Design for Aging Review Call for Entries
Online submissions due August 22
The AIA Design for Aging and the American Association of Homes and Services invite you to submit your projects for consideration for the Design for Aging Review competition. This biennial competition showcases facilities that improve quality of life for the aging while exhibiting innovation in their design and execution. Projects that are recognized for outstanding achievement will be exhibited at the AIA national convention in Boston and the AAHSA annual meeting in Orlando. These designs also will be included in education programs and the upcoming 9th edition of the Design for Aging Review companion publication. Design categories include: Building, Planning, Conceptual Design, and Research/Post Occupancy Evaluation. Submissions are due August 22. For more information about the competition or its new online submission process, visit the Design for Aging Web site. (Pictured is the Maravilla senior housing community, Santa Barbara, Calif., by Mithun, from the current Design for Aging Review. Photo © Architectural Photography Inc.)

IFRAA Fall Conference
Spiritual Space and Spirit of Place: Pietro Belluschi and the Northwest
Join the AIA Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA) Knowledge Community for their fall conference August 15–17, in Portland, Ore., where they will explore the works and influence of Pietro Belluschi, who started designing spiritual spaces in Portland in the 1930s and reactivated that interest in the late 1970s. This conference will focus on the creation of contemporary religious places that respond to cultural, contextual, traditional, and spiritual forces. The group will visit Belluschi-designed churches and a prize-winning contemporary example that exhibits both regional and Belluschi influences. Visit the IFRAA Web Site for more information or to sign up. (Pictured is Portland's St. Matthew's Lutheran Church by Belluschi, one of the conference's tour sites.)