Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010/11 AIBC Council. One of the positions available is the Intern Architect Liaison. This is your opportunity to help shape the body responsible for the governance of the profession in this province and represent the intern architects of the AIBC. Your respective nomination form will soon arriving in the mail. They are also available online, on the AIBC Council page. All nominations must be received at the AIBC offices no later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, 2010. The election closes at the Annual Meeting on May 8, 2010.
Your IAC encourages anyone who is interested in getting involved to apply!
Showing posts with label Volunteering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volunteering. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Thursday, November 12, 2009
ARE 4.0 Exam Seminar Presenters
The Intern Architect Committee would like to invite interns who have written (and passed) some of the ARE 4.0 exams to serve as volunteer presenters for this year's exam preparation seminars. The 30 to 45-minute seminars are designed to provide topical exam-taking advice to interns who are about to write each exam, and thus will focus more on strategy than on specific content. Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering for any of these positions. Thanks!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Intern Architect Event 2009: 20x20
With summer now officially over, it is time to announce the upcoming annual Intern Architect event. The Intern Architect Committee (IAC) has been discussing this issue, and has chosen to revisit the 20x20 event organized last year. Our intent is to use this Pecha Kucha inspired event as an ongoing and continuing event that would be organized at regular intervals in the future.
As a refresher to those unaware of the origins of this type of event, Pecha Kucha originated in Japan in the late 1990s as a method devised by graphic artists to present their work while minimizing the amount of constraints and requirements. Each presenter prepares an audio visual based piece, consisting of 20 images, with each being shown for 20 seconds. This ensures the presentations do not last more than six minutes, allowing many presenters to speak during one event. Today the Pecha Kucha formula has been replicated throughout the world and these types of events are a common occurrence in numerous cities.
This year’s event will take place on Thursday, November 12th at the Architecture Gallery (AIBC). The event will start at 17:30 and refreshments, as always, will be provided.
We are looking for between five and eight speakers for this event. Preference will be given to Intern Architects and architecture students. Presenters will have the opportunity to showcase their work, ideas, or other interests. An honorarium will be presented to all of the speakers. Please contact us if you are interested in being a presenter at this year's event.
In order to ensure the event is well attended and financed, the IAC will to launch a targeted advertising and sponsorship campaign. Emails and flyers will follow shortly. To encourage guests to come and participate in the event, a draw for numerous architecturally-themed prizes will also be organised.
Please mark your calendars, and we the hope to see many of you at this exciting event!
As a refresher to those unaware of the origins of this type of event, Pecha Kucha originated in Japan in the late 1990s as a method devised by graphic artists to present their work while minimizing the amount of constraints and requirements. Each presenter prepares an audio visual based piece, consisting of 20 images, with each being shown for 20 seconds. This ensures the presentations do not last more than six minutes, allowing many presenters to speak during one event. Today the Pecha Kucha formula has been replicated throughout the world and these types of events are a common occurrence in numerous cities.
This year’s event will take place on Thursday, November 12th at the Architecture Gallery (AIBC). The event will start at 17:30 and refreshments, as always, will be provided.
We are looking for between five and eight speakers for this event. Preference will be given to Intern Architects and architecture students. Presenters will have the opportunity to showcase their work, ideas, or other interests. An honorarium will be presented to all of the speakers. Please contact us if you are interested in being a presenter at this year's event.
In order to ensure the event is well attended and financed, the IAC will to launch a targeted advertising and sponsorship campaign. Emails and flyers will follow shortly. To encourage guests to come and participate in the event, a draw for numerous architecturally-themed prizes will also be organised.
Please mark your calendars, and we the hope to see many of you at this exciting event!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Interns at the BC Home + Garden Show
by Abdel Munem Amin
Ask any intern and they will tell you that the registration process can be difficult and overwhelming, especially when the rewards seem so distant and intangible. Interns are attracted to the profession for various reasons, but it is easy to lose sight of those reasons when you are confined in front of a computer trying to make sense of all the RFIs that just came through.
One of the reasons that attracted this intern to architecture was the romance of designing customized spaces and the satisfaction of successfully completing a project. However, I spend most of my time adjusting plans to conform to code rather than the needs of an end user. Not to mention the fact that the end user for commercial applications is the hypothetical public rather than an individual with explicit characteristics.
One venue that affords interns the opportunity to talk to prospective end users is at the BC Home + Garden Show. The Ask an Architect booth at the show is one of several AIBC community outreach programs. This year the Home + Garden show took place at BC place from February 18–22. Several interns volunteered their time at this event and felt that their participation was worthwhile.
Ariane Truong, a volunteer intern, noted that the booth helped raise awareness about the role of architects. Truong felt “it was great to have exposure for the profession and show that we are a necessary service, even for residential projects. I got the impression a lot of people think architects mainly do big, commercial or institutional projects and aren't aware of the benefits an architect can bring, even to small residential projects.” As a direct result of the booth at the Home + Garden Show, there was a noticeable increase in attendance at the AIBC’s Saturday morning Ask an Architect drop-in sessions, as more people became aware of the benefits of hiring an architect for their projects.
The Home + Garden show is a great way to meet the people that could eventually inhabit our designs and have informal chats about their dream projects. This sort of experience complements the skills learned within an office environment on the road to licensing. Furthermore, the hours spent volunteering can be logged as community work in your CERB, which can otherwise be difficult to obtain.
The AIBC encourages interns to take part in the event and pairs an intern with a registered architect during their shift so the intern always has someone experienced to help with the tougher questions. Varouj Gumuchian, another volunteer intern, recommends this experience to other interns and advises that as long as interns are thoughtful and take an active role at the booth, they can get a lot out of the event.
The next BC Home + Garden Show is scheduled for April 15–18, 2010 and interns who are interested in taking part should contact the AIBC communications department at communications@aibc.ca.
Ask any intern and they will tell you that the registration process can be difficult and overwhelming, especially when the rewards seem so distant and intangible. Interns are attracted to the profession for various reasons, but it is easy to lose sight of those reasons when you are confined in front of a computer trying to make sense of all the RFIs that just came through.
One of the reasons that attracted this intern to architecture was the romance of designing customized spaces and the satisfaction of successfully completing a project. However, I spend most of my time adjusting plans to conform to code rather than the needs of an end user. Not to mention the fact that the end user for commercial applications is the hypothetical public rather than an individual with explicit characteristics.
One venue that affords interns the opportunity to talk to prospective end users is at the BC Home + Garden Show. The Ask an Architect booth at the show is one of several AIBC community outreach programs. This year the Home + Garden show took place at BC place from February 18–22. Several interns volunteered their time at this event and felt that their participation was worthwhile.
Ariane Truong, a volunteer intern, noted that the booth helped raise awareness about the role of architects. Truong felt “it was great to have exposure for the profession and show that we are a necessary service, even for residential projects. I got the impression a lot of people think architects mainly do big, commercial or institutional projects and aren't aware of the benefits an architect can bring, even to small residential projects.” As a direct result of the booth at the Home + Garden Show, there was a noticeable increase in attendance at the AIBC’s Saturday morning Ask an Architect drop-in sessions, as more people became aware of the benefits of hiring an architect for their projects.
The Home + Garden show is a great way to meet the people that could eventually inhabit our designs and have informal chats about their dream projects. This sort of experience complements the skills learned within an office environment on the road to licensing. Furthermore, the hours spent volunteering can be logged as community work in your CERB, which can otherwise be difficult to obtain.
The AIBC encourages interns to take part in the event and pairs an intern with a registered architect during their shift so the intern always has someone experienced to help with the tougher questions. Varouj Gumuchian, another volunteer intern, recommends this experience to other interns and advises that as long as interns are thoughtful and take an active role at the booth, they can get a lot out of the event.
The next BC Home + Garden Show is scheduled for April 15–18, 2010 and interns who are interested in taking part should contact the AIBC communications department at communications@aibc.ca.
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