A resource for the construction industry. Link

The company I am with would like to know how to become involved with the preparation of plans for the reconstruction of the Hurricane Katrina area. We have been specializing in residential design for more than 30 years. I am the one who was given the responsibility of obtaining and making contact with the powers to be concerning the reconstruction.

I am having difficulty in locating individuals who will be overseeing this gigantic project. No one seems to be in charge of this phase of the aftermath of the hurricane.

Can some one direct me in the right direction?

Bart Bevins
Reno, Nevada

We are working on getting contact information on all of our students. Please e-mail me at cstiebl@bellsouth.net with your name, address, phone #, cell #, e-mail address, emergency contact name and number.

Peggy Messina,Director of Academic Affairs

A tragedy far beyond imagination has occurred; people's lives have been permanently displaced and their since of place has been lost. It is amazing and uplifting to witness the effort that many groups such as the Red Cross are providing but what can our profession offer beyond monetary support? Our place in society is to provide solutions to social and cultural problems. Is this not a call to arms for all architects?

A macro analysis of New Orleans and the surrounding areas reveals the need for strategic planning to rebuild their cities. Urban planning strategies will be crucial to revitalize the community that has been lost. Is this a tabula rasa? Maybe, maybe not, but there will be a need for our profession to step up to the plate and provide ideas and conceptual infrastructure to revitalize the cities lost to the sea. How big can we think?

The single human life is our cultural building block and unforeseen numbers have lost their place in the world. They have lost the most basic necessity. They have lost their home. Even the dead have no place to go. Thousands have perished and will need a spiritual place to rest. Should this be our call to help and lend money and labor as well as solutions? We should memorialize those who have perished in this unprecedented calamity. We need to house the souls of the dead. And as for the living, thousands of people sleeping in putrid conditions are with out homes. Can we provide creative solutions for temporary housing and communities so people can regain the since of dignity that comes along with having a place of one's own?

This is the eleventh hour for those suffering and it is necessary to give what ever aid that can be offered. Money and volunteer service are critical components required to rebuild the lives of those lost, but there is also a need for ideas and solutions to guide money and labor. If it is our basic duty as an architectural profession to provide place for people, then I wonder if we can develop an open design forum to guide the rebuilding process - to help those lost find a place of their own?

David W. Crabtree II
999 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, FL 33145 Suite 915
t: 305.569.1381 f: 305.5691334
www.david.crabtree@perkinswill.com

Perkins + Will Ideas + buildings that honor the broader goals of society

I live in Los Angeles, CA, and am able to care for several pet dogs displaced by the hurricane disaster. I am particularly interested in caring for pets on a temporary basis until their owners can be reunited with them. I have a home with a secure backyard which offers lots of room to play and also shade trees. I will take excellent care to canine family members. I can accomodate Great Danes and other large breeds if needed. Email contact: vjkarlan@hotmail.com

My condominium association in Bethesda, MD owns two two-bedroom, one-bath apartments that we can make available rent-free for up to six months. We will furnish to suit. Units are suitable for family of three or four. Within walking distance of DC Metro (subway) system, local schools, stores, and all services. Can also help find positions with architecture firms in DC Metro area.

Michael Tardif, Assoc. AIA
mtardif@aiadc.com
301-787-9694

Have accomodations available in Northeast Ohio. 440.338.3253

Design Observer has launched a "Katrina: Designer News & Resources" section to help designers from New Orleans and the Gulf States. Suggestions and links welcomed. http://www.designobserver.com/

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has posted a list of offers for placement of Tulane architecture students, faculty, and staff. Visit http://www.acsa-arch.org to go to the listing. The page will be updated twice daily for at least the next week. 40+ schools are listed so far.

Michael Monti
ACSA

The Hammons School of Architecture, Drury University located in Springfield, Missouri can accept up to fifteen students and one faculty member in the school. Students can be of any year. Student housing and assiatance for faculty housing is available.Contact Michael J. Buono, Director, at 417-873-7288.

If you have been displaced to the Springfield, MO area, my husband and I have an extra bedroom and bathroom that we can offer. If you are in need, email me at hlentz@pphae.com

I am an architect based in Culver City (Los Angeles area AIA chapter) and I also work in Hawaii. There is a home I have designed for myself that will be shipped to the site in Hawaii in a 40' shipping container. It is constructed of steel and foam SIP's with a small bit of light gauge steel framing. Mostly it is meter-wide panels that make walls and roof. The finished product is a two bedroom house with carport, lots of storage (the reused container), an outdoor screened porch, a library loft, and an integral water tank to catch and hold water to support the family. With solar water and electrical panels the house is entirely off-grid and self-supporting.

The plans are currently in plan check in Hilo, Hawaii. The home is designed to resist hurricanes, and be cool in the heat, and permanently termite proof.

I can send pdf plans to disaster victims or relief agencies to rebuild Katrina damaged areas.

John Maloney,AIA
john@jm-architect.com
www.jm-architect.com
Culver City, CA 90232
310 204 4749
310 562 0362

The co-founders of The Architect's Newspaper have a spare room in Tribeca for any architecture student (preferred female) that is taking a spot in a NYC area school from effects of Katrina. Can also help with placement at NYC area architecture schools. Please send an e-mail to ddarling@archpaper.com

To anyone who has evacuated north to Philadelphia, I have a sapre room in my house for anyone either looking for work or taking advantage of Penn's offer to assister in education to those students displaced.

kidach2000@msn.com

A group of architecture faculty around the country have volunteered to help Tulane students enroll in courses this semester.

Unfortunately, dean Kroloff does not have a list of students available to him.

To aid in the process, I am asking all students to email me their names, year in school, contact info, and where they are interested in attending classes.

If you are already situated, please let us know. If you have contact info for your classmates, please send it.

I can be reached at marinehart@earthlink.net

AIA Houston has compiled a list of firms and individuals offering jobs, space and housing in the Houston area. Contact barrie@aiahouston.org for more information. WE will have our listings on our website on Tuesday.

From: National Office

Please circulate this information with your faculty and staff, as appropriate.

We wanted to send a brief update on ongoing responses among our membership to the hurricane disaster in the Gulf region. ACSA's national office is working with our counterparts at NAAB, AIAS, NCARB, and AIA to share information and coordinate efforts. We expect a coordinated and more public response from the five architectural organizations, but at a minimum we think that it is best to start with sharing information. Read on...

Dear family, friends and colleagues,

Alongside my teammates at LearnAboutWine.com we present to you Taste: for Hurricane Katrina Relief fund, LA to La. Taste, the winetasting, will be this Friday night September 9, 2005 from 7-10pm on a studio lot here in Los Angeles. The price is a $100 donation which will support the Louisiana Relief Fund.

This event will include Harry Shearer, our host for the evening, 100 wineries, 50 restaurants, a DJ, a VIP tent for corporate sponsorship, and a silent auction tent. The silect auction items will benefit the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Relief Fund.

Please join us in any capacity for this spectacular event, which will be announced on Larry King on Monday night.

To Volunteer: email April@LearnAboutWine.com

To Sponsor or Donate to this event: Supplies, Equipment: email Douglas@LearnAboutWine.com

To add your restaurant to this list contact Tim Smith at winesurfer@hotmail.com

To add your winery to this event - contact Diane@LearnAboutWine.com

PR - email Libby Gluck - libby@genesispr.net

Most of all please come!!!

Thank you
Sabrina Lupero

In a radio interveiw the mayor of N.O. made a very good suggestion that one of the most important things (the public) can do in response to the Katrina disaster is to write your elected officials to support/demand more governemtn action and accountability.

To write your congressperson:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/
http://www.senate.gov/

It doesn't have to be long, short & sweet is probably better; it will take you five minutes. And try to get as many people as you can to call/write.

I can't offer a job, but I have a guest house w/ small bathroom, kitchenette, and living room. Very comfortable and private. Perhaps use while looking for work locally or in the Northeast. Located outside Hartford, 2 hours from both New York and Boston.
peter@ernstarchitect.com

Displaced Architectural/Engineering/Construction firms are in need of office space, supplies, and places to live while they begin the job of rebuilding their city.

They are looking for compatible firms that have resources that they could borrow while they recover, they especially need work space, computers, phones, copiers””essentially, a corner of an office.

We have set up a database to help link firms with resources that they could share with displaced firms: http://katrina.gouldevans.com/

Katrina Aid from the AIA has more info on volunteering, corrdinating help and other helpful links.

If you are a blogger (that's right, this means you) or you have an internet site, how about alerting the architecture & design world that they can help in whatever way they can and can start by visiting this page you're reading. Thx!

AIA Dallas would like to help those architects who are not able to return to their hometowns for employment. Click EMPLOYMENT for a list of Dallas/Fort Worth architecture firms that are offering temporary employment to displaced architects of hurricane Katrina. http://www.dallasaia.org/