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4 unusual facts about Jay Laga'aia


Jay Laga'aia

One of his younger brothers, Frank Laga'aia, was a member of the ARIA award winning band, Ilanda.

Laga'aia played the role of Judas in a 1994 production of Jesus Christ Superstar in New Zealand.

Performances begin September 17, 2013, where he will perform alongside Jemma Rix at the Civic Theatre in Auckland.

Palauli

Jay Laga'aia, from Faala village ia an actor, Laga'aia is known for his part on Australian children's TV show Playschool, and also for his role as Captain Typho in the films Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.


Accuracy in Academia

The AIA is run by executive director Daniel J. Flynn, the author of the book Why the Left Hates America.

Amode Ibrahim Atchia

AIA is credited with setting up the Société Atchia Frères, reconstructing the first mosque at Rose Hill following the historic cyclone of 1892, and constructing the first ice factory and saw mill since the 1920s, with technological innovations in use of wind-energy and pre-fabricated concrete.

Born in Rose-Belle, in Grand Port district, AIA was the son of a Surti Muslims merchant called Ibrahim Sulleman Atchia who had arrived from Barbodhan, a village 15 km from Surat, in Gujarat state of India in the course of free trade.

Arbor View High School

The design for this school received a 2005 AIA Nevada Excellence in Design Award merit award for a completed structure.

Armand Phillip Bartos

About the structure—cited as the best of 1965 by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)—Bartos offered: "The scrolls are not visual as a Rembrandt is visual. Only scholars can actually decipher them. It was up to us Kiesler and me to say something about them. Thus we built up an air of mystery" (Time magazine, April 30, 1965).

Automated Imaging Association

Cognex Corporation and National Instruments are also two big names in the machine vision industry that are members of the AIA.

Francisco Guevara

In 2007 & 2008 the project Guevara curated Campo Expandido VIII with Raymundo Sesma was awarded the AIA New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award.

Fraternité Notre-Dame

In 2000, The movement opened its Mother House for North America in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in the former Gammon United Methodist Church, a structure built by noted Cleveland architect Sidney Badgley and featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004).

Frederick Charles Merry

Frederick Charles Merry, AIA, (d. 1900, New York City) was an American architect active in late-nineteenth-century New York City.

James H. Garrott

In 1946, Garrott was the second African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Los Angeles, after Paul R. Williams.

James Howard Kunstler

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA, the APA, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Jan Yoors

1966 - 1967: Yoors travels throughout South America, Asia, the Middle East and Russia photographing postwar religious architecture, commissioned by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the 1967 “International Congress on Religion, Architecture and the Visual Arts”.

Jun Mitsui

Jun Mitsui is a member of AIA (American Institute of Architects), JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) and Japan Architects Academy, and is a licensed architect in both Japan and the United States.

LA ink

Some key examples of their work are the SEGD 2007 Honor Award / AIA MN Award winning "Wall of Discovery" and the Northwest Airlines hangar mural at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

Lorcan O'Herlihy

O'Herlihy has worked on the east coast as a designer and associate at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, at I.M. Pei and Partners where he worked on the Grand Louvre Museum in Paris, and at Steven Holl Architects where he was responsible for the AIA National Honor Award-winning Hybrid Building (Seaside, Florida).

Miller Hull

In addition to numerous publications, they are the recipients of the 2003 American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award, the AIA's highest honor.

Mustapha Khalid Palash

Palash is a member of Institute of Architects Bangladesh, International Associate Member of AIA and a member of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Norifumi Yamamoto

AIA High School State Championship (1995, 1996, 1997)

Olson Kundig Architects

The firm was awarded the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects) from the American Institute of Architects.

The firm has won more than 70 regional and national AIA (American Institute of Architects) awards, as well as awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Current principal/owners include Jim Olson, FAIA, Tom Kundig, FAIA, FAIA 8=D, Kirsten Murray, AIA and Alan Maskin.

Philippine American Life and General Insurance Company

Philam Life was part of the American International Group (AIG) until 2008 when the company, along with other AIG subsidiaries, American International Assurance (AIA) and ALICO were placed under the administration of a special purpose vehicle in exchange for a bailout by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Robert Ivy

His interviews include an architectural who’s who, from the Aga Khan to Pritzker Prize winners and AIA gold medalists.

SO-IL

They went on to design a residence for designer Ivan Chermayeff in upstate New York, a wedding chapel in Nanjing, China, and the AIA New York award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul.

Sunnyside Gardens, Queens

One project converting a two-family house into a single-family residence was awarded an award by the New York State chapter of the AIA.

Superkilen

The project was rewarded with a 2013 AIA Honor Award in the Regional & Urban Design category by the American Institute of Architects.

The Orme School of Arizona

The use of international players at Orme and at Westwind Preparatory Academy, another basketball school that won a state title in 2011, forced the AIA to change its rules about those students.

The Pace Collection

Holl received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) award for best architectural design in New York in 1986 for the new Pace Collection showroom.

Thomas Phifer

The Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion and the North Carolina Museum of Art, both designed by Phifer’s firm, received National Honor Awards from the AIA in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

Westwind Preparatory Academy

The situation with Westwind and The Orme School of Arizona prompted changes in AIA policies about international students on sports teams.


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