Committee on Design Community Blog

Meet the COD Miami: Design at the intersection of Climate, Culture, and Beauty Speakers!

By Alison Karfeld posted 03-20-2025

Jeffrey Huber, FAIA Principal, Director of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, BROOKS + SCARPA, and Professor, School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University Jeff’s talk at the Kampong National Tropical Botanic Garden will illuminate ...

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2024 Wrap-Up Message from Susan Chin, FAIA

By Alison Karfeld posted 01-16-2025

We had an epic year of design exploration--learning from a broad range of architects, designers and civic leaders across the nation and the globe--in Northwest Arkansas, Washington D.C, and Brazil! What a tremendous honor and privilege for me to share ...

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2025 COD Chair Craig Brandt, FAIA

By Alison Karfeld posted 01-14-2025

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 ...

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COD AIAU Courses

By Alexander Chaconas posted 04-27-2023

The Committee on Design (COD) was founded to promote design excellence among members of the AIA and the public. COD programs celebrate exemplary models of architecture, highlighting parameters of AIA’s Framework for Design Excellence while promoting ...

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Design Competition Recipients

By Johanna Roche posted 05-26-2022

2021 Design Competition Recipients Visit Skid Row 2021 to see project details. 1st Place Neil McLean Atkins Architects | Glasgow, Scotland 2nd Place Tannia Aurellia, Aurelia Audrey, Rifki Fauzan Universitas Indonesia | Jakarta, Indonesia ...

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COD: Travels to Chile

By Alexander Chaconas posted 09-28-2020

COD: Travels to Chile Relive the COD Conference Tour in Chile The Committee on Design held its 2018 international conference in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile, from October 20-27, 2018. Now is an excellent time to reminisce and/or imagine what a ...

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Update from 2020 chair

By Curtis W. Fentress FAIA posted 07-01-2020

Update from 2020 Chair Fellow Committee on Design Members, I hope you are safe and healthy and finding some sense of normalcy in your lives and in your practices. As the country continues to fight the pandemic and work towards stabilizing the ...

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Update from 2020 Chair

By Curtis W. Fentress FAIA posted 05-13-2020

Update from 2020 Chair Fellow Committee on Design Members, Amazing changes have occurred over the course of two months! We are living in unprecedented times with the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the safety and wellness of our members is of utmost ...

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Letter from 2020 Chair

By Curtis W. Fentress FAIA posted 01-16-2020

Letter from 2020 chair Welcome to the beginning of a new decade. It is an honor to serve as the 2020 chair of the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Design (COD). The theme for the 2020 AIA Committee on Design is Trading Posts: The ...

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2019 Climate Symposium November 7-8

By Keri E. Dixon posted 10-16-2019

Join AIA Asheville for the Climate Symposium - Where Building Science Meets Climate Science _____________________________ Climate Adaptive Design - where Building Science meets Climate Science November 7 - Public Lecture start at 5:00 pm ...

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“The Innovators And Maintainers” Innovation In Architecture, Infrastructure & Technology

By Michael F. Ross FAIA Member Emeritus posted 07-12-2019

AIA Committee On Design Conference San Francisco + Silicon Valley April 4-7, 2019 Some people consider the act of innovating to be a disruption—doing things in new ways that have never been considered before. At the 2019 AIA Committee on Design ...

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