Member News Briefs

• Preview the National Building Museum's new Visitor Center in a video (pictured above) with architect and exhibition designer Wendy Evans Joseph.
• In the process of building a new storefront headquarters, AIA San Francisco Center for Architecture + Design polled their members on these 26 potential names for the new Center.
• The Heinz Architectural Center's States of Becoming exhibition makes it into Architect's Newspaper's "What to see in 2021."
• Reimagine America's Schools holds a National Summit, Building a New Blueprint for Design and Equity, on January 26.
• The Architects Foundation announces the 2021 recipients of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize, a travel fellowship focused on historic preservation. 
• Guus Beumer steps down as director of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
• Materials & Applications announces Kate Yeh Chiu as Executive Director.
• AAO welcomes new organizational member The World Around and new individual member Evelyn Phelps (Chicago).

Virtual Programming: Camps, Summits, Talks, Tours, Awards

• Fallingwater adds "Virtual Experiences" to the main menu on its website, highlighting the shift in programming that many organizations are undergoing.
• The World Around, which is in residence at the Guggenheim Museum, hosts its annual Summit online on January 30, with speakers from 14 international cities and sites (a selection of speakers is pictured above). 
• The Chicago Architecture Center hosts 2020 Pritzker Prize laureates Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects for a virtual program on February 18.
• The Denver Architecture Foundation's free self-guided audio tours make it possible to explore 24 sites while practicing safe social distancing, or to learn about Denver from afar.
• View the recording of the 2020 Silver SPUR Awards ceremony, which included well-produced videos of the award winners and a conversation between Trevor Noah and SPUR's President and CEO, Alicia John-Baptiste.

New Voices in Architecture

• New Architecture Writers (pictured above) is a free, year-long program for black and minority ethnic emerging design writers, supported by the Architecture Foundation and the Architectural Review. Consider commissioning a N.A.W. alum for your next event or publication, donating to support their work, or starting a similar program in your city.
• After 28 years, architecture critic Blair Kamin steps down from the Chicago Tribune after taking a buyout. Read an exit interview "Architecture Criticism Matters More than Ever" in Fast Company. It has not yet been announced whether the paper will appoint a new architecture critic.
• Recognizing the value of effective communication for our field, AIA New York offers a five-part online writing workshop for architects. 
• Materials & Applications announced the public launch of 96.7 KGAP-LP FM, an architecture radio station broadcast in Los Angeles and streamed online. An open call for architectural programming that prioritizes marginalized voices ends in February.

Jobs and Opportunities

• AIA Seattle, Communications Coordinator and Membership & Development Coordinator
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Social Media Manager
• LaPlaca Cohen,  Strategist, Strategy and Research Fellow, and Media Planner
• Places Journal, Call for Applications: Critics-in-Residence
• Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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