On Thursday, Feb. 9th, the Chapter held our first “House of Cards” / Connect + Create event. A huge thank you to 2022 Allied Director Steve Jones of designTECH for inspiring the event, and to the following 10 firms who participated:
- Aedis Archiects– Stackin’ The Deck
- Lionakis– Ace, Ace, Baby!
- JK Architecture Engineering
- Flint Builders
- HMC Architects– High Magnitude Cards
- Dreyfuss + Blackford– Card ShArchs, Dreyfuss + Blackjack
- DesignTECH Interior Design Services
- Nacht & Lewis
- CJS Lighting– Bare Naked LEDs
After networking, updates on Emerging Professional activities planned this year, Chando’s Tacos and beer from Bike Dog — each team was assigned one of Sacramento’s “iconic buildings” and was challenged to build it out of playing cards and a small stash of “supplies”– in under an hour. Projects were judged based on how recognizable they were, design execution/scale, use of materials and team collaboration.
Many thanks to Board Vice President Cody Carpino, AIA for serving as our judge. With so many amazing builds, it was a difficult decision, but the “Dreyfuss + Blackjack” team, with their re-creation of The Governor’s Mansion, ultimately took the winning prize.
