SPONSOR A CHILD.  We are heading into our 4th year providing our kids with a summer of an architectural experience and have made arrangements with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Taliesin West of Scottsdale, Arizona to provide a summer educational program and enhance our AIM Summer Camp. We also have extended our program from one to two weeks. The extension of the program in 2010 will require extra funds in supplying the students with materials and field trips that would help the kids enjoy and receive a full experience in architecture.

The Design + Technology Seminar held last Friday, February 26th at the Dadeland Marriott Hotel was a great success, with attendance of more than 190 members. The AIA Miami Chapter had the opportunity to offer 10 CEU/s with a variety of different seminars related to our profession. Thanks to all of you for your support of our programs and events that we offer throughout the year.

This June 9th – 12th, the AIA 2010 National Convention and Expo offers unparalleled opportunities for you to take part in the activities and join more than 20,000 architects and other professionals to celebrate and experience Miami as a center of Architecture and Design. 

The Chapter, its Board and Members invite you to be a volunteer and help show our guests the strength and vitality of the Miami design community.  Our volunteer recruiting efforts are challenging and we hope that we can count on your help! 

We will need approximately 250 volunteers in total to work the week of the convention in varying shifts of 2 – 4 hours.  For more information and to register as a volunteer, please see our website at: www.aiamiami.com/2010_conv_volunteer.php

Zyscovich Architects is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Fletcher, AIA, LEED AP, as Principal of their New York office.

The FIU College of Architecture + Arts Partners with Spine3D to offer specialized continuing education training through the Studio of Digital Arts (SODA). Designers can now enhance their careers with quick, specialized, and affordable training in 3D Modeling, Rendering, Photoshop, Revit, and Web Design. New classes are available every 2 weeks and are conveniently offered during the day, evenings, and weekends at the SODA media lab on LeJeune Road. Certificates and CEU's are also available. For more information on courses and pricing please visit www.TheSODA.com or call 305-567- 5555.

This is to inform you that the proposed code amendment cycle to the 2010 update to the Florida Building Code will commence March 1, 2010 and will close by midnight April 2, 2010.  The draft 2010 update to the Florida Building Code (FBC) consists of the 2009 International Building Codes (I-Codes) as the foundation and the Florida specific requirements currently existing within the 2007 Florida Building Code and complied in documents title “Florida Supplements to the 2009 I-Codes”.

Proposed code modifications are accepted electronically via the www.floridabuilding.org website.  In order to stream-line the code modification submittal process, a new and improved “Code Modification Module” has been developed.  Under the new Code Modification Module, there is no need to download a form.  All of the information necessary to submit a modification may now be executed on-line at www.floridabuilding.org through the code modification database.  To familiarize yourself with the new module, we advise that you take the time to review the list of “Questions and Answers” and the “Users Guide” available at the following link:  http://www.floridabuilding.org/cm/cm_faq.aspx.

A city like Miami deserves an urban center.  In order to create one, Arquitectum and the AIA Miami Chapter American Institute of Architects have joined, inviting the world’s architects to propose the best Civic Center for Miami.  (download flyer)   

Start of Competition – January 15, 2010
Winner’s Announcement – May 28, 2010