Handouts for the seminars are posted here as they become available. Please note that not all speakers released their visual presentations for preconvention viewing.

General Sessions
GS01 Sustainable Design

GS02 Urban Security in the Twenty-First Century

GS03 Forty Years: The Anniversary of Whitney Young's Presentation to the Institute

AIA Government Advocacy Seminars
EX11 GSA: Greening Federal Facilities HSW

EX12 EPA Energy Star

EX13 Air Force: Opportunities for Design Contracting

EX14 The State Department’s Barrier-Free Accessibility Program

EX21 Designing for the Navy

EX22 The Top 10 Keys to Succeeding at Public-Sector Work

EX23 The State Department’s Embassy Program

EX31 MILCON Transformation: Opportunities with the Army Corps

Thursday, May 15
TH01 Distributed Workforce: Ensuring Quality in the Virtual Office

TH02 Legally Green: Legal and Practice Issues of LEED

TH03 Blackstone Station: Harvard’s First LEED Platinum Project

TH04 Daylighting Obstacles and Opportunities

TH06 Environmental Delight: Pleasure, Beauty and Equity for All

TH07 Cracked! Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry

TH09 The Invisible City: Enhancing the Land Through Underground Interventions

TH10 Negotiating a Green Mindset

TH11 How to Lead Your Church Clients Through the Design Process

TH12 Standard 189: High-Performance Green Buildings

TH13 Collaboration of Architects within the Preservation of America

TH14 Civic Duty and the Architect: Helping to Change Communities Through the Design Process

TH21 To Boldly Go Where Everybody Else Has Gone: Access in New Houses

TH22 Multigenerational Leadership Roles for Architects

TH23 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture

TH24 Inventing with a Reluctant Community

TH25 Architecture Education Around the World

TH26 Transferring Ownership and Leadership Effectively

TH27 Civic Architecture: Design and Identity in a Changing Society

TH28 Architecture and Human Rights: Shelter, Justice, and Ethics

TH29 Not Your Grandfather’s Drafting Class: Transforming High School Architectural Education

TH30 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture

TH31 The New York Times Building: Vision, Collaboration, and Innovation

TH32 Winning the Talent War: Seven Ingredients for Building a Design-First Culture and Practice

TH33 Driving Process Change in the Institutional Sector

TH34 The Changing Face of the Architecture Profession

TH35 You Make the Call: Preposterous Practices by Peers

TH36 Power Words and Strategies: New Communication Tools for Architects

TH37 International Architecture Practice and Design: Honorary Fellows International Forum

TH39 Exploring Legal and Insurance Issues in Collaborative Design

TH51 The 2006 IBC: A Step-by-Step Process with Case Studies

TH52 Architect-Led Design-Build

TH53 The AIA Practice Academy: Collaboration and Innovation in Education and Practice

TH54 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Forum

TH55 The Value Proposition: Moving the Profession from Best Value to Added Value

TH56 Choosing the Appropriate Owner/Architect Agreement: One Size Does Not Fit All

TH57 It's Certified Green But What Does That Mean?

TH58 AIA Firm Award Presentation

TH59 BIM: Best Practices, Best Results

TH60 From Candy to Chromosomes: Creating a World-Class Biotech Lab

TH61 Green Boston: A Comprehensive Urban Strategy

TH62 Hairy Problems and the Chamber of Risk Management Secrets (sample contract)

TH63 Leadership Through Pro Bono Community Service: Architects in Service to Society

TH64 Making Density Work: Dollars, Design, and Sustainability

TH65 Research in Architecture: The Challenge to Foster a Culture of Creating and Sharing Knowledge

TH66 Have You Been to an Architecture School Lately?

TH67 AIA Committee on the Environment: Workshop and Info Exchange

TH68 Architects Discuss America's Regional Landscape

TH71 Off Grid: Ideas for Building a Carbon-Neutral Future

TH72 Architecture as Performance Art: The Art of Listening

TH73 Educating Our Architects: How Local Components Can Build an Education and Training Program for Emerging Professionals

TH74 Operation Mindshift: A Cross-Industry Catalyst for Change

TH75 End-of-Service Life Recycling of Thermoplastic Roof Assemblies

TH76 The Construction Outlook: Implications for Architecture Firms

TH77 BIM: We Did It, So Can You

TH78 The Next Generation of Ideas on Water

TH79 Five Keys to Leadership Succession Success

TH80 Building Blocks for Healthy Indoor Air: Improving Indoor Air Quality in Our Schools

TH81 Housing Trends of the 21st-Century Campus: Addressing Today’s Student Expectations

TH82 Skyscrapers Defining Cities: New Trends in Supertall Buildings and Urban Design

TH83 A Conversation with Sarah Susanka, FAIA

TH84 The Value of Architecture Centers

Friday, May 16
FR00 The History of Boston and the Architectural Development of the City: HRC Preservation Breakfast

FR01 The Fine Art of Delegation

FR02 Architectural Concrete: The Sustainable High Performance Material

FR03 Providing for Play for All Ages

FR05 Field of Dreams: Emerging Housing Choices for an Aging Society

FR06 Architecture of the Absurd

FR07 Owner as Architect: Design Integrated into the Corporate Environment at Target

FR08 The Business Case for Better Design: How to Impact a Change in Behaviors and Roles

FR09 Designing for Diversity, Creating Community

FR10 Technology Transfers and Recent Developments in Tall Buildings

FR11 Modeling Tools for Integrated Design

FR21 The United Nations in the 21st Century

FR22 Geothermal Systems: An Alternative Strategy for Sustainability

FR24 Tectonics in High Performance Facades: Architectural Expression Based on Climate, Function, and Materiality

FR25 Preparing for the 2030 Challenge

FR26 Design as a Business Strategy

FR27 Innovations in Professional Practice Knowledge

FR28 Leading from the Margins: The Transformative Role of Architects of Color

FR29 Integrated Project Delivery Realized: Where BIM Really Shines

FR30 The Sustainable Workplace as a Social Contract

FR31 Cultural Intersections: Designing the New Aga Khan University Campus in Karachi, Pakistan

FR32 AIA Twenty-five Year Award

FR33 Words from Drawings: Using Your Visual Skills to Craft Compelling Project Narratives

FR34 Best Practices in Small-Project Design

FR35 Riding the Vortex: African-American Women Architects in Practice

FR36 Walter Wagner Forum 2008: The Role of Architecture Schools in Service to Society

FR37 The Paradox of Green Engineering

FR38 Inside Outsourcing: How Overseas Service Providers are Changing the Profession

FR39 2007 Latrobe Prize

FR41 Mentoring to Enhance Culture and Inspire Leadership: A Facilitated Approach for Firms

FR42 The Need to Negotiate: How to Take Your Career to the Next Level

FR43 The Architecture of Sustainability: The 2008 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Awards

FR44 What the Code Official Doesn't Know Can Hurt You

FR45 We the Leaders, We the Owners: Leadership and Ownership Transition for Design Professionals

FR46 Our Elderly are People Too! Creating Meaningful Environments for the Elderly

FR47 We, All the People: Implications for Women and the Profession

FR48 Organizing Professional Response to the Mayor's Plan NYC 2030

FR49 Preparing the Next Generation of Architects

FR50 Preventing Workplace Strategy Failure: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments

FR51 AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design: Sustainable Communities in Our Nation's Regions

FR53 GSA's WorkPlace Program

FR54 Choosing the Appropriate Owner/Contactor Agreement: One Size Does Not Fit All

FR55 Natural Ventilation in Buildings: Optimizing the Success

FR56 Z Squared: The New Green Office

FR57 Closing the Crack: Recruiting, Retaining, and Registering Women and Minority Architecture Candidates

FR58 Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices

FR59 Mentoring: Three Modern Approaches

FR61 The New Housing New York Legacy Project

FR62 A Workforce of Tethered Millenials: Hiring the Next Generation

FR63 Transportation Design and Community Enhancement

FR64 NAAB Visiting Team Member Training

FR65 The Leap to Zero Carbon

FR66 Adaptive Use: Preserving the Past While Embracing the Future

FR67 AIA Young Architect Award: Making a Difference in Our Firms, Our Communities, and Our Profession

FR68 Occupant Dissatisfaction with LEED: What About Acoustics?

FR69 AIA/HUD Secretary's Awards

FR70 The Politics in Creating Public Open Space

FR71 Showcasing the Melting Pot: The Successful Design of Museums and Cultural Facilities in the United States

FR72 Strategies for Integrated Project Delivery

FR73 Speed Mentoring: Developing You, an Emerging Professional

FR74 Who is Leading in BIM? An Owner's Journey with AE+CM+Contractor

FR75 Can 60 be Nifty? Innovative Design Ideas for Seniors

FR76 Let’s End the Confusion: Four Accessibility Laws Explained

FR77 Collaborating with Consultants for LEED Points: Tips for Achieving Resource Conservation with Consulting Engineers

FR81 Making Condos Work: Balancing the Risk/Reward Equation in Condominium Design

FR82 Mediation for Architects: Resolve Your Disputes Without Litigation

FR83 Myth Busting What You Know About Concrete: Optimizing Concrete Solutions in Your Next Project

FR84 Understanding Design Controls in Local Land Development Codes

FR85 Up the Creek: How We Got Hooked on Sewage and How We Can Break the Habit

FR86 Advanced Curves and Surfaces

FR87 The Bench Press: Developing and Using Regional Benchmarking Systems in a Sustainable Design Consultancy

FR88 Airflow (Computational Fluid Dynamic) Modeling

FR89 LEED Gold Landmark at the University of Illinois

FR90 The Green Library with the Golden Glow: Des Moines Central Library

FR91 Going Green: What Should You Do?

FR92 Relational Design and Construction: Shifting the Culture of Our Work

FR93 The Design of Urban Social Housing in San Francisco

FR94 Didactic Field Drawing Part I

FR95 Developing Your Own Client Base: What’s the Secret?

Saturday, May 17
SA01 Design Review and the Law: Navigating the Process

SA02 Energy Codes and Fenestration

SA03 Technological Career Links: Alternative Opportunities for Architects

SA04 Building Commissioning: A Primer for Architects

SA06 Planning Now for the Next Downturn: Why Eternal Optimism Always Precedes Catastrophic Failure

SA07 Drivers of Change: Urbanization and Land Use

SA08 Indoor Environmental Quality: Designing Healthier Interiors

SA09 A Fresh Approach to Educational Planning and Design

SA10 Female Retail: She Means Business

SA11 Water: The Design of the Water Facility as Civic Space

SA12 Learning from the 2007 IDP Outstanding Firm Award Recipients

SA21 Media Relations for the Small-Project Practitioner: Spreading the News Like a Light in the Old North Church

SA22 We the Young People

SA23 Kendall Square Development: A Proven Collaboration for Success

SA25 Integrating the Permit Process: Auto Code Checking

SA26 AIA Housing Awards: Excellence and Sustainability in Housing Design

SA27 Ethical Leadership, Culture, and Performance

SA28 ARE 4.0: Making a Smooth Transition

SA29 Young Architects in Transition: Ethical Behavior When Founding a New Practice

SA30 Rethinking Development-Oriented Transit

SA31 Sustainable Health Care Architecture

SA32 Move to Integrated Project Delivery with AIA Contract Documents

SA33 Solar- and Wind-Powered Buildings: Toward Carbon-Neutral Green Design with Renewable Energy

SA34 Design for Aging Review 9th Edition: Overview and Current Trends

SA35 Do You Have the Owner's Manual for Your Firm? Making the Transition to Running Your Own Practice

SA36 Analysis of Recent Urban Developments in Asia

SA41 Didactic Field Drawing, Part II

SA42 Risky Business: Work/Life Balance

SA45 Density, Housing, and Eminent Domain: Updates for the Urban Design Professional and Luncheon

SA46 Leveraging Your Resources, Doing More with Less: AIA Practice Management Luncheon and Seminar

SA47 AIA Small Project Practitioners 2008 Shareholders Forum

SA48 Ideas And Influences Reshaping the Design of Schools: AIA CAE Design Awards Trends Luncheon