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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.  design for the future: flexible, holistic, responsive

    Posted 04-27-2020 12:46 PM

    sam lubell in the Los Angeles Times:

    "We're not going to scrap how we've been building architecture and cities. But as our world moves faster and becomes more interconnected, we need to embrace a new tool kit of options that are more flexible, holistic and responsive. Yes, to better address pandemic response. But also to help tackle urgent issues like climate change, terrorism, migration, social disconnection and inequality, community disintegration, housing shortages, traffic, pollution, sprawl and over-development - not to mention problems we haven't anticipated. Our architectural and urban planning systems, developed in a vastly different time, are long overdue to address many of these complex contemporary issues."

    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-22/coronavirus-pandemics-architecture-urban-design?fbclid=IwAR2czRwKVvamQKBpCsmv86zj6j3unq-l1SMeDyuSK4mBjJJVKggVAXUdvMM



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    Kira Gould
    Principal
    Kira Gould CONNECT
    Oakland CA
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West


  • 2.  RE: design for the future: flexible, holistic, responsive

    Posted 04-28-2020 06:08 PM
    Great article, thanks for sharing! Architects seems has less and less influence with how cities are formed comparing to the past. Now people staying more time at home, it also helps us to rethink how we decision homes that they can really shelter.

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    Geng Tan
    Atlas Associates International
    Bellevue WA
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    2024 HRC Taliesin West