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Design Forum Speakers Announced Abbott’s Work Featured in VCA Exhibition Tech’s LumenHAUS Wins AIA Honor Award Virginia Member Announces AIA Presidential Candidacy Coalition Asks President, Legislators for Action Registration Open for 21st Annual Inform Awards
 
Design Forum Speakers Announced

Design Forum Speakers Announced

The Virginia Society AIA has assembled some of the world’s most acknowledged experts on building skins to speak at the upcoming tenth Virginia Design Forum: SKINS in Charlottesville on March 16 and 17, 2012.

Abbott’s Work Featured in VCA Exhibition

Abbott’s Work Featured in VCA Exhibition

See a collection of Carlton Abbott's artwork including drawings, models, paintings, mixed media, sculpture and metal work on display at the Virginia Center for Architecture from Jan. 19 through March 25, 2012.

Tech’s LumenHAUS Wins AIA Honor Award

Tech’s LumenHAUS Wins AIA Honor Award

Virginia Tech’s acclaimed LumenHAUS has earned another feather in its much-adorned cap.

Virginia Member Announces AIA Presidential Candidacy

Virginia Member Announces AIA Presidential Candidacy

Virginia member Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA, announced her candidacy for First Vice-president/President-elect of the American Institute of Architects.

Coalition Asks President, Legislators for Action

Coalition Asks President, Legislators for Action

An open letter asks the White House and Congressional leaders to put aside partisan differences and enact legislation that will return this sector to its role as one of the biggest job-producing engines of the American economy.

Registration Open for 21st Annual Inform Awards

Registration Open for 21st Annual Inform Awards

As the markets begin to thaw, now is the time to position your award-winning talents before the eyes of your clients, potential clients, colleagues, and public through the 2012 Inform Awards, which recognize outstanding work in landscape architecture, interior design, and object design.

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  • Jameson Wins Institute Honors Record House Revisited; David Jameson Architect. Photo © Paul Warchol

    Virginia member David Jameson’s Record House Revisited in Owings Mill, Maryland, was selected as a 2012 recipient of the Institute Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.

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  • The Future of the Past Steven W. Semes

    Noted expert and author Steven W. Semes discusses the challenges faced by review boards, architects and designers, and the difficulties inherent in following sometimes confusing historic standards.

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  • 2012 Gubernatorial Appointments Sorg-AIA-2003362

    The governor will be selecting in 2012 several Virginians to serve as leaders of several agencies. The VSAIA offers the governor a slate of nominees that the VSAIA Board believes is capable of leading the Commonwealth in becoming more responsive and more efficient in providing services to the public.

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