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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

  • 1.  RUDAT

    Posted 03-05-2015 11:49 AM
    Does anyone know if AIA still supports RUDAT?

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    James Jonassen FAIA
    Seattle WA
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West


  • 2.  RE: RUDAT

    Posted 03-06-2015 05:28 PM

    Hello Jim....
    Both the RUDAT and SDAT programs are still very much alive and well at AIA. 

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    RK Stewart FAIA
    Founder
    RK Stewart Consultants
    Salt Lake City UT
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West


  • 3.  RE: RUDAT

    Posted 03-06-2015 07:25 PM
    In today's AIArchitect, 06MAR15 edition, is a link to the 2014 AIA Annual Report that highlights 2 intro "chapters" and 13 "chapters" on various topics including one chapter on "Communities by Design".  Communities by Design became an in-house AIA department and displaced the R/UDAT committee that was part of the AIA Regional Urban Design Committee that existed for some 35 years before.  Yes!  Very much supported by national AIA, but not really in AIA members hands anymore.  I have been a R/UDAT Team Leader as recently as 2008 in Boerne, TX and Team Leader in 2009 in Newport City, VT and both were huge successes locally and regionally, so the program is alive and well.  Many have been held since then, a map is supplied in the annual report.

    My concern is that without AIA national support for R/UDAT or RUDC as an active Professional Interest Area [PIA] or "Knowledge Community", it is at arms length for young professionals to gain exposure to urban design situtions and opportunities, especially significant non-design elements involving the  economic redevelopment components of R/UDAT's, tourism, civic branding, sociology of civic policy making, stakeholder enhancements, as well as allied design components of landscape architecture/open space, multi-modal transportation, public art, civic monuments, and other urban design facets that are tailored to a particular communities needs.  I have contacted my elected AIA Board member and other AIA Board members on this concern many times, but the crash of 2008 has caused AIA National to focus on "Repositioning".

    AIA R/UDAT's have been the most outstanding public outreach of the AIA for over 40 years.  Civic leaders, elected officials, business people, and young leaders emerge from a 5 day R/UDAT event thrilled to see the multi-dimensional thinking displayed by architects...finally a public that understands what we do and how we create tremendous value with architectural thinking.  With all of your help, may it continue to proliferate !

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    James Abell FAIA
    Abell Architects
    Tempe AZ
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West