Historic American Buildings Survey Marks 70 Years of Service
The National Park Service’s Historic American Buildings Survey (or HABS, as it is generally known), America’s oldest federal historic preservation program, started life rather inauspiciously in 1933 as a Depression-era aid for underemployed architects, James C. Massey, Assoc. AIA, tells us. Luckily, its significance quickly became apparent, and the next year HABS received permanent status. It was run under a tripartite agreement among three coordinating organizations: the National Park Service, which carried out the work; the Library of Congress, which maintained the records; and the AIA, which provided professional guidance. The partnership has lasted, and HABS now offers the world’s foremost documentation of historic buildings through photos and drawings.

Security and Design Experts Converge to Share Lessons Learned
“Transparent security”—design elements that protect life and property, but do not detract from the visual appearance of buildings—can help protect our nation’s infrastructure and reduce threats to the built environment, said building experts gathered September 14–15 in Washington, D.C. These practitioners pointed to reinforced and hardened buildings, increased setback distances, landscaping enhancements that give stand-off distances, efficient egress systems, and advanced air-filtering systems as some of the ingredients of a recipe for more secure buildings and infrastructure in America.

Texas Society of Architects Honors Seven Homegrown Projects
The Texas Society of Architects announces that the chapter has chosen seven projects to receive 2003 Design Awards. The projects, all located in Texas, were selected from among 271 entries in the annual competition that honors outstanding architectural projects by architects practicing within the 17 chapters that make up TSA. The winning projects and their designers will be recognized at a special ceremony during TSA’s 64th annual convention and design products expo, October 31–November 1 at the Fort Worth Convention Center.

PROJECT WATCH
Tallahassee Classy
New community hospital illustrates collaborative efforts of Michael Graves & Associates, Thomas Miller + Partners
Last month marked the opening of the new Capital Regional Medical Center at Tallahassee Community Hospital, Tallahassee, Fla., a collaboration of Princeton’s Michael Graves & Associates as design architect with Nashville’s Thomas Miller + Partners providing health-care facility finesse. The eight-story, 315,000-square-foot replacement hospital offers state-of-the-art medical services to the surrounding community.

Freshman Representatives Show AIA Support
From right, U.S. representatives Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Michael Turner (R-Ohio), and Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) joined AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA (at podium), September 23 at the AIA national component headquarters to share their insights on economic growth, the transportation reauthorization bill, tort reform, and community development. The event—sponsored by ArchiPAC, the AIA political action committee—brought together dozens of government-affairs officials from architecture, engineering, and construction associations to meet and get to know the three congressional representatives, each of whom has been in office for 10 months. (photo by David Williams)

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It’s Time to Adjust Your Outlook
Join McGraw-Hill Construction October 22–23 in the nation’s capital for the 2004 Outlook Executive Conference
October means it’s time for the McGraw-Hill Construction’s Outlook 2004 Executive Conference, which gathers executives from major building-product manufacturing firms, design and contracting firms, and industry associations. Outlook 2004 begins with a 6 p.m. reception on October 22, followed by an information-packed program on October 23.

Four New Distance-Ed Courses
From Main Street to green building,
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AIA eClassroom has just added four new practice-oriented distance learning programs to its repertoire of continuing education classes for architects. These courses are derived from the highest-rated continuing-ed programs held at the 2003 AIA national convention in San Diego.

Hot Off the Presses: Redesigned nac-q in HTML Format
Associate members’ quarterly newsletter themed “pursuit of excellence”
The third edition of the National Associate Committee’s quarterly journal, nac-q, is now online and available in a redesigned, easy-to-read and –access HTML format. The journal, which is e-mailed to the Institute’s associate members, now can be viewed by all AIA members online.

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