April AIA LA Newsletter

APRIL 2022

Leadership Institute

Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended to April 14^th!!

Is working on your career skills important? What about becoming a better professional or making some great networking contacts? Do you know an up-and-coming leader in your firm? There’s a GREAT program you need to know about!....and the ROI makes it an amazing deal! Have you done the math?! The hourly investment can’t be beat (and it’s NOT just for architects)!

A few highlights from the brochure:

Navigating conflict resolution effectively – aka negotiations or even communications with clients
Business Development
Team Building – yes, there’s a little fun involved!
Check out what committee meetings at the Capitol are like and meet with a few legislators
Learn about advocacy – how, why, when…
Master remote operations
Gain insight and training into the financial side of project management
Create a personal leadership plan of action
Learn more about professional liability, contract documents, and presentations
Get FREE registration to AIA LA State Conference on Architecture and be honored at the Awards Program!

Emerging Professionals Scholarship!

AIA Louisiana Scholarship Committee is proud to release the 2022 Call for Entries providing scholarship funds to AIA LA members licensed ten-years or less to attend the Emerging Leaders Institute! Are you hoping to be an “up and coming leader” in your firm or working to lead your recently formed firm? Are you a partner in a firm and have identified promising potential in current employees? If so, the Emerging Leaders Institute is an ideal place to hone those skills and make crucial connections. The Emerging Professionals Scholarship will bolster those efforts assisting with registration fees!

SUPPLEMENTAL DUES TRANSITION - ONLY ONE DATE LEFT

Are your dues going up, down, staying the same? Join the call if you want to know for sure…

As part of dues structure transition, the AIA LA Supplemental Dues Taskforce would like to invite current AIA members (licensed architects and intern architects in LA) to participate in one of the sharing/listening sessions being offered over the next couple of months where you can hear more about this topic and ask relevant questions. You can also submit questions prior to the session via email HERE if you wish.

Below is the final date to choose from:

The person in your office that is in charge of dues calculations/payment of those invoices is welcome to attend. Please, simply forward this email to them and ask them to register; preferred that you attend the same one as they do, but not required.

The session is 8:30-9:30 AM CST via Zoom; click the date to register

April 5

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RESERVE YOUR ROOM

Join us for our second Espresso Yourself series entitled, “Advocacy and You.” AIA Louisiana Executive Director Kathleen Gordon will talk about Advocacy and how it relates to the profession of architecture; how a bill moves through the process; how to find contact information for your local Representatives and Senators; making the connection between being involved civically in the community and the benefit to the bottom line or driving new projects, followed by Q&A.

Hosted by the AIA Louisiana Associates and Emerging Professionals Committee

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

12 Noon – 1 p.m.

Zoom

1 LU / FREE TO AIA LOUISIANA MEMBERS / $25 Registration fee for non-members

While AIA Louisiana is saddened to learn of their passing, we hope you will celebrate their lives:

Charles “Char” Montgomery, AIA

Norman Koonce, FAIA

AIA Louisiana Honor Awards Call for Entries

To encourage excellence in architecture, the Louisiana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects conducts an annual Awards Program. Through this program, AIA Louisiana seeks to honor works of distinction by its members and bring to public attention outstanding examples of architecture.

Any architectural project completed within the last 5 calendar years (January 2017) which has been produced by, or in collaboration with, a member firm of AIA Louisiana is eligible for submission. Projects may be located outside of Louisiana but must be submitted by an AIA Louisiana member who served as either the Design Architect or the Architect-of-Record for the project. Members are encouraged to submit previously submitted non-winning projects, or ones that have won awards in other programs.

The cost is $250 per entry.

Deadlines: