Architecture for Humanity Launches Mobile HIV/AIDS Clinic Competition
Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit organization promoting architectural and design solutions to social and humanitarian crises, announced its Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic Design Competition May 1. For this international competition, architects are asked to develop designs for a "fully equipped mobile medical unit and HIV/AIDS treatment center for use specifically in Africa." Full Story

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
AIA President Gordon H. Chong, FAIA, shares an article from Business Week, about which he says, "I cannot recall being more excited by a media story." Full Story

PROJECTS OF NOTE
Design Sometimes Is "Child's Play"
The DuPage Children's Museum, Naperville, Ill., started out as anything but an exhibition for young people. Peter J. Exley, Architect, and Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Architects Planners Ltd., transformed the building—originally the site for a commercial lumber company—into an inviting place for exploration and learning. Full Story

2002 AIA Education Honor Awards
Two courses that offer a "hands-on" learning approach and one that stimulates thought and discussion about the social aspect of architecture received the top AIA Education Honor Awards from the AIA Educator/Practitioner Net. Full Story

BEST PRACTICES
Playground as Catalyst for Community Development
The Girard Street Playground was a symbol of despair in 1998. With blind alleys and abandoned buildings handy for evading the law, the one-acre site had become a hangout for drug dealers. Then came three murders in a row. The community wanted to do something. A local planning and design firm showed them how. Full Story

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Photographer Amy Lamb Connects the World of Flowers to Architecture
The AIA headquarters building is awash with the wondrous beauty of giant flowers, courtesy of an exhibit titled "The Nature of Architecture: The Photography of Amy Lamb."

The artist, who pursued a career in biology before becoming a photographer, contrasts images of flowers with images of famous buildings to study parallels of form and structure. "As a photographer, I revel in the architecture of the natural world as seen through the form, structure, and beauty of a seemingly simple natural structure—the flower," Lamb wrote in her artist's statement for the exhibition. "Are there connections between the world of nature and the cities of man, between flowers and architecture? I hope to suggest that there are." Lamb's exhibition, sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation, opened May 2 and will be on display until July 26 during the AIA's regular business hours. For more information, call Curator Linnea Hamer, 202-626-7372, or visit the artist's Web site.

It's Not Too Late to Take Part in the 2002 AIA National Convention
The 2002 AIA National Convention and Expo will be in Charlotte, May 9 to 11, and there's still time to join in the building and design industry professionals' mainstay event for education, information, and innovation. Click here for a whirlwind tour through the highlights. Full Story

GSA Offers Design Excellence Opportunity to Build New U.S. Courthouse in Nashville
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is pleased to announce a Design Excellence opportunity for the selection of an architect/engineer team to design a new U.S. Courthouse in downtown Nashville. Full Story

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