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WORK-ON-THE-BOARDS
SURVEY
Business Slips at Firms in July
Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA, tells us that billings
at architecture firms took a dip in July, quite unexpectedly because
they had been exhibiting steady growth for each of the prior four
months. Significantly, residential firms reported the steepest decline
in billings in July. These firms have reported the strongest gains
for the first half of the year. Baker also reports that architecture
firms are optimistic about conditions over the second half of the
year.
September Conference in Washington, D.C.,
Focuses on Securing Critical Infrastructure
CAJ program will concentrate on security
and building design
In a world changed forever by the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001, architects are responding to a heightened responsibility
to understand the nature of the threats and risks to the built environment.
As part of that responsibility, they are joining with owners, users,
architects, engineers, and law enforcement security specialists
to define an appropriate built world for future generations.
National
Design Museum Honors I.M. Pei and Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Target, GSA honored for corporate achievement;
other awards finalists named
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced
August 1 that architect I.M. Pei, FAIA, of Pei, Cobb, Freed &
Partners, and designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Vignelli Associates,
will receive the 2003 National Design Awards for Lifetime Achievement
and will be honored at an October 22 benefit gala chaired by AIA
Gold Medalist Richard Meier, FAIA, in New York City.
Project
watch
“Puttin’ on the Glitz”
in Sioux City
Photographer documents Orpheum Theatre
renovation
The Sioux City Orpheum, designed originally by Chicago’s Rapp
& Rapp in 1927 and reopened in all it opulent glory after a
2001 redesign by FEH Architects with theater restoration specialist
Ray Shepardson, GSI Architects, recently became a star in its own
right. Filmmaker/photographer and native Sioux Cityan George Lindblade
has transformed more than 100 videotapes and thousands of photographs
he shot over the last five years into “Puttin on the Glitz,”
a just-released documentary telling the building’s rags-to-riches
story “from neglected relic to sumptuous showplace.”
Your Kiplinger Connection (members
only)
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exclusive access to three stories a week to help them manage their
practices and plan for the coming year. (Nonmembers
may subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter.)
Health Care: To stem the soaring
costs of health care, insurers are covering alternative therapies.
Travel: Business travel will increase
only slightly next year. Telecom technology is filling the gap.
The Economy: The refinance boom
is over. Home buying and remodeling will ease only slightly, though.
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BEST
PRACTICES (members only)
U.S. Mayors Learn From AIA Components
The U.S. Conference of Mayors features three AIA Component Best
Practices in a newly released publication circulated to mayors across
the nation. Highlighting community involvement in midsize and large
city settings to a project of global proportion (the World Trade
Center redevelopment), the best practices illustrate to elected
leaders the value that architects bring to community development.
AIA
New York Chapter to Present Design Awards Symposium September 22
The 2003 Design Awards Symposium will take place on September 22,
6:30 p.m., at the new Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates-designed
Kimmel Center on Washington Square South in Lower Manhattan. The
program will offer a moderated discussion that presents and honors
the finest examples of architecture, interiors, and unbuilt projects
submitted by local firms and design individuals. A public reception
will follow the discussion.
Learn
Something New:
e-Classroom Debuts Three More Distance Learning Courses
This week, AIA eClassroom added three more new distance-learning
courses—all offering health-safety-welfare credits—to
its repertoire from the AIA 2003 National AIA Convention. Meet the
AIA Top Ten Green Buildings of 2003, get an architect’s perspective
on the NFPA 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code, and find
out why two prominent construction lawyers say, “Owner-Drafted
Agreements, Sign Here Stupid!”
Boston
Hosts First National Density Conference September 11–14
Can Americans translate their growing resentment of sprawl into
a renewed willingness to embrace density? Building a new dream will
require just that. At the September 11–14 “Density:
Myth & Reality” conference in Boston, leading designers,
planners, elected officials, developers, and journalists will explore
the realities of density as a first step toward dispelling the myths
and fears that thwart progress toward a new American dream.
AIA CAREER CENTER
Here
Are This Week’s Featured Opportunities
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Architect, Knoxville
• Architectural Project Manager,
Trenton, NJ • Associate Designer-Neighborhood Design
Team, Madison, WI • Chief of Lighting/Senior Lighting Designer,
Philadelphia • Director, Capital Projects and Tenant
Construction, Denver
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Disabled Access Consulting Firm,
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Forensic Expert, Poway, CA
• Intern Architect,
Bernardsville, NJ
• Job Captain, Los
Angeles
• Lead Architect, Seattle
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Project Architect, San Luis
Obispo, CA
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Project Architect, Sacramento
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Proposal Manager, Bethesda, MD
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