technological conditions that enable freedom within [the firm’s] design choices, and [they] believe that original work in today’s climate involves a spirit of collaboration where unique opportunities preside over individual authorship.”

A recent monograph of the firm’s work, entitled Spatial Practice, was recently published by ORO Editions.

Further information about Mr. Kim and Axi:Ome can be found at:
http://www.axi-ome.net/