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 Session
A Living Systems Approach to Design

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
WE05 The Architect’s Role in Disaster Preparedness and Assistance
WE25 Integrating Green Design with Historic Preservation
WE37 Focus on Construction Drawings:  Innovative Project Delivery Methodologies

Thursday, May 3, 2007
TH01 CES Theater: Airflow Modeling: An Essential Part of an Integrated Sustainable Design Process
TH02 Concrete for Cool Communities
TH04 Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design
TH05 Don't Let Green Design Cause Red Ink
TH06 High Performance Schools
TH07 NAAB Visiting Team Member Training
TH08 Sustaining Our Elderly
TH09 International Architecture Practice and Design: AIA Honorary International Fellows Forum
TH10 Desert Architects: Creating Livable and Sustainable Places
TH11 Triple Bottom Line Choices for Equity, Environment, and Economy
TH12 Postoccupancy Evaluation of the LEEDSilver Cohousing Project
TH13 Establishing a National Agenda for Green Building Research
TH14 Managing Your Digital Practice with New AIA Contract Documents
TH15 Rethinking Development-oriented Transit
TH16 The IBC: A Step-by-Step Process
TH17 Creating Sustainable Psychological and Physiological Designs
TH18 BIM Best Practices, Best Results
TH19 The Construction Outlook: Implications for Architecture Firms
TH20 Green Historic Buildings: Old and New Learn From Each Other
TH21 AIA150: A Blueprint for Urban Revitalization
TH23 Health Impacts of the Built Environment: AIA Housing Awards 
TH24 The Simple Home: Six Paths to Sustainability 
TH25 Architecture and Lifecycle Assessment
TH26 Working with the Bully Pulpit for Quality Urban Design
TH28 Architecture and Life Cycle Assessment
TH29 The Role of Air and Water-Resistive Barriers in Cavity Wall Construction
TH30 Advancing Sustainability: Universities as Research Partners
TH31 Institutionalizing Sustainability in Architecture Firms: Growing a Green Practice
TH33 The Findings of the Condo Risk Management Roundtable
TH34 Greening Affordable Housing: New Innovations from the Field
TH35 Keys to Good School Daylighting
TH36 AIA 2005 Latrobe Fellowship: Collaborative Research Results
TH37 Building Commissioning: What Architects Need to Know
TH38 LEED in the Trenches: What Works and What Doesn’t
TH39 Extending Green Design to Promote Healthy Lifestyles of Users
TH40 Going Platinum: Setting New Benchmarks for Architects
TH41 Sustainability 101: A Clear Framework for Architects
TH42 York University’s Sustainable Campus Planning and Design
TH43 Solar Electricity in Architecture
TH44 Architects Discuss America's New Regionalism
TH45 Why Owners Like Design-Build: An Owners' Panel
TH46 Sustainability Initiatives at the AIA: 50to50 and the Green Cities Toolkit
TH47 UC Merced: Creating a 21st Century Green Campus in a Greenfield
TH48 Sustainability, Design, and Innovation
TH49 Drivers of Change: Energy, Water, and Climate Change
TH50 Emerging Trends in Housing Design: AIA/HUD Secretary's Awards
TH51 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Forum
TH55 Beyond Redlines: Creating a Practice-Based QM Program
TH56 Cracked! Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry
TH57 Healthy Buildings, Healthy Bottom Line
TH58 The Environmental Stewardship of 20th-Century Modernism
TH59 Weather Intelligence for Metal Roof Designers
TH60 Turning Cities Green: Reinventing the American Neighborhood
TH61 Going Green: Becoming a Sustainable Hospital
TH62 Is Historic Preservation Green? 
TH63 Sustainable Design in the Post-Katrina Era
TH64 Innovative Project Delivery Models
TH65 Standard 189: High Performance Green Buildings
TH66 Great Streets/Great Skyline
TH67 Plumbing Products' Contribution to Water Conservation
TH68 The Architecture and Design Education Network: A Primer

Friday, May 4, 2007
FR01 How San Antonio Grew and Why: HRC Preservation Lecture
FR02 High Performance Envelope Design 
FR03 High Performance Schools: How Do They Really Perform?
FR04 Adaptive Use + Urban Design = Authentic Sustainable Placemaking
FR05 The 2007 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects: The Architecture of Sustainability
FR06 The Grass Can Be Greener: Designing Responsible Communities
FR07 GSA's GSA (Green Solicitation for Architects)
FR08 Lessons Learned from the ArchVoices Essay Competition
FR09 Innovation and Sustainability in Blast - Resistant Design
FR11 The 10 Worst Contractual Provisions
FR12 Ecological Literacy: Are Architecture Schools Failing the Environment?
FR13 A201: What Changes are Ahead? 
FR14 AIA Honors Models of Excellence in Architecture Education
FR17 Integrated Whole Systems Design: Redesigning the Design Process for High Performance Buildings 
FR18 Designing for Aging Baby Boomers as Opposed to Seniors: What's the Difference?
FR19 Public Green Guideline Specifications: Bringing Your Green Vision to Fruition on the Job Site
FR20 Architecture as Performance Art: The Art of Listening
FR21 The Cognition of Creativity
FR22 Tectonics in High Performance Façades
FR23 BIM and Green Design in Small Firms 
FR25 Integrating Acoustics and Technology in High Performance Interiors 
FR26 Energy Methods and Metrics
FR27 An Investigative Study of the Integration of Physical Systems in Sustainable Tall Buildings
FR30 New York New Visions: Success or Failure?
FR32 Avoiding the Pitfall of Non-AIA Agreements
FR33 Photocatalysis: Self-Cleaning Buildings and Pollution Abatement
FR34 LEED, Standards and Movements, Standard 189, and Leed Version 3.0
FR35 Speed Mentoring
FR36 New York City Builds on Its Legacy
FR37 BIM Strategies from Public and Private Clients: Owners' Perspective
FR38 Green Building Rating Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Building Design and Performance
FR39 Advocacy Tactics for a Sustainable Endgame: The Politics of Sustainability
FR40 The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
FR41 8 x 4: Eight Green Housing Case Studies Dissected by Four Experts
FR42 Global Visions of Sustainability
FR43 Sustainable Communities in Our Nation's Regions: AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design
FR44 Social Justice and Sustainability
FR45 Smart Buildings: How to Integrate Advanced Building Systems
FR46 The Practice of Regenerative Design: Beyond Sustainability 
FR47 Sustainable Design Perspectives after the Disaster
FR48 IDP Boot Camp for Seasoned Practitioners
FR49 AIA Architecture Firm Award
FR50 Best Practices in Small Project Design
FR51 Planning San Antonio's Growth: Conversations with Three Mayors
FR52 Intelligent Transparency for Building Skins: ETFE System
FR53 Intelligent Transparency for Building Skins: ETFE Systems
FR55 Building for Accessibility Affects Our Lifecycle
FR56 LEED and the Evolution to Become a Sustainable Design Firm
FR57 Real Energy Savings with Performance Targets
FR58 Copyright Law and Design Agreements: What’s Mine is Mine!
FR59 Architect-led Design-Build: A Practical Business Plan
FR60 Walter Wagner Forum
FR61 Form, Ecology, and Place: The Shape of Green
FR62 50 Green Strategies for Schools that Cost Less
FR63 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
FR64 Beyond Sustainability: New Materials Redefine Freedom
FR66 Making a Difference: AIA 2007 Young Architect Award Recipient’s Discussion
FR67 Hypertrack: A New Paradigm for Integrated Project Delivery
FR68 Risk Management for Arrrrrr! Chitects: Walking the Professional Liability Plank
FR69 Engaging the Full Dimensions of Place
FR70 Adaptive Use of Reclaimed Stone Materials
FR71 A Case Study on Green Building at Wetland Studies and Solutions
FR72 Under the Green Roof: Trends in Architectural Liability
FR74 Deconstructing Sustainable Interiors
FR75 American Architects: From Jefferson to Jones
FR76 Didactic Field Drawing
FR77 Schools of the 21st Century: A Whole New School Environment
FR80 The Viridian Loan Fund: Bringing Green Roofs to Affordable Housing
FR81 Beyond Cool and Sustainable: Five Es of High Performance Roofing
FR84 Greening K - 12 Schools: Cost-Effective, High Performance, Sustainable Schools for Our Children, Educators, and Communities
FR85 Hispanic Space: Architecture of Acculturation
FR86 Daylighting and Glare Control Program
FR87 Sustainable Communities: The Politics of Code-making
FR88 Evolving from Disposable Architecture: The Inherent "Green-ness" of Preservation
FR89 Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
FR90 Build It Green, Keep It Green
FR91 Toward Eco-Effective Design
FR92 Financing Commercial and Residential Green Building
FR93 Follow the Green Brick Road: Applying Sustainable Design Solutions to Wayfinding Challenges

Saturday, May 5, 2007
SA02 Structural Bamboo: Thinking Outside the Wooden Box
SA03 Making Your Firm a Green Learning Organization: Sustainable Design and Practice Management
SA04 Ethical Leadership, Culture, and Performance
SA05 Collaboration and Coordination: LEEDing a Sustainable Team
SA06 Austin Energy’s Zero Energy Home Design Competition
SA07 Resilient Green Design Teams and Processes
SA08 High Performance Facilities: Standards, Initiatives, and Resources
SA09 The Evidence-based Truth about Private Rooms for the Aging
SA10 A Skygarden Condominium: Designing to Maximize Occupant Comfort
SA11 Organized Design Team in Japan: Response to Client and Society
SA12 The Value of Architecture (Green and Otherwise)
SA13 Designing the Sustainable Workplace in the Civic Environment
SA14 Alternative Careers in Sustainable Design
SA15 Adaptive Use of Historic Urban Structures
SA16 Permaculture and the Evolution of Regenerative Design
SA17 Design Issues and Considerations for Improving Sustainable Roofs
SA18 Pearl River: Designing a Zero Energy Tower
SA19 Chicago's Streetscape and Urban Design Program
SA20 "Matri ARCH itect"
SA21 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Awards: A Texas Trio of Recent Examples
SA22 Lifecycle Building Design: Reducing Energy and Resource Impacts
SA24 Architectural Fabric Structures
SA25 AIA Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community Seminar
SA26 Professional Practice in the 21st Century
SA27 Hit the 50 Percent Reduction Mark Using Today's BIM Tools
SA29 The Barefoot Home and the New Informality
SA30 Biomimicry and Architecture 
SA31 Developing Leaders and Leadership
SA33 Mentoring Essentials for IDP Supervisors and Mentors
SA34 Change: Ideas and Influences Reshaping the Design of Schools
SA35 Mitigating the Urban Heat Island: Designing with Cool Urban Materials
SA36 Making Decisions Earlier with BIM: Moving the Curve
SA38 Ethics as a Foundation for Socially Responsible Architecture
SA39 The Writers Panel: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future
SA40 AIA 2007 Owner/Architect Agreements
SA41 Solar Decathlon: Learning Lab for Education and Practice
SA43 An Architect's Guide to Starting a Design Firm: A Report from the Trenches
SA44 LEEDing Historic Landmarks: Successfully Applying LEED Systems to Historic Buildings
SA45 Our Green Building Adds Value to Our Business Because
SA46 Leadership, Requirements, and Incentives: Chicago's Green Approach
SA47 Regional vs. Global in Sustainable Design
SA48 The Role of Ethics in Sustaining the Profession: More than Just Words on Paper
SA49 Crafting a Sustainable Infill Neighborhood: Portland’s South Waterfront District
SA50 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
SA51 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
SA52 Inpatient Unit Design: Defining the Design Characteristics of a Successful Adaptable Unit
SA53 Residential Site Environments and Yard Activities of Older Adults