AIA Japan Board of Directors
September 29, 2006
Meeting Minutes

• Upcoming Regional Conference in Hong Kong to be attended by Riccardo Tossani, Jim Lambiasi, and Jun Mitsui, with pending attendee Wac Kuno. Three missions for AIA Japan delegates are:
  • Informal meeting with Pacific Northwest Region
  • Pacific Northwest Region Board Meeting
  • Itsuko Hasegawa lecture (Jim to translate)
  • “Lost in Translation” Panel Discussion (Jun Mitsui is one of panel members)
• Leadership Development Scholarship to be offered by Pacific Northwest Region, for attendance to the Grassroots Convention in Washington, DC during Feb. 8-10, 2007. President to notify all members by email. Airfare and registration fees waived with scholarship.
• WAAJ and AIA Japan to hold Hisao Koyama lecture in Oct. 14 14:30 at the Kyudo-Kaikan. Attendance free for AIA Japan members. Poster and tentative plan for WAAJ 2007 Seminar Series and Building Tours are distributed.
• Newsletter to be put together before the HK conference.

• Current financial statement reviewed. Board confirms sound financial status up-to-date and decides to withhold dues increase.

• 4 new members join AIA Japan. New Hon. AIA: Itsuko Hasegawa. Lost Hon. AIA: Kazuo Shinohara
• Membership Drive: Each board member strongly encouraged to recruit one member per year.
• Member listing on Website: Members encouraged to send bio to enrich member list page.
• Corporate Affiliate category may be necessary in future. TBD. 5 affiliate members so far.

• Riccardo to ask Italian architect Gae Aulenti if she would give lecture in mid/late October. Results to be determined.
• Church designed by Wac will subject of upcoming tour for CES credit (November?).

5, Other Items

• Simplification of website structure: President suggests simplification of top page menu. Yonezawa-san to ask web designer for fee quote.
• President agreed to also fill out web contents as soon as possible
• Policy for handling miscellaneous inquiries from non-AIA members: Board votes in favor of giving secretary discretion to filter incoming inquiries, respond, and to politely declining requests not related to AIA Japan missions and activities
• Sales of AIA Documents: currently, AIA Japan is not set up to handle document requests, which are likely to be few and far between anyway. It is possible to buy single copies via fax through state chapters (Jim has done this successfully through Connecticut), and it was agreed to handle requests by offering this level of information.

• Tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 1, and will be held at a local restaurant where we can combine with bonenkai.