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Calling all Future Architects and Master Builders! Join the Architects League in our Doghouse Challenge. Every pet deserves to be pampered, whether it be a room full of couches to lay on or an automatic treat dispensing kitchen. It may include an indoor lap pool for our water-loving breeds or a tennis ball pit to surround them with their favorite toys. How do you envision the perfect home for your pet? We’re looking for you to design the most awesome doghouse ever! You can build a model of it utilizing household items (paper, popsicle sticks, LEGO, etc.) and/or send us a drawing of it. Whether you have a dog or not, show us your creativity by personalizing your doghouse and making it awesome.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has risked the public's health and safety in buildings across the US and beyond. As states began reopening communities, AIA embarked on an initiative to explore how design strategies, backed by science, can be a public health solution. “Reopening America: Strategies for Safer Buildings,” is intended to provide design professionals, employers, building owners, and public officials with tools and resources for reducing risk when re-occupying buildings during the pandemic. READ MORE
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Recently, AIA 2020 President Jane Frederick, FAIA, and At-large Director Dan Hart, FAIA, participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the National League of Cities and attended by a small group of civic leaders representing cities from around the country. The timely discussion focused on how architects can help cities address the challenges they are currently facing, and how best to reopen safely.
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Parallel Edge
 Businesses across the globe have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have been forced to close their doors, some only temporarily, but countless others for good. With experts saying there’s no guarantee of a rapid economic recovery, it’s important that you reassess and redefine your business strategy and buckle down for more storms ahead. Here are some tips to help your business survive this crisis and come out on top.
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AIA New Jersey
The Westwood, NJ, Free Public Library is hosting a kids’ career exploration program this summer, and our very own William J. Martin, AIA, was invited to participate as a representative Architect.
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AIA New Jersey
A collaborative research team from Auburn University is seeking architects familiar with residential construction to complete a short survey related to “aging in place.” Specifically, the survey includes a listing of recommended items to be included in a residential renovation or new construction project for a client (or clients) that wish to age in place. The list was compiled from approximately ten different publications.
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AIA New Jersey
Today may be the official last day of classes for many New Jersey communities, but due to COVID-19, Governor Murphy has declared that schools have been “out” since March 13. Most NJ schools switched to an online, virtual classroom format starting March 15, which children participating from home. Some households easily transitioned into work from home for kids and parents, with home offices and converted dining rooms.
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Ms. Tanya Agarwal, Assoc. AIA
Adam Ainslie, Assoc. AIA
Mr. Corey Besson, Assoc. AIA
Ms. Andrea B. Bethza Pesantez, Assoc. AIA
Mr. Claudio Breda, Assoc. AIA
Ms. Shruti Deore, Assoc. AIA
Miss Diana C. Erazo, Assoc. AIA
Mr. Ryan T. Henriksen, Assoc. AIA
Ms. Laura W. Leichtman, Assoc. AIA
Patrick Papia, Assoc. AIA
Ms. Nitisha B. Raje, Assoc. AIA
Ms. Stephanie V. Renard, Assoc. AIA
Architect
The National Organization of Minority Architects and the American Institute of Architects' Large Firm Roundtable have issued the following statement and letters strengthening their partnership and their support of taking action to combat systemic racism in architecture.
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The Architect's Newspaper
AN has learned that the college formerly known as the School of Architecture at Taliesin will change its name and move summer classes to Cosanti and Arcosanti, with plans to try to make Cosanti its permanent home.
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Building Design + Construction
Nothing motivates change more than a crisis. Many professional services firms have made more radical shifts in how they do business over the past two months than over the past decade. But for AEC firms across many states, their “essential status” has sheltered them from the effects of shut-down orders. Moreover, the nature of field work that lies at the heart of the industry had propelled most, if not all, AEC firms’ embrace of mobile devices far earlier than other segments of professional services firms.
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Fortune
The top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer resigned recently after the headline on a column by the newspaper’s architecture critic led to a walkout by dozens of members of the editorial staff.
The column, which lamented the destruction of buildings in downtown Philadelphia during protests over the killing of George Floyd, opened a fraught debate about wealth, power and race in the city. The headline that triggered the backlash: “Buildings Matter, Too.”
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Building Design + Construction
The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, and by the first week of April, there was a nearly 80% decline in occupancy for hotels in the U.S., according to the hospitality analytics company STR. That same week, the National Restaurant Association estimated that 110,000 restaurants could close within the following 30 days, on top of the 30,000 dining places that had already shuttered.
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Architectural Record
For the past year, Roth Sheppard Architects has been designing a new burger-and-beer joint slated to open this summer in Denver’s creative district. When the coronavirus hit the city, the Colorado firm knew it needed to cook up some low-cost ways to prevent the spread of germs, so it increased the space between tables, installed hand-sanitizing stations, and worked with the city to expand the dining patio.
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Archinect
The results of Archinect’s COVID-19 Mental Health Survey highlight the community’s struggles with the emotional impacts of the health crisis in some striking detail and show, generally speaking, that members of the architecture community have had a difficult time with the many challenges brought forth by the pandemic.
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The New York Times
The last class Joel Sanders taught in person at the Yale School of Architecture, on Feb. 17, took place in the modern wing of the Yale University Art Gallery, a structure of brick, concrete, glass and steel that was designed by Louis Kahn. It is widely hailed as a masterpiece. One long wall, facing Chapel Street, is windowless; around the corner, a short wall is all windows.
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ArchDaily
In 1977, a New York Times article by Carter B. Horsley proclaimed that “Glamorous Glass Bricks Are Booming:” once a “less than first-class” material, it was beginning to gain acceptance among architects in residential and restaurant projects for its translucence, privacy, visual interest and sense of order. However, following the industry’s brief but widespread use of glass bricks, many now associate the material with outdated 80’s architectural styles, an aesthetic that few seem interested in reviving.
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Business Insider
The global pandemic halted travel in the short term, but its effects are going to last into the foreseeable future — and possibly forever.
Hotel designers and architects are reworking existing projects and starting new ones with a focus on social distancing and contact-free systems. That means we can expect to see fundamental changes to hotels' meeting spaces, lobbies, guest rooms, and food and beverage options.
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ArchDaily
In architecture, professionals must constantly deal with the challenge of representing a project clearly and understandably before it is built, making the space somehow more perceptible to people who are often not specialized in the field. Rendering is one of the most popular methods of three-dimensional representation among architects because it portrays the project more realistically.
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The Architect's Newspaper
Despite all the news of re-openings, lifted restrictions, al fresco options dining, and a return to something more closely resembling “normal,” COVID-19 is still very much with us. And despite the defeatist/downplayed/nothing to see here stance embraced by the current presidential administration, the U.S. is still in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis. In some states, both new reported cases and hospitalizations have now reached record highs.
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