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The
AIA Bookstore is offeringto AIA members only-a special prepublication
price for the 13th edition of The Architect's
Handbook of Professional Practice on all orders placed before August
31.
The Handbook, which will ship late this summer,
will retail then for $250. The prepublication special price is $175. This
price applies only to AIA members and is available only through the AIA
Bookstore.
Paradigm shift in
thinking
This new issue of the Handbook,
which has been in publication for 80 years, significantly updates the
12th edition (published in 1994) to address the challenges of rapidly
advancing technology, explosive growth of information, an expanding global
economy, and intense market competition.
Most significantly, the new edition explains the
practice of architecture as a knowledge-based and service-oriented endeavor.
Successful firms recognize that clients find value in the wisdom the architect
provides, not just the construction documents. To explain the emerging
redefinition of client/architect relations, the 13th edition begins with
a new section devoted to understanding client motivation, thinking, processes,
and values.
Chapters in the 13th
edition fall into four sections:
Client, Exploring how clients are motivated, how they think, what
they value, and how architects can build stronger relationships with existing
and new clients
Business, addressing support functions vital to architectural practice
Delivery, presenting processes that define, obligate, and deliver
professional services
Services, profiling a range of core and expanded services with
which architects can respond to all of a client's facility-related needs,
including those beyond the design and creation of physical space.
New formattext
and CD-ROM
Compiled by a team whose collective expertise spans architecture, law,
business, firm management, marketing, and consulting, the new Handbook
comes accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains reference samples of 75 AIA
contract documents.
The new edition includes pointers that lead to related
material in the Handbook, reference
markers for related resources from the Institute, capsulized information
from the AIA Firm Survey, 20002002,
notes amplifying ideas and sources for further information, and quotations
providing insight from noted architects and other luminaries.
The Handbook
targets licensed architects with at least 5 to 10 years in practice; however,
interns, architecture students, and professionals who work with architects
also find the Handbook invaluable.
Copyright 2001 The American Institute of Architects.
All rights reserved.
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