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AIA New England Regional Conference, October 14-16, 2011
Each year one of the eight New England AIA chapters hosts the AIA New England Annual Conference and administers the related design awards program. This year AIA Western Massachusetts will host the AIANE Regional Conference October 14-16. Watch for more information.
The AIANE conferences are small, but intimate. Attendees give them high scores for education and all around enjoyment, so plan to join us!
See the winners of the 2010 AIANE Design Awards, hosted by BSA. Past winners back to 2007 are also available. Design Awards
Mohamad Farzan RIBA, AIA is the new Regional Director to the AIA Board, joining T. Gregory Ames AIA.
Scott Simpson FAIA and Glenn H. Gregg FAIA are the NE College of Fellows Representatives.
Link to RAD Report.
The National Associates Committee is online here: http://www.aia.org/nac
Nicole Martineau AIA AIA from New Hampshire is the YAF Liaison for New England. The YAF Liaison and acts as a link from component YAF reps to other NE reps and National YAF.
Take a look at the following websites from NH, RI, and CT for Emerging Professionals:
NH: www.aianh.org/ep_index.asp
RI: www.aia-ri.org/?section=aiari&page=10
CT: www.aiact.org/committee_eac.htm
Boston Society of Architects | AIA Central Mass | AIA Connecticut
AIA Maine | AIA New Hampshire | AIA Rhode Island | AIA Vermont
AIA Western Mass
Boston Society of Architects
BSA recently held a very successful College Fair with 38 schools attending. In January they will hold their annual Job Fair. It has both a job marketplace and workshops to help those looking for jobs: www.architects.org. Many awards programs are coming up, open to firms across New England. www.architects.org/ design_awards_programs/
A complete listing of BSA programs, events and opportunities is available at www.architects.org
AIA Central Mass
For component details, go to www.aiacm.org.
AIA Connecticut
AIA Connecticut is pleased to offer The Architect's Cookbook. We are so proud of this wonderful collection of recipes from our members and would love the opportunity to share it with everyone. We're receiving rave reviews, not only for the recipes, but also for the architectural design of the pages and the wonderful line drawings that incorporate food and buildings rolled into one. A syndicated radio show on NPR recently featured The Architect's Cookbook during its weekly programming. The public responded positively by ordering it after hearing about it on the radio.
The cookbook retails for $29.95 but we are happy to extend the member price of $21.95 to AIA members. Order Form.
If your chapter has a bookstore and you'd like to purchase copies to offer to your members, please call AIA Connecticut to discuss special pricing. 203-865-2195 The Architect's Cookbook makes an ideal gift for many different occasions!
More on AIA Connecticut at: www.aiact.org.
AIA Maine
COTE (Committee on the Environment) continues the 2030 Challenge series of presentations. The first one for 2011 will be held Jaunary 20th at SMRT in Portland. Michael Chonko, PE and Ron Wiley, PE, of SMRT will present "Green Cleanroom Design - SMRT Designed GE Healthcare Facility Earns LEED Gold.
For information on AIA Maine, please go to www.aiamaine.org
AIA New Hampshire
AIANH held its 27th Annual Awards Banquet January 21, 2011. The results are on the AIANH website.
AIANH members and guests recently attended a tour of the landmark Pandora Mill Building, part of the Amoskeag Millyard Historic District in Manchester, NH, on March 24. The building, owned by one of Dean Kamen's compaies, was built in 1850 and has undergone a multi-million dollar modernization effort. The building is registered in the United States Green Building Council’s LEED building certification program and is currently on track to earning LEED Silver certification.
On April 28 AIANH will host a meeting at Keene State College to tour the architectural department and senior projects and to hear a presentation by Ellen Watts AIA of Architerra on "Zero Net Energy: Technology and Aesthetics," based on their design of the new Technology, Safety, and Design building on the KSC campus.
You can access our calendar of events at: www.aianh.org/aia_events.asp. For more information on the Chapter, see the AIANH Web site www.aianh.org
AIA Rhode Island
In December 2010 AIAri hosted its annual design awards that were juried by AIAVA. Thomas Kerns represented the jury and we were so glad he could attend and his eloquent comments about the work being done in our region. In addition to our annual design awards we presented six Archistar awards to non-architect members of the community who have made outstanding contributions to architecture. The goal of the award is to recognize meaningful contributions of individuals on project teams and widen the scope beyond design to recognize achievement in other areas of project deliver : technical, social cultural and educational and economic development to name a few. In its first year we awarded six Archistar awards.
We have elected a new slate of officers for 2011. In January we hosted a committee workshop with the hopes of encouraging members to become more involved in the chapter. We will be participating in Gallery Night Providence for our second year engaging the public in all things Architecture.
In February we partnered with the South Side Community Land Trust to host an exhibition in our gallery entitled Carrot City. This is a traveling exhibit that shows how the design of buildings and cities can enable the production of food in the city while exploring what impact agricultural issues have on the design of urban spaces and buildings.
Our Committee on the Environment is hosting a CEUs 4yous event series featuring the film screening of Blue Vinyl. The EP has raised more money to add to the learning library and we have just made our second purchase of reference materials.
In March NCARB presented NCARB & You: IDP, ARE & Certification at our gallery space.
AIAri has formed a Fellowship committee consisting of four fellows from the RI chapter. We had our first meeting and will be meeting to assist anyone interested in pursuing the path of fellowship here in RI.
Check out our website at www.aia-ri.org for the latest AIA Rhode Island News and Events!
AIA Vermont
For component information, go to: www.aiavt.org.
AIA Western Mass
In July Tom Hartman AIA (president of WMAIA) put together a “HERS Summit” which brought together many stakeholders – architects, realtors, builders, bankers etc. around this important issue. This was a “by invitation” event. We were very pleased to have John Nunnari attend on behalf of AIA Massachusetts to address legislative issues.
We’ve begun planning in earnest for the 2011 AIANE Conference. Our working title is “Livable Communities and the American Landscape.” The conference will be centered in either Northampton or Amherst (we are currently looking at venues) and we have begun planning seminar sessions and associated tours.
We applied for a grant to fund a special film in our ongoing film series. If funded, we feel this event will greatly expand our public visibility and continue to build upon our relationship with the Five College Architecture Program. Meanwhile, our regular Architecture through Film series will resume in the fall with four films that relate to issues of housing. This series takes place at Amherst College and is co-sponsored by the Five College Architecture Program.
We kick off the fall season with a program on the 8th edition of the Building Code that has been made available to WMAIA by special arrangement with the UMASS Facilities and Planning Dept. We’re very excited to be able to provide this 4-hour seminar to our members. We were also allowed to open this up to members of AIACM.
Later this fall we will be offering a program on Passive Houses with Marc Rosenbaum.
For current activities and events go to: www.wmaia.org.
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