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Navigating the Economy

CONSENSUS CONSTRUCTION FORECAST
Recovery for Nonresidential Building Activity Expected to Stall, But Growth Projected for 2012
The AIA Consensus Construction Forecast panel expects a decline of 5.6 percent this year in nonresidential spending for buildings, followed by a modest 6.4 percent recovery next year.
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Design Matters

URBAN RENEWAL
RecoveryPark Offers Fresh Start for Detroit with Urban Farming
Once seen only as emblematic of the decline of American industrial cities, many believe that acres of vacant property in Detroit can yield healthy food, jobs, and hope for the city's future.
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Image courtesy of Andres Martinez Casares

DISASTER RECOVERY
Podcast: Two American Architects in Haiti Find 'Hope and Resilience'
"The hope for Haiti is in its people," says Stacey L. McMahan, AIA, who is completing a year in Haiti as the Architecture for Humanity Sustainable Design Fellow for Haiti sponsored by the AIA and the USGBC. Says Eric J. Cesal, Assoc. AIA, who lives in Port-au-Prince: What architects are learning in Haiti about disaster recovery "will be applicable just about anywhere—this is about as hard as it gets."
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MUSEUM EXPANSION
$79 Million Renovation Shows wHY Sum of Parts is Greater than the Whole
The challenge for Los Angeles-based wHY Architecture's design for the Speed Art Museum of Louisville: knit together "a conglomerate of fragmented spaces" created over decades of renovation and expansion.
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Coming Up in AIArchitect

Photo by CORSINI courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Fallingwater and Taliesin Celebrate Milestones, Join the Online Discussion
AIArchitect's Sept. 23rd issue will mark Fallingwater's 75th and Taliesin's 100th anniversaries. Join the online conversation right now with other AIA members on LinkedIn.

WEB EXTRA
LMN Architects Vancouver Convention Centre West
2011 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture Recipient
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	Take Five By Robert Ivy, FAIA
	Listening to You Read what the AIA's EVP/Chief Executive Officer learned from architects from his native state of Mississippi, as well as in the Institute's own backyard, during his travels around the AIA this summer. Read more>

	News and Resources JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
	Career Center \| Featured Jobs \| Navigating the Economy
	Apply for the AIA Emerging Professionals Knowledge Scholarship by Aug. 19
	RFQ: Lansdale, Pa., Madison Parking Lot Redevelopment
	RFQ: North Charleston, S.C., Architectural Services
	Competition: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Student Design Contest
	Competition: The Architectural League of New York's Greatest Grid

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AROUND THE PROFESSION
	DC NOMA to Host 4th Annual Minority Architects Awards
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	Submit Your Work for the Hurricane Engineering Conference by Sept. 9

MEDIA SCAN
	Business Insider: These 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Landmarks Could Soon Be World Heritage Sites
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