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AIA LA COTE is providing a conference that reflects the most relevant dialogues in society and has incorporated this thinking into a two-day split virtual symposium around Climate Action and Climate Justice. A diverse set of presenters will focus on a wide range of topics, inclusive of Carbon Neutrality, Healthy Building Environments, Resiliency, and Equity. Notable speakers include Farhana Yamin, an international environmental lawyer and activist, who has co-authored a number of international treaties on climate change, including the Paris Climate Agreement, will lead the days’ sessions. Also speaking is Ed Mazria the 2021 AIA Gold Medal recipient, and founder and CEO of Architecture 2030. This year he delivered the Roadmap to Zero Emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Many others inspirational speakers will be featured throughout the course of the two-day event, as well as the opportunity to participate in Lunch Think Break Out Sessions, and a virtual exhibitor hall (hosted via Zoom and Whova Apps).

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019. She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalising process in Songyang County, China. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages. Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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Shaastra, IIT Madras along with L&T Construction launches Archi-Tech Summit 2021, a two day virtual conference (27th - 28th February 2021) which aims to provide the stakeholders with a platform to express and explore the integration of technology in Architecture and Design to spread the ideas of innovation, sustainability, and advancement.

The technical fest has an illustrious line-up of events that include skill building workshops on BIM, GIS and latest visualisation techniques in Architecture using VR, panel discussions on The future of our cities and how technology is transforming how we use architecture and engaging lectures on Sustainability and Rehabilitation.

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During 28 years as architecture critic at the Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin deepened civic awareness of design. Join Kamin as he revisits three decades of skyline-shaping towers, imaginative local projects and transformations of the public realm.

On Thursday, March 4th, 2021 live from 13:00 to 14:30 EST (19:30 CET), we will “visit” New York and meet two of its most remarkable architects.

Deanna Van Buren is the Executive Director, Design Director, and Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit building infrastructure to end mass incarceration. As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the U.S, Deanna is committed to racial equity in the built environment and is a national thought leader in advocating for alternative spaces for justice, including restorative justice centers and mobile resource villages. Van Buren’s most recent notable projects with her team include Restore Oakland, a campus for restorative justice and restorative economics in Oakland, California, and the reimagining of the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity. Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.

How do designers think? How do they visually communicate complex ideas? What strategies do they employ to make a positive impact on the built environment? How does design change the way people see and experience the world?

cheyanne turions is a curator, cultural worker and writer currently based on the unceded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. Her work positions exhibitions and criticism as social gestures, where she responds to artistic practices by linking aesthetics and politics through discourse. Recent projects include Affirmations for Wildflowers: An Ethnobotany of Desire, a solo exhibition by Tania Willard, and The Pandemic is a Portal a group exhibition co-curated with Karina Irvine and Christopher Lacroix, featuring works by Sharona Franklin, S F Ho, Cecily Nicholson, Carmen Papalia, Jayce Salloum, any many others. She is the Curator at SFU Galleries, and sits on the Board of Directors at 221A and the National Editorial Advisory Committee of Canadian Art.

Spitzer School of Architecture Spring Lecture Series 2021
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