The American Institute of Architects
Curious about compensation trends at architecture firms in our region? Chapter members are welcome to stop by the Chapter office and take a look at the newly released AIA Regional Compensation Survey.
Alternately, copies of the full report (or nine individual regional reports) will be available for purchase through the AIA’s online bookstore beginning August 5th. Visit www.aia.org for more details.
As of Monday, July 18th, 2011, 24 additional documents were published on AIA Documents-on-Demand® –bringing the total to 72 AIA Contract Documents now available for online purchase.
The newly added documents include:
The entire G series is now available for purchase online.
Both MAC and PC users can use this service.
This May, Mattel debuted Barbie® I Can Be™…Architect doll at the AIA national convention.
As a way to further engage the design community in I Can Be™ Architect, the AIA launched a competition for architects to design their own interpretation of a Barbie® DreamHouse™. A jury was selected and five finalists have been chosen for the public to vote on and determine the overall winner.
Click here to view the submissions and vote for your favorite. The competition is open until August 1st, with the winner announced on August 2nd in conjunction with the retail launch of Barbie® I Can Be™… Architect doll.
To vote for your favorite design, click here.
The California Architects Board at its June 16, 2011, meeting voted to discontinue the Comprehensive Intern Development Program (CIDP). The action will take effect upon codification of a regulatory amendment.
CIDP was originally developed and implemented as part of the Board’s structured internship requirement in 2005 as an IDP overlay program to focus on evidence-supported documentation of training and enhanced intern/supervisor interaction. Improvements to IDP, as well as enhancements being made via the implementation of IDP 2.0, prompted the Board and its Professional Qualifications Committee to re-evaluate the need for continuance of CIDP.
The Board is working to address the regulatory change, which must be approved through several control agencies. CIDP shall remain a component of the licensing process until the regulatory change is approved and codified. Affected candidates will be notified once final approval has been received.
Each month the Center for Integrated Practice (CIP) focuses on key topics including collaborative delivery methods, stakeholder relationships, and interoperability.
Take a look and gain useful insight into the opportunities and challenges facing project teams and the design and construction industry as they embrace collaborative delivery models. Click here for the latest communication from CIP that explores the elements of Collaboration. And for additional resources visit the Center for Integrated Practice on Knowledge Net!
Submitted by Kanta Jasmine, Assoc. AIA
The Department of Architecture in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
is the first formal institution to impart Architectural education in Bangladesh.
The creation of a new faculty of Architecture and Planning in BUET fifty years ago in 1962 was instrumental in filling
a professional vacuum and it’s opening had spurred significant changes in the development of the country. On the occasion of the celebration of ’50 years of Architecture in Bangladesh’ an International Seminar on ‘Architecture: Education, Practice and Research’ has been organized to mark the new direction that architecture has taken in Bangladesh with the starting of formal institutional education in Architecture at BUET.
Submissions of paper in architecture and related disciplines are invited from architects, engineers, artists, educationists, graduate students, theorists, and researchers. Interested authors may submit papers in all areas of architecture, related to education, practice and research.
For full details click here.
The Institute Honor Awards program recognizes achievements for a broad range of architectural activity to elevate the general quality of architecture practice, establish a standard of excellence against which all architects can measure performance, and inform the public of the breadth and value of architecture practice. Click here and here to view all 2011 AIA Awards Recipients + videos. Enjoy!
AIA has added 13 additional documents to the Documents-on-Demand service–bringing the total number of documents available online to 48.
The documents that were added and are now available for on-line purchase include:
