 Earth to AIA: All Systems Are Go
Looking for a way to view architecture like never before? To see how the AIA’s Blueprint for America is helping shape the community of tomorrow? To visit America’s Favorite Architecture up close and personal? On Tuesday, April 24, the architecture community and the public will be able to do all these things through an AIA strategic partnership. Check your inbox for a personal invitation into the virtual world of architecture on April 24. 
 Architecture Week Takes Center Stage in DC and NYC
Architecture fans of all ages joined AIA Washington D.C. Chapter member Mary Kay Lanzillotta, AIA, (left) for a neighborhood walking tour on “Family Day,” April 14, the culmination of Architecture Week. Participants then regrouped on the American Center for Architecture Campus for a fun-filled afternoon of constructing a miniature city’s worth of buildings (not to mention some very architecturally inclined paper hats!) on the Octagon lawn. Meanwhile, the day before, celebrations centered on New York City to rededicate a plaque on 111 Broadway, the site of Richard Upjohn’s office a sesquicentury ago. Then, dinner at Delmonico’s, the same restaurant at which—150 years previous—the 13 founders of the AIA celebrated the creation of the Institute.
 ASLA Selects 38 Award-Winning Projects
The American Society of Landscape Architects on April 9 announced the 38 recipients of its 2007 Professional Awards, selected by jury from more than 500 entries. ASLA will present the awards on October 8 at their annual meeting in San Francisco. For photos and descriptions of all the winners, visit ASLA’s Web site. Pictured here is Olympic Sculpture Park, a Design Award winner by architects Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, with landscape architect Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, for the Seattle Art Museum. This project has the distinction of being sited on Seattle’s last undeveloped waterfront property–an industrial brownfield site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. The design connects three separate sites with an uninterrupted Z–shaped “green” platform, descending 40 feet from the city to the water, and rising back over existing infrastructure. (Photo © Paul Warchol.)
 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) |
