Scenes from AIA Convention 2014—Day 1

2014 AIA President Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA (left), greets the audience with Stephen Chung, AIA, host and creator of <em>Cool Spaces!</em> All images courtesy of MattMartin.tv

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel welcomes AIA architects to Chicago, which will be the site of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial beginning in October of 2015.

AIA CEO/Executive Vice President Robert Ivy, FAIA, announces a new strategic partnership between the AIA and Houzz.

AIA Foundation Executive Director Sherry-Lea Bloodworth Botop and AIA Foundation President George Miller, FAIA, outline the Foundation’s programmatic focus on resilience, design and health, preservation, and education.

Carl Minchew, Director of Product Development for Benjamin Moore, addresses the convention. His company is a founding partner for the AIA Foundation’s five Regional Resilience Design Studios.

2014 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medalist Harrison Fraker, Assoc. AIA, urges architects to recommit to building performance through interdisciplinary design approaches.

“I want to simply ask you to search your soul and honestly ask the question: Is this profession what you really want it to be?” said 2014 Whitney Young, Jr. Award recipient Ivenue Love-Stanley, FAIA.

Performance artist, educator, and innovator, Theaster Gates speaks about the importance of seeing buildings and their neighborhoods as places where everyday aspirations play out.

Thursday Keynote speaker, Jeanne Gang, FAIA, signs copies of her firm’s book <em>Reveal</em> (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011).

Gang, principal of Chicago’s Studio Gang Architects, spoke to attendees about connecting her firm’s everyday work with its fundamental commitment to research and ecology.

<em>Chicago Tribune</em> architecture critic Blair Kamin and <em>Cool Spaces!</em> creator and host Stephen Chung, AIA, discuss balancing a commitment to architecture’s local and regional culture with the broader public interest.

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