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Small, Green, Affordable
The Salvation Army joins the U.S. Green Building Council this year in hosting USGBC‘s 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition. Entrants will design an affordable, 800 square foot green home for an elderly client in the Broadmoor, New Orleans neighborhood. Winners will be announced after the top four entries have been constructed, inhabited [...]

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Brochure & Regi Form for ws on Lighting Design and Choreographing Light2.pdf (339 KB)
Dear Sir/ Madam,
National Institute of Design is pleased to announce a Workshop on “Lighting Design and Choreographing Light”, to be [...]

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Announcement.Research Conference.pdf (953 KB)
The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is organizing a Research Conference to summarize Disaster Mitigation Efforts in recent decades so as to identify [...]

The Spontaneous Architecture mini-competitions are a series of twelve monthly competitions to last throughout 2010. The entries are single images, and the entry fee is $5 per entry. The competition winners will be decided by fellow competition entrants (although no entrant may vote for their own proposal).
This collective voting will harness the group’s intelligence and interests [...]

Source : http://www.constructionweekonline.in/article-5890-govt_to_lead_by_example_for_green_buildings/
The government has recently taken a decision to lead by example by having all new central government and PSU buildings to meet requirements of at least three star rating under GRIHA, though efforts would be made to achieve four star requirements wherever site conditions permit.
The information was shared by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union [...]

GRIHA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 4TH JANUARY 2010 STEIN AUDITORIUM INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI
Attached are the brochure and registration form for IIA members.
regards

Shamit Manchanda Jt. Secretary Northern Chapter The Indian Institute of Architects  

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GRIHA National Conference Brochure.pdf (172 KB) [...]

ArchiTECH

 
"Vision reaches beyond the thing, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."
Focused at delivering a better life to the present and future generations while promoting healthy co-existence with the environment, this section aims to [...]

British Council and Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
invite you to a talk on
Architecture in an Age of Climate Change
Speaker David Lloyd Jones Director, Studio E Architects, UK
on Monday 21 December, 6.30 p.m. at the British Council 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi
Talk [...]

Disaster Mitigation in Housing in India: An Agenda for Future
19th and 20th March, 2010
  THE RESEARCH CONFERENCE TO IDENTIFY FOCUS AND TRENDS IN HOUSING RESEARCH FOR 2010-2025. 
Papers by the subject experts relevant to the central theme are invited.
Contributions after review would be chosen for publication and oral presentations. 
Last date [...]

19 June – 4 July 2010
The International Architecture Student Festival
Building on the success of the Student Festivals in 2006 and 2008 The International Student Architecture Festival will ask design students from all over the UK and internationally to create a series of site-specific interventions in two key public spaces in London responding to the theme [...]