As you probably know, AIA COTE (a Knowledge Community of more than 12,000) publishes a newsletter every other month. It's known as "COTE news" and the July/August issue just dropped. Everyone can read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/COTEnews_JulAug2025, which includes
a celebration the 2025 COTE Top Ten winners by Alyssa Murphy (Placework), a member of the COTE Leadership Group (post: https://bit.ly/COTEnews_JulAug25_TopTen)
a COTE book review by Tim Beatley (UVA School of Architecture) of The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook by Nico Larco (University of Oregon School of Architecture & Environment) and Kaarin Knudson, AIA (U of O + Mayor of City of Eugene OR); post: https://bit.ly/COTEnews_JulAug25_COTEbookreview … and please join us for the free and virtual COTE book talk on 26 August (hosted by Boston Society for Architecture COTE via DSK); register: https://bit.ly/COTEbooktalk_26Aug2025)!
a letter from the chair, Robin Z. Puttock, which includes a recap of AIA25 (the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design) in June
a great piece by Kate Sector (Lake Flato Architects) about how The University of Texas at San Antonio School of Architecture's student competition is teaching the Framework (and spawning a COTE student group!)
Peter Pfeiffer's piece about the Energy Star program's Texas roots
a COTE Network update from Sean Costello (Diekema Hamann Architecture + Engineering)
a snapshot how-to-be-a-Citizen-Architect by Kjell Anderson (LMN Architects): hint: just do it!
a (growing) list of federal data sources that are in peril and how to access some of that data (for now)
+ a curated list of upcoming events, podcasts, articles
+ info about how to join the COTE community and receive this in your email
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Kira Gould Hon. AIA
Kira Gould CONNECT
Mission Hills KS
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