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AIA Young Architect Forum YAF 15 Summit Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to young architects today, and strategized on how to best advocate for young architects within the profession and AIA. The YAF is using material developed at the Summit to focus their efforts to bring useful knowledge to young architects across the country.

Designing Tomorrow's Architect - 2005 AIA National Internship Conference "Designing Tomorrow's Architect," a national internship conference devoted to improving the internship process, was held in San Antonio, Texas on September 22-24, 2005. Twenty-five emerging professionals joined key leaders from the academic and practice communities to learn, discuss, analyze and collectively create dynamic visions for tomorrow's architects.

Inventioneering Architecture In celebration of Switzerland's rich architectural heritage and the unveiling of the new de Young Museum by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (Studio Basel), swissnex and the four Swiss schools of architecture present Inventioneering Architecture, an exhibition and lecture series at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.

2005 ArchVoices Annual Essay Competiton How successful is contemporary architectural practice at engaging the general public? Do architects have a responsibility to do so? What roles can young professionals play in communicating the value of architecture and design? How might the public understanding of architects and architecture change as a result?

ACADIA/AIA TAP 2004 Digital Fabrication Conference How can emerging industrial processes reshape building design and construction? Design ideas, technical innovation and fabrication expertise come together in this forum where theory can be translated into practice. include a spectrum of critical issues affecting architecture today.

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	Action Plans Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	Focus on The Architect Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	Generational Differences - Marsha Littell, HOK Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	BIM, BIM, BIM Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	Future Visions Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	AIA Strategic Plan - Marion Fowlkes, FAIA, AIA National Board of Directors Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	Why are we here, and what do we need to do? Young architects and invited guests evaluated the history of the Young Architects Forum (YAF), identified issues important to ...	July 1, 2007
	So What Would Nature Do? Non-human living systems provide the only technology other than our own to which we have access. While close copying of nature ...	March 1, 2007
	Twenty Years of Shaping Civic Design Twenty years ago, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. awoke one morning and realized he was the chief urban designer of his ...	January 8, 2007
	Every Designer is an Editor Every designer is an editor. By editing our work we transform it to new work. We refine, restructure and reconceive, all ...	December 1, 2006
	Responsive Material / Responsive Structure Visionary designers and fiction writers speculate today about a future environment of nanotechnology and 'smart dust', able to ...	December 1, 2006
	Natura Naturata: The Civic Stewardship of Urban Nature The Huron Natural Area Co-operative Project (HNA) is a four hundred acre ecological education park on the periphery of the City ...	December 1, 2006
	Multicultural Modernism Ehrlich's Culver City-based firm is internationally recognized for distinctive designs that extend the traditions of ...	September 5, 2006
	Teddy Cruz Inspired by his studio's location at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, Cruz's work explores the ...	July 3, 2006
	Architecture Research Office ARO was established in 1993 by Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky. Their work has become a model for research-driven ...	May 1, 2006
	Urban Scan Lot/Ek (pronounced "low tech") a New York City-based design collaboration headed by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano juxtaposes ...	March 1, 2006
	Brigitte Shim Shim's innovative Toronto-based firm integrates furniture, architecture, and landscape design. The firm's focus on the ...	February 1, 2006
	Meeting Humanity's Greatest Challenge "How do we dramatically cut down on green-house gas emissions, lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and become more ...	January 5, 2006
	Michael Rock Founded in 1994 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout, the design studio 2x4 has developed a reputation for ...	December 1, 2005
	Inventioneering Architecture - Dirk Hebel and Jorg Stollmann The research of Dirk Hebel and Jorg Stollmann involves applying the details of small-scale objects to the design of larger ...	November 8, 2005
	Inventioneering Architecture - Valerio Olgiati Valerio Olgiati is Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Architecture of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), ...	October 31, 2005
	Inventioneering Architecture - Ines Lamuniere and Patrick Devanthery Patrick Devanthery and Ines Lamuniere were born in Sion and Geneva in 1954. Partnership DEVANTHERY & LAMUNIERE, Architects in ...	October 25, 2005
	Inventioneering Architecture - Andrea Deplazes Andrea Deplazes' research addresses a broad spectrum of architectural design activities, including public and institutional ...	October 17, 2005
	Inventioneering Architecture - Marc Angelil Marc Angelil's research addresses contemporary developments in urban design. Using various case studies from Europe, Asia, and ...	October 14, 2005
	The Boston Arts and Crafts Movement	September 1, 2005
	Architecture and Public Life	August 1, 2005
	Toshiko Mori Mori discusses how she integrates innovative materials and fabrication with traditional techniques to produce stunning ...	July 1, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Committee Discussion	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Essay Group 4	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Essay Group 3	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Essay Group 2	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Essay Group 1	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, Honorable Mention	June 10, 2005
	2005 ArchVoices Essay Competition, First and Second Place Entry	June 10, 2005
	Recent work for the GSA, Part 2 An AIA SF/SFMOMA Public lecture.	May 15, 2005
	Recent work for the GSA, Part 1 An AIA SF/SFMOMA Public lecture.	May 15, 2005
	Contemporary California Architecture The architecture and urban design critic for the San Francisco Chronical journeys east to describe many examples of ...	June 1, 2005
	Bahai Temple for South America	April 1, 2005
	Solving Rationalization for Intention	April 1, 2005
	Education Summit: Evolving Tools, Evolving Ideas. The Place for Digital Fabrication in Architectural Education, Part Two	March 1, 2005
	Education Summit: Evolving Tools, Evolving Ideas. The Place for Digital Fabrication in Architectural Education, Part One	March 1, 2005
	Refabricating Architecture (Everyday)	February 1, 2005
	Digital Fabrication: Manufacturing Architecture	February 1, 2005
	Rule Building	April 1, 2005
	Digital Fabrication, The role of the digital model for communication and construction of complex geometries	February 1, 2005
	Digital Fabrication, The role of the digital model for communication and construction of complex geometries	February 1, 2005
	Appealing to the Masses, or Serious Play with Blocks	February 1, 2005
	Digital Design and Prefabrication in the Wood Structural Component Industry	February 1, 2005
	Systems-Built Housing: Current Trends and Potential for Architectural Innovation	February 1, 2005
	Technology Mediated Process: Case Study -- MIT Stata Center	March 1, 2005
	Digital Tectonics: The intersection of the physical and the virtual	February 1, 2005
	Embodied Fabrication: Computer Aided Spacemaking	March 1, 2005
	Teaching Digital Fabrication through Design	February 1, 2005
	File to Factory and Real Time Behavior in Architecture	March 1, 2005
	Digital Design and Fabrication of Surface Structures	March 1, 2005
	Design Promotions	April 1, 2005
	Beyond Geometry: Bidirectional Design Process	April 1, 2005
	New Voices: Remarks on Design in the 21st Century The first in the three part series, this panel discussion, moderted by Deborah Snoonian, Senior Editor, Architectural Record, ...	July 1, 2004