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Member News Briefs

• “Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture” opens at the Center for Architecture (New York)
• AAO Board Member Peter Murray of New London Architecture was named in The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018
• CNN mentions the Chicago Architecture Center's river cruise in "Looking for great American architecture? Focus on these four cities"
• DesignPhiladelphia, organized by the Center for Architecture and Design, was featured in "Philadelphia Spotlights Design That Solves Problems and Builds Community" (Architectural Digest)
• AAO welcomes new member organization the Center for Design Institute (Seattle, WA)

AAO Members Present Awards

• The Cooper Hewitt's National Design Awards travels to three cities each year to connect the winners to local communities
• AIA Film Challenge announced this year's winners, which were screened at the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York
• The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, home to the Lipsey Architecture Center, was one of three winners of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards
• Winners were announced for two installations in New York: Van Alen’s Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Design competition and the Times Square Valentine Heart Design competition presented by the Times Square Arts and AIA New York
• An AIA Innovation Award winner is profiled in the Architects Newspaper article "Project tackling gender-restricted bathroom access wins AIA Innovation Award"

In Other News

• The New York Times created an interactive figure-ground map of every building in the United States based on a new Microsoft database and added some interpretation of the map's patterns
• "Living with Buildings" is a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection (London) that explores how buildings affect our physical and mental health
• On a related note, the founder of Conscious Cities argues that behavioral science should inform the design of the built environment, making it human-centered design
• 1000 singers were stationed along the High Line for The Mile-Long Opera, a co-production between composer David Lang and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. If you missed it in New York, you can view it in 360-degree video online.

Jobs and Opportunities

• AIA New York, Operations Manager
• American Society of Landscape Architects, Resource Development Manager
• Architectural League of New York, Communications Manager
• Cooper Hewitt, Associate Director of Development (Individual and Major Gifts)
• Docomomo US, Program and Communications Manager 
• Municipal Art Society of New York, Senior Project Manager, Planning

• Houston 2020 Visitons
• Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

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