What Happens in Wyoming…
As we have probably all learned at some point in our career, no matter how passionately we pursue great design, it pains me to admit that not every project will put you in the running for the Pritzker...
View ArticlePark(ing) Kids, Not Cars
By Katie Donahue, M.Arch Candidate, AIAS Denver – Vice President, AFH Denver – Board of Directors A woman jumped up and down atop the hood of the car, denting it, trying feverishly to kick in the...
View ArticleThe Most Important Committee of All
By Cynthia Fishman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP – Associate Director, AIA Colorado My friends have started calling me The Committee Queen. It began with a few AIA groups, but like any gateway drug, it led to...
View ArticleStapleton!
Stapleton International Airport was Denver’s proud contribution to air travel from 1929 to 1995, ferrying millions of travelers to and from this great city through its decades of operation. Today, the...
View ArticleT minus 11 days, and excitedly counting.
It’s almost here! With 11 days until the AIA National Convention, things are really kicking into high gear. Offices and their staff are cleaning up, making sure their spaces look great for anyone who...
View ArticleAIA Repositioning Creating Changes
I spent this past weekend in a conference room with 50 of my fellow AIA Colorado chapter board members. Organization leaders, representing all parts of our state, gave up a good portion of their...
View ArticleTime of Change…
I’ve been writing about “change” a lot lately, but can you blame? It seems as though what we once knew is no longer, and what is yet to come is undetermined – AIA Colorado is in the process of...
View ArticleAlternative Practice(s) In Denver
When I’m not architecting or blogging, I’m editing for the Young Architect’s Forum “Connection” e-zine, published by the AIA. One of the best parts of editing is getting to source new content, and in...
View ArticleEmerging Professionals’ 2014 Exhibition .. Getting Your Work Out There
Just a quick post to highlight work currently on exhibit in Washington, D.C. featuring Emerging Architectural Professional’s design work. I’d recommend architects/architectural interns in the...
View ArticleArchitecture, Advocacy, and the NDSA
As a first time blogger, I would like to give a little introduction. My name is Korey D. White. I recently graduated in December 2013 from University of Colorado Denver with a dual Masters of...
View ArticleAll in a Year
This time last year I was finishing up my second to last semester of graduate school. I hadn’t started to be fully concerned with finding a full-time job. I still had a semester to figure out my next...
View ArticleTeaching Up; Learning from our Summer Interns
A summer research project becomes an opportunity to see productive collaboration at its best.
View ArticleThe Year of the Advocate
If you haven’t noticed, the AIA has rolled out a new campaign titled the “Year of the Advocate”. (I can hardly blame you if you haven’t noticed). We receive multiple emails a day from National AIA,...
View Article“The Problem with Parametricism”- Guest Post by Bill Allen and Tobias Hathorn
Is Colorado the last to jump on the parametric bandwagon? Here is Bill and Tobias’s demystification of the parametric design process and its seemingly limitless iterative possibilities.. (and by the...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Architecture
Is Boulder the new Brooklyn? I had to ask myself this question after my first meeting with recent Colorado transplants and designers, Alex and Audrey Worden. Co-founders of the Boulder-based design...
View ArticleThe Value of Outreach
If we think back to when we were ten years old, what did we believe architecture was? What about in junior high or high school? What was the point at which we believed we had a basic understanding of...
View ArticleColorado Architecture Month: What’s Your Impact?
It’s that time of the year again. Opening Day for the Rockies, at-capacity patios downtown, and Colorado Architecture Month! You might be familiar with some of the events that occur during April around...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?
Intern. The term that has been the source of debate, ridicule, scorn, and general hair pulling for years. Until this past December, the AIA regarded all unlicensed persons practicing architecture as...
View ArticleFive Years Out: advice to my past self from my current self
Over the last month or so, I have seen numerous pictures and heartfelt posts from recent graduates flooding the social media channels. It made me think back fondly of when I graduated from architecture...
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