exploring the delicate tension between art and service

After the dark days of the recession, most architects feel lucky to have any kind of a commission to call your own. But once the relief abates, you must determine whether you have a "customer, client, or patron" signing the check. Andrés Duany identified these different audiences for architecture in his keynote address last year. This year we’ll explore the different strategies required to engage and satisfy each, while still creating work that challenges your mind, heart, and soul.

Join us this December in New Orleans for the seventh annual Reinvention Symposium as we examine the broad range of contradictions and synergies in the architect/client/environment relationship.

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Keynote Speaker

Brigitte ShimBrigitte Shim, FRAIC, Hon. FAIA
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Few architects have succeeded in melding house and landscape as beautifully as Shim-Sutcliffe. But the firm does so without star-architect posturing and striving for attention. Instead, through rigor and humility, their work achieves a quiet majesty that resonates beyond its place and time. Working closely with clients and employing a deep understanding of context, they discover untapped potential in every venue, from pristine scenic properties to densely urban brownfields. In addition to running her award-winning practice, Shim is a longtime associate professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.

Accommodations

Hotel accommodations have been reserved at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans at a discounted group rate of $199. Please call the Reservations Department at 800.241.3333. Callers should identify themselves as being with the Reinvention Conference.

Attendees should use the code BCEBCEA for booking rooms online.

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Earn up to 18 AIA continuing education credits. (pending approval)

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