Modest Projects Stand Their Ground: 2013 Design Awards Program

On December 5, nearly 90 members and their colleagues got together at this year’s Annual Meeting and Design Awards, held at the elegant Vermont State House in Montpelier.    More...

Developing AIAVT’s Disaster Assistance Program: Latest Update

At the 2008 AIA National Convention, Terence Brown, FAIA, C. Stan Anderson, FAIA, and Neil Hall, AIA, presented a post-disaster building assessment training program. As then-chair of the AIA National Disaster Assistance Committee, Brown advanced the idea that architects should take a major role in disaster assistance.    More...

Archistream Transformation Plans Rolling Along Steadily

Since September, when AIAVT received an AIA National Innovation Grant Award to convert an Airstream trailer into a Mobile Design Gallery & Education Center, things have hardly been standing still.    More...

Golf Tournament Raises Funds for Architecture Students

On September 25, architects, engineers, building materials manufacturers, and others from throughout Northern New England gathered at the Country Club of Vermont in Waterbury for the fifth year in a row to participate in raising funds for the Hanne N. Williams Scholar Recognition Fund.   More...

AIAVT Presents Tour of New Center for Art and Education

Architects, interns, building professionals, and architecture students gathered together on October 17 for a presentation about museum design and a tour of the newly constructed Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at Shelburne Museum.   More...

AIAVT-EPN Announces Winners of “Farm to Fork” Competition

The always well-attended Waitsfield Farmers’ Market was the fitting site of AIAVT’s Emerging Professionals Network (EPN) Design Awards exhibition on June 14.    More...

BIM Software Discussion Draws Over 50 Attendees

AIA Vermont’s summer program season began on May 30 with a panel discussion titled “B.I.M: A New Drawing Paradigm?”   More...

Recycled Newspaper & Flax Among Innovative Materials Used in Solar-Powered Houses Featured on AIAVT Tours

On July 25, AIA Vermont’s recently formed Energy + Environment Committee, in cooperation with Efficiency Vermont, offered its first event: tours of 1,000 sq. ft. solar-powered houses and biomass gasification plants at Middlebury College and Norwich University.  More...

Work of Alan Benoit, AIA, Showcased in National Gardening Magazine

The flagstone patio and tidy cottage gardens of the Manchester, Vermont Benoit family property often glow in the orange light of the outdoor fireplace, but this spring the modest gardens basked in the limelight of a national magazine. More...

BOOK REVIEW

Brain Food for Inspiring Architectural Solutions

'Emergent Dialectics Design for Poetic Sustainability'   By Valeriano C. Zarro   Reviewed by Joseph Cincotta, AIA    More...

Gossens Bachman Project Cited for EPA Smart Growth Award

Brattleboro’s Co-op Plaza redevelopment, a project led by Montpelier-based Gossens Bachman Architects, was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More...