AIArchitect | October 14, 2002

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	AIArchitect This Week—October 14, 2002

	An Open Letter from Bosnia-Herzegovina It's strange to travel into a foreign country without showing a passport or stopping at a border crossing," reports Mark Nedzbala, AIA, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers architect who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "What's more, the military identification, documentation, international badge, and the danger pay scale all reinforced in my mind the unusual circumstances in which I had landed last summer when my work as a civilian architect with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took me to the Balkans. Full Story Economics New AIA Report Documents Continued Growth in Architect Compensation Despite Slowdown in the Economy Compensation at architecture firms has continued to increase at a healthy pace in recent years, despite a slowdown in the economy throughout most of 2001 and early 2002 and only modest increases in compensation throughout the overall economy over this timeframe. Full Story Building Community aka "The Boyer Report" Back in Print If you weren't fortunate enough to get a chance to read Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice by Ernest L. Boyer and Lee D. Mitgang when it was first published seven years ago, consider today your lucky day. The book, published originally by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1996, has just been reprinted and is now available through the AIA Bookstore. Full Story BEST PRACTICES General Services Administration Delivers Customer Satisfaction Through Sustainable Design This example tells how the GSA was able to deliver "Customer Satisfaction through Sustainability" to its client, the Environmental Protection Agency, via a new laboratory building. The project won GSA a 2002 Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation. Full Story Marketplace Research Three Design Research Projects: In the Field, Outside the Field, and for the Future Full Story Need to catch up on recent editions of AIArchitect This Week? September 16 \| September 23 \| September 30 \| October 7 To see the complete table of contents for AIArchitect click here.
	This Just In

	National Internship Summit Stresses Development of Professionals, ARE as Educational Tool Fifty members of the architecture profession gathered in Norman, Okla., October 3–6 to evaluate the progress and challenges in internship that have evolved since the 1999 Collateral Internship Summit. They voiced a series of fundamental needs and reaffirmed commitment to the nine recommendations generated three years ago and outlined in this article. Full Story FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE A Global Community of Ideas Gordon H. Chong, FAIA, enumerates good reasons to keep international practice on our radar screen. Full Story Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic Competition Designs Due November 1 Only a few weeks remain before the submission deadline for designs for a Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic, a project spearheaded by Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit organization promoting architectural and design solutions to social and humanitarian crises. Full Story University of Colorado at Boulder Takes First in Solar Decathlon The University of Colorado at Boulder poses on the front porch of "The All-American Solar Home," their first-place-winning entry in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar Decathlon on the Capital Mall. In related news, AIA Executive Norman L. Koonce, FAIA, and DOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Garman signed a memorandum of understanding October 4 signifying the AIA's and DOE's intent to continue a longstanding partnership in optimizing energy efficiency in the built environment. Full Story Improved Version of AIA Contract Documents Release 3.0 PLUS Now Available Full Story This service is brought to you as an AIA-member benefit. The email list used to deliver AIArchitect This Week is maintained exclusively for that purpose by the AIA national component. To keep up with the universe of information the AIA gathers exclusively for members, visit the AIA's Web page. For member-only information, click onto "MyAIA: building on your skills" or use this shortcut. AIArchitect This Week is published by the AIA, Washington, D.C. Copyright 2002 The American Institute of Architects ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You receive this email at: $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') because your address is on file in the AIA's membership database. To change your email address, send an email with your name, AIA member number, old email address and new email address to AIA Information Central. Or make the changes yourself. To remove your email address from this distribution list - but not from the AIA membership database - forward this message to: $subst('Email.UnSub')