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Last year, under the direction of President Nick Seierup, the AIA/LA Board of Directors restructured itself into four Outreach Areas for the purpose of better connecting the organization with the various communities, which affect the built environment around it. The areas are: Public, Academic, Governmental, and our Membership. Each group has been enormously successful in creating new programs to fulfill this goal, and we are happy to be able to honor one of those new programs here tonight. The Academic Outreach Committee, directed by Annie Chu, Hagy Belzberg, Charles Bernstein, Nick Seierup and Tim Vreeland, instituted the Academic Summit, which brings all the heads of the eight schools of architecture together under one roof to strategize ways to connect the AIA into the academy, and now occupies the April Board meeting. The “Beginnings” series, in conjunction with the Associates group, is a quarterly series of informal panel discussions between young practitioners and leading architects, talking about lessons learned in the early days of their careers. And tonight we are here to honor the inaugural group of students who were recognized in the first of what will be an annual event, the “2 x 8” Exhibit. 2 students from each of the 8 schools of architecture in Southern California were selected by the administration of their schools, for outstanding performance and the embodiment of the academic pedagogy of their institutions. Their work was celebrated with a wildly successful reception in June and a summertime exhibition in the newly created Architecture and Design Museum in the Bradbury Building.
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