Planning for this year’s Committee on Design events is in full swing.
The following conferences and events are now scheduled with details to come. Please visit the COD website in the coming months to see details of these events.
National Convention Awards Reception and Dinner – Denver, June 20th
We will hold our annual Awards Reception and Dinner at the National Convention on Thursday, June 20th at 6:30 P.M. This event will be held at the McNichols Civic Center Building, a recently-restored Carnegie Library in Denver’s Civic Center Park. The reception and dinner will be an opportunity to celebrate this year’s winners of the Gold Medal, Firm Award, Twenty Five Year Award, Honorary Fellows, and Collaborative Achievement Award. This event provides the opportunity to meet some of the best architects in the world in an informal setting.
2012 Gold Medal recipient Stephen Holl at the COD Annual Reception.
Photo courtesy of Jeff Wolfram.
During the convention, the Committee on Design will also lead conversations with the Firm Award recipient, the Twenty-five Year Award recipient, the Honorary Fellows from around the world, and the Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement Award recipients.
Additional COD Convention Events:
(click on the event tile for more information and to register)
TH302:
Design That MOVES You: A Joint Effort of the AIA Young Architects Forum and Committee on Design
Earn 1.50 AIA HSW LU | Thursday, June 20, 2013 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
This presentation will educate architects about specific opportunities to encourage and increase daily physical activity in our daily lives and to provide leadership and direction in our communities to lead this paradigm shift in behavior.
FR200:
2013 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
Earn 1.50 AIA LU | Friday, June 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation provides the participants with a genuine feeling that, for just for a moment, they have been able to peer into the window of history to catch a glimpse of the project through the eyes of its designer.
FR201:
2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award: A Professional Practice That Leads, Inspires, and Innovates with Purity of Purpose
Earn 1.50 AIA LU | Friday, June 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The session will present a case study of the firm's unique and personal approach to design, design process, materials selection, and the holistic integration of sustainable practice.
FR301:
2013 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture: Defining the Qualities of Excellence in Design
Earn 1.50 AIA LU | Friday, June 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
This session provides an engaging overview of the 2013 Institute Honor Award for Architecture recipients and rigorous discussion about the elements of design excellence.
SA100:
AIA Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement
Earn 1.00 AIA LU | Saturday, June 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Learning from our collaborators can only improve our ability to connect and provide value to our clients. Panel participants will be asked to describe their own experiences with important collaborators and recommend better ways for collaborative organizations to support the profession of architecture.
We will spend five days exploring the roots of modernism in Berlin, Germany. This conference has been in planning for about four years and will provide an opportunity to visit early modern buildings as well new ones accompanied by their architects.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1968 Photo by Jim Childress.
Central to the development, teaching and dissemination of modern architecture was the School of Bauhaus founded in Weimar, in 1919 under the leadership of Walter Gropius. The Bauhaus manifesto proclaimed, that “the ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building”.
During its 14 years of existence, the Bauhaus succeeded in unifying the arts and revolutionizing the world of industrial design and mass production. Never before and never since has there been such emphasis on the coexistence of artist and craftsman, designer and technician.
The Committee of Design Berlin Conference is designed to examine and learn this advancement and contribution to world architecture. We’ll visit buildings and study the legacy of early German Modernism and a continuity of new work built in the capital since the reunification of Germany. City districts have changed appearance and composition, many buildings have been restored, rebuilt or erected – a great change has taken place. While Berlin architecture is the focus, the conferees will also travel to Dessau and Potsdam.
by Peter Lizon, FAIA –Conference Co-chair
For more Berlin Conference information or to register, see our Berlin Conference Registration page.