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AIA Michigan
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April 2008, Thursday
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Committee on Design Conference
Location:
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
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Design Parallels: Architecture, Industrial Design, Transportation Design, Interior Design
April 3 - 6, 2008
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
Detroit, MI
Online registration: http://aia-timssnet.uapps.net/timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm
Print registration form (.pdf) :http://www.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/CODSpring08RegForm.pdf
Event Web site: http://www.aia.org/br_cod_parallels08
Design Parallels: http://aiami.com/events/aiami/comondsn/040308_DesignParallels_postcard.pdf
Grosse Pointe News - 'Design Gems Lure Experts'
Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle
Architects, Designers head to Detroit for Conference
The Oakland Press
Architects to survey metro area
Join the AIA Committee on Design for a conference exploring design analogies and parallels through architecture, the automotive industry, industrial design, and other design professions. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour sites that will serve as case studies in Detroit’s legacy of design, including
Ford and General Motors manufacturing facilities designed by Albert Kahn
Sustainable design adaptations to the Ford River Rouge Plant by William McDonough + Partners
Cranbrook Academy of Art, designed by Eliel Saarinen, with buildings by Steven Holl, Tod Williams + Billie Tsien, and others
Lafayette Park by Mies van der Rohe
Breuer Library in Grosse Pointe, Mich.
Detroit Renaissance Center, designed by John Portman, with recent renovation and expansion by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Gensler, SmithGroup, and Ghafari Associates
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