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July 2020
Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series
AIA|LA presents... Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series A series of virtual panel discussions In light of lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic crisis, this series of panel discussions will explore how architects & designers can quickly adapt to the market demands and societal shifts that will occur as we adjust to living, working, and staying healthy in our built environment. The objective of this series will be to learn new ideas, innovations, and best-practices that will serve as a…
Find out more »August 2020
Decarbonization and Affordable Housing Round Table
Decarbonization and Affordable Housing Round Table California is facing critical challenges to build more affordable housing, reduce structural inequities from pollution, and meet our legislated carbon reduction goals. This Roundtable will address how efficient electric building technologies combined with clean, renewable energy can lower construction and operating cost, improve health outcomes, and dramatically lower emissions. To date thirty-one California cities have passed electrification reach codes to encourage this transition. Please join us and this expert panel discussing opportunities and challenges…
Find out more »Healthy Building Design
AIA|LA & LACP Urban Design Studio Present... Healthy Building Design: roundtable discussion Tuesday, August 11 (11:30am to 12:30pm) A virtual platform. REGISTER HERE. As part of our bi-weekly design review sessions with the LACP Urban Design Studio, architects and designers are invited to join this virtual roundtable to share your ideas on healthy building design. Our neighborhoods and physical environments are a social determinant of health and have far-reaching influence on life expectancy, physical and mental well-being. This pandemic has…
Find out more »Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series
AIA|LA presents... Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series A series of virtual panel discussions In light of lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic crisis, this series of panel discussions will explore how architects & designers can quickly adapt to the market demands and societal shifts that will occur as we adjust to living, working, and staying healthy in our built environment. The objective of this series will be to learn new ideas, innovations, and best-practices that will serve as a…
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Purposeful: Architecture in Healthcare Workshop
Purposeful: An AIA|LA Architecture in Healthcare Workshop Accessible Care: The Shared Future of Retail and Healthcare CES Learning Units|HSW: 3 Entering its second iteration this workshop, but first virtual, organized by AIA Los Angeles Architecture in Healthcare Committee, will be a guided, interactive collaboration among many of the constituents who conceive, design, operate, create – and recreate – the healthcare facilities for today and tomorrow. This is a page for ticket purchase, a complete overview of the day and speaker information…
Find out more »Prop 16 and the Impacts on Black Owned Architecture Firms, Yesterday, Today, and Moving Forward
AIA|LA & So Cal NOMA present... a JEDI Committee program Prop 16 (The repeal of Prop 209) and the Impacts on Black Owned Architecture Firms, Yesterday, Today, and Moving Forward REGISTER HERE. Prior to the passing of Prop 209 in 1996, that eliminated the use of race, gender, ethnicity, and country of origin in the selection process for public contracting, Black and underrepresented architecture firms had been flourishing in Southern California. Many firms had benefited from public sector contracts dating…
Find out more »Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series
AIA|LA presents... Designing the Future: A Seven-Part Series A series of virtual panel discussions In light of lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic crisis, this series of panel discussions will explore how architects & designers can quickly adapt to the market demands and societal shifts that will occur as we adjust to living, working, and staying healthy in our built environment. The objective of this series will be to learn new ideas, innovations, and best-practices that will serve as a…
Find out more »September 2020
Creating a Diverse Future for AEC Professions: Engaging Young Minds
AIA|LA Professional Practice Committee presents... Creating a Diverse Future for AEC Professions: Engaging Young Minds REGISTER HERE. Since the time that Architecture and related fields became professionalized through training and certification, gaining access to these well-respected career paths has become increasingly challenging, especially for minority and underrepresented communities. What can we do today as AEC professionals to try and address inequities that pervade our careers and build a more diverse workforce? We will discuss this question and others with a…
Find out more »ADDIFICATION – Adding Homes Without Displacing People
AIA|LA Design For Dignity Roundtable: ADDIFICATION - Adding homes to the housing crisis without displacing people that need them most REGISTER HERE. (Free w/ advance RSVP) As a follow-up to our 5th annual "Design for Dignity" conference, we're organizing a series of roundtables to further advance the various initiates introduced during our break-out discussions. This roundtable will serve as a forum to further explore the topic outlined below and identify pro-active next-steps to implement ideas on how we can best…
Find out more »Re-Imagine LA (Measure J) and The Architect’s Role in Supporting a More Equitable City
AIA|LA JEDI Committee presents... Re-Imagine LA (Measure J) and The Architect’s Role in Supporting a More Equitable City REGISTER HERE. (Free w/ advance RSVP) On this November’s ballot, Measure J will give voters the opportunity to redirect LA county public funds from incarceration to community investment. According to Ananya Roy, director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, impending evictions due to the Covid 19 economic collapse could signify "the largest mass displacement in the history of the…
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