June 7, 2005 (RALEIGH, NC) – Architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, and landscape architect Dick Bell, FASLA, both of Raleigh, will present seminars at the 17^th annual Architecture Exchange East Conference and Expo (ArchEx) to be held in Richmond, Va., November 3-4, sponsored by the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects. ArchEx is a major educational and professional forum for all building and design professionals and related industry along the east coast.

Harmon’s seminar, entitled “Architecture With A Conscience: Designing Contemporary Regional Architecture,” will illustrate “the importance of place and region to innovative, appropriate and sustainable design,” he said, using his and other architects’ projects as examples. He hopes participants will learn “why clients’ needs are an architect’s greatest creative source; how attention to climate, wind patterns and hydrology can liberate architecture; and how the roots of sustainable design are found in our vernacular architecture.”

Bell’s seminar, entitled “The Creation of Sustainable Environments: The Genesis Of Two Projects,” will “shed light on what it takes to create an urban project of value within a sea of suburban mediocrity,” he said, “using two of my own projects as case studies.” Those projects are North Carolina State University’s “Brickyard” plaza and a proposed mixed-use redevelopment for Bell’s own Water Garden Office Park on Raleigh’s Glenwood Avenue. His objective is to give participants “a keen grasp of the fact that landscape architecture must encompass land planning within the natural systems it effects.”

ArchEx, promoted as “three days of learning, networking and exchanging ideas,” is open to architects, landscape architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, planners, students and industry leaders. It includes 67,000 square feet of space of industry support exhibitions as well as Design Showcase, which features works by architects, landscape architects and interior designers. For more information and registration, visit the website: www.archex.net or contact Dr. Linda Halstead, Director of Professional Development by email: lhalstead@aiava.org.

Tags: Architecture Exchange East, Dick Bell, landscape architecture, modern architecture, NC architects, regional architecture, sustainable environments

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