Chapter founding member Thomas Vonier is running for Institute vice president. Elections are slated this June at the AIA national convention in Denver.
AIA Europe, the chapter he established in 1994, and his original Chapter, AIA Washington DC, nominated Tom to run, along with AIA New York. With a strong record of accomplishment within the
Institute, Tom led to establish the AIA International Region. He has long supported the practice interests of AIA members everywhere.
Tom speaks about his candidacy on YouTube.
Every AIA Chapter sends delegates to the convention to cast votes. Tom especially needs votes from AIA Chapters in the United States.
If you have good connections to Chapters and members in the US, please urge them to support Tom. See his campaign web site, www.vonierforaia.com, and please use Facebook®, Twitter® and LinkedIn® to promote his run!
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And we are thankful to Laufen — read the mention of the Lyon conference in the Laufen newsletter.
AIA Europe sponsor Dip-Tech prints on glass for the Fletcher Hotel in Amsterdam.
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#AIA Europe members might recognize some of the faces in this video from the Institute > AIA Diversity - YouTube.
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AIA Europe sponsor Sipral is providing one of four main elements which contribute to the form of the Gehry Partners project for the Foundation Louis Vuitton. A recent article in Le Parisien makes note of the progress on site: La fondation LVMH prend forme - 04/03/2013 - leParisien.fr
Here, a direct link to an English translation. —via Twitter
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AIA Europe is pleased to welcome new members Roland Busenhart, Int'l Assoc. AIA of Switzerland, David M. Dwars, AIA of the Netherlands, Roger W. Keller, AIA of the United States, Alireza Razavi, AIA of France, plus Carsten Roth, Int'l Assoc. AIA and Tamara Anna Iwaseczko, AIA of Germany.
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The strange and amazing nature of publishing in the 21st century…a project by chapter member Marc Baillargeon, Int'l Assoc. AIA has been making the rounds on the internet. Here, at the Huffington Post > A Small Paris Apartment That Could Fit In Your Dorm Room, plus Curbed, inthralld, and at Wired.
Laufen Newsletter for April 2013. Laufen has been an AIA Europe sponsor of since the chapter conference in Basel 2011.
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For the first time, with a little head-scratching along the way, the Lyon conference schedule has been added to the AIA Europe calendar > http://aiaeurope.org/calendar/
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Northeastern University’s School of Architecture, in collaboration with the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, is hosting an international conference on the changing relationship of public participation to architecture and urban design in Boston and Berlin. Read more about "Shaping contested projects for tomorrow’s metropolis".
An international team led by KVA MATx and 360grad + Architekten designed ‘soft’ domestic infrastructure for a set of live/work residences that embraces carbon-neutral lifestyles. Read more from Architect magazine.
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Need continuing education that you are not able to fulfill at an AIA Europe conference? Consider attending the AIA Virtual Convention. (Fair warning: the AIA Virtual Convention might fall short of the "fun factor" that accompanies an AIA Europe event.)
While in Hamburg, AIA Europe did not have a chance to see the HafenCity Subway Station as Architect Magazine did. AIA Europe members might be more familiar with HafenCity because we were there. Don't miss the chance for the same with Lyon, Düsseldorf, London, Paris, &c.
Going to Lyon | 21st Century Renaissance? Perhaps you will meet a new member:
Donna A. Barbaro, AIA and Margaret J. Sedlis Goldstein, AIA of the United States, Massimo Fontana, Prof. Aff. of Switzerland, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Int'l. Assoc. AIA of Denmark, Efendi Rashkuyev, Assoc. AIA of Russia, Ana Maria Rodriguez Remon, Int'l. Assoc. AIA of Spain, Ionuţ Sebastian Vasiu, Int'l. Assoc. AIA of Romania and, rejoining the chapter after a decade hiatus, Karen Sargent, AIA of France.
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AIA Europe member James Jao AIA has a new book out on urbanism. Read more about "Straight Talk About China's Urbanization".
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Printing on glass not enough? 3-D printing is the fashion now and a Dutch architect plans world's first 3-D-printed building.
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AIA Europe sponsor Dip-Tech: Making the world beautiful, one glass pane at a time.
AIA Europe sponsor AGC was awarded Cradle to Cradle Certified Silver certificate for its main decorative glass ranges. Read more from AGC.
The Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention on Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) and the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) convene the First European Award of Intervention on Architectural Heritage. Details are available on the AADIPA website. —via Dominique Tomasov AIA
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Even in the midst of registration for Lyon | 21st Century Renaissance, the chapter would still appreciate hearing voices with regard to conference planning. The AIA Europe | Event survey is still active and ready for your input!
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Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal Lecture by AIA Europe territory member Peter Zumthor, Hon. FAIA is available to view on Vimeo.
As promised - @riba Royal Gold Medal 2013 Lecture with Peter Zumthor available to watch online here: bit.ly/YSBtt3 #architecture
— RIBA (@RIBA) February 25, 2013
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Wet your appetite for architecture on the way to Lyon | 21st Century Renaissance:
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In a round-about way to get there, Lyon | 21st Century Renaissance sees a mention in the Laufen Export Newsletter - February 2013. Laufen will be on hand in Lyon, showing new ceramic technology on Saturday, 20 April in Lyon.
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Visit (or revisit) the Laufen headquarters by Nissen and Wentzlaff as featured in designboom. Laufen has been an AIA Europe sponsor since the 2011 Basel conference, organized by current AIA Europe Treasurer Suzanne Marhefka AIA and Switzerland section director Tiffany Melancon, Assoc. AIA.
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This January, the AIA's five existing offshore Chapters—and the one now forming on mainland China—became part of the new AIA International Region. The Region also includes AIA members who reside outside of the United States (except those in commonwealths, territories, and possessions).
This January, the AIA's five existing offshore Chapters—and the one now forming on mainland China—became part of the new AIA International Region. The Region also includes AIA members who reside outside of the United States (except those in commonwealths, territories, and possessions).
The five existing AIA Chapters are AIA United Kingdom, AIA Continental Europe, AIA Hong Kong, AIA Japan and AIA Middle East. A Chapter is also developing among members in Shanghai and Beijing.
In terms of membership—at approximately 2,400 overall—the AIA’s nineteenth region is about the same size as nine of the others. It is larger than at least three of them, and growing. An interim board of directors is now working on bylaws, forming the legal governing entity, and defining operating principles and mechanisms.
Comments from AIA members and friends are welcome. We look forward to using the AIA International web site (at www.aiainternational.org) and to meeting with those who can attaned AIA Grassroots (20-23 March 2013 in Washington DC) and the AIA national convention (20-22 June 2013 in Denver).
—Tom Vonier
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If you have not yet renewed your AIA membership you can still do so without an interruption of member benefits at aia.org/renew. Members of AIA Europe who are not members of the Institute or those who carry an AIA Europe membership as a supplement to their assigned Institute chapter may renew their membership online.
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The city of Nantes will welcome and organize the 10th edition of ECOCITY as part of the initiative "Nantes European Green Capital 2013".
Following on from Montreal, Istanbul, San Francisco, Bangalore, Shenzhen, Curitiba, Dakar, Adelaide and Berkeley, it will be the first edition to be held in the European Union.
ECOCITY is the cross-disciplinary World Summit on Sustainable Cities supported by the NGO Ecocity Builders.
Bertrand Coldefy shares photos from a France section visit to the development surrounding Île de Seguin just outside of Paris. Among others, the mid-November 2012 event included buildings by Foster + Partners and Ateliers Jean Nouvel.
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A second January welcome to new members of AIA Europe: Esther Jimenez Herraiz, Int'l. Assoc. AIA of Spain plus Gerard John Sullivan, AIA and David M. Wright, III, AIA…both in France.
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If you missed Thomas Bitnar's year-end letter of December 2012, insert your first name here and enjoy!
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AIA Europe is pleased to welcome new member Alessio Pipinato, Assoc. AIA of Italy.
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