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AIA-New Jersey
Design Awards Program
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Program and Schedule:

8:00 – 9:00 AM	Registration / Breakfast / Networking / Design Boards on Display
9:00 – 10:00 AM	Session 1 Historic Preservation in a Modern World Dr. George C. Skarmeas, AIA, Principal, RMJM Hillier From World Heritage Sites and modern landmarks to museum quality restorations and creative adaptive reuse of existing / older buildings, the practice of historic preservation opens new opportunities for design and specialization. This presentation will cover case studies and issues that practicing architects face today. Projects to be discussed include the Virginia Capitol, in Richmond Va.; the Cincinnati Union Terminal / Cincinnati Museum Center; Kline Biology Tower at Yale University; and Lincoln Cottage in Washington D.C.
10:00 – 10:30 AM	Refreshment Break/Networking/ Design Boards on Display
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Session 2 “The Product-Architecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology” John Nastasi, Principal, Nastasi Architects, Hoboken , NJ The lecture will describe a four year trajectory of design research that has put the upstart Product-Architecture Lab on the forefront of the design and engineering industry. Program Overview: The Product-Architecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology is a pioneering graduate program integrating the study of Architecture, Engineering, Product Design, and Interaction. The program overcomes longstanding deficiencies in design education by creating a distinctive fusion of design culture and technology through the disciplines of computation, analysis, and advanced production methodologies. The curriculum focuses upon immersion in the tools that inform this design convergence, and creates opportunities for students to undertake applied research on real projects and collaborate with designers, engineers, scientists and manufacturers at the most progressive design firms in the metropolitan New York area.
11:30 – 1 PM	Lunch / Networking / Design Boards on Display
1:00 – 2:00 PM	Session 3 NOT Kindergarten Chats… CONVERSATIONS…MUSINGS…RAMBLINGS…QUESTIONS… Michael Graves, FAIA, AIA Gold Medal winner; Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; 45 years New Jersey architect and resident. Alan Chimacoff, Principal, Ikon 5 Architects, former Princeton Professor. New Jersey native. Whatever happened to the plan? Whatever happened to the city? Does novelty equal quality? Is quality determined by journalism? Does it have to be new again next Thursday? If you're not on the edge, are you really just taking up space? When did architecture develop the power to identify a city or a country? In an interactive, audience-participation "multi-logue," Graves and Chimacoff will explore what seem to be changing measures of architectural quality in the context of a belief that there are, in fact, timeless architectural values and phenomena. With a deep interest in "the city" they worry that an "object fixation" has overtaken architectural interest and aspiration to the extent that the spatial aspects of cities, and the social interactions they support, could be in jeopardy.
2:00 – 2:30PM	Refreshment Break / Networking / Design Boards on Display
2:30 – 4:00 PM	Session 4 Landscape Apparitions Antoine Predock, FAIA, Principal, Antoine Predock Architect PC and AIA 2006 Gold Medal Winner Architecture as a geomorphic abstraction -- the grounding of a building in place in a timeless manner, in contrast to stylistic reference.
4:00 – 5:00 PM	Last chance to view the Design Submissions & Announcement of the Winning Design Projects
5:00 PM	Event concludes