AIA Seattle的动态

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The tire fire at AIA national HQ, and the scrambling use of the national conference for wagon circling and doubling down in response, is just... bad. But at least there's some exquisitely painful copy coming out if it! Here is part of the AIA's statement on why there is absolutely, positively, nothing at all to see here, move along with only shallow breathing through your mouth, please: "... the Board directed external counsel to review the planning and execution of the AIA Staff Learning Retreat that took place in March 2024. The review focused on the specific issues raised to the Board. That portion of the review has now concluded. The Board has reviewed the facts, found and confirmed that there was no wrongdoing, and there is no action to be taken by the Board..." Let's unpack. The first sentence you can take at face value. Well, except that the "learning" was taking place at an all-inclusive in the DR. The second flags that this review purposefully left stones unturned. The next two sentences say two different things: one, said limited-scope review is over (that was quick!); two, the board is sitting on its hands. There is a period in between. To a former wordsmith, this is exactly the construction I'd employ to use the magic of proximity to suggest two things were connected, without explicitly saying so. The icing on this tortured-prose cake is "found and confirmed." There's no way this phrase has ever been used outside of an 18th-century royal proclimation. How do you "find" something (as in, making a determination), and then "confirm" your own finding? If you only "confirmed" something, that could suggest it was the outside counsel that made the initial finding. But if they had, I'm sure the board would have trumpeted that. If the board just "found" something, that could suggest it was different from what the actual report concluded (if it did make any conclusions). Ramming the two words together muddies the waters enough to create plausible deniability. If you rearrange the letters a bit, you get "a confounded firm," which seems a much better fit for this situation (sorry, readers, couldn't resist). What would clear all this up: releasing the entire completed report to members. When that might happen: when an intrepid PhD student working on her thesis, "Why Architects No Longer Matter: Mismanagement and Turmoil in the 2020s AIA," uncovers it in 2064. https://lnkd.in/ezfdp7Mm https://lnkd.in/ea8AHY3b https://lnkd.in/eqetCfVa

In addition to the jury’s own criteria, the AIA Seattle community has identified four Jury Considerations for the Honor Awards submission review process: 1) Inspiration | How does the project manifest its stated intent–in form and function–revealing innovation in both thought and practice? 2) Problem-solving | How does the project creatively address challenges inherent in its site, budget, program, materials, collaboration, and context? What are the organizing principles informing design? 3) Environmental Sensitivity | How does the project exhibit serious intent to minimize negative environmental impact and enhance its relationship to the environment? 4) Social Impact | How does the project engage the community in which it is situated? How does it help promote a vibrant, equitable, and just community? We invite submitters to carefully consider how the jury will interpret one or more of these jury considerations in connection to the project’s design story. https://lnkd.in/gyVTZBk6 In addition to the jury’s own criteria, the AIA Seattle community has identified four Jury Considerations for the Honor Awards submission review process:

RIBA Plan of Work: how the new Engagement Overlay can support architects ?? We've published our Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, giving architects, other built environment professionals and members of the wider project team a framework for meaningful stakeholder engagement at every stage of a project. We talk to the authors about how better engagement can provide a boost to projects: https://ow.ly/JWwS50Qvp4Z

Ever wondered about the key barriers to deploying innovative business models, like those informed by the product-service system (PSS), for a circular economy (CE) in housing? By interviewing frontrunners who provide PSSs in housing to enable a CE, we (Tuba Kocaturk, M Reza Hosseini, Matthias Weiss and I) delved into the barriers that may inhibit their adoption through the lens of institutional theory’s regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive pillars. I am happy to share that our findings are now published in Smart and Sustainable Built Environment #SASBE. Highlights: >> The current institutional environment impedes the establishment of legitimacy for the deployment of PSS and its CE potential in housing. >> A diversified institutional support system enabled by the collaborative effort of the government, managing and financing actors and industry associations is required to overcome deployment barriers. Read the full paper here (or DM me if you’d like a copy):

The updated General Rules and Registration Rules have been in effect since 9 October. The General Rules exist as a framework to set out how ARB operates, with particular emphasis on Board and organisational governance, and committees. Read more here ? https://lnkd.in/eCw-CwyJ The Registration Rules sets out ARB’s policies and process relating to registration matters, such as registering as an architect for the first time, maintaining your registration, and how former architects can be reinstated to the Register. Read more here ? https://lnkd.in/eKwegpih

I'm honored to be in the 2024 Class of Fellows of the American Planning Association American Institute of Certified Planners. It is the highest honor the organization bestows on its members/in the field. There is a clear diversity issue among the FAICP, but we hope that will change in time. While I have always considered myself primarily an architect/urban designer, urban planning has long been integral to my mode of operating because of the scope, scale, and impact the field has on shaping important social, environmental, and economic outcomes in a wide range of communities and contexts (for better or worse). Among the things I am proud of during my involvement with the AICP was work with others to revise its Code of Ethics. You can google it to see the whole thing, but I've included some of my favorite points below to help explain why I even care about occasionally dding these #FAICP letters to my name. AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct 1(b) Be conscious of the rights of others. Develop skills that enable better communication and more effective, respectful, and compassionate planning efforts with all communities, especially underrepresented communities and marginalized people, so that they may fully participate in planning. Respect the experience, knowledge, and history of all people. 2(c) Promote excellence in design. Conserve and preserve the integrity and heritage of the natural and built environment. Use principles of sustainability and resilience as guiding influences in our work. 2(d) Identify the human and environmental consequences of alternative actions including the short and long-term costs and benefits. Identify social and cultural values which should be preserved as well as natural elements. 3(b) Seek social justice by identifying and working to expand choice and opportunity for all persons, emphasizing our special responsibility to plan with those who have been marginalized or disadvantaged and to promote racial and economic equity. Urge the alteration of policies, institutions, and decisions that do not help meet their needs. 3(d) Promote the inherent rights of Indigenous people and work with indigenous peoples on developments affecting them and their lands and resources.

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From the paper "The effects of expert power and referent power on knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding" Issac, Abraham & Bednall, Timothy & Baral, Rupashree & Magliocca, Pierpaolo & Dhir, Amandeep. (2022). This is some of the material that supports my upcoming keynote at Analysis, Design & Architecture in Melbourne. The papers confirms what we collectively know about knowledge stock and flow, further, it highlights the effect of power on how we share knowledge.

Join us in Columbia, MO. on Friday, November 8th, for the educational panel discussion, Construction Projects Best?Practices & Lessons Learned. The design and construction of healthcare environments is an extraordinarily complicated and time-consuming process with a very large number of participants. Learn from experienced key stakeholders who will share candid discussions on effective practices to avert predictable pitfalls, oversights, and misguided assumptions. https://lnkd.in/gHzH8crT