The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Center for Emerging Professionals announces EP:2011, the second annual exhibition of work, art, and designs of emerging architects across North America. EP:2011 will promote the compelling work of the rising generation of architects and inspire professionals to mentor and engage the many talented and motivated emerging professionals across the country.

The exhibit will be displayed at the American Center for Architecture in Washington, DC from January 17th through February 5th, the final day of the AIA Grassroots Leadership and Legislative Conference.

In order to best represent the diversity and talents of emerging professionals, the AIA asks you to submit your works. Submissions can be the result of work in a firm, class, design studio, design competition, or personal investigation. Submission types include, but are not limited to, presentation boards, developmental design sketches and renderings, complete drawing sets, models, photography, paintings, and video. The AIA encourages the creative use of the exhibition space and the use of alternative and mixed media.

Work can be submitted by any architecture student, intern architect, or architect licensed less than ten years. Submissions from AIA and AIAS members will receive priority for display, but an effort to include as much work as possible will be made to create an exhibit that is inclusive of all emerging professionals.

Submissions must be received by January 7, 2011:

• All files must be submitted in a single PDF or ZIP file format.
  
• No one file can be larger than 25MB.
  
• All images should be in JPEG or PDF file format.
  
• Images must have a resolution of at least 150 dpi but should not exceed 300 dpi.
  
• A description of the project (max 500 words) and the names of all parties involved in its creation must be submitted along with images in PDF or DOC file format.
  
• No copyrighted material or work not of your own efforts can be submitted without prior consent from original author.
  

Submit files directly through the uploading widget or by email to: upload.EP_2011.e0l5lpotsv@u.box.net.

If you wish to submit a model or other three-dimensional work for display, please send a JPEG and brief description to emergingprofessionals@aia.org. AIA staff will contact you if the work can be accommodated in the display. Please direct all questions regarding exhibition space and submissions to this address; please do not submit project files to this address.

Submission Deadline: 5 p.m. ET, January 11, 2011

Be Recognized for Your Outstanding Work!

The Small Project Practitioners Knowledge Community presents the seventh annual Small Project Award Program to recognize small project practitioners for the high quality of their work and to promote excellence in small project design. This Award Program strives to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to projects, no matter the limits of size and scope.

SPP encourages submissions of projects in all building types: commercial, retail, industrial, educational, public, private, and residential. Entries may include fully completed new and renovation projects or elements of built projects.

Submission Categories

• Small project objects (up to $50,000 construction budget)
  
• Small project structures (up to $500,000 construction budget)
  
• This year's special category: Off the Grid: Self-sustaining Design - no construction budget restrictions

Unemployed workers retrofit their former business cards to send hopeful messages.

"When architect Michael Nicolson lost his job at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at the height of the recession, he faced the usual flood of emotions. The future looked bleak, of course, and questions swirled about what to do next. That’s when Nicholson, who was 46 at the time, discovered Cards of Change, a website launched last year that is aimed at creative types who have hit the unemployment lines."

Read the full article at Design Observer.

Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome.

The jury will select work for presentation in public fora, an on-line installation, podcasts, and in an exhibition in late spring 2011. Winners will receive a cash prize of $1,000, as well as an additional stipend for travel and exhibit installation determined at set levels based on the applicant’s proximity to New York. A catalogue of winning work will be published by the Architectural League and Princeton Architectural Press.

The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects & Designers Committee. The Prize was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum.

Learn more and submit your projects here.

The Impact Our World Conference, scheduled for January 13-14, 2011 in New Orleans has been reorganized as the AIA Haiti/New Orleans Summit.

The "Haiti Ideas Challenge," co-sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the United State Agency for International Development (USAID), and Howard University's School of Architecture and Design, is a two-stage challenge, focusing on providing permanent solutions to the rebuilding of infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods and structures for residents of Haiti affected by the recent catastrophic natural disaster.