Overview AIA Film your impact and you could win up to $10,000 and a trip for two for a screening of your film in Chicago! Enter the fifth annual AIA Film Challenge and highlight the ways you’ve helped build stronger communities alongside civic leaders, from blueprint to execution. In this challenge, architects and filmmakers collaborate to produce...
Beyond its excess, extremes, and appetite for the ersatz, Las Vegas is a global pioneer in design. Its ever-changing landscape is an incubator for transformation that influences design trends, making it the perfect place to explore the theme Blueprint for a Better Future. At A'19 some of the most creative architects, designers, visionaries, and trend...
NCModernist Road Trip: Kinston NC Featuring Dinner at Chef and The Farmer! Saturday, July 20, 3:00 pm-9:30 pm You've watched Chef Vivian Howard on the PBS show A Chef's Life. You've heard about her world-famous restaurant, the Chef and the Farmer, a center point for a revitalized downtown Kinston with interesting galleries, stores, and pubs...
Sponsored by Johnson Concrete Products This course focuses on how to use and apply specification language and proper construction details to create successful projects that meet the designer and owner's expectations for moisture penetration resistance, energy savings from CMU thermal mass properties, building resilience, and safety from natural disasters, along with color and general appearance....
The 2007 House on Wildcat Creek aka The Modern Art House Saturday, June 15, 10am-1pm 4500 Hollow Oaks Road, Chapel Hill NC Designed by Dustin Ehrlich, built by Nathan Wieler The Architect Dustin Ehrlich went to Syracuse University and received a Bachelor of Architecture in 2004. Then a few years later he designed this Modernist house...
The Larson House Designed by Jon Condoret 1 Learned Place, Durham NC Saturday, June 22, 10am to 1pm One of our very favorite houses (and the past scene of NCModernist's fantastic Mod Squad party), it's the 1973 Arthur and Florence Larson Residence - architect Jon Condoret said it was his favorite project of all time! Originally 4825 sf. Renovation by...
"Liability is All Around You" presented by: Steve Pharr of Pharr Law We will discuss how owners and consultants can increase your risk as an architect as well as what preventative solutions can be implemented through your contracts/agreements.
Overview AIA Contract Documents Designing and building out an interior space is a unique practice with its own risk and responsibilities, including the fact that the sale of furniture, furnishings, and equipment (FF&E) is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code. Attend a live webinar to learn how the entire family of AIA Interiors documents were...
The Pleiades Modernist Houses Tour 800 Block of Mangum Street, Durham Saturday, June 22, 10am to 4pm Have a starry, starry day touring the Pleaides, a new project by one of Raleigh's hottest Modernist design firms, RACo, led by Robby Johnston and Craig Kerins. There are eight cool houses with a mini park right in the development's backyard....
Over-size Glass: Performance and Specifications Presented by: Guardian Glass Credit: 1 HSW / 1 LU The presentation explores what makes over-sized insulating glass units (IGUs) special and covers the technology that enables over-sized glass production, as well as important technical considerations when incorporating over-sized glass in architectural designs. It reviews performance possibilities, and some amazing applications...
Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect is a feature documentary film that considers many of the key architectural questions through the 70 year career of Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche, including the relationship between architects and the public they serve, the importance of social & physical well-being, and the promotion of environmental design. ...