When we leave Savannah, the topic of preservation shapes our thinking and goal of restoring the virtues of preservation and the purpose of a place. Savannah’s National Historic Landmark District is an unrivaled setting for architectural studies. The city’s extensive urban plan and diverse architecture are admired by architects and planners worldwide. Savannah and the surrounding region provide a learning environment that informs the SCAD architecture curriculum through exposure to the urban scale and contextual design and an awareness of the personal scale and relationship between the pedestrian and the city. Students live, work, and play in Savannah, one of the United States’ most extensive National Historic Landmark Districts. SCAD has restored nearly 60 historic buildings in the city, which are now filled with art, beauty, and technology for students to use as a source of insight and inspiration. Outside the university, students work on regional projects, gaining real-world experience while balancing business demands, local priorities, sustainability, and heritage value.

SP will host students at Marywood University and offer programming within downtown Scranton. This conference will explore the historic origins of Scranton born from iron, coal, and steam, to electricity and beyond. Scranton was birthplace and home to a young Jane Jacobs, a predominant architectural advocate for higher density in cities, short blocks, local economies, and mixed uses. We are excited to share this rich history of Scranton, our city, to the Northeast Quad through local firm tours, historic and cultural city tours. Additionally, we have exciting studio workshops planned to cover 3D printing, design build challenges, birditecture, and a live K-12 workshop with the students of Nativity Miguel. Finally, attendees will be invited to attend a career expo with business professionals, our annual Beaux Arts Ball, and informal Council of Presidents meeting.

The Galvanize Your Campus: Core Webinar introduces students to the basics of hot-dip galvanized steel. For more than 100 years, hot-dip galvanizing has been a mainstay of North American industry. Used in various applications in some of the harshest environments, hot-dip galvanizing combats corrosion throughout the world. Though corrosion resistance is inherent any time galvanizing is used, more specifiers select hot-dip galvanizing now for other reasons including lowest initial and life-cycle cost, durability, longevity, versatility, sustainability, and aesthetics. This course will examine the hot-dip galvanizing process as well as other zinc coatings, and detail the intrinsic benefits galvanizing provides.

The Finance Committee will be hosting the third Council of Treasurers meeting on April 17th at 12pm ET. Hear from your fellow treasurers, meet the committee, and let's chat about... Read more »

Join President Cooper Moore and Vice President Nicole Bass on Tuesday April 18th for the National Town Hall! Show up with comments, questions, and concerns regarding the state of the... Read more »

Join us on Wednesday, April 19 to talk with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest (NAVFAC NW) about who they are and the types federal architecture work they do. During the... Read more »

AIA Seattle is hosting their 2023 (Virtual) Climate Summit: Decarbonization for Health Equity & Community Resilience online May 8-9 (9am-2pm PT both days), and we hope you’ll join us! Through examining 1) air quality and the right to positive health outcomes; 2) adaptive reuse strategies, the circular economy, and electrification; and 3) case studies demonstrating what “good” looks like through responsible building in projects and practice, this year’s thought leadership summit will take a systems-approach to explore high-impact decarbonization strategies that nurture our communities and ecosystems.

Join President Cooper Moore and Vice President Nicole Bass on Tuesday, June 20th for the National Town Hall! Show up with comments, questions, and concerns regarding the state of the... Read more »

Join us in DC July 20 - July 23 for AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference 2023: UN | REST.

Attend Chicago Build Expo (Oct 11-12, McCormick Place), the largest construction & design show in the Midwest supported by the Governor of Illinois and Lori Lightfoot.

The show features 25,000+ AEC and real estate professionals, 400+ high-profile speakers across 12 conference tracks and AIA CES approved workshops, 250+ exhibitors, Architects Hub, multiple business networking opportunities and the Midwest’s biggest Festival of Construction with entertainment and live music.