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The Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN®) Knowledge Community develops knowledge and information to benefit architects who are engaged in, or who are interested in learning more about, custom residential practice. CRAN® presents information and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and expertise to promote the professional development of its members via discussion forums, national symposia and conventions, publications, and local activities.

CRAN® Symposium

The 2024 symposium dates are to be determined. 

The CRAN® 2023 Symposium was held October 11 - 15. View the schedule for more info>.

AIAU CRAN Courses and Recordings

By Alexander Chaconas posted 01-19-2021 12:40 PM

  
Visit the AIAU CRAN® page for comprehensive list of our On-Demand courses and register. 

2022 CRAN® Course Calendar


Getting Your Work Published II - Print Media
Speakers: Mary Jo Bowling, S. Claire Conroy, Eve Guilbaud, Kevin Harris, Assoc. AIA, Michele Grace Hottel, AIA, Sheri Olson, FAIA
Recorded live December 7, 2022
Available on-demand >

Getting Your Work Published I

Speakers: Ann Fugeron, FAIA, Kevin Harris, Assoc. AIA, Liza Hausman, Michele Grace Hottel, and Paul Petrunia
1 LU
Recorded live May 18, 2022
Available on-demand >

2021 AIAU CRAN Recordings

The Iconic House Series 

Contemporary neuroscience using MRI imaging of people’s brains while they perform tasks has revealed a much more important role for memory in the creative process. The Iconic House Series will explore the ways our response to or experience of highly memorable houses may consciously or unconsciously influence our thought processes as residential designers. Each of the Iconic House and Iconic Room programs will ask three residential architects to present an Iconic House that has been personally important to them and to show one of their own design projects, explaining how their chosen Iconic example has influenced their thinking. The Durability and Details of Iconic Houses Program will explore how the details of iconic historic and modernist houses have contributed to their durability or lack thereof, and what we can learn from their successes and failures in detailing our own projects for durability. Restoring Iconic Houses will discuss the specific problems of restoring, and upgrading various systems essential to preserving architectural structures that are important to the history of our profession.  

Register for the series >


The Iconic House in Contemporary Design I
Speakers: Peter D. Moor & Chris Baker, AIA, Stuart Cohen, FAIA, Mark Larson, AIA, Jean Rehkamp Larson. AIA, and Thomas Ryan, AIA
1 LU
Available on-demand >

Iconic Houses: Lessons Learned on Detailing for Durability
Speaker: Matthew Bronski
1 LU
Available on-demand >

Iconic Room in Contemporary Design
Speakers: Stuart Cohen, FAIA, Dell Mitchell, AIA, Celeste Robbins, AIA, and Anke Barnes, FAIA
1 LU
Available on-demand >


The Farnsworth House

Speakers: Ashley Wilson
1 LU
Available on-demand >

The Iconic House in Contemporary Design II
Speakers: Stuart Cohen, FAIA, Blake Held, AIA, Thomas Kligerman, Joeb Moore, Clay Rokicki, and James Strickland
1 LU
Available on-demand >


Working Across Typologies

Speakers: Kristen Chin, Warren Lloyd AIA, David Neiman, Alex Salazar, AIA, NOMA, and Jesse Thompson
1 LU
Learn more and register >

2020 AIAU CRAN® Series Recordings

The CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network) Virtual Seminar Series focused on timely topics including working in the COVID-19 environment, social equity, and sustainability. These six informative and engaging sessions are hosted on the AIAU platform. CRAN is excited to share these sessions on-demand to help custom residential architects and design professionals advance their practices in this challenging and evolving environment.

Beauty and Performance – Exploring the Framework for Design Excellence on Residential Projects
Speaker:  Tate Walker, AIA
1 LU/HSW
Available on-demand >

AIA's 2030 Commitment - Are You Up for the Challenge? 
Speaker:  Nathan Kipnis, FAIA
1 LU/HSW
Available on-demand >

The COVID Practice
Speakers: Luis Jauregui, FAIA; Alice Kimm, FAIA; Joy Meek, AIA; and Heather Philip O'Neal, AIA, NOMA
1 LU
Available on-demand >

Black Stories in Architecture
Speakers: Joclyn Oats
1 LU
Available on-demand >

Solid Resilience
Speakers: Shawna Meyer, AIA, LEED AP, and Christopher Meyer, AIA, LEED AP
1 LU/HSW
Available on-demand >

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