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.
This year COD will offer 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. The second will take place in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, September 20-24, 2023.
This is a list of prospective projects we will be visiting during the 2015 COD Conference in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger, Norway taking place June 21-30. Introduction The Norway conference will be arranged so you can attend all three sections, the first two, or the last two. There are international flights to all three cities. Conference Overview We will visit three cities - Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger - as well as rural places and projects in between. We will get an historical prospective by visiting a few key structures - a traditional wood farm village, a Stave Church as well as some 19th and 20th Century projects. We will then visit new projects, with their architects, to learn how the evolving culture is influencing today's architecture and design. These firms represent a wide variety of ages, nationalities, sizes of practices, and types of work. Some projects are bigger, some very small. In all cases the projects are rooted in Norwegian traditions while being innovative in their form and craft. #WalkingTours #COD #ConferenceTour #NorwegianArchitecture #CommitteeonDesign #design #Norway #Conferences