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2025 COD Chair Craig Brandt, FAIA

  

Dear Committee on Design Community,

It is my great pleasure to serve as the chair of the American Institute of Architects Committee on Design for 2025. Our work weaves the threads of design through various activities to support the Institute’s ambitions for excellence in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. In addition to the ongoing work supporting and promoting several of the Institutes award programs, we have a full programmatic spectrum from virtual learning on AIAU, to programs and tours for AIA 25’ to be held in Boston, and finally, our own domestic conference planned May 1-3 in Miami and Coconut Grove Florida.

One might see 2025 as a pivotal time to consider how our political, economic, and societal frameworks intersect with our aspirations to preserve our heritage, encourage smart growth, defend our climate, and increase the quality of our places. Thus, the theme of our conference “Design at the Intersection of Climate, Culture, and Beauty” highlights models of regional design that try to strike a balance within these dynamic forces and relationships within the myriad challenges of physical conditions that our country contains.

One place where this diverse and dynamic conversation begins in 2025 is in South Florida, known as a regional center for design and tourism. The region provides engaging conversations of this intersection for design and climate while boasting a diverse array of urban and natural environments that many are not familiar with.  Our itinerary based in Coconut Grove takes attendees through urban and landscape environments in Miami, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables. I hope you will consider attending our conference where we will not only explore these places, but hear from practitioners and academics, which include recipients of our Institute Awards. Approximately 100 people attend these conferences, and the attendees include architects from all areas of practice and firms of different sizes.

This year's programming in Miami/Coconut Grove and  Boston builds upon recent successful conferences held in:  Austin, Texas; St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia (2017); Vancouver, Canada and Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile (2018); San Francisco, California and Basel, Lausanne, Lucerne, Chur, Vals, Switzerland (2019); Los Angeles (2022); and New Orleans, Louisiana, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2023) and Northwest Arkansas, and São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024).

2024 outgoing Chair Susan Chin passes COD medallion to 2025 incoming Chair Craig Brandt. Image credit: Committee on Design Knowledge Community

Craig Brandt, FAIA, AFAAR, LEED BD+C 

Chair, Committee on Design 

Profile link: https://communityhub.aia.org/profile?UserKey=58b7e7a7-9555-4d1c-8ffd-c5e150f03f04

Save the Date

COD Spring Conference in Coconut Grove – May 1-4, 2025.

AIA25 in Boston, Mass – June 4-7, 2025.

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