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The Committee on Design (COD) was founded to promote design excellence among members of the AIA, the broader design community, and the public at large, both nationally and internationally.

2024 COD Conferences

Arkansas

April 3-7 | 21c Hotel | Bentonville and Eureka Springs - Registration is sold out.

Brazil

Thu, Oct 17 - Sat, Oct 26, 2024
Sao Paulo > Brasilia > Rio de Janerio.  Registration will open in late April.

2024 Sponsorships

Download the prospectus for Arkansas and Brazil opportunities.


2023 COD Conferences

Last year, COD held two domestic design conferences investigating The Authenticity of Place.  The first conference was held in New Orleans, LA.  View the short video of the venue tours and download the conference program book. The second conference was held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, September 21-24, 2023. Download the Minneapolis guidebook and view the conference video

Re: Lights Out for Stained Glass

  • 1.  Re: Lights Out for Stained Glass

    Posted 12-29-2014 06:03 PM

    The suggestion that stained (or art) glass applied to a retail or commercial facility can communicate similarly to that mounted in a place of contemplation (spiritual or otherwise) minimizes the concepts of genius loci, of art and of architecture itself. Representational or not, key to the experience of stained glass is the interplay between the dynamic sun and the static glass, and the effect of the transformed sunlight on the built space. This is not an instantaneous phenomenon but rather one that requires consideration and reflection. It speaks to the relationship between the individual and the cosmos.

    For one view of the importance of stained glass to a major work of architecture, I highly recommend Father Hillary Thimmesh's Marcel Breuer and a Committee of Twelve Plan a Church and, in particular, the discussions surrounding the selection of the artist for the north window.



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    Elemental Architecture LLC
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