March 9, 2007
  AIA150 at the Convention: Part Celebration, Part Education, Part Legacy
Throughout 2007, the AIA is celebrating the AIA’s 150th anniversary, marking the milestone by “Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future.” To take part in the celebration at the AIA national convention, visit the AIA150 booth on the Expo floor, where you can view the America’s Favorite Architecture exhibit, which is making a stop as it tours the nation in 2007 and 2008. There you will also have the chance to vote for your own favorite building. At the AIA150 booth you can also take a walk through the Institute’s history, view the preliminary results of the Blueprint for America initiatives, and peek into the future in the National Associates Committee-sponsored exhibit, AIA175.


New Practice Management Podcasts Present Knowledge Transfer and Leadership Transition Info
Want to gain some useful professional knowledge in a fun and easy way? Try the new AIA Practice Management podcasts, which are downloadable to your mp3 player, desktop, or laptop from the AIA PodNet: the Architecture Knowledge Review Podcast Series. Programs are free, about 15 minutes long, downloadable with one click of the mouse via XML, iTunes, and MP3. (So easy a fossil over the age of 30 can do it.)

best practices
Innovation as Improvisation
What would you call a person who can take something with a known use and employ it in an entirely new way; recognizes a need and designs an effective solution? Most would say “inventor,” “originator,” “innovator,” or “creator.” But how about “improviser”? The skills that make improv-theater participants successful, says Izzy Gesell, are the same ones on which innovators rely.

 

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