AIA Healthcare Design Awards Submissions Due February 6
The AIA/AAH Design Awards showcase the best of health-care building design and health-care design-oriented research. The awards highlight the trends of health-care facilities and the future direction of these facilities. Projects should exhibit conceptual strength and solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. Online submissions are due February 6. Visit the AAH Web site for details and to submit your projects online. (Pictured is the Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic at University Medical Center North, Tucson, by CO Architects, a 2008 award recipient. Photo courtesy CO Architects.)

March Conference to Explore Architect’s Role as Change Agent
The AIA and the University of Miami School of Architecture invite you to join them for “Redefining the Architect’s Role: Architects as Agents for Social Change” conference March 5-7 at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. The conference will focus on how architects and urban designers can advocate for, and achieve, the effective public policy changes needed to create more sustainable and livable communities. The session follows up on the 2007 AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee roundtable, “Architects as Design Agents in the City and Region.” For details and to register online, visit the conference Web site.