SIAP Directors Meeting

Meeting Minutes

MEETING No: 4

The Following is the Minutes of SIAP Board of Directors meeting on 05/03/2007

Date: May 3, 2007
Location: Colorado Community Room

Present members:

Bijan Armandpour
Rosemary Shokoufandeh
Shahram Shokoufandeh
Abdi Ziai
Hashem Modjarrab
Iraj Esfandiari
David Hedvat

Agenda:

2007 programms
Education Committee Program
Rresearch Committee Program

2007 programms

#1 proposed modern architecture by Bijan,, shahram & iraj
#6 proposed to assign all this year events in a structured format: 1) architectural , 2) landscape, 3) renowned architects / speakers & 4) misc. related issues like construction & green buildings.
#5 proposed that architectural theme should be only for residential
#3 thinks that we should research about the philosophy of these architects and as a result we learn more.
#4 talked about a local architect named Ed Nile who makes models of his work first & designs next. He indicated that he could be one of our speakers.
May 14^th will be Archicad presentation where Eric BObrow (southern Ca. rep. for the software by Graphisoft) will invite many architects from different local firms to attend. The crowd normally is between 50 to 80 people. He will have a special presentation only for siap on May 31^st
#4 believes that we should emphasize on const. material & we all decided to accomplish this thru links or pages in our web site.
#1 proposed arrange a visit to a museum or art gallery followed by a dinner for members & their guests. He suggested that MOCA will be ideal on a Friday since jazz music performers have a free concert every Friday from 5:00pm to 7:00pm .
#1 & 5 will conduct an event for a new construction material, floor heat resistant, & we will have a brief presentation & showing for a young artist, Mr. Pouya Afshar.
#4 suggested that we should have at least one interior architecture presentation. #7 indicated that it will be beneficial if the speaker could embellish on the relationship between architects & interior designers when they work hand in hand on the same project. #1 indicated that he may be able to invite two people from a company called CNI that was bought out recently by Perkins & Wills.

Education:

#4 indicated that the interested members can meet w/ him every Tuesday & Thursday @ Colorado center. He will send an email to Majid to be posted on the web site.

Research:

#1 to present Jean Nouvel & IM Pei, #6 to present Zaha Hadid and #3 to present Tadao Ando. This event is scheduled tentatively for the month of July.
#6 proposed that only 3 sessions to be assigned to research program this year.

Misc.

· Posting the work of members on the website for unofficial contest. Criteria to be simple and non-binding only to encourage the members to get to know each other. The board decided to announce the criteria as follows:

1- Only one project per participant

2- All categories will be eligible

3- The work may be built or just a project

4- Submissions shall include a text of max. 250 words, max. 4 photos or renderings and max. 4 drawings.

We will have to decide on a deadline for submissions.

The Board Members approved all of the discussions above.

Next Meeting
Date: TBA
Location: Colorado Community Room

Prepared By: BA

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