(((Man, architectural-engineering-construction software is developing with calamitous speed and power. This meeting of the time-honored
AIA is so relentlessly teched-up that it sounds like they're speaking in UNIX.)))
Link: AIA 2007 National Convention and Expo: AECbytes Newsletter #30.
The AIA 2007 National Convention and Expo took place in San Antonio last week from May 3 to 5, and was a special one as it marks the 150th anniversary of the AIA.
According to AIA history, 13 architects came together in 1857 to create this professional organization, which has now grown to over 80,000 members. The theme of this year's Convention was "Going Beyond Green," and it featured theme presentations on this topic over each of the three days of the Convention with well-known experts and advocates in sustainable design including David Suzuki, noted author and scientist; Chrisna du Plessis, a South Africa Architect; William Reed, founding board member of the US Green Building Council; Raymond Cole, director of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia; and former Vice President Al Gore, with his amazingly successful book and Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth....
