 Happy Earth Day: COTE Top Ten Green Buildings
Jury also selects four honorable mention projects
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) announces their selection of this year’s Top Ten examples of sustainable projects that protect and enhance the natural environment. The selected projects address significant environmental challenges with designs that thoughtfully weave architecture, technology, and natural systems. This year’s COTE Top Ten include a model single-family home, sustainable master plan and library, two nonprofit headquarters, a school, and a water treatment facility that doubles as a park. In addition, public education of sustainable practices was a key component of most projects. 
 American Center for Architecture Opens, Kicks Off Architecture Week
In the first public event at the AIA national component to kick off Architecture Week, AIA President RK Stewart, FAIA; Executive Vice President/CEO Chris McEntee; and American Architectural Foundation President Ronald Bogle, Hon. AIA, dedicated the American Center for Architecture campus April 10 in Washington, D.C., then invited attendees into the AIA headquarters building for the opening of the America’s Favorite Architecture exhibition.
Clinton Introduces Zero Emissions for Federal Buildings Bill
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced the “Zero Emissions Building Act of 2007” on March 29. The bill, designated S. 1059, closely follows the AIA’s model legislation for federal buildings that served as the Institute’s principal “ask” during February’s Grassroots Capitol Hill Day. The bill requires that all new and renovated buildings owned or leased by the federal government meet an immediate energy efficiency reduction of 50 percent of the average energy consumption of similar federal buildings in operation in 2003. In 2010 the requirement would increase to a 60-percent reduction and increase by 10 percent at five-year intervals into the future until carbon neutrality is reached in 2030. For more information, read this week’s Angle, the Institute’s newsletter on government and analysis.
 For Whom the Polls Toll
Favorite buildings through the decades
R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA, 1981 AIA president and 2007 Kemper Award recipient, has done some comparisons of “favorite buildings” polls done in 1885 and 1976 and the AIA150 Favorite Americas Favorite Architecture poll completed this year. For good measure, we have added a 1991 survey conducted by the AIA Memo. We thought you might find the results interesting, and we thank Vosbeck for sharing his findings with us.
 Meet the 2007 Candidates for AIA National Office
Candidates for 2008 office delivered their initial campaign statements at the 2007 Grassroots and Legislative Conference on February 8. From the left, the candidates are:
Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA (First Vice President)
Peter Arsenault, AIA (Vice President)
Clark Manus, FAIA (Vice President)
Hal P. Munger, FAIA (Treasurer)
David Brotman, FAIA (Vice President)
Michael Broshar, FAIA (First Vice President) |
