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aiarchitect | volume 14 the news of america’s community of architects March 9, 2007
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  Executive Editor Douglas E. Gordon, Hon. AIA
Managing Editor Stephanie Stubbs, Assoc. AIA
Associate Editor Tracy Ostroff
Associate Editor Russell Boniface
Graphic Design and Web Publishing Innov8iv Design Incorporated
Contributing Editors: James Atkins, FAIA; Kermit Baker, PhD,
Hon. AIA; Michael J. Crosbie, AIA, PhD; John P. Eberhard, FAIA; Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA; Heather Livingston; Grant Simpson, FAIA; Michael Tardif, Assoc. AIA, Tony P. Wrenn, Hon. AIA.


One Hundred Percent BIM
Contributing Editor Michael Tardif, Assoc. AIA, reports that when the Onyx Group, an Alexandria, Va., firm, set out to grow its fledgling five-year-old building design practice, building information modeling (BIM) was not on its radar screen, until Rob Smedley, AIA, joined the team.
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Daniel Ferrara
is the founder of Ferrara Design Inc., a full service industrial design firm with a client list that includes IBM, DeWalt, Johnson and Johnson, Pitney Bowes, Bic, Cuisinart, and Olivetti. Together with daughter Mia Ferrara Pelosi, Ferrara also designed Global Village Shelters (GVS), a 67-square-foot disaster relief shelter made of corrugated cardboard with a plastic coating. The $550 GVS was designed to be set up by one person without any tools and last for 18 months. Also an inventor, Ferrara holds more than 70 patents.
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How Creative Are You?
AIArchitect Executive Editor Douglas E. Gordon, Hon. AIA, ponders the connection between creativity and confidence.
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