July 2021

Join us throughout August 2021 to participate in a month-long series of events focused on housing trends, innovations and solutions. We are featuring architects, architecture students, clients, community members and pioneering voices from the USA, Mexico, and Norway, to deliberate on these topics.

Since we concluded our lease at 1405 Clay St. last year the AIA East Bay has operated with our a central office for our organization. Staff has been busy these past months looking at potential locations and want to invite you to suggest spaces, locations you think we should consider!
Selected Upcoming Events
July 24 | 10 am - 12 pm


Join us as we bike around Oakland and explore some fantastic spots, complete with presentations of the spaces! Featuring stops at Channel House, Paseo Estero and Vista Estero, Orion at Brooklyn Basin, Parcel C, and 9th Ave. Terminal.
August 4 | 9:30 am - 1 pm


This event is hybrid in-person and virtual event focusing on different scales of Attainable Housing. The event will be broken out into four parts; keynote speaker, a panel discussion, a presentation and discussion, and a featured architect presenting design precedents from all over California. People who attend in-person will be offered coffee and snacks in the morning and a lunch during a 15 minute break in the middle of the symposium.
August 5 | 6 pm - 7:30 pm


In 2016 Youth Spirit Artworks (YSA) began organizing to build a Tiny House Village for East Bay homeless youth. Already 26 youth-designed houses have been built with the help of over 2,000 volunteers, and the Tiny House Empowerment Village is now open.
 
Please join the Regional & Urban Design Forum as we discuss this unique and important place with the organizers, designers, builders, and residents of the Tiny House Village!

August 14 & August 21 | 10 am - 11:30 am


We are featuring architects, architecture students, clients, community members and pioneering voices from the USA, Canada, Mexico, and Norway to show us the meanings of "shelter". Please tune into this great diversity of voices and perspectives whose common goal is transformation through architecture and design.
August 26 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm


The discussion will be 1.5 hours long and will include four panelists that are experts in the following topics related to housing : Research and Design, Accessibility, Sustainability and Affordability. More details to come. 
August 28 | 10 am - 1 pm


Join AIA East Bay for a 6-mile bike tour of Eco-friendly homes in East Bay. The tour will feature three homes designed by architects Cate Leger, Leger Wanaselja, David Arkin, Arkin Tilt Architects, and Scott McGlashan, McGlashan Architecture. We will hear first-hand from the architects about green building practices and materials that make these homes beautiful, energy-efficient, and good for the environment, including all-electric (fossil fuel free) building systems and appliances, straw bale construction, salvaged car roofs and poplar tree bark, and more. 
News
AIA East Bay is excited to announce its partnership with E&M Consulting, Inc. to produce our new Membership Directory & Resource Guide.

The publication will be available in both print and digital formats. E&M will be managing the entire project, including advertising sales and layout/graphic design. They are highly professional and produce a high-quality publication, and we ask that you give them a moment of your time. E&M will be contacting all members about the advertising opportunities available. The publication will be mailed to every member – a great opportunity to promote and give your company additional exposure. If you have any questions or would like to advertise, please contact an E&M sales associate at 800-572-0011 or [email protected]. As always, your support is greatly appreciated!
ABI May 2021: Business conditions strengthen further at architecture firms


Work on existing buildings accounts for more than half of firm billings so far this year. Business conditions remained robust at architecture firms in May, as the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score climbed even higher. The score of 58.5 for the month (any score over 50 indicates billings growth) is one of the highest ever reported, and indicates that even more firms reported an increase in their billings in May than in April.


The Future of Parklets

As we move forward from the Shelter-in -place mode to post pandemic, some things that have been created by the pandemic will continue and may even become permanent. The pandemic made outdoor spaces more valuable. Spaces in the public right-of-way previously used for pedestrians and vehicles became valued human spaces for commerce.


Announcing Phillips Win Architecture

It's official! Anne and Winston are very happy to announce that Anne Phillips Architecture is now Phillips Win Architecture. New name, new logo, same mission, and same values!

Room 1000 Publishes #8!

Come have a look and support UC Students and young design professionals by buying a copy.

Outside the bounds of the exact sciences and the Cartesian grid, magic denotes dthat which can’t easily be named or confined. Over the past months in working on this issue, we have come to see the rituals, incantations, illusions and various acts of magic as legitimate world-building strategies. Deployed intently and politically, these super-natural acts have served as a useful lens for understanding these dizzying and unmooring times.

New leaders elected to AIA Board of Directors

Three new leaders were elected to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors today. AIA delegates elected Emily A. Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA, of Boston Society of Architects/AIA Massachusetts as the 2022 First Vice President/2023 President-elect; Timothy C. Hawk, FAIA, of AIA Columbus/AIA Ohio as the 2022–2023 Treasurer; and Kevin M. Holland, FAIA, of AIA Los Angeles/AIA California as the 2022-2024 At-large Director.

Future Forward

Harnessing the passion of our members and the broader design community, AIA is taking steps to advance racial justice and equity in our organization, in our profession, and in our communities.

CA License Needs to Be Renewed?

This 4 course ADA bundle satisfies your CA licensure requirement on your own time.

Learn ADA online courses such as accessible hotels and restaurants, the trouble with accessibility, urban inclusiveness, and building inclusive communities.

Check Out These Resumes

AIA East Bay’s resume bank is for registered site users only. Hundreds of top quality candidates looking for a new gig or just entering the Architecture and Design space for the first time




Job Listings

This position will expose the candidate to a wide variety of architectural office experience as a path to become a licensed architect. The experience will include supporting the firm’s principals and project architects in design, presentation, marketing, construction documents and construction administration. The candidate should have a strong desire and ability to learn.

We are seeking a Senior Architect to work on institutional, cultural, and commercial projects. The position calls for a high level of organization and attention to detail, excellent communication and collaborative abilities, and design skills.
Responsibilities: to work in collaboration with the partners and project manager to deliver full architectural services.

PYATOK is seeking a full-time Designer with experience and/or interest in multi-family housing design. Our collaborative style of management and culture includes a pedagogical commitment to mentorship, including weekly in-house professional development sessions and annual stipends for continuing education. Our design philosophy and team structures reflect our goal of nurturing “complete” architects.

Swatt | Miers Architects, an architectural practice recognized internationally for its residential, commercial, and institutional design work, is seeking a full-time experienced Construction Document Detailer with experience ranging from 5-10 years in the production of Construction Documents. Candidates should possess strong detailing and coordination skills, along with excellent verbal and written communication skills. The position, working under a Principal, will be to assist in producing drawing sets for high-end residential and commercial/light institutional projects.
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