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Message from the Chair
To our Architectural colleagues in the AIA, we once again renew our year with a greater sense of urgency and commitment to the realm of Public Architecture. It has been a distressing winter with harsh winds, rains and snowstorms making our lives rife with challenges. This only goes further to support the knowledge that climate change is very real and change is very necessary.
The current social, economic & political forces which shape the world, which we design and build civic structures, has proven to be even more contentious than ever before. Funding has been cut from a great many federal agencies, which support housing, institutional buildings, bridges and roads and the infrastructure for environmental protections. And this only threatens to leave many people without the structures and resources necessary to any civilized society.
The 2018 Public Architects Knowledge Community (PAKC) welcomes all AIA members to join in the effort to provide a forum for new and innovative ways to create, inform & challenge Public Architecture. And this context has provided us with unprecedented coalition building for advancing progressive social and technological ideas.
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Featured articles
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Public Architects Influencing the Profession & Built Environment
by Marilyn Wong-Wittmer, AIA
This year’s Public Architects Preconvention Workshop, Public Architects: Driving Innovation in the Industry’s Best Practices, promises to be an informative, thought provoking workshop focusing on the impact public architects have in influencing the profession’s best practices and the built environment. The collaboration of agency public architects and architects within private sector firms, who manage public sector projects, are at the forefront of urban development, leading social and technical initiatives that drive the industry’s best practices.
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Sight-see Public Architecture in New York
by Paula Loomis, FAIA
The AIA Conference on Architecture and Public Architects’ presentations will take place in in New York City next month. As we prepare for fun, learning and an intense architectural experience here are recommended public architecture highlights to see during your stay in the Big Apple.
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Navigation Centers — A Different Approach to Shelter the Homeless
by Julia Laue, AIA, LEED AP
One of the greatest satisfactions for public architects is to see their hard work become reality, whether it’s for an interior refresh of a fire station or a new construction of a recreation center. The true litmus test of whether a project was successfully developed surfaces after the facility is occupied. This article provides recommendations for a seamless transition between project development and facility management.
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The Long and Winding Road— One Year After
by Ed Gauvreau, FAIA
I am flying back from a conference in San Antonio, realizing that it has been just over a year since I received my letter announcing that I was elected to the AIA College of Fellows. I keep thinking back to the path taken to achieve that honor, and how life has changed since both the letter and my subsequent investiture.
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