If you love AIA Conferences, then you’ve come to the right place
AIA26 San Diego
Balboa Park, Cuatro Cuatros, the long walk uphill to the Geisel Library and the highest highs (and then the lowest lows) of AIA Tours
AIA25 Boston
Three universities, two ICAs, five AIA tours, Edward Everett Hale in a hockey sweater and a rock solid alibi for the Gardner Museum Heist
AIA24 Washington, DC
The Australian Embassy, Silva (or quite possibly The Silva), The Reach, the wharf, two libraries and a return to Section 81
A’23 San Francisco
John Marsh Davis, Jeanne Gang, Steep Urbanism, five rules for booking AIA tours and the omnipresent Transamerica Pyramid
A’22 Chicago
Unity Temple, the Rookery, Nick Cave, Bruce Wayne, the Chateau Frontenac Theory and Wolf Point
A’19 Las Vegas
Miss Atomic Bomb, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the Neon Museum and Frank Gehry’s Lou Ruvo Brain Institute
A’18 New York
Inside Bjark Ingels’ pyramid, TWA construction, Grace Farms, the Glass House and we take to the sea
A’17 Orlando
Santiago Calatrava, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi, Michael Graves and, above all, Walt Disney
2016 AIA Convention Philadelphia
Louis Kahn, Frank Furness, Bjarke Ingels, Robert Venturi, Rem Koolhaas and Eastern State Penitentiary
2015 AIA Convention Atlanta
A Portman journey through space, SCADpad and whatever the hell the Georgia Guidestones are
2014 AIA Convention Chicago
Marina City, Jeanne Gang, the Tribune Tower, an underground book lair and Mies van der Rohe
2013 AIA Convention Denver
Colorado Springs, Boulder, Ashcroft, Aspen, Maroon Bells, the Avett Brothers at Red Rocks and Denver
2012 AIA Convention Washington, DC
Monuments, museums, embassies, parties, private houses and fun with tilt-shift photography
2011 AIA Convention New Orleans
New buildings, old buildings, plantations, voodoo shops and my inescapable fate
2010 AIA Convention Miami
The Fontainebleau, the Eiber House, the Pink House, Key West, an alligator and a really nice parking garage
2009 AIA Convention San Francisco
Morphosis, Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Piano, Hearst Castle, base isolators, a fish and a UFO
2008 AIA Convention Boston
Exeter, Cambridge, the Greenway, three bridges, the Green Monster and the South Ridge Trail
2006 AIA Convention Los Angeles
Case Study Houses, John Lautner, Greene and Greene, Morphosis and the Getty Center
