Architect Continuing Education

The AIA recognizes that continuing education in architecture is crucial to advancing and improving the profession. Earn AIA Continuing Education learning units by reading these articles and their supplemental materials, then taking a quiz.

Please note: CEU stories are only valid for credit within 3 years of publication date. Click the link to the quiz at the bottom of the article to verify that credit is still available.

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Continuing Education: Designing for Extreme Heat

As heat waves intensify, passive cooling strategies for buildings and public space can save lives

Katharine Logan

July 31, 2023

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Architects and landscape architects respond to potentially deadly heat events with passive cooling strategies.

Continuing Education: Design for Aging

Home at Last

Katharine Logan

July 1, 2023

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Projects from Brooks + Scarpa, Perkins&Will, and Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects show how design can help a rapidly growing segment of the population thrive.

Focus on Wood 2023

June 1, 2023

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This month's special section examines timber construction, including strategies for sustainable sourcing, policies facilitating the material’s use, and engineering innovations accommodating unexpected typologies and unique locations.

Sourcing Sustainable Timber Starts with the Forest

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

June 1, 2023

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Architects grapple with the carbon impacts and benefits of building with wood.

ZGF's Portland Airport Expansion Takes Its Cues from the Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Portland, Oregon

Randy Gragg

June 1, 2023

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Stumptown's mass-timber airport terminal prepares for takeoff.

Starts and Stumbles: The Rocky Road to Europe’s Ambitious Timber Construction Targets

Katharine Logan

June 1, 2023

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European countries and cities have a slew of initiatives underway to incentivize building with wood. However, major obstacles persist.

Rising from the Ashes: Mass Timber Helps Resurrect a Fire-Torn Town in Rural California

Greenville, California

Sarah Amelar

June 1, 2023

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The Sierra Institute and atelierjones propose the use of fire-hardened, cross-laminated timber to replace the nearly 600 Greenville homes destroyed by California's Dixie Wildfire in 2021.

Mass-Timber "Trees" Support the World of Volvo Experience Center

James Gauer

June 1, 2023

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The carmaker gears up to showcase its brand with a sculptural, glass-enclosed structure topped with a cantilevered, timber-framed roof.

Helen & Hard Revamps an Outmoded Office Building in Norway with a Timber Insertion

Stavanger, Norway

Katharine Logan

June 1, 2023

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An outdated modernist office building is spruced up for the 21st century.

Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood

RECORD Editors

June 1, 2023

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In-process, completed, and on-the-boards projects featuring wood, including housing, office towers, museums, and academic buildings from Europe and North America.

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Continuing Education: Designing for Extreme Heat

Continuing Education: Design for Aging

Focus on Wood 2023

Sourcing Sustainable Timber Starts with the Forest

ZGF's Portland Airport Expansion Takes Its Cues from the Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Starts and Stumbles: The Rocky Road to Europe’s Ambitious Timber Construction Targets

Rising from the Ashes: Mass Timber Helps Resurrect a Fire-Torn Town in Rural California

Mass-Timber "Trees" Support the World of Volvo Experience Center

Helen & Hard Revamps an Outmoded Office Building in Norway with a Timber Insertion

Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood

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