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  AIArchitect This Week—March 25–29, 2002

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HAPPY SPRING! A GIFT TO THE PROFESSION
Some Songs to the Stars: A Collection of Poems by Ian McHarg

Ian McHarg, one of the greatest planners of our age, left the world a legacy beyond treasure with his 1967 book Design With Nature. If Design With Nature revealed McHarg's soul, Some Songs to the Stars bares his heart through a collection of prose poems published by the Knossus Project. Full Story

Women in Architecture: Passages and Progress
Women are pursuing careers in architecture at greater rates than in previous years, but female practitioners still face an uphill battle in their efforts to find equal representation in the profession, according to the 2000–2002 AIA Firm Survey. Full Story

Work-On-the-Boards Survey
Compensation increases likely to be lean in 2002

Billings at U.S. architecture firms continued to decline in February, marking the sixth straight month that billings have dropped. However, the decline in February was by far the smallest over this six-month period, holding out hope that the downturn at architecture firms is nearing its end. Full Story

Before and after for Cooper Robertson & Partners' Newman House restoration in Greenwich Village. (Photos © Bret Morgan)Eight Housing Projects Prove "Design Counts"
"The single most important message the AIA Housing PIA can deliver through its annual awards program is that design counts," said this year's Housing PIA Awards jury members when they convened March 8 in Washington, D.C. Full Story

BEST PRACTICES CASE STUDY
Some Tips on Getting Paid for International Work
All the excitement and allure of overseas work amounts to nothing if you don't get the negotiated compensation. Here are pointers from the Architect's Handbook 13th Edition on planning ahead to make sure you have hatched eggs to count. Full Story

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Oldies and Goodies—The Best of the Convention Seminars
You know that seminar you wanted to see last year—the one that already was filled? It may be back! Check out this list for the AIA national convention in Charlotte, May 9 to 11. Full Story

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Plan Ahead: Be a Speaker at the 2003 AIA National Convention in San Diego, May 8–10, 2003
The AIA invites you to submit a presentation proposal for the 2003 AIA national convention in San Diego. Proposals are due June 17, via email.
You may download a PDF that includes complete information about speaker presentations. Download For a hard copy of the call for presentations, contact Emily Cole at 202-626-7445.

  This Just In

Florida's new designed community, WaterColor, designed by Cooper Robertson & Partners with associate architects Looney Ricks Kiss, is one of the 2002 Housing PIA Awards (see below). Photo © Arvida Non-Florida Resident with a License in the Sunshine State?
All registered design professionals with licenses in the State of Florida must now complete a four-hour core curriculum relating to the Florida Building Code and its administration and enforcement no later than June 1, 2003. Consider taking the mandatory seminar at the AIA convention. Full Story

CAE's Spring Conference Examines "The Classroom: De-evolution, Real or Imagined" Group to convene on MIT campus April 11–13
Join the AIA Committee on Education to explore nontraditional alternatives to the classroom at all learning levels from elementary school through college and beyond. Full Story

Poll: AIA National Convention, May 9 to 11
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