AIA CONSENSUS CONSTRUCTION FORECAST
After Rocky Year for Construction, Forecasters Anticipate Rebound in 2003
According to our panel of experts, commercial/industrial recovery coupled with continued growth in institutional activity points to improvement in business conditions at architecture firms. Full Story

AIA Honors Lincoln Memorial's 80th
On the 80th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, Commission of Fine Arts Secretary Charles Atherton, FAIA, laid a wreath on the steps of the historic edifice, which he called "one of the finest buildings in the entire city" of Washington, D.C. Full Story

Plan for World Trade Center Site Development Moves to New Phase
Cleanup of the World Trade Center site officially ended Thursday morning, marking the culmination of a nine-month recovery effort to search for remains of the people who died during the terrorist attack on New York City's Twin Towers and to clear the area of the devastation and debris. Full Story

Planning and Design Conference 2002: Essential Partners in Patient Care
The AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) gives us a great example of a professional interest area with much to offer its members. The following article appears on the new AAH Web site, which was launched in HTML format on May 17. Full Story

"Ameri-Can" Winners at the Sixth Annual Canstruction® Competition
Ameri-cana won the day at the sixth annual CANSTRUCTION® Competition May 8 in Charlotte just prior to the AIA national convention. Many entrants designed powerful icons that paid homage to the tragic events of September 11 or represented cherished American symbols. The American bald eagle, U.S. flag, New York Big Apple, baseball, Converse sneakers, and a classic American breakfast were chosen as the winners from a field of 270 local city winners that went on to compete internationally. Full Story

BEST PRACTICES
Negotiation Is a Skill You Can Learn
Negotiating can be fun for both you and the "other," a term the author uses to reference the other person with whom you are negotiating. This is true only if you use negotiation, not to align words on paper, but to align energies for project success. Full Story

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Things You Wished You'd Learned in School
Architect's Essentials is a newly launched series of affordable handbooks on the business aspects of professional practice. "Created especially for architects and design professionals," publisher John Wiley & Sons claims. One might argue that the principles in the first three offerings—on negotiation, ownership transition, and cost management—are applicable to any firm of professionals. Full Story

Honors and Awards 2003 Program Deadlines
Whose work do you most admire? It's time to think about nominating your friends, colleagues, mentors, or maybe your own work through the AIA's honors and awards program. Full Story

FROM THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE
Getting from Here to There
Gordon H. Chong, FAIA, evaluates the AIA's recent progress in being "nonlinear." Full Story

Summer Calendar Now Available
"Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family" is the subject of a new exhibition presented by the National Building Museum and the American Architectural Foundation at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., from now through August 18. On June 10, from 6:30–8:00 p.m., J. Carter Brown—son of John Nicholas Brown, director emeritus of the National Gallery of Art, and chair of the Commission of Fine Arts—is scheduled to offer a lecture at the museum on the significance of Windshield and his family's life in the Fisher's Island, N.Y., house. For more information, visit www.nbm.org. For a listing of this and other current calendar events, click here.