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
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