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HOME DESIGN TRENDS SURVEY

Special Function Rooms and Features on the Decline

During this slow recovery, sensible home offices are in, extravagant home theaters are out.

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Design



COMPONENT AWARDS

AIA Northern Virginia: Home Knows No Style

For residential architecture clients, the design of one’s own living space is a deeply personal process, resulting in homes that reflect their owners’ (and perhaps their architects’) vision and personality. It’s little wonder then, that a diverse range of residential architecture varieties were rewarded by AIA Northern Virginia this year, from traditional restorations, to edgy, urban infill.

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EMERGING PROFESSIONALS

High School Students Explore Architecture and Design Through Innovative Website

From their lockers to their school campus, DiscoverDesign.org is teaching high school students how to solve problems like an architect.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATES COMMITTEE

Prototypes: Bridging the Gap Between Representation and Production

In this slideshow and excerpt from the National Associates Committee (NAC) journal Forward, emerging professionals used a painstaking, but revelatory, series of scale models and innovative fabrication techniques to bring a small wintertime pavilion to life.

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WEB EXTRA

David Jameson Architect; Record House Revisited

2012 recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Interior Architecture.

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AIA LEADERSHIP

Take Five
By Robert Ivy, FAIA


Should Architecture Education Change?

A little less than a year away from the next NAAB Accreditation Review Conference, the AIA is asking how it can advocate for getting more architectural practice information (and practitioners) into architecture programs, and how to ensure that more students stay on the path towards licensure.

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News and Resources

  JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Career Center | Featured Jobs |
Navigating the Economy
RFQ: University of Kansas Comprehensive Master Plan
RFP: Gray, Maine, Village Revitalization
Competition: Detroit Riverfront
Competition: Rome Prize
  


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  FROM THE AIA
Advocacy: At National Conventions Obama, Romney Make their Pitches to the Country
AIA KnowledgeNet: Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation Grants Available
Adapting to a Culture of Change: Committee on Architecture for Education Conference Begins Sept. 30 in Seattle
Collaborative and Professional Achievement Awards and Honorary Membership Nominations Due Oct. 5
BIM/Digital Practice Documents Public Comment Period Ends Sept. 24
Register for “Beginners Guide to Using AIA Contract Documents and Software” Training in Washington, D.C., Sept. 21
International Architecture Seminar: Working Abroad in India—Pros, Cons and Ways Forward, Sept. 19 at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture
Visit the AIA Virtual Convention Exhibitor Catalog
Archtober: October is AIA New York’s Architecture and Design Month
AIA Florida Celebrates 100 Years, 100 Places
Attend the AIA Europe Conference in Hamburg, Oct. 18-21
  
  
  AROUND THE PROFESSION
Apply to be an Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow, Architect, or Designer
Frank Lloyd Wright Archives to Join Collections of Columbia University and the MoMA
Public Health and Design Expert Richard Jackson Honored with Heinz Award
Greenbuild Comes to San Francisco, Nov. 14-16
National Academy of Environmental Design Plans Permanent Office in Virginia; Begins Search for Executive Director
  
  MEDIA SCAN
New York Times:
Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing
Charlotte Observer:
President Obama: Harvey Gantt, FAIA, helped set course for young black leaders
Salon:
Bruce Goff—Midwestern Futurism
Metropolis Magazine:
Cities as Labs for Change
  
  
 
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2012 AIA National Convention Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |  2012 Awards Special (Dec. 9)  |  Emerging Professionals (Nov. 18)  |  Frank Lloyd Wright (Sept. 23)

  
 
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