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AIA NJ hosts 2020 Virtual NJ Design Day
AIA NJ
AIA New Jersey will be hosting the Annual Design Day Conference virtual for 2020.
Join us for the keynote speaker followed by Design Awards announcement.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Equity in the Profession: Building a More Diverse Architecture Industry
AIA NJ
Just 2% of U.S. licensed / registered Architects are identified as African American. It is a public necessity to ensure our profession looks like the communities in which we serve.
Join us for any of our 6 sessions breaking down the issues and smart solutions as we try to create lasting change in our lifetimes.
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AIA California Invites AIA New Jersey to the 2020 Healthcare Facilities Forum
AIA NJ
Event Dates: October 14, 15, 16 – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Many forces are driving change in the design and construction of healthcare facilities – especially in the aftermath of COVID-19. While lawmakers debate programs and benefits, those charged with the delivery of care are looking for insights, how will research and the explosion of medical technology change delivery models? How will innovations in bio-sciences influence the future?
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Join the AIA Committee On the Environment on Oct. 29 for the Top Ten Toast
AIA NJ
Celebrate the winners of the 20203 COTE Top Ten Awards and the winners of the COTE Top Ten for Students Competition.
Join the AIA COTE community for a free, virtual reception on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. (Eastern). We will toast the 2020 Top Ten Award winners, 2020 Top Ten for Students Competition Winners, the juries and our sponsors.
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PROSURANCE REDEKER GROUP
 Together with growing pressure to shorten project schedules and decrease costs, there is a general acknowledgment that specialty subcontractors often have their own approach to fabrication and installation of project components. It is therefore increasingly common for architects and engineers to delegate aspects of the project’s design to the general contractor and its subs. But if the contract and/or project documentation is ambiguous, the design professional may look back and wish that it had provided detailed design of every connection, nut and bolt itself. Read the full article to find out why.
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2020 Virtual Design Day
AIA NJ
Giving Forms to Future
GUEST SPEAKER: KAI-UWE BERGMANN, FAIA PARTNER at BIG
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 14
Time: 4 – 6 p.m.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
NCARB to launch online option for the Architect Registration Examination
Architect
For many aspiring architects, passing the Architect Registration Examination® is the final step to earning a license. But nearly 30,000 architecture graduates have had to delay their licensing goals, as testing sites across the country closed or postponed appointments amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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How will families' architectural expectations change over the next few years?
ArchDaily
Between 1950 and 2011, the world's urban population increased fivefold. In 2007, for the first time, the number of people living in cities surpassed the number of people living in the country. In 2019, the urban population had already reached 55% of the total population, and by 2050, it is estimated that just over two thirds of the population will live in urban areas.
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Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges
ScienceDaily
Researchers are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller buildings, longer bridges, and lighter spacecraft. The researchers showed that the diagonally-reinforced square lattice-like skeletal structure of Euplectella aspergillum, a deep-water marine sponge, has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than the traditional lattice designs that have used for centuries in the construction of buildings and bridges.
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Toward a new Bauhaus: How a century-old design movement could help save the planet
Fast Company
The European Union has an ambitious new goal of becoming an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her State of the European Union speech in mid-September, the goal would be part of a European Green Deal to transform the economy, decoupling economic growth from resource use and turning the immense challenges presented by climate change into opportunities.
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Round pillars in architecture: From the classical column to the modern sculptural support
ArchDaily
The pillar has adorned many of the greatest monumental examples of Western architecture since antiquity, from the Doric columns of the Parthenon to the Corinthian capitals of the Pantheon portico. In the West, the legacies of these classical forms have permutated over the centuries and into modern times: the Doric columns of the Lincoln Memorial, the Ionic columns of the British museum portico, and the Villa Savoye’s pilotis are just a few examples of the classical column’s continued transformation and use over the last few centuries.
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Why 1 architecture firm is looking at planes to construct buildings of the future
Fast Company
The way buildings are designed is backward, and a team of architects, car designers and aerospace engineers wants to turn it around. “In a traditional design process, whether it’s modular, prefabricated, or traditional construction, an architect designs something and then everyone has to figure out how they’re going to make it,” says architect Chris Sharples. This makes projects expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes nearly impossible to actually get built.
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Tiny houses on wheels: Flexibility and mobility in small scale architecture
ArchDaily
It is not clear where and when the wheel was invented, but according to American anthropologist David Anthony, author of a book on the history of the wheel, there is a series of archaeological evidence of wheeled vehicles dating from 3400 BC in Eurasia and the Middle East. Since its creation, the wheel has revolutionized the way human beings handle many activities, especially moving around.
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How buildings shape us
Common Edge
In his recently posted Common Edge essay “We Shape Buildings, But Do Buildings Really Shape Us?,” architect and author Richard Buday’s answer was a somewhat reluctant no: “Architecture by itself may influence our decisions, but not lead to long-term behavior change, at least not without first changing beliefs, intentions, and attitudes.”
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