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F01 Doctoral Education in Architecture: Impacts of PhDs and Professional Doctorates on the Profession, Education, and Research

F02 Concrete That Cleans Itself and the Environment

F03 Here Comes the Sun

F04 The Architect as Leader of the Development Team

F05 Design Review and the Law: Navigating the Process

F06 Applications of BIM to Sustainable Design: Performative Environments, Strategies for Incorporating Green Approaches into BIM

F07 Using Internships to Improve Diversity within Your Practice

F08 Evidence-Based Design: Competitive Advantage for All Practices

F09 Integrated Design for a Diverse Community: Los Angeles Unified School District Balances Education and the Needs of Its Diverse Urban Constituency

F10 Strategies for Developing a Green Library

F101 Building with Balance: A Greenpeace Co-founder's Perspective

F102 BIM 1.0, BIM 2.0, and BIM 3.0, Where are You?

F103 Integrated Design Tools for Sustainable Design: Building Information Modeling and Related Tools for Design through Documentation

F104 BIG IDEAS, small numbers: First LEED platinum campus

F105 Human Resource and Career Development in Architecture and Construction: Building an Open Book Management Approach into the Design and Construction Workplaces

F106 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Aesthetic Messages Written in the Built Environment About People with Disabilities

F108 Strong Women—How she does all that and why she is leaving

F11 Design for a Changing Climate: The Perkins+Will Response to 2030

F12 Mobile Worker Impacts on Corporate Office Design

F13 Getting to Net Zero Carbon With Diverse Energy Strategies

F14 The Influence of National Culture on the Experience of Place

F15 Absolutely Positively Wellington: A Model for Smart Growth�Taking Steps Toward Sustainable Settlements in Aotearoa/New Zealand

F16 Using LEED to Maximize the Benefits of Sustainability

F17 Keeping Project Management on the Success Track

F19 Lost in Translation: Drawing Buildings, Building the Story Through Drawings

F20 Transit-Oriented Developments and Form-Based Codes: Is the Form-Based Code Right for You?

F204 Succession Planning for Architects — How to Get Out of Business

F21 Fostering Design Innovation Through Diversity: The Landscapes of Andrea Cochran, FASLA

F22 Acoustical Design in Mixed-Use Developments

F23 Skate Parks: Thrash Planning as a Model for User-interactive Design

F24 Collaboration and the Creation of Green Community

F25 Design Innovation: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

F26 Architect-Led Design-Build: Integrated Project Delivery with the Architect in Charge

F27 Global Influences and the Transformation of San Francisco: Urban High-Rise Design and Sustainability Are Re-shaping San Francisco

F28 What the Code Official Doesn't Know, Can Hurt You

F29 2008 Sichuan, China Earthquake Disaster: Lessons Learned

F30 Terrains of Diversity in Sustainable Design: Research in Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural Phenomena in Design Approach

F31 The Invisible Shield: Designing High-Risk Structures

F32 Lessons Learned from Applied Integrated Project Delivery: Identify, Explore, and Understand IPD from Real Projects

F33 The Construction Outlook: Implications for Architecture Firms

F34A IDeAs Z2: Net Zero Energy, Zero Carbon Office Building

F35 Going Global: Planning and Contracting for Success Across International Borders

F36 The Business Case for Diversity: Policies, Practices, and Tools for Creating a Successful Workplace

F37 The Next Generation of Super Efficient HVAC Systems

F38 Designing Diplomacy: New U.S. Embassies in Berlin and Beijing

F39 Electronic File Transfer and BIM Risk Management: Protection from Unauthorized Use of Instruments of Service

F40 Manufacturing for Sustainability: Diverse Approaches to Green

F42 The New ADA Standards: What You Need to Know

F43 Mentoring: Three Modern Approaches

F46 Health Care for All: A Return to the Basics�Reversing the Supersizing Trend

F47 Historic Restoration Using Building Information Modeling

F48 The Integrative Design Process: Reframing and Evolving the Practice of Green Building

F49 Planning Your Career Path: A Guide for Emerging Professionals

F50 Humanitarianism and Re-shaping the Urban Fabric

F51 2007 Latrobe Prize presentation

F52 Embodying the Spirit of Architecture: A panel discussion with architects over the age of eighty from the 10 over 80 Project

F53 The Value of Exterior Insulation and the Positive Impact on Overall Building Performance

F54 Internships: An Invaluable Education, An Invaluable Resource

F55 The Architecture of Sustainability: The 2009 Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects

F56 Architecture for Social Responsibility: Bringing design solutions to local and world communities

F57 A Town Hall Meeting on The Stewardship of Buildings: From Design to Performance in Reducing Carbon Emissions

F58 New Design: Inspired and Empowered by Environmental Responsiveness

F59 A School Rising From The Debris of Katrina To Meet 2030 Challenge: Case Study - A collaborative green school project in New Orleans by two architectural firms

F60 Transferring and Diversifying Ownership and Leadership

F61 Diversity, Sustainability, and Integrated Project Delivery: Pursuing the Triple Bottom Line Through AIA's Strategic Initiatives

F62 Comparing Design-Build and Integrated Project Delivery

F66 The Beauty of Zero: The Design of a Zero Energy Building

F67 Making Density Work: Dollars, Design, and Sustainability�the nuts and bolts of successful density

F68 Deep Matters: Architectural Research in Education and Practice

F71 New Technologies in Practice: A Case Study on Using Building Information Modeling Technologies and the Role of Integrated Design

F72 2009 AIA Construction Manager Adviser Documents: What's New with CMa?

F74 Assessing the Future of Global Practice: The International Committee defines the challenges and opportunities for practice in global markets

F75 The Emerging Professional's Top Five Fundamentals for Contracts

F76 The Spy Who Sued Me: Gathering claims intelligence in a world of KAOS

F78 Best Practices in Small Project Design: 2009 Small Project Practitioners Awards

F79 Using BIM as an IPD Tool: Exploration from concept to clash detection to people

F81 Next Generation: Cultivating 21st Century Regional and Urban Designers in the Academy and Practice

F82 Unique Design Challenges for the Full Spectrum of Diversity

F83 Performing Arts Facilities for Schools: Auditoria and What's Behind Curtain #1

F84 National Architectural Accrediting Board Team Member Training

F86 Revitalizing Severely Distressed Communities: The Role of Architecture and Architects

F87 IDEO Smart Space: Design for Community

F88 Finding the Catalyst: How Design Innovation and Systems Thinking at the Small Scale Can Yield Large-Scale Impact

F89 Diversity of Ideas and Concepts: How Design Competitions Enrich the Fabric of San Francisco and Provide Opportunities for Architects

F90 What's Wrong with How Design Firms Are Set Up?

F91 Capturing More Clients: Delivering Authentic Interviews, Meetings, and Design Presentations

F95 Beyond Traditional Practice: The Loeb and Rose Fellowships

F96 Innovative and Low Energy European Demonstration Projects: Low Energy Design and the SOS Smart Window

F97 Preservation IS Sustainability

F98 The Green Structure: The Structural Engineer's Influence, Effect and Responsibility As It Relates to Sustainability

F99 Non-Conventional Roof Systems

GS02 Design Innovation: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

GS03 The Power of Place

S01 Energy Efficiency—How to Build a Dry House

S02 Sustainable Architecture without Architect in Tabbas, Iran: How people of Tabbas, Iran used micro-climate and local materials to create energy-efficient homes

S03 Grow Your Practice: The Interior Advantage

S04 Emergent Residential Practice Models for the Small Design Firm: How to be successful, do good work, and make a difference in the residential construction industry

S05 Affordable Access: Cost-effective Classroom Acoustical Design

S06 Strategic Planning Power: Life Cycle and Space Utilization Tools

S07 Cities are Ecosystems: Great cities grow and sustain themselves. Applying ecology concepts helps us to understand how and why

S08 Green Building Envelope Design: The Role of Building Envelope Airtightness on Energy Efficiency, Durability and IAQ

S09 The Architect as Owner's Representative: Expansion of the Services You Offer

S10 Design Challenges and Opportunities in Socialist Countries: Case Studies in Vietnam

S11 Beyond the Physical: Architecture and Cultural Place

S12 Community, Equity, and Justice: Social Sustainability—The Third Facet of Sustainable Design

S13 Disaster Resilience in Sustainable Design: New and Existing Building Life-Cycle Performance as Sustainability

S14 Running a Design Focused Practice Like You Mean it!: Diverse and Practical Tactics for Success in a Complex World

S15 Your Leadership Role: Aligning Talent and Passion for Success

S16 From Mills to Minds: The Re-emergence of the Individual Contributor

S17 Making Condos Work: Balancing the Risk/Reward Equation in Condomimium Design

S18 The Precautionary Principle: A Framework for Decision-making—Offering a powerful tool for selecting materials in the face of scientific uncertainty

S19 The Aga Khan University Village: Planning for diversity and collaborative thinking in the Islamic world

S21 Advanced Curves and Surfaces

S22 The Fully Automated Home: Adding Safety and Convenience to the Home

S23 Integrated Building Design: �The Value of Comprehensive Modeling

S24 Applying BIM Principals to your Architectural Practice: Information Exchange in AEC firms

S25 The Power of Place

S27 Integrated Project Delivery: Theory and Practice

S28 Expanding your Firm with Minimal Capital Investment: How to Expand and Diversify Your Practice through Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions

S29 Designing the Emergent Firm

S30 Diversity and Demographics: Maximizing People and Productivity in Design

S31 The Power of Pro Bono in Practice

S32 Building and Managing a Green Practice: Lessons from a First-Ever Summit of Sustainable Design Directors at Architecture Firms

S33 Toward a Regenerative Urban Ecology: Bio/Social Diversity in Parkmerced and San Francisco

S34 Housing the Human Condition: The benefits of the Principles of Universal Design towards creating healthier housing solutions

S35 Owner-Driven IPD: Putting Theory into Practice

S36 Accessibility Enforcement through the Courts: Four Case Studies that Architects Should Know About

S38 The Top 5 Legal Issues of Building Information Modeling

S39 Discipline of Place: Design solutions that honor local and regional character

S42 The Complexity of ADA Compliance: Creating a Design Process that Accounts for the Diversity of Users

S43 The Research Frontier of Risk Management in an Economic Downturn

S44 AIA 2008 Honor Awards - Regional + Urban Design

S46 Towards a Carbon Neutral Future: Making Dramatically Better Buildings Affordably

S47 Speed Mentoring: Developing You, an Emerging Professional

S48 Public Private Partnership—Risks and Rewards

S49 Straw Bale Buildings: An American Original Low-tech Solution for High-performance Buildings

S51 New Technological Tools—Can They Replace Intuition?: Practice Management Knowledge Community Luncheon

S52 The Planning Game: An Interactive Approach to Substantive Community Involvement in Architecture and Urban Planning: RUDC Knowledge Community Luncheon

T01 Leading at the Speed of Y: Developing the Millennial Careerist for the Changing American Workplace

T03 Lessons Learned from Two Recent San Francisco Historic Adaptive Re-Use Projects: Ghirardelli Square and the Telephone Building

T04 The Evolution of Green Affordable, Multi-family Housing

T05 Two Diversity Models for Sustainable Urban Growth: Transforming the Post-industrial City: City Campus and Port City

T06 From Candy to Chromosomes: Creating a New Sociology for Science

T08 Reinventing the Design and Construction Business Model: An Integrated Approach to Creativity and Profitability

T09 The Art and Science of Designing to Net-Zero

T10 Implementing Sustainable Stormwater Management: Lessons Learned from Ten Years of Collaboration

T12 Designing For Everyone: Universal Design's Importance in a Socially-Responsible Practice

T13 Lean Architecture: Excellence in Project Delivery

T14 Cross-Pollination and Client Psychology for Diverse Design: How a Multi-Disciplinary Design Approach Leads to Diverse Design and a Broader Client Base

T15 Design Thinking in the Architectural Practice of Sustainability: Greening Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs

T16 Ceramic Ventilated Facades On the Rise: Design/Cost Impact of Innovative and Energy-Efficient Exterior Porcelain Facades

T17 Riding the Vortex: African-American Women Architects in Practice

T18 The Modern House

T19 Architecture and Tomorrow's Building Engineering: Leading a New Design Paradigm for the 21st Century and Beyond

T20 Design as a Business Strategy

T201 A Rearview Mirror and Fortune Teller — Lessons from this Downturn and Others

T202 Making the Cut: The Psychological Impact of Downsizing and Surviving a Layoff

T23 Game-Changing Innovation: Incremental versus Transformational�Exploring Diverse Possibilities in How We Build

T24 Lighting Controls—Project Integration Solutions

T27 Designers with Disabilties at Work: Sustainability and Social Justice

T30 Architecture as Moral Art: Designing as if People Mattered�An Exploration of the Moral Dimension of Architectural Design

T31 Technology in a Complex World: A Legal Perspective on Managing Electronic Data Destruction, Dissemination and Discovery

T34 Navigating Life and the Workplace: How Leading Women in Architecture and Other Professions Balance Their Careers and Other Goals

T35 Urban Planning, Reconstruction, and Assessment: How Architects Can Work in Post-Disaster Situations?

T36 The Firm of the Future: Big Picture Trends Shaping the Future of Design Firms

T37 Strategic Partnerships in Cause-Driven Architecture

T38 Emerging trends in affordable housing design: The 2009 AIA/HUD Secretary's Awards

T39 Understanding the Challenges of a Diverse Work Force: Recognizing Employment Practices Exposures

T40 The Etiquette of Discussing Race and Culture in the Firm: How to Talk the Talk So You Can Walk the Walk

T41 Grid/Street/Place: Mapping and Understanding Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts

T42 BIM: New Era for Design = New Era for Communications

T43 Expanding the Boundary of Sustainable Design

T44 Women's Work: How Diversity Changes the Work Itself

T45 Emerging Modes of Practice: Expanding the Field of Design Practice

T46 Slide Show Evolves�Solutions for Visual Presentation Design

T47 Applying Environmental Performance Data in Materials Selection: Exploring the Acquisition and Use of Life-Cycle Data with a Case Study of the National Stone Industry

T48 The Environmental Responsibility Imperative: Honorary Fellows International Forum

T49 Integrated Project Delivery: It Really Works

T51 Making it Real—Green Home Building by Design

T52 Status of Green Initiatives and Research: Roundtable Discussion

T53 Arup Presents Three Drivers of Change�Energy, Climate Change, and Urbanization

T55 Architectural Principles of Photovoltaic Design: Strategies for Engaging the PV Market and Optimizing Solar Installations

T56 Rhythms of the City—Architecture, Music, and Kids

T57 The Carbon Neutral Design Project: Outcomes of a Collaborative Research and Development Initiative

T58 Carbon Neutral Buildings, Fact or Fiction?: Moving from Buildings to Communities

T59 Is It Tomorrow Already? Ten Megatrends Impacting Your Firm

T60 BIM as an Enabler of Diversity: How the Phenomenon of the BIM Storm is Enhancing Geo-cultural, Interface, and Solution Diversity

T62 Expanding Design Toward Greater Relevance

T63 The Global Perspective and the Regional Context: Honorary Fellows International Forum

T64 Achieving LEED Platinum: A Portfolio of Successful Projects—Lessons Learned Through Integrated Design

T65 Adopting a Green Building Ordinance: A Case Study of How Palo Alto, California Adapted its New Green Building Ordinance

T67 The 2006 IBC: A Step-by-Step Process

T68 Queer Space: Designing for the GLBT Community

T69 True Sustainability�The Region, City, Site, and Building: Acquiring Knowledge That Supports Design of Sustainable Regions, Cities, Sites, and Buildings

T70 SPP National Issues Convocation

T71 International Residential Unit Layout Design and Cultural Considerations

T73 Not So Big Remodeling:The Architect's Role in 'Greening' the Existing Housing Stock

T75 Diverse Shades of Green: Taking Sustainable Building Mainstream

T76 Meeting Nature on the Building Site: Enhancing the Healing Environment with Geothermal Energy

T78 Mediation for Architects: Resolving Conflict Without Litigation—How Do I Do it?

T79 Emeryville Marketplace: The First LEED ND Platinum Project

T80 Designing for Diversity, Creating Community

T81 Bioregional Design: Creating Region-specific Vernacular by Designing for Climate, Ecosystem, and Culture

T82 Best Laid Plans: Business Planning for Small Firms

T83 High Performance Schools: Design Strategies, Tools and Resources

T84 You Make the Call: Even More Preposterous Practices by Peers

T85 New Active Living Design Guidelines for Healthier Environments

T86 Solar- and Wind-Power for Buildings: Toward Carbon-Neutral Green Design with Renewable Energy

T87 Attracting Diverse Talent Through Life/Work Balance Policies: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em On at the Firm After They've Got Family?

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