Enjoy These Free Educational Offerings from Your AIA

Summary: For one week only, visit AIA eClassroom to take a one-hour online course, “The Ecology of Worship,” and earn one AIA Continuing Education System learning unit (HSW). Also available—now and into the foreseeable future—is a new eClassroom page with more than a dozen 15-minute moderated, taped discussions by some of today’s leading minds in architecture on topics ranging from Feng Shui to building information management.

“The Ecology of Worship”
Take “The Ecology of Worship” (course TH6406), free through Thursday, September 21, courtesy of the AIA online continuing education resource, eClassroom.

This one-hour course, assembled from tapes of a popular AIA 2006 National Convention program, offers one HSW AIA/CES learning unit. Instructors Kevin Burke, AIA, William McDonough + Partners., Charlottesville, Va., and James D. House, AIA, House & Robertson Architects, Los Angeles, examine the lessons learned from working on the Fuller Theological Seminary Worship Center, which integrates environmental design strategies with the seminary's dynamic, diverse, and evolving character.

The course explores how the Worship Center design meets the spiritual and functional needs of the seminary, providing a place of both solitude and community and a place of silence and performance, all in the name of worship. Lessons include integrating ecological design and design for worship and performance spaces, creating spaces with a range of acoustical performance (acoustically wet to acoustically dry), and combining daylight as an element of wonder with ambient and performance lighting strategies.

Podcasts available at no cost on AIA.org
Tap into conversations anytime, on-line at the new AIA PodNet. Listen to 2006 AIA Gold Medalist Antoine Predock, FAIA, as he explains his concepts of the choreography of architecture. HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, explains that internationally acclaimed firm’s success with integrated practice. Other topics include leadership, residential landscape, sustainable design, recent industry developments, and technology and humanism in architecture.