AIA Announces Sustainability Conference and Competition

The American Institute of Architects Committees on Design and the Environment (COD and COTE) are cosponsoring a conference called “The Architecture of Sustainability” and a design competition called “A House for an Ecologist” (formerly known as eco:dwell) to explore sustainability as an architectural agenda. Judges for the competition are Peter Bohlin, FAIA, of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Allison Ewing, AIA, of Hays + Ewing Design Studio in Charlottesville, Virginia; and James Timberlake, FAIA, of Kieran Timberlake Associates, LLP, in Philadelphia. More information about the conference, to take place May 4-7, 2006, is online at www.aia.org/ev_cod_may06. More information about the competition is at www.aia.org/br_cfe_cod_ecodwell06.