This annual meeting offers opportunities for leaders from nearly 280 state and local chapters to exchange programs, best practices, and share and discuss information and challenges that relate to their experiences.

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 We are pleased to announce that our First Quarterly Meeting will feature landscape architect, Martha Schwartz, the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Honorary Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, among others.

 In addition to being a landscape architect and artist based in London UK and Cambridge, Mass. Martha Schwartz is Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her work spans from site-specific art installations to working with cities at strategic planning levels.

 Her focus is on environmental sustainability and the creation of awareness about how urban landscapes underwrite urban sustainability through functioning as the platform for a city’s environmental, social and economic health. Schwartz is an advocate for how cities can reduce climate change and support a more sustainable approach to diminishing resources. She continues her devotion to the built environment through pushing new boundaries and expressions as a designer. She believes that design creates identity, value for public spaces, and helps to differentiate ourselves in an ever-growing uniformity of place as a result of globalization.

Please join us to meet Martha to  learn more about her design work and her philosophy.

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We are very fortunate to have a private preview of the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, prior to its opening to the public in February.  This is a unique facility which combines striking contemporary architecture with history, cultural significance and natural beauty.

The new permanent home for the Asia Society involved the conservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive re-use of a group of four former British military buildings in Admiralty. Known as the Explosives Magazine, the site was constructed in several phases from the 1850s to 1910s, and used to produce and store explosives and munitions.  Over time, the Explosives Magazine was used for miscellaneous government storage and workshop functions before it was abandoned in the 1990s.

The conceptual design for the project was conceived by award-winning Architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates after a world-wide competition.  Tod and Billie’s thoughtful design minimized the impact on the hilly site and at the same time provided Asia Society with much needed spacious venues for the non-profit organization’s Asian art exhibits, lectures and conferences.  All aimed to educate the public on global issues affecting the region and to celebrate the diversity of Asia.

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Tis the Season! An AIA Hong Kong Christmas party with learning units!! Many thanks to PERMASTEELISA for organizing this very interesting and festive evening on Thursday, December 8 on the roof at the Fringe Club.

AIA Hong Kong is honored to have Professor Zhu-jingxiang, from the School of Architecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), as our guest speaker. The professor will share his experiences on building a hostel in a nature reserve base in Chengdu (WWF project).

After the Professor’s brief talk – the rest of the evening will be spent enjoying each other’s company with wine, nibbles & may be even x’mas cookies & Christmas Carols

"Tis the Season"