2012 AAJ Fall Conference Call for Presentations
Community Dialogue:
Architecture for Justice and Renewal
October 10 -12, 2012 |
Toronto Hilton – Toronto, ON Canada
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. ET
Download the Submission Form Now
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
-- Winston Churchill
The Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) is pleased to announce this call for presentations. We are seeking provocative presentations and discussion topics from a wide range of viewpoints. We encourage submissions of case studies that embrace the spirit of developing a dialogue with our communities. The conference will be organized into 4 separate tracks allowing for concurrent presentations: Courts, Law Enforcement, Detention/Corrections, and Other. The AAJ welcomes proposals from all of those active in justice facilities including planners, architects, owners, public safety officials, officers and administrators, contractors and vendors.
Buildings and landscapes compose the fabric of our environments. Throughout history, communities have evolved from the location of justice and civic buildings. It is our responsibility as design professionals to promote the stature of justice facility design. Justice facilities are typically public projects, and most are intended to be 50 plus year buildings. The facilities we design today will inform the communities that surround them for years to come. Justice facilities have unique and complex requirements in order to function securely and efficiently. We must challenge ourselves and our clients to meet the functional requirements of the users and to engage their community, striving to deliver buildings that will positively affect their surroundings.
“Public buildings often accurately reflect the beliefs, priorities, and aspirations of a people ... For much of our history, the courthouse has served not just as a local center of the law and government, but as a meeting ground, cultural hub, and social gathering place."
-- former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (in forward to Virginia's Historic Courthouses, by John O. and Margaret T. Peters)
We believe that all justice facilities reflect the values of their communities and embody significant social and cultural amenities as suggested in the above quote regarding courthouses. We are interested in proposals that address this important aspect of justice facilities.
Questions?
E-mail questions and completed submissions to aaj@aia.org
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2011 Justice Facilities Review
For more information about JFR11, view the citations. | AAJ Journal Correction: The most recent AAJ Journal intended to contain links to the JFR11 publications for download. Instead, the JFR10 links were provided. The following links will allow you to download a digital copy of the JFR11 (at no charge) from the AIA and order print copies for a modest charge from our print on demand publisher:
- Download the JFR11 (compressed PDF) for
FREE on the AIA.org website
- Purchase a print-on-demand copy of the JFR11 online for $21.50 plus shipping
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Design/Build Survey
by Larry Hartman, AIA
At the AAJ conference in Los Angeles last fall, called “Poetic Pragmatism”, one of the most popular sessions was “Design/Build in Corrections Environments: Good, Bad, or Indifferent”. There was a lot of energy in the crowd. Most of the attendees represented design firms with a lot of valuable experience in alternative delivery of justice projects. The AAJ Journal will be starting a series of articles on design/build with an initial focus from the “design firm” perspective in the Spring 2012 issue. The Summer and Fall issues will look at alternative financing and the owner’s perspective.
Please help us with gathering the “design firm” perspective by completing this short online survey about design/build in justice facilities. Please address your responses relating to a single design/build project. You are welcome to take the survey numerous times by using one survey per design/build project.
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DESIGN CONNECTS
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Sustainable Justice
Making the Connection with LEED: This workshop is meant to encourage innovation in justice facilities. Earn 1.50 HSW/SD CEHs and learn how each building project is an opportunity to transform the relationship of the justice system to the communities it serves as it becomes more efficient in the use of resources. Register now...
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