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  This Week

Check out this month's Work-on-the-Boards survey in its new format, which compares national trends over a year and allows comparison on a regional basis.

Weak Business Conditions in December Hold Signs of Impending Improvement
Here's a riddle: What happens when you cross a traditionally lean month for billings at U.S. architecture firms with a national economic recession? Answer

PROJECTS OF NOTE
2002 AIA Honors Awards
• Eighteen Projects Capture Honor Awards for Architecture. Full Story
• A Dozen Projects on the Inside Track to AIA Honor Awards for Interiors. Full Story
• Four Visionary Plans Capture 2002 AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design. Full Story

Barcelona's Miro Foundation Captures Twenty-five Year Award
Fundació Joan Miró (the Miró Foundation), Barcelona's sculpturally Modern museum dedicated to its world-acclaimed Modern artist, has been named recipient of the AIA's 2002 Twenty-fiveYear Award. The award is conferred annualy on a building project 25 to 35 years old that exemplifies design of enduring significance. Full Story


Online Professional Education
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A look back at last week (delivered 01/11) and the week before (delivered 01/04).
  This Just In

Bush Signs Brownfields Bill into Law
 The AIA was rewarded for perseverance January 12 as President Bush signed into law a bill making brownfields development much easier to accomplish. AIA representatives were invited to the signing ceremony held at a former brownfields site in Pennsylvania. A special edition of the AIA's Angle, (download the PDF file) describes the opportunities for community development and the work architects can do to turn these developments into reality. (To subscribe to the Angle, the AIA online periodical on government affairs activities, send a blank email here.


EVP Koonce (left), discusses with Director Ridge and Secretary Chao a briefing book prepared for the Labor Department of the Institute's work on the issue of building security and design. Photo by Douglas E. Gordon, Hon. AIA.Labor Department Holds Conference at AIA Headquarters Building
This past week, in addition to the usual number of esteemed architects traversing the hallowed halls of the AIA headquarters building, an unusually high number of Bush Administration officials were on hand to take advantage of the great meeting facilities our building has to offer. They included White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and the full complement of appointed Labor Department officials, and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. They also conferred with AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA, on matters of concern to architects.