June 2009 Enewsletter
This E-newsletter keeps fellows in the know about each other's professional lives. It includes new job titles, recent publications, current projects, conferences, symposia, lectures and other events involving fellows.
See Fellowship Events for upcoming conferences and lectures featuring past and current Loeb Fellows.
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Announcements
Results of Loeb Alumni Survey
In April 2009, the Loeb Fellowship Alumni
Association (LFAA) hired Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall,
Inc. (DHM), a well-respected independent, non-partisan public opinion
research firm, to conduct an online survey with Loeb Fellowship alumni
members. The LFAA office emailed alumni members a URL to the survey
which was hosted on a secure DHM website.
Dear Friends,
The results of our online survey are in.
On behalf of all of us on the LFAA Council, thank you for your terrific response. 208 of the alumni responded. We only had valid e-mail addresses for 329 alumni so that means we had a staggering 63% response rate.
Below are links to two documents:
- “LFAA Online Survey – Results” – This is a 6 page document that shows the quantitative results.
- “LFAA survey – answers to open-ended questions” – This excel document has 11 tabs and includes the verbatim responses to all of the open-ended questions.
I hope you’ll take the time to read at least the first document.
The second document is long, but it was fascinating reading for me for me. In particular, the answers to question #5 (“How, if at all, did your experience in the Loeb Fellowship program impact your life?”) were powerful.
Thanks again for your thoughtful answers.
Best wishes,
Ed McNamara
LFAA President
SURVEY
RESULTS
ANSWERS TO OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS
Events
Gordon Binder, LF 80, exhibiting drawings at 14th Street Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Gordon Binder's work will be part of a group show, The Line Forms Here, at Gallery plan b opening on July 22 and running through August 23, 2009. Gallery plan b is located at 1530 – 14th Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C. Binder's drawings in black ink feature jazz and classical musicians, egrets on Sanibel Island, an Italian landscape, and New York City taxicabs (these last with a burst of brilliant yellow!). The inspiration for drawings come from Binder’s travels, with one from a Sunday concert at Washington’s Phillips Collection. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, July 23, 2009 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Example of Gordon Binder's work
James Brown, LF 09, participates in architecture exhibit, "Mix: Nine San Diego Architects" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
James Brown and his practice, Public, joins eight other architecture firms in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla. The show runs through September 6; admission: $10; $5, seniors and military; free to visitors 25 and under.
Publications
Alumni News
Andrew Altman, LF 99, to head 2012 legacy in London
Andrew was named as Chief Executive of the new 2012 legacy delivery company which will lead on securing lasting legacy for the Olympic Park. Andrew will lead the new company which the Mayor and the Government agreed to establish to maximize the legacy opportunities from the Olympic Park site. His role will include overseeing the creation of thousands of new homes and jobs, world class sporting, educational and cultural facilities as well as the largest urban park created in Europe for 150 years.
Julio César Pérez Hernández, LF 02, leads 2009 Havana Harbour Charrette
Thirty architects, landscape architects, planners, and designers from Australia, Europe, North America, and Cuba recently came together for the third Havana Harbour Charrette. The charrette is organized by the Cuban and Norwegian Chapters of the Council for European Urbanism, and it is conducted with the support of both Cuban and International organizations. The purpose of this, and the previous two charrettes, is to bring together members of both the international and Cuban design community to propose strategies for implementing the concepts of "A Master Plan for XXI Century Havana."
For additional information:
www.johnpilling.net/Havana_Harbour_Charrette/Home.html
Alumni Council Grant Program
Loeb
Alumni Association Grant Reports 06-09
During this year's Annual
Alumni Council meeting, Vice President, Charles McKinney presented
a report (link below) of the Alumni Council funded grants. The report
includes brief descriptions of each of the projects that were funded
by the Alumni Grant Program from 2006-2009.
Loeb Fellowship Alumni Association Grant Program Report
American Academy in Rome seeks Director
Reporting to the President in New York, the Director provides intellectual and managerial leadership for all the activities and programs of the Academy in Rome. the Director manages a culturally and linguistically diverse staff of approximately 40-50, with direct reports from the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, the Drue Heinz Librarian, the Executive Secretary to the Director; the Assistant Directors of Operations, Properties (Properties is a joint report to the President in NY), Finance (Finance is a joint report to the Vice President for Finance and Administration in NY) and the Executive Chef.
IFF Seeks Vice President of Real Estate Services
IFF (formerly the Illinois Facilities Fund) is a not-for-profit community development financial institution serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The new vice president’s key task will be to double the real estate consulting department’s Chicago-area business and revenues to $2.3 million by 2012 while planning for and initiating an active consulting practice in IFF’s broader five-state region. The successful candidate will be a strong leader with strong business skills. She or he will have a minimum of 10 to 15 years’ experience in consulting, community development, real estate development and finance, and management, and an M.A. in finance, business, planning, architecture, or other relevant field.
Seeking Hosts for Outreach Events
Outreach Activities:
As a result of our outreach events this fall and last spring we have
a diverse applicant pool for the current application cycle including applicants
from a number of cities where we have no Fellows or very few Fellows, and
a set of strong applications from people of color.
We are delighted that our ongoing efforts are yielding strong applications. But
our work is just beginning. We would like to continue this trend
into next year and in the years ahead. Personal connections and encouragement
from Loeb alumni have been the most powerful tool in attracting strong and
diverse candidates for the Fellowship. Loeb alumni can be of assistance
to the general outreach efforts and in our diversity outreach by nominating
promising applicants whom you believe would make excellent candidates for
the fellowship, and by hosting an outreach dinner or event to introduce candidates
to the program. We welcome participation from all of our alumni.
We invite you to take a look at our Diversity link (located
on left hand menu of Loeb Fellowship home page at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/).
The Diversity page contains profiles of alumni/ae Fellows from a variety of
backgrounds who share their personal stories about their time as a fellow,
and ways in which their professional lives were affected after the Fellowship.
If you have any suggestions concerning minority and or general outreach
efforts, contact Jim Stockard at stockard@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.5988 or Sally Young at syoung@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.9345.
Thanks for your efforts.
Searchable Database
Send updated contact and career information, including key search words and job description, to Sally at: syoung@gsd.harvard.edu, 617.495.9345.