Honors and Awards

AIA HOUSING AWARDS

At Home with Architecture: The Best of Residential Design

These single- and multi-family housing projects offer design for people to shape their daily lives around.

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AIA/HUD SECRETARY’S AWARDS

Affordable Housing: Design for All

This year’s recipients demonstrate that public funds spent on quality design are dollars wisely invested.

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SUSTAINABILITY Q&A

An Eco-Friendly House Divided: Lance Hosey, AIA, on What Sustainable Architecture Should Look Like

Your new building is net-zero everything and located on a dense urban site. But if it’s ugly, is it still sustainable? A book by Lance Hosey, AIA, says that when you’re talking about sustainability, aesthetics isn’t a dirty word.

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EMERGING DESIGN

Katherine Darnstadt, AIA: Trial by Public Interest Design

In the depths of the recession during an eight-month span, Katherine Darnstadt got licensed, promoted, married, laid off, and pregnant. That’s when she decided to start her own firm.

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COMPONENT AWARDS

Simple Geometric Forms Prevail in Kansas City

A well-applied program in a simple, rational container never goes out of style.

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Special Issues: 2013 Awards Special (Dec. 6) |  Design for the Common Good (Nov. 16) |  2012 AIA National Convention: Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |

Back issues of AIArchitect: Mar. 8 |  Mar. 22 |  Apr. 12 |  Apr. 26 AIArchitect Archive Component Photo Gallery Archive

Most viewed content from the last issue: New COTE Top 10 Plus Proves What it Preaches New York Awards Focus on Local and Developing-World Projects Rays of Hope: Three New World Trade Center Buildings Celebrate Daylight

2013 AIA CONVENTION

Attend Awards Celebration, Enter Drawing to Win Trip to Menil Collection

Come to the June 20th Honors and Awards Celebration and enter a drawing for one round-trip ticket to Houston to visit AIA Gold Medalist Renzo Piano’s masterpiece art museum, recipient of the 2013 AIA Twenty-five Year Award.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

‘Architects Can Become the Developers of Their Own Future’

Cameron Sinclair, cofounder of Architecture for Humanity, offers a preview of his keynote speech at the 2013 AIA Convention.

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FROM THE AIA

• Advocacy: Architects Help Preserve Federal Green Building Measures in the Senate
• AIA KnowledgeNet: CRAN Book Deadline Extended—Submit Your Projects by May 17
• Check Out the May 21 Webinar: Liability of Construction Managers
• AIA Huron Valley and Univ. of Mich. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Announce Scholarships
• AIA.org Wins Webby Award
• 10 Members Declare Candidacy for AIA National Elected Offices

MEDIA SCAN

• The Hill:
  Don’t renege on federal energy efficiency commitments, by Mickey Jacob, FAIA
• Fast Company:
  Cities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And 3-D Printers
• Fast Company:
  The 10 Buildings that Changed America—And Architecture