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Register for 2012 AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference
American Institute of Architecture Students
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Registration is still open for 2012 AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference! This year, we are offering three different tracks: the Leadership Track, the Career Track, and the Freedom By Design Track. You will walk away from this conference with a detailed action plan to organize and maintain a successful chapter of the AIAS at your school, run a successful AIAS Freedom By Design project this year, learn how to plan your career search effectively and build life-long friendships and future colleagues. You don't want to miss this amazing conference! In addition to the incredible content, the conference also offers networking opportunities, tours of Washington, D.C., Quad Dinners, ARE Test Prep sessions and more!
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AIAS/AIA Trust scholarship recipients announced
American Institute of Architecture Students
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Each year the American Institute of Architecture Students and AIA Trust offer scholarships to members of the AIAS with financial need pursuing a professional NAAB accredited degree. A scholarship of up to $1,000 is awarded to five individuals who are selected based on their application packages as reviewed by a jury.
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AIAS/Kawneer enlightening libraries competition
American Institute of Architecture Students
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AIAS and Kawneer are challenging students to consider what the future of a library might look like. With the steady advent of new technologies, libraries are becoming more urbanized, collaborative community spaces as well as massive repositories of online data and information. Children, students and professionals alike utilize libraries as learning platforms; integrating world knowledge, science, history and technology. Total prize money is $7,725 and registration is waived for AIAS members!
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Bloomberg competition aims to improve civic life
Architectural Record
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Michael Bloomberg, New York's rich and resourceful mayor, has unveiled a competition that may give architects a chance to share their best ideas — and make money.
Recently, the mayor announced a contest meant to improve civic life in the U.S. through ideas that "address serious social or economic problems" or "create efficiencies that make government work better, faster and cheaper." Judges will select winners later this year.
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Freeing minds: Architecture camp helps shape future professionals
The Commercial Appeal
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After just two weeks of Discovering Architecture Summer Camp, the high-schoolers spoke the language.
The 18 students didn't refer, for example, to a "roof" or "wall" as they presented their design projects to a roomful of parents and professors at the University of Memphis Department of Architecture. Instead, they spoke of the "horizontal planes" and "vertical planes" for the theoretical pavilion each designed for the U of M campus.
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Adventures in architecture at Expo 2012
CNN
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An unassuming town on the southern tip of South Korea is an unlikely place for one of the world's most advanced buildings.
Until Aug. 12 the city of Yeosu is hosting Expo 2012 and among the new buildings containing educational displays on ocean conservation is the Korea pavilion. It stands out as one of the most technologically advanced, if aesthetically underwhelming, of them all.
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The power of pop-up architecture
The Globe and Mail
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Pop-up architecture is the entertainment of today and the urban destination of tomorrow. It's light, lyrical and cheap to construct. Permanent, masonry-heavy architecture will continue to drill down into the ground, but architecture as light as Twitter can risk more — beginning with the need to invigorate neglected or marginalized public space right now. Pop-ups push urbanites to sample delightful and even disorienting architecture on a human scale. Maybe we're more likely to immerse ourselves in something daring if it comes with a limited shelf life.
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10 hotels with awe-inspiring architecture
The Huffington Post
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Museums grab the headlines and private homes pay the bills, but for architects, hotels are a unique way to let the audience get up close and personal with the work.
Don't believe it? Try spending the night at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or Philip Johnson's Glass House, and let us know how it goes.
Here are 10 favorite Tablet hotels which double as modern marvels.
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Jennifer Coleman, AIA: Designing the memory of place
The American Institute of Architects
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It takes a special kind of person to love Cleveland — its harsh winters, sagging economy and legendary sports heartbreak. Maybe there's a Midwestern work ethic willing to exhaust itself to find beauty in a color palette awash in grays — the brownish slate of an ice-strewn lake, the pewter of the near-constantly overcast skies and soot-stained marble work on City Hall. "Cleveland ... You've gotta be tough," is one of this city's more venerated pop-culture "rebranding" slogans.
But among the under-sung charms of this storied city is the architecture, especially the historic architecture.
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Green building — Biomimicry
Construction Digital
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On the leading edge of the green building movement is a strategy called biomimicry — using patterns in nature, particularly in biological systems, to inspire innovative and more efficient designs within architecture and engineering. One such leap from the natural to the artificial is the advanced passive cooling and ventilation systems found within termite mounds and other hive-like structures. Other architects have copied the structure of shells to create stronger, more versatile bridge designs, as in the proposed Shi-Ling Bridge by Arup. Whether by mimicking natural forms or drawing inspiration from the principles that shaped them, architects are increasingly looking to the eon-won wisdom of evolution to provide clues to maximum efficiency and the aesthetic of tomorrow’s buildings.
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Sky City: Chinese company BSB to build the world's tallest building ... in just 90 days?
Inhabitat
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Even since the current world's tallest builing — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — was completed, there has been a constant battle to build the world's next tallest building. The current record holder stands tall at 828 meters and took five years to build, but a Chinese company called Broad Sustainable Building aims to smash that record by building the 838 meter eco-friendly Sky City tower, in Changsa, China in a mere 90 days — and they're planning to use prefab building techniques to construct the skyscraper so quickly!
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With improved sustainability, architecture gets smarter
La Jolla Light
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When it comes to improving San Diego's sustainability, architecture plays a key role both in the smart utilization and conservation of natural energy. As a local architect, it seems that the more you incorporate green designs into your work, the more intelligent and impressive your buildings become.
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