Advertisement:

Posts in category "AEC"

AEC and Design get social in Social Media

image.attributes.post_excerpt
Event Statistics Industry: AEC, Architecture & Design Speaker: Lira Luis, AIA, RIBA, CeMA, LEED AP BD+C Main Sponsors: CWA, AIA Chicago, Porcelanosa Co-Sponsors: Allsteel, Herman Miller Target Turnout: 50 Actual Turnout: 75 (including staff) Location: Porcelanosa showroom, Merchandise Mart Takeaway: “We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how... Read more »
By Lira,
April 7, 2012 at 11:49 am
• Leave a comment

Chicago architect teams up with Cave Creek architecture-designer, to present in Orlando

(read original article here) Coverings — The Ultimate Tile + Stone Experience — has invited Michael P Johnson, Michael P Johnson Design Studio and Lira Luis, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP BD+C, ALLL to be speakers at its annual conference and exposition coming to Orlando, Florida, April 17-20, 2012. Michael and Lira’s session entitled Tile: From... Read more »
By Lira,
March 28, 2012 at 2:54 pm
• 2 comments

Can Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. be used to find funding for a project, or project leads?

Can architects/ designers/ interior designers use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. to find work or new project opportunities? What about funding for projects, or even winning an online contest? How is social technology increasingly paving the way for co-working? I’ve shared some of this information with you once during the 2011 AIA National Convention in New... Read more »
By Lira,
February 27, 2012 at 12:40 pm
• Leave a comment
Advertisement:

NEWH Stuff Happening In Chicago

image.attributes.post_excerpt
So what’s the latest news in the Hospitality Industry? The Chicago Chapter of The Hospitality Industry Network (NEWH) is hosting its first ever Regional Trade Show on October 26, 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. “We start the day with two CEU presentations and then during the trade show you can meet over 100... Read more »
By Lira,
October 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
• Leave a comment

Loving Architect Barbie at Frank Lloyd Wright's Home & Studio

image.attributes.post_excerpt
When architect Barbie was introduced as Mattel’s Career of the Year for 2011 during the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention in New Orleans, it elicited both positive and negative reactions from the industry. I recently took this doll on a trip to Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin and used the adventure to share... Read more »
By Lira,
October 11, 2011 at 11:10 am
• Leave a comment

Chicago Artists Month show architects doing other things

image.attributes.post_excerpt
Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture.” Out of this art are several offsprings of artistic expression that richly contribute to the vibrancy of communities. Architecture, along with its allied arts, feed off of each other’s creativity. The Chicago Women In Architecture (CWA) will showcase this multi-faceted artistry of its... Read more »
By Lira,
September 18, 2011 at 3:21 pm
• Leave a comment
Advertisement:

Archiflix

image.attributes.post_excerpt
Film and architecture has an affinity that architects in history have time and time again attempted to project on screen. Architect Charles and Ray Eames used film as a likely vessel for their ideas. In Powers of Ten, it “takes us on an adventure in magnitudes.” They chose a fitting starting point at a lakeside... Read more »
By Lira,
April 10, 2011 at 4:26 pm
• Leave a comment

NEWH Kid On The Hotel Block

image.attributes.post_excerpt
The transient nature of hotel guests, whether traveling for business or pleasure, has its own quirks making them like new kids on the block in a given time and place. In the River North neighborhood of Chicago, a brand new luxury boutique hotel by Kimpton opened its “art in motion” doors to welcome savvy travelers... Read more »
By Lira,
March 17, 2011 at 10:39 pm
• Leave a comment

Epic Party In Icon-ic Building

image.attributes.post_excerpt
This weekend, the Chicago Loop’s first skyscraper, the Inland Steel Building, became the stage for an epic event celebrating design, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. True to design form, a party where artists, fashionistas, furniture designers, and architects are thrown in the mix amid the raw space, mood lighting, sweeping views of the Loop... Read more »
By Lira,
March 13, 2011 at 1:03 pm
• Leave a comment
Advertisement:

Pastry Puffing Out Architecture

During a recent screening of the documentary Kings of Pastry at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago’s theater district, I had the pleasure of asking one of its leading characters, Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer from where his design sources come. He tells me he’s a big fan of the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly... Read more »
By Lira,
January 16, 2011 at 3:02 pm
• Leave a comment