Practice / Creating better architects, one program at a time
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Equity. Inclusion. Design. Technology. Environment. Resources. Innovation. Architecture practice now faces many challenges.Changes in technology, production, and collaboration are altering...
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The Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA) reaches its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2017. To celebrate its history as its gaze turns toward the future, each week throughout the year the BSA...
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BSA ARE Success Teams have brought together unlicensed designers to study and complete the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) within a year since 2005.
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Young designers get the business training they need to for their firms to succeed in a yearlong, monthly half-day format. About this program Winner, AIA Emerging Professionals Program of the Year...
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Just in time for license renewal season! Earn AIA continuing-education credits and stay up-to-date on industry issues with BSA workshops each summer.
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New England’s premier architecture and building event attracts more than 15,000 professionals every year. www.abexpo.com
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The BSA/AIA and BSA Foundation present this series on housing as a valuable resource to address the challenge of urban housing.
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The BSA Equity Roundtable’s goal is to make the conversation about diversity and equity engaging and accessible. Educational and interactive programs throughout the year will focus on...
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The Build Yourself+ Workshop is a 6-week 'bootcamp' of practical sessions where female designers learn to celebrate their value, communicate and negotiate with confidence, and be proactive...
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CoA has emerged multiple times since the mid-1980s to deliver intimate opportunities for dialogue with today’s designers. All are welcome; the $15 fee ($10 for BSA members) includes one...
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The Client Conversation series connects building industry professionals with high-profile clients from key New England market sectors.
Civic Engagement
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The Boston Architecture Diary is a new online guide for all events related to architecture and design that celebrate Boston’s architectural heritage and introduce cutting-edge thinking about...
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These workshops provide a valuable resource to public agencies and major property owners by providing big-picture design thinking that supports larger planning and public outreach processes. Modeled...
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To address a need for child-focused public space facilities to help improve the quality of life for Syrian refugee families. The initiative will establish a collaboration with design professionals in...
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Boston Futures is a community discussion series about the future of Boston and how Boston’s Olympic and Paralympic bid might help us achieve a shared vision for that future.
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Traffic Advisory was a speaker series focused on opportunities and challenges for Greater Boston. Traffic Advisory speakers include regional, national, and international transportation policy makers...
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The Emerald Necklace, a park system created by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted more than 100 years ago, winds through the city of Boston and parts of Brookline from the Back Bay...
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The City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects invited the public to participate in an Ideas Competition about the future of the Northern Avenue Bridge. The Northern Avenue Bridge...
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The Suffolk Downs Urban Design Workshop is the third in an ongoing series of Urban Design Workshops organized by the BSA Foundation. The workshops’ overall goal is to open up dialogue...
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The Designing Boston Series provides a forum to discuss current trends and concerns in architecture and urban planning that may shape Boston’s future. Topics include designing for...
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The Beacon Yards Urban Design Workshop was the first in this new series.Two interdisciplinary teams, composed of designers from various firms and disciplines and led by Alex Krieger of NBBJ and...
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The second BSA Urban Design Workshop examined Mayor Walsh’s housing initiative and took place March 30–April 2. The site focuses on the Dorchester Avenue corridor between the Broadway and...
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The clock is ticking. As Climate Change and rising sea levels become the new norm, Boston called upon leading planners, designers and thinkers to envision a more resilient, sustainable, vibrant, and...
Public / Sharing our love of architecture
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High school and college students interested in an architecture/design career are united with colleges and universities from across the country at this annual BSA event.
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Children and families learn about architecture and urban design in hands-on activities at Atlantic Wharf.
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The K-12 education program of the BSA Foundation, Learning By Design encourages children to explore and formulate ideas about the people, architecture and design of their own communities as they...
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Boston’s first-ever architecture boat tours chronicle the evolution of Boston’s built environment, telling the story through an architecture and neighborhood lens.
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The Common Boston festival is a unique opportunity to discover and explore the region's rich architectural, cultural, and historic resources. From civic spaces to sacred interiors to hidden...
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BSA Space presents a series of film showings which document some of the ways that architecture and design can engage communities, inspire vision, and provoke change.
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Would you like to get outside this summer? Have you wanted to meet others with an interest in art and architecture? Why not do both together at City Sketch? Sketch-artist extraordinaire Andrew Guild...
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Through conversations and tours hosted by the architect and chef of each restaurant, these intimate Dining With Design sessions will explore the unique design challenges and solutions for various...
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Mobility and the City: Six Ideas To indicate the extraordinary breadth of sites, systems, and approaches that the problems of commuting, travel, and migration have brought to the fields of...
People / Connecting architects and industry professionals
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Building professionals enjoy a fun day of golf while supporting BSA Foundation programs designed to elevate public awareness of design and construction.
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How does the built environment impact health, and how can it foster physical activity on our streets and in our buildings?
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