Where Energy, Currency, and Memory Intersect
Reminder: Early registration deadline is November 1
During the AIA Minnesota convention November 17–19 in Minneapolis, the AIA Committee on Historic Resources and Committee on the Environment will gather with University of Minnesota College of Design students and faculty and preservation partners from across the country to host the “Energy, Currency, and Memory: Sustaining the Value of Historic Resources” symposium on historic preservation and sustainable design, tour local architectural landmarks—Cass Gilbert’s Minnesota State Capitol, the Mill City Museum, Jean Nouvel’s Guthrie Theater—and recognize the excellence and academic achievement of the 2006 student winners of the Charles E. Peterson Prize. For more information or to register, visit the conference Web site. (Pictured is the Mill City Museum by Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle. Photo © Assassi Productions.)

Plan Ahead:
23rd World Congress to Take Place in Turin, Italy, June 28–July 3, 2008
The International Union of Architecture (UIA), representing the world community of architects, has a rendezvous in Turin, Italy, June 28–July 3, 2008, for the 23rd UIA World Congress. Under the theme “Transmitting Architecture,” this global platform will explore how architecture communicates and is communicated as participants explore “architecture as a transmitter, a vector for urban democracy and civilization, a means of representation, exchange, and diffusion.” The CNAPPC (National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservators—Italy) will oversee the organization and management of the congress, which will take place in the Lingotto, once the main Fiat factory and now a convention center designed by Renzo Piano. For more information, visit the congress’s Web site.

Visionaries Wanted to Imagine a City of Tomorrow
The History Channel celebrates its new series Engineering an Empire with a design competition. “The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge” will be held in three cities—New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles—and is open to architectural design teams nationwide. With support from the AIA, The History Channel is seeking eight design teams nationwide to compete alongside a nationally recognized group of designers in imagining the city of the future. Deadlines are coming up, so check the AIA Web site now for more information.