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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.

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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.  hating Michael Graves

    Posted 05-01-2017 11:48 AM
    Edited by Mike A. Mense FAIA Member Emeritus 05-01-2017 12:11 PM
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    A photo essay of a building in Washington DC claiming the importance of Graves' contributions.

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    Mike Mense FAIA
    mmenseArchitect
    New York NY
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  • 2.  RE: hating Michael Graves

    Posted 05-02-2017 05:29 PM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a wonderful celebration of a truly great architect!

    Sent from my mobile telephone
    Michael R. Ytterberg





    2024 HRC Taliesin West


  • 3.  RE: hating Michael Graves

    Posted 05-02-2017 06:41 PM
    The essay and photos are refreshing and timely, and showcase a delightful Graves project I wasn’t familiar with. As with all practitioners a portion of his work has not passed the test of time all that well, but his oeuvre offers a wonderful variety, inventiveness, charm, and appreciation of history which we disdain at our peril. The reference to KPF is doubly interesting: that firm was modernist initially, then became pseudo-historicist for a large and very profitable period, and then saw which way the wind was blowing and got modernist religion yet again


    2024 HRC Taliesin West


  • 4.  RE: hating Michael Graves

    Posted 05-03-2017 06:04 PM
    I'm not  a fan of post modernism but  if  you want to see  Graves  doing it  pretty well I recommend the San Juan Capistrano Public Library  in Southern CA.  
    On  the  other hand I believe  that certain practitioners  of  the PM "art" did  their  contextual, humanistic thing with a  certain level of  sarcasm and  condescension to what they perceived as the bourgeois culture of  the  time.  And I found it  infuriating.  To wit, Venturi's overscaled TV antenna on a  senior  housing project, "celebrating" the nature  of the  life  lived  inside.  In the  same  way that modernism was  (is) done badly by  cheapening it and only superficially  understanding it,  post modernism became  a caricature  of  itself with simplistic, cartoonish decoration on boxes  inspired  by Monopoly houses and  hotels.

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    Eugene Ely AIA Emeritus, LEED AP
    San Jose, CA
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West