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AIABaltimore Bookstore New Arrivals

The books listed below are new to the Architects Bookstore. As usual, members enjoy a 10% discount throughout the year on all book, cards, and AIA contract documents. Our public hours are 9 – 4:30 p.m., Monday – Thursday. Call ahead please if you need to visit earlier or later.

Architecture Materials: Concrete sings the praises of concrete for the 21st century and highlights 25 particularly interesting and successful residential projects from all over the world, exemplifying a whole variety of forms and applications of concrete both for interior and exterior use. It includes more than 300 photographs, illustrations and architectural plans. Evergreen, 2008, soft cover, $19.99.

Airbrush Illustration for Architecture by George Dombek and Tom Porter guides illustrators – beginners and the experienced alike – from the basics to the achievement of highly complex architectural images. Even in the computer age, the airbrush offers rich effects worth using to achieve unique lighting effects on built (or unbuilt) spaces. W.W. Norton, 2003, hard cover, $45.

Pierre Koenig/Living with Steel by Neil Jackson describes the architect’s early understanding of the need for industrialization and prefabrication and the importance of sustainability. The fifteen residences featured here are progressive symbols of postwar suburbia, and demonstrate Koenig’s search for answers to housing problems. Taschen, 2007, soft cover, $9.99.

Louis Comfort Tiffany by Jacob Baal-Teshuva features magnificent photographs of leaded glass windows, lamps, and vases with catalogue, chronology, bibliography, and a fascinating introduction to the work of Tiffany and his studio. Taschen, 2008, hard cover, $14.99.

AIABaltimore sells a wide variety of hard copy legal documents useful in the architecture and building process. If you are an AIA architect member and make frequent use of these forms, AIA National has electronic format documents available for lease at 1.800.365.ARCH. For all hard copy documents, please call the AIABaltimore office at 410.625.2585 to place your order. Prices subject to change.

Feel free to make use of the following description list in selecting the documents necessary for your project.

The following document series are all included in our pricelist. Please download the file as a PDF.

A Series (Owner-Contractor) Documents
B Series (Owner-Architect) Documents
C Series (Architect-Other Professionals, e.g. engineers, consultants, etc.)
D Series (Architect-Industry) Series Documents
G Series (Construction Administration) Documents
Miscellaneous Documents Materials or Information

Order the completely redesigned AIA Contract Documents software today! Based on Microsoft® Word, the new software is easy to use. Join the over 18,000 architects, owners, contractors and others who are using it today. Visit http://www.aia.org/documents/demo to see an online demonstration or go to www.aia.org to download the new AIA Contract Documents software.

In November, 2007, the AIA officially released the 2007 Update to AIA Contract Documents. The AIA prepared the 2007 Update, which consists primarily of agreements in the popular A201 family of documents, with input from owners, contractors, attorneys, architects and engineers. The 2007 Update includes nearly 40 contract documents, including new owner/architect agreements.

The AIA, working with the AIA’s Documents Committee, revises the A201 family every ten years to reflect changes in industry trends and practices. Work began on the 2007 Update in 2004, when the AIA solicited industry feedback on the 1997 A201 family of documents from more than a dozen industry organizations representing contractors, subcontractors, engineers, owners, and the attorneys who represent them. Many AIA members participated from committees such as The Committee on the Environment, Technology and Practice, Practice Management, the Small Project Practitioners, and the Risk Management Committee. The drafting process included sending two sets of agreement drafts to these groups for their comments and suggestions, and meeting in person with representatives from many organizations to address their concerns. This process resulted in the publication of updated agreements that take into account the interests of all contracting parties and reflect current industry practices.

In the past, the AIA has sought and received the Associated General Contractors’ endorsement of A201, General Conditions of the Contract for Construction. This year, however, the AGC board of directors voted not to endorse A201–2007. Although the AGC did not provide any reason for not endorsing, the AGC launched its own new documents, called ConsensusDocs, on September 28, 2007; which have intentionally positioned to compete directly with AIA Contract Documents. This quote (ENR March 07) by the AGC’s spokesperson, J. William Ernstrom, Esq., “The AIA 201 documents are going to come very soon as a second choice to the consensus documents,” says a very great deal about the AGC’s motives.

The AGC touts their ConsensusDocs as a product of designers, owners, and contractors but, in fact, no organization representing design professionals took part in the development of the ConsensusDocs. The AIA and the engineering societies, American Council of Engineering Companies, American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers, did not participate in the AGC’s new program. Without the involvement of designers, these agreements can hardly be said to reflect “consensus.”

While it is unfortunate news that the AGC has allowed current business interests to prevent it from voting to endorse A201–2007, AIA Contract Documents remain the industry standard. Only the AIA provides the winning combination of fair and balanced content with a state-of-the-art delivery system, AIA Contract Documents software, which generates documents in Microsoft® Word to allow easy editing and collaboration with colleagues and clients. AIA members can be reassured that every possible effort is being made to ensure that AIA Contract Documents remain the most respected and most widely used in the industry.