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  AIArchitect This Week—July 22, 2002

Check Out These Two Newsletters by AIA Architects
New York's Jerry Laiserin, FAIA, offers a weekly email about technology-aided practice, business, and life in general (pretty much in that order); California's Michael Strogoff, AIA, brings us the monthly Negotiating Strategies, to "provide essential negotiating information to the architecture and engineering professions." Full Story

Federal Commission Approves D.C. Design and Security Plan
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on July 11 approved a security plan that advocates say secures and beautifies building perimeters in the nation's capital. The measures include integrated, custom-designed hardened furniture that ranges from light fixtures to bus shelters. Full Story

HONORS AND AWARDS
Shouldn't the Best Teacher You Know Receive the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion?
Nominations are due October 25. You can nominate candidates for the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, awarded jointly by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to architecture education for at least 10 years and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students. (By the way, guess which school has the most recipients?). Full Story

Firm Reveals Six Proposals for WTC Site
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners and its partners released six design schemes for the World Trade Center site, each of which includes space for a permanent memorial, culture centers, office buildings, and retail venues. Full Story

BEST PRACTICES
Get a Firm Transition Plan Rolling
Frank is 55 and looking 10 years ahead to retirement. He knows it's time to start planning now to set up a firm transition program, along with his architecture-firm partner Frances. This case study from Architect's Essentials of Ownership Transition describes how they began developing a plan. Full Story

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  This Just In

Boney Receives Presidential Citation
The AIA conferred a Presidential Citation July 1 on Leslie N. Boney Jr., FAIA, a Wilmington, N.C., architect. Presenting the citation in Wilmington on behalf of President Gordon H. Chong, FAIA, was President-elect Thompson H. Penney, FAIA, shown here (left) with Boney; Gretchen Penney, AIA; and Lillian L. Boney. Some 50 AIA North Carolina members were on hand to honor Boney, whom the citation (in part) characterized as " . . . Outstanding citizen, gifted school planner, bright ornament of his profession and always a consummate gentleman."

PROJECT WATCH
Cable Company to Construct Multiuse Campus Outside Paris
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), New York City, in association with SRA Architectes, Paris, has been selected as design architect for Canal + Village, Louveciennes, a proposed 1.3 million-square-foot low-rise corporate campus to the west of Paris near Versailles. Full Story

Texas Loses a Miracle Worker: Carl Jackson "Jack" Greene, AIA
Carl Jackson "Jack" Greene, AIA, IIDA, widely admired and beloved Texas architect, lost his valiant battle against cancer on July 14. He was 57. Full Story

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