Together the ADC, Georgia and Atlanta chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Georgia Tech have initiated the Regional Archive Program. These groups have realized the pressing need to create an expanded archive of significant architecture and other design documents and objects in order to record the culture and history of architecture and related fields in Georgia. The archive will afford opportunity for research and for the organization of exhibits, lectures and other activities centered around the collection.
The Peachtree Way exhibit opens May 7th and runs through May 27th. This is the first fruit of a partnership between ADC, the Georgia Tech Library, AIA Atlanta and AIA Georgia to promote Georgia's design heritage through expanding the efforts made to identify and preserve important archival documents. I encourage all of you to check out the great documents and amazing architecture on display at Georgia Tech's College of Architecture Stubbins Gallery. That's in the "old" architecture building above the auditorium for all of you Tech people out there.
We hope this excites you as much as it does us, and if it does, please reach out to us to volunteer or contribute. You can reach me at nathan@koskovicharchitecture.com.
Jody Thompson
Jody Lloyd Thompson is the head of Georgia Tech's Library
Archives and Records Management department. She's held this position for 7
years and was the former Visual Materials Archivist. Thompson actively promotes
the archives on the Georgia Tech campus, as well as in the city of Atlanta. She
and the late Doug Allen were instrumental in transferring Georgia Tech's
College of Architecture Heffernan Archives to the Library and bringing more
awareness to its research value to faculty, students and the public.
In 2010, Thompson was the president of the Society of Georgia Archivists. She holds a BA and MA in History from Georgia Southern University.
In 2010, Thompson was the president of the Society of Georgia Archivists. She holds a BA and MA in History from Georgia Southern University.
Jack Pyburn, FAIA
Jack Pyburn, FAIA is a principal in the Historic
Preservation Studio at Lord Aeck Sargent in Atlanta. Raised in north Louisiana,
his professional journey started at Texas A&M. He got his first job in
architecture from Mark Hampton, of the noted Sarasota School of architects, in
Miami, Florida. Subsequently, he spent 10 years in St. Louis that included
graduate school in Urban Design at Washington University and working with a
young multidisciplinary firm, Team Four on urban and environmental issues throughout
the Midwest. In 1980 he moved to Atlanta as a principal with EDAW and started
his own firm in 1984. After 25 years of having his own historic preservation
focused architectural firm he joined his practice with Lord Aeck Sargent in
2007. He is currently Secretary and a director of DOCOMOMO/us and a past chair
of the AIA/Historic Resources Advisory Group.
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