SAR “Design Fitness” Conference Shapes Up for October 4–7 in Chattanooga
AIA North Carolina, AIA South Carolina, AIA Georgia, and AIA Tennessee proudly invite you to the 2006 South Atlantic Regional (SAR) Conference, October 4–7 in Chattanooga. The triannual conference, themed this year as “Design Fitness: Livable Healthy Communities,” will feature keynote speakers Jeremy Harris, Hon. AIA, former mayor of Honolulu; Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, adjunct professor of environmental health, UC Berkeley; and Edward Mazria, AIA, renowned architect and energy specialist from New Mexico. With continuing education opportunities and tours galore. “Design Fitness” offers fresh opportunities to get your practice in shape. For more information or to register, click on the link to any of the states above.

IFRAA to Explore “Where We Believe What We Believe”
Join the AIA Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture for the October 26–28 “Where We Believe What We Believe” educational symposium in San Diego and La Jolla. The symposium will explore the astonishing advances in our understanding of the human brain in the past century and how they point to a new direction for the architecture community. Keynote speaker and nationally known neuroscientist Andrew Newberg will set the tone as he highlights his groundbreaking neuron-imaging research into the nature of the religious experience, detailed in such books as Why God Won’t Go Away and Why We Believe What We Believe, to be published this fall. For more information or to register, visit the IFRAA Web site.