BOOK REVIEW
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, by Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED-AP, and Gail Vittori, LEED-AP (2008, John Wiley & Sons)
Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED-AP, and Gail Vittori, LEED-AP, a health-care architect and a sustainability specialist respectively, have teamed up to present their professional peers with a thoughtful and engaging presentation of forward thinking health-care design destined to change the way we practice. The authors pooled their advance knowledge and expertise in a tried and true format near and dear to architects’ hearts: the case study. They selected 50 case studies, supplementing wide-ranging essays, to illustrate the best example of green health-care design through the gamut of health-care building types.

New Cancer Center Designed with Community Input
The new Don & Dana Meyers Cancer Center in Seymour, Ind., was designed by Indianapolis-based BSA LifeStructures with the input of the town’s 20,000 local residents. The $9.2 million center is a freestanding building on a tight site on the campus of the Schneck Medical Center. The local community wanted the new cancer center, which opened earlier this fall, to offer radiation and medical treatment in one building, as opposed to having patients travel for radiation treatment. BSA LifeStructures met this goal by giving the community its own treatment facility. The community raised $4 million for the center. Warm colors, local art, a nature theme, and natural light create a holistic, soothing environment to make patients and families feel comfortable.

AIA St. Louis Invites You to Enter the AIA Photo Competition
Entries due March 1; must be submitted electronically on a CD this year
AIA St. Louis is once again pleased to host the AIA Photography Competition, open to all architects actively registered in the U.S., AIA Associate members, and AIAS members or student members with any AIA chapter. The top 15 entries will be exhibited at the AIA 2008 National Convention in Boston, May 15–17. These entries, plus some 40 additional images selected from all submitted, will be featured in a 2009 engagement calendar. (A complimentary calendar will be provided to each entrant whose image(s) are selected.)

2008 Walter Wagner Forum Issues Call for Papers
Submissions due January 23
Students, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit papers on the role of architecture schools in service to society for the Walter Wagner Forum at the AIA National Convention in Boston, May 15-17. In accordance with the convention theme “We the People,” the forum—a collaboration among the AIA Educator/Practitioner Network, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the American Institute of Architecture Students—invites papers addressing one or more of the convention sub-themes: “Our Place in the World,” “Where We Live,” “Where We Work,” “How We Come Together,” and “Our Place on the Land.” Papers will be accepted in three categories—from students, from educators, and from practitioners—and will be selected through a blind peer-reviewed process. Authors of accepted papers will be notified at the beginning of March. Authors may submit papers online via the ACSA Web site. The submission site is open now through January 23.