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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   
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   
FR22  Geothermal Systems: An Alternative Strategy for Sustainability   
FR24  Tectonics in High Performance Facades: Architectural Expression Based on Climate, Function, and Materiality   
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   
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   
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/Contractor 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   
FR62  A Workforce of Tethered Millenials: Hiring the Next Generation   
FR63  Transportation Design and Community Enhancement   
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   
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   
FR84  Understanding Design Controls in Local Land Development Codes   
FR86  Advanced Curves and Surfaces   
FR87  The Bench Press: Developing and Using Regional Benchmarking Systems in a Sustainable Design Consultancy   
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?   
GS01  Opening General Session — Welcome — Theme Presentation — Sustainable Design   
GS02  AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion - Edward C. Kemper Award — Theme Presentation — Urban Security   
GS03  Whitney M Young Jr. Award — Presidential Medalist — Theme Presentation — Forty Years: The Anniversary of Whitney Young's Presentation   
SA01  Design Review and the Law: Navigating the Process   
SA02  Energy Codes and Fenestration   
SA03  Technological Career Links: Alternative Opportunities for Architects   
SA06  Planning Now for the Next Downturn: Why Eternal Optimism Always Precedes Catastrophic Failure   
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   
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   
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   
SA42  Risky Business: Work/Life Balance   
SA45  Density, Housing, and Eminent Domain: Updates for the Urban Design Professional   
SA46  Leveraging Your Resources, Doing More with Less: AIA Practice Management Seminar   
SA47  AIA Small Project Practitioners 2008 Shareholders Forum   
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 Architecture 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 Architecture 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   
TH63  Leadership Through Pro Bono Community Service: Architects in Service to Society   
TH65  Research in Architecture: The Challenge to Foster a Culture of Creating and Sharing Knowledge   
TH67  AIA Committee on the Environment: Workshop and Information   
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   
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