AIA Milwaukee

5th Annual AIA MILWAUKEE BLOOD DRIVE - "ARCHITECTS ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES"

This past month on June 15th, 52 architects, design professionals, allied professionals, Milwaukee Public Market vendors and guests, high school students, and tourists donated 47 pints of blood to the Blood Center of Wisconsin. That's enough to impact the lives of up to 141 local hospital patients!

The winner of this year's competition for Highest Participation is Schroeder & Holt Architects , as they hold on to their title from last year. Your firm outpaced the competition for the second straight year with the highest participation (four people equaling 36% of their staff) with 4 pints collected. Uihlein-Wilson Architects came in 2nd with 15% of their firm donating while Kahler Slater and Plunkett Raysich Architects tied for third with 10%. Of the participating firms Kahler Slater donated 8 pints, Plunkett Raysich Architects and Milwaukee Public Market each donated 6 pints while Eppstein Uhen Architects donated 5 pints.

Thanks again for everyone who participated, either directly or helping us get the word out. Please consider donating again next year, approximately the second week in June, 2011. Stay on track by donating every two months and this drive will fit your schedule.

Special Thanks to Ellen, Dave, Tim and Paul of the Milwaukee Public Market for being gracious and enthusiastic hosts for our event. We couldn't have done it without you.

Recognition of Participating Groups:

AG Architects

Engberg Anderson

Eppstein Uhen Architects

Facility Elements

GRAEF

HGA

Kahler Slater

Madisen Architects

Marquette High School

Milwaukee Public Market

Peter Schuyler Architects

Pius XI High School

Plunkett Raysich Architects

Quorum Architects

Schroeder & Holt Architects

Uihlein-Wilson Architects

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>>Highest Participation

Schroeder and Holt is a full service architecture, design and planning firm. Our firm specializes in commercial architecture, and while we provide solutions for many building types our emphasis is in retail architecture, motion picture cinemas and offices. Our office is located in Milwaukee, WI and while we have many local projects, we have the ability to work nationwide.  Currently we have active projects in 15 states and are registered in 37 states.  Additionally, with our NCARB certification we can be licensed in the remaining states should the need arise. At Schroeder and Holt, we recognize the importance of sustainable design and have LEED accredited professionals on staff to access environmental impacts early in the design process in order to maximize efficiencies, conserve resources and reduce overall operating costs for our clients.

>>Most Pints of Blood

Kahler Slater is an interdisciplinary design enterprise of creatives who help our clients and their organizations to authentically design and deliver the experiences they promise in their vision statements.  Simply put, we are Experience Designers. Great experiences are multi-dimensional, and so are we.  We are architects, interior designers, writers, researchers, marketing and communications specialists, facilitators, graphic and multi-media designers. Our collaborative style allows us to work together with our clients to bring their visions to life. Our unique model, philosophy and proprietary approach helps our clients achieve ideal experiences, differentiate themselves in their marketplaces and generate stakeholder enthusiasm along the way. We are also a firm that is committed to our communities by being actively engaged in the betterment of society as well as our professions. In that spirit, our staff looks forward to the AIA Milwaukee annual blood drive and encourages your participation next year!

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(May 6, 2010) The Milwaukee chapter of the American Institute of Architects sponsored and developed an architectural exhibit at the Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design in Milwaukee that was open to the public from September of 2009 through March of 2010. Collaborating with The Eisner’s Executive director, Cori Coffman, her staff and numerous AIA Milwaukee volunteers, we assembled a professional museum exhibit on a very limited budget. This exhibit was so successful that we were invited to bring the exhibit to the national headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington D. C. for a showing this coming July and August.

  “Unseen Architecture: MKE” showcased creative and inspirational architectural thinking highlighting 18 local architecture firms. Like many of the creative fields, the public only sees a small portion of what was conceived. This holds true in architecture as well. For this reason, The Eisner and AIA-Milwaukee have joined together to explore the concept drawings and models and applaud the efforts of what could be.

With architecture, a building becomes a part of our urban landscape. We work and live within the walls of this creative thinking. The buildings become part of our history and our culture. They are photographed in time and written about in books. With this exhibit, we celebrate the beginning steps of the process from sketches on a bar napkin, to countless pages of renderings, to 3D cad drawings and beautifully produced models.

In architecture, it’s about the form and function of the building. How the building will stand the test of time and how it will impact a city’s landscape. Many decisions go into this process and the architect is responsible for the end result. As the public we critique theses buildings every day. Through the exhibit, the public will gain a better understanding of what it takes to produce and conceive these buildings.

The exhibit produced excellent results with record audiences, over 10,000 visitors in 6 months. Numerous events including professional meetings and multi-media presentations took place and area students were invited for free visits. Particular focus was made to the educational quality of the exhibit to promote the science and art of planning and building and increase the public’s architectural design awareness. We expect to provide similar results in Washington D.C.

Staff:
Michael S. Fortuna Assoc. AIA, Co-curator, Designer
Chair Committee on Design
Karen Plunkett-Muenster AIA
Kurt Zimmerman AIA
Cori Coffman, Executive Director, The Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design

Sponsors:
AIA Milwaukee was the primary Sponsor contributing $2400.00 and innumerable hours of volunteer time.
Co-sponsors included:
A & E Graphics
Mortenson construction
Bradley Corporation

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