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VSAIA News: January 2012

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. More>>

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. More>>

Tech’s LumenHAUS Wins AIA Honor Award
Virginia Tech’s acclaimed LumenHAUS has earned another feather in its much-adorned cap. More>>

National Awards Deadlines Pending
COTE Top Ten Projects and several other national AIA awards programs have deadlines coming up soon. More>>

Q&A Resource Developed for IDP
AIA Emerging Professionals has developed an IDP question and answer resource for members. More>>

Member Thomas K. McLaughlin, Jr., AIA, Dies
Virginia member Thomas McLaughlin died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. He had been treated for non-Hodgkins lymphoma for the past two years. More>>

Virginia LID Design Competition
Low impact development (LID) focuses on maintaining or restoring a site’s natural hydrology. Retaining and filtering storm water on-site rather than conveying it to storm sewers recharges groundwater, reduces the scouring of stream banks, and helps keep watersheds clean and healthy. More>>

Dunay Named Among Top 25 Design Educators
Virginia member Robert Dunay, FAIA, was named among the nation’s top 25 design educators by Design Intelligence. More>>

Changes to HSW Education Requirement and Self-Reporting
The AIA Board of Directors has voted to modify the AIA’s calendar year HSW continuing education requirement. More>>

Jefferson Award Goes to Virginia Fellow
This year’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture honors Virginia member Daniel Feil, FAIA, an experienced public-sector architect with a long history of enlisting the finest design talents to produce trendsetting public works. More>>

Upcoming CES programs
See which educational programs are coming to your area. More>>

Membership News

Professional Development News

  • Designing an End to Illness Tye Farrow

    Most of us recognize that architecture can have an impact on health, but what if it could actually make us healthier? What if it could help prevent disease? The Society announces Tye Farrow, an internationally recognized expert in salutogenic design, as the Architecture Exchange East keynote speaker.

Government Advocacy News

  • Licensure Fees to Remain at 2010 Levels © 2006, The American Institute of Architects. All rights reserved.

    The administrators for the board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior designers, and Landscape Architects revealed that the APELSCIDLA regulants’ fees would remain constant maybe through 2017.

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