Last week, LiA members visited Moises E. Molina HS, Pinkston HS, and Skyline HS!

We surely exceeded our goals for this year collecting 546 books and over 700 architectural magazines!
Thank you very much to each of you who donated a book or has volunteered time to this program; Your donation will provide local educational institutions with an architectural library, supporting education, creating awareness of architecture and art and raising exposure of our profession as a career path. THANK YOU!

Special thanks to the Bookshelf Leaders at the architecture firms, that donated their time and effort to make the program known, and successfully collected so many books, to the Comex Group for sponsoring this year’s book drive and to everyone that participated.

Our two beneficiary schools will be L.G. Pinkston High School (West Dallas) and Moisés E. Molina High School (Oak Cliff).
We will be updating you on the distribution of the books.

As you now, LiA is currently running the bookdrive program:
Help us develop an Architecture library for a local school. Donate a book TODAY!

And now that we are talking books, we'll like to share the following:

"20 Beautiful Novels for Architecture Students": http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/20-beautiful-novels-for-architecture-students/

“20 Educational Architecture Books Anyone Can Enjoy”:

http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/20-educational-architecture-books-anyone-can-enjoy/

Have a good reading and remember, you can take your book donation to the Dallas Center for Architecture!

Please join the AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture for the second year of "From an Architect's Bookshelf"!
This book donation/library development program would provide local educational institutions with books that are essential for the teaching and research of Architecture but too costly for most schools or scholars to afford.

You are encouraged to write a note of insight or encouragement inside the cover of the book to personalize and humanize the gift to the students. You can contribute something from your personal collection or buy a book to donate.Donations can include: Architecture, interior design, art and construction books.

Your book donation will help:
- Motivate a young student to stay in school and pursue a college degree education; Raise awareness of Architecture as a career path as well as its profile to make the profession more diverse and attractive; Inspire the Architect's of tomorrow: With this program if we touch one student who will pursue a career in architecture, go on to licensure, and become an AIA member, that will make it a success.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank Mesa Design Group for their kind donation of 80 books, that are helping us jump start our book drive! Also, we are pleased to announce that this year we will be running the program with LiA Austin and AIA San Diego.

BOOKSHELF LEADERS: If you are interested in being one, please let us know.
Collections are July 11 - August 19.
There will also be a collection point at the Dallas Center for Architecture (DCFA)- 1909 Woodall Rodgers Fwy., Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75201

We invite you to take a look at this video “AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture, From an Architect’s Bookshelf”, that depicts the soul and the intent of the book drive program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9kcWMeFmxk

Thanks to everyone that joined in the celebration at Corgan Assocaites last Friday, for LiA's first year as a committee of the AIA Dallas.
Corgan was a very generous and great host for all the LiA members and guests that came to learn more about the committee, and the future programs, like the sucessful "From an Architect's Bookshelf", a book drive that was launched in 2010 and that will be run again this year.

Go to LiA's facebook page to see more photos of the event:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.234560686563147

The Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts (OCSFA) is pleased to announce their popular Salon Series for Spring 2011.

On Thursday May 12, : “A Century of Women in Architecture: A Short History” by Susan Appleton, AIA, Rebecca Boles, AIA and Dr. Norma Figueroa, CAAPPR. All colleagues/assistant professors at UT Arlington and well respected for their work in architecture and research. They will present an illustrated lecture on the achievements and contributions of women in the field of architecture over the past 100 years. Among other topics, they will talk about the relationship developed between domestic architecture and women architects; the prevailing definition of the architect as male; and how gender relations have limited, and at the same time, given shape to the identity of the architect.

Dr. Norma Isa Figueroa, PH.D, MArch, CAAPPR, will be talking about the history of the profession from the gender perspective, analyzing newspaper articles about women architects in Puerto Rico from 1945 to 1980. Although her focus is women architects in Puerto Rico, these findings apply almost everywhere. It is a cultural study that reveals the challenges that the first women architects faced when joining the profession and how society preferred the male ideal.

The events will be held at the historic Turner House, home of the OCSFA, as part of their mission to be a resource for art and architecture:
Turner House: 401 N. Rosemont, 75208.
The presentations will all take place between 7:30 and 9 pm. Refreshments will be served. Tickets will be $15 for non-members and $10 for OCSFA members; Tickets can be purchased at the door or through their website: www.turnerhouse.org.

For more information please contact Kenda North, 214-563-9852,
kenda@kendanorth.com