AIA 2006 National Convention
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2006 Education Seminar Materials
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CT01 Falling Glass: Innovation without problems
CT03 Making Green Buildings Healthy
CT05 PVC Single-Plies As Sustainable Roofing Systems
CT06 Specifying Windows and Doors Using Performance Standards
CT08 Impact of SCAQMD Rule 1113 for Architectural Coatings
TH21 The New Sonic Boom: Designing Dynamic Acoustic Environments
TH22 Innovative Learning Environments that Inspire
TH23 Defining Sustainable Design
TH24 Is China the Right Place for your Firm?
TH25 Historic Preservation and Smart Growth
TH26 Exploring Prisons as a Design, Ethical, and Social Policy Issue
TH27 Engaging Multicultural Communities
TH28 Feng Shui for Residential Architecture
TH29 Solutions By Design
TH30 Accessible Home Design
TH31 Rebirth of the Master Builder - The BIM Paradigm Shift
TH32 The Next Architect: New Paradigms in Professional Practice
TH33 Opening Details: Accessible transition between inside and out
TH34 A Building Code for the 21st Century
TH35 Architect-Led Design-Build
TH36 An Update on the AIA-150 / Blueprint for America
TH41 Leadership and Advocacy through Design
TH42 Base Closure - Opportunities for Innovation and Engagement
TH43 Liability and Management Challenges In Document Retention
TH44 Redefining a Behavioral Health Institution
TH45 AIA 2007 Documents: Where is B141 Going?
TH46 Hitting Your Energy Target: Is What You Want What You Get?
TH47 Green Building Confessions
TH48 21st Century Urban Design: Security and Civic Engagement
TH49 Sandhill: The Making of a Sustainable Master Plan and Building
TH50 The Business of Architecture: The New Practice Frontier
TH51 Copy-Catting: Is it Flattery or Infringement?
TH53 Transit Architecture on the Edge: Meeting 21st Century Demands
TH54 The Building Information Model as a Collaboration Tool
TH55 Architecture as Moral Art
TH56 Integrating Science, Art, and Construction at the Gamble House
TH57 LA 4 IDEAS
TH58 Best Practices of Professional Development
TH61 A Fitting Farewell: Design Recommendations for Hospice Care
TH62 100 Years since the San Francisco Earthquake
TH63 The Hispanic Market: Understanding Acculturation
TH64 The Ecology of Worship
TH65 Designing for Cross-Cultural Environments
TH66 Architecture & Public Policy: Innovative Strategic Partnerships
TH67 Building Nuggets: The Dilemma of Salvage
TH68 Multi-Cultural Modernism: Los Angeles: The Incubator of Change
TH69 Creating Multi-cultural and Diverse Architecture Firms
FR01 Regenerative Design - moving beyond sustainability
FR02 Financial Analysis and Building Shareholder Value
FR03 Architects Discuss America's New Regionalism
FR04 Reinventing Wayfinding at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
FR05 Risk Management for Architects: Ten Significant Legal Trends
FR06 Firm Marketing From the Client Perspective
FR07 Architectural Leadership in Ethical and Social Issues
FR08 Promoting the Value of Design
FR09 Designing Tomorrow’s Architect
FR10 HVAC vs. Mother Nature: Operable Windows in Commercial Buildings
FR11 Innovation in Blast Resistant Design
FR12 The IBC - A Step by Step Process
FR13 Memorial Edge: Cultural Facilities at the World Trade Center
FR14 Designing for Health, Productivity and other Life-cycle Gains
FR15 Moving to BIM: A Progress Report
FR17 Benchmarking Your Professional Liability Exposures
FR18 Los Angeles– An urban law unto itself
FR21 Design Earthquake-Resistant Houses and Other Low-Rise Buildings
FR22 More than Leftover Space
FR23 Dockside Lands Development
FR24 Sharpening Your Presentation Skills
FR25 Publishing Opportunities for Architects
FR26 Emergency Preparedness - From Design to Rescue
FR27 Strategies for Finding and Creating the Structures of Place
FR28 Transforming the Past to Preserve Our Future
FR29 Starting a Design Firm
FR30 The Los Angeles River Project: Restoration and Revitalization
FR31 Critical Lighting in Contemplative Space
FR32 Navigating the Maze of Environmentally Preferable Products
FR33 Green Housing Now: The Nuts & Bolts of Design
FR34 Design for Aging Review, 8th Edition: Overview & Current Trends
FR35 Flying Solo: Small Firm Professional Liability Risks
FR36 Green Business and Office Practices
FR41 Designing a Dense, 3-School K-12 Campus at Ambassador Hotel
FR42 Community, Design, and Architecture
FR43 The New Art of Museums
FR44 Re-Forming Zoning
FR45 Innovation on Budget: Using Cost as a Design Tool
FR47 New Practices Roundtable: Starting Your Own Practice
FR48 Preventing Moisture in Building Envelopes
FR49 The Presidio - Main Parade Ground Historic Investigation
FR51 Beyond Architecture - Alternative Careers
FR52 Ethics as a Foundation for Socially Responsible Architecture
FR53 Managing Risk: Three spooky case studies of architect liability
FR54 Designing Buildings for Improved Indoor Air Quality
FR55 The Innovative Edge of Health Facility Design
FR56 Outside the Not So Big House
FR61 Compensation & Rewards
FR62 Griffith Observatory - LA's Most Ambitious Rehabilitation Ever
FR63 GSA's New and Improved Project Planning Process
FR64 The Multiplier Effect: PNC’s Volume-Build LEED Program
FR65 Running a Design Focused Practice Like you Mean It
FR66 Mediation for Architects
FR67 The Role of the Urban Designer in Local Government
FR68 Designing New Schools as Centers of Communities in Urban Areas
FR69 MasterFormat™ 2004 Edition: Making the Transition
FR91 L.A. Now / L.A. Next
SA01 Architect in the Lead: How to Generate Your Own Work
SA02 Protection of Architectural Drawings and Designs
SA03 AIA Documents and the Small Project
SA04 Design for Earthquake Safety
SA05 Teaming with Technology: Collaboration and Data-sharing
SA06 Aggressive Condominium Risk Management
SA07 Green Urbanism
SA08 Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Programs
SA09 Case Study: Trinity Church in Boston
SA10 Economic Trends and Your Firm's Future
SA11 Rapid Leadership Development
SA12 Is your Competition in New York or New Delhi?
SA13 The Power of Career Pathing
SA14 Architect as Developer
SA15 Top 10 Keys to Succeeding at Public Sector Work
SA21 Putting Design Back in Affordable Housing
SA22 The Power of Color in Light
SA23 The Ten Commandments of Risk Management
SA24 Universities as Community Builders
SA25 Preparing Your Firm for the New Talent War
SA26 Best Practices in Collaboration
SA27 Recapturing the Competitive Advantage
SA28 Focus on Construction Drawings: Managing the Process
SA29 Healthcare 2020: A View of the Future
SA31 Turning Brownfields into Green - Making Money as a Developer
SA32 Practicing Ethically: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
SA33 Engaging History - Diverse Approaches to Adaptive Re-use
SA34 Art is Architecture/Architecture is Art
SA35 Residential Renovation Market and Practice
SA36 Deans Discuss Campus Architecture
SA37 Urban Next: L.A. and New Orleans