9.00 am to 12 noon Friday 7 February, 2020 we will attend the AGGIE Leadership in Community Development Conference at Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, George H.W. BUSH Presidential Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. This event will present several gradautes of Texas A&M who are having impact in the creation of the built environment.
For you as an architect, it is important to attend this event. THESE ARE YOUR FUTURE CLIENTS! You will learn how your clients think, what is important to them, and what are their values.
Click here to register for the conference or visit the website at http://crs.arch.tamu.edu/activities/year-of-perfect-vision/index.html
The random things that you find on the Web can be collected in Pinterest boards. As you research your projects, pinning the articles and resources that you find can make it easy to find them again when you are writing your papers. Plus, you can share them with the rest of us. I have established some boards that may interest you.
https://www.pinterest.com/markjclayton/climate-change/
https://www.pinterest.com/markjclayton/high-modernism/
https://www.pinterest.com/markjclayton/future/
https://www.pinterest.com/markjclayton/sustainability/
Friday, Feb 7, is deadline for proposals for the TX Resilience conference. The event is about how to make communities more resistant to disasters such as hurricanes. The proposal is limited to 500 words and is for a presentation at the conference in Austin in May. Please consider proposing a presentation that you can deliver through your work for this course.
https://txresilience.org/about
The American Institute of Architects is holding its annual conference in Los Angeles May 14 through 16. This is a very big event, with a big associated trade show, days of professionally oriented presentations, and gala dinners. If you are looking for a job at that time, you could network and meet architects from around the United States. The Texas A&M party for former students is an especially fruitful event for networking.
Large organizations make use of rigorous, disicplined techniques for managing projects and teams. I would like each team to use Wrike, an online tool for project management. As a student, you can obtain a free trial. Set up a Wrike site and schedule your tasks for this course. Start by putting in the deadlines for the projects as listed in the syllabus. I advise that you use verbs to define tasks, such as "Write a report", "Design the stairs", "Prepare literature review".