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Honors and Awards
THOMAS JEFFERSON AWARDSAwards for Public ServiceThe Thomas Jefferson Awards honor James Abell, FAIA, for his contextual approach to bringing historic preservation and adaptive reuse to communities in need; Carole Olshavsky, FAIA, for her unfailing commitment to the finest civic and educational architecture; and Robert Shibley, FAIA, for urban planning and scholarship that have shaped the fortunes of an entire region. |
COLLABORATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSRick Smith, Post-Sandy Initiative, ACE Mentoring, and the National Building Museum HonoredA building design technology expert, a disaster resilience plan, a non-profit mentoring program, and an architecture museum have been honored with the AIA award for allied professionals and multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Business
WORK ON THE BOARDSArchitecture Firm Billings Rebound in the New YearFour in 10 firms expect to add new staff this year, and half expect to see higher revenue than in 2013. |
RESEARCHAEC Research Review: A Knowledge Pyramid Model for Determining TrustworthinessRespectively based on rigor and applicability, the knowledge tracks of architectural research in the academy and in practice are connected, but not identical. |
Design
DESIGN AND HEALTHIs there a Doctor in the Firm? (Or a Nurse in the Studio?)Expertise from in-house medical professionals is becoming a defining advantage for architecture firms. |
COMPONENT AWARDSAIA Maryland Awards Celebrate The Glass CubeAs either a centerpiece or appendage, glass cubes have been a standard unit of architectural form since the advent of Modernism. |
WEB EXTRACannon Design Architects, St. Louis Public Library Central Library Transformation and Restoration2014 recipient, Institute Honor Awards for Architecture. |
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Connect with the world’s brightest architects, designers, innovators, and provocateurs at AIA Convention 2014, June 26–28, Chicago. |
REPOSITIONING THE AIA
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HANDBOOK OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Individual Chapters Now Available OnlineIndividual chapters of the 15th edition of The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, released in January, are now on sale exclusively to members in the AIA Store. The latest edition of the handbook focuses on cutting-edge practice topics like financial management and public interest design. |
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE HISTORYThe History of The Architect’s Handbook of Professional PracticeThe first edition of the handbook was largely the work of former AIA President Frank Miles Day, FAIA. His untimely death in 1918 delayed the entire project for two years. |
SOCIAL MEDIA
Julia Morgan’s AIA Gold Medal: History Etched in StoneLast month, artist Ann Hawkins chiseled the name of the first ever female AIA Gold Medalist on the Gold Medal stone wall in the lobby of the AIA National component. |
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN
CRANtv: The Practice and Process of ArchitectureA Repositioning the AIA Innovation Fund Grant, the AIA’s custom residential knowledge community presents a series of short videos that walk clients through how to best work with their architect. |
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