AIArchitect, June 11, 2001


	June 11, 2001

	AIA NEWS Save $75 on the New AIA Handbook: You know you'll need it—so order it now! A Letter from the CEO: Koonce outlines 2000 financial summary and a plan through 2003

	CONVENTION NEWS AIA Business Report of Business Session: Delegates Vote for Ad Campaign Dues Assessment, Separation of ARE into Two Parts Penney Elected President Gatsch, Hopkins, Kodet Named VPs Steidl Elected Treasurer Theme Presentations Stamberg Addresses Creating Community Libeskind Offers Visual and Verbal Feast of Work at Friday's Theme Session Calatrava Enthralls Architects with Prodigious Display of Awe-inspiring Work Theme Panels American Cities and Suburbs: Big Trouble Ahead? New Urbanists Look to Regional Planning Designing for the Future: Urban Thinking for the 21st Century Honors and Awards New Fellows Investiture Ceremony 2001 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award presented to Cecil A. Alexander, FAIA Gold Medalist Presentation: 2001 recipient Michael Graves, FAIA Charles Harper, FAIA, Receives the 2001 Kemper Award Glass Temple in Japan Garners Top 2001 DuPont Benedictus Award Economics Leading Economists Review Regional and National Trends Expo Members' Voice: Which Expo2001 Exhibit Is Your Favorite? Opening Night Party Special Events Mount Saint Vincent Home Offers a Legacy of Hope 2001 Fun Run: "Run Your AIA Off" Continuing Education How to Get Tapes

	INDUSTRY NEWS UIA Supports Kyoto Protocol Attracting High-Tech and Big Bucks "Masters of the Building Arts" Star in This Year's Folklife Festival Go Wild! Design and Donate a Mask to Benefit the WWF District of Columbia Requests Proposal for New Neighborhood Development

	GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Rep. Granger Comes to AIA Headquarters NFPA Still Developing a Model Building Code

	ECONOMICS It's a Consensus: Slow Growth for the Rest of the Year, 2002 Work-On-The-Boards Survey: Architects Business Unmistakably Improves

	MARKETPLACE RESEARCH Resident Fellow Richard W. Hobbs, FAIA, Reports from the Heartlands

	PRACTICE Why Green Buildings Should Yield Productivity Benefits

	PIA NEWS Professional Practice News Update AIA Continental Europe Finds Treasure in Spain at Biannual Meeting, April 27–29

	POINTS OF VIEW The Editors Reflect on the Convention in Denver

	MEMBERS Promotions \| News \| Moves/Firm Moves

	PROJECTS OF NOTE • Fitch/O'Rourke House, Washington, D.C., by Robert N. Gurney, AIA • Pratt Architecture School Restoration, Brooklyn, N.Y., by Rogers Marvel Architects PLLC

	OPPORTUNITIES Classifieds Calendar Directory of Services


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	Herman Miller To Sponsor Intern Architects at Chicago Cardiac-Care Conference Herman Miller for Healthcare will sponsor 10 intern architects to attend the "Architecture of the Heart: Current Trends in Cardiac Care Design" conference, sponsored by the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) October 10-13 in Chicago. Full Story Graves Graces AIA Headquarters As a member of the AIA Gold Medal/Architecture Firm Award Advisory Jury, Michael Graves, FAIA, was in Washington, D.C., June 13. Full Story

	This Week

	National Housing Commission Asks for Input The U.S. Congress recently created the Millennial Housing Commission to make recommendations about housing policy, especially with respect to affordable housing. Full Story Congress May Take Public Work Away from Private Firms There is legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives that would effectively take all federal public-sector design work away from private firms. Full Story Project of the Week Krueck & Sexton Helps Herman Miller Deliver the Goods in Style Krueck & Sexton Architects have elevated Herman Miller's 25,000-square-foot flagship showroom in the Chicago Merchandise Mart to the "status of an exhibit gallery" through innovative use of glass, beginning with a 200-foot-long exhibit wall of sand-blasted, faceted glass panels that playfully skirts around displays. Full Story Federal Procurement News The federal government is in the process of replacing two icons of federal procurement. Full Story Hillier Group Hosts Congressmen, Business Leaders More than 50 representatives of design- and construction-related associations and other business leaders gathered at the Washington, D.C., office of the Hillier Group June 7 to meet and greet three U.S. representatives. Full Story

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