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 buildingoriginally the site for a commercial lumber companyinto
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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