The Sessions co-hosts met all together for the first time in the meatspace last week, making the pilgrimage to Atlanta, Georgia for the AIA National Convention. Immersed in the tens of thousands of attendees for three days, we met an impressive array of professionals across the architectural board, and dove deep into how the AIA sees itself and architecture today. This week's episode is entirely devoted to happenings at the Convention, including: NCARB's resolution of the intern-titling debate, Bill Clinton's keynote speech, Donna's talk on nontraditional practice, the debut of the second video in AIA's Look Up campaign (featuring blind architect Chris Downey), our interview with Autodesk, and Ken's role as a delegate voting in the AIA's Business Session.
Listen to episode thirty of Archinect Sessions, "Inside the Institute":
Shownotes:
Julia Ingall's Why Aren't You Hired? piece, first in a new series on employment
Stop the presses: Paul Goldberger's take on critical relevance in the social media age
Katherine Darnstadt of Latent Design
Jeff Echols' #coffeeaday
Obiekwe Okolo (of Kanye Architecture presentation at the AIA Convention)
ACSA's #IMADETHAT campaign
From Atlanta:
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As much as I liked the High Museum, were they still using trashcans to help with leaks?
Keynote by Clinton - did Kanye have a prior commitment?
Love the photo, looks like Toulouse Lautrec.
Hmm, this episode was tailored to draw in tin foil hat people. Where are you?
Ken, we already chased Blake Smith away... Do we need to draw any more like him here?
Oops, correction needed: Kurt Neiswender of Project FORA is indeed a registered architect, in Michigan. His Twitter is here and website here.
I'll take this opportunity to once again encourage everyone who is still wondering whether or not to get registered: Go for it. It feels soooooo good to have that mountain climbed.
Nicely done, Donna and Amelia.
+1 on getting registered
+10 on all that food
I feel I need to explain the photo pose: After Paul debuted his incredible eagle shirt here, at the Treatise launch party, I rose to the bizarre animal shirt challenge by borrowing my dad's 1970's angry zebra polyester disco shirt (vintage!). Amelia brought her very beautiful Japonesque silk bunny tunic. Coincidentally, there was a bird on the pillow at the W lounge. So we struck a pose (that did not include Paul or Ken as neither of them were sporting animals at the time this photo was taken)!
damn.... i dont own any animal shirts
As they taught is in school: context is important.
And to think I was going out of my way not to comment on Donna's Zebra attire.
it was great to meet up and shut the 'w' down that night!
So.... LARPING AIA 2016? Who's with me?
Tell me more, Fruehling....what LARP characters are you thinking?
Ok, I am counting Donna as a yes. According to what I have learned from lord of the rings, we need at least three more.
I am thinking ArchiKnight. I attack castles, then critique the location of the various defensive elements.
Hahaha then I am Architecture Man, who rushes to save people from bad design only to have to stop and rant when s/he sees a bad building on the way to the rescue. It's the super hero my son made up while riding in the car listening to me rant! I'll have him draw up a costume for me.
Funny how both of our characters employ critique....
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