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Not since the contributions made by physics at the end of the 19th century (structural design methods, acoustic design formulas, lighting calculations, etc.) has science been so well prepared to expand the knowledge base available to the profession of architecture. ANFA is the only organization in the world devoted to the goal of building intellectual bridges between neuroscience and architecture.

Not only will architects benefit from the knowledge base made possible by neuroscience, but future generations of school children, hospital patients, office workers, and worshippers in sacred places will have their environments more carefully tuned to their needs and desires.

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ANFA Board members John Eberhard FAIA, Alison Whitelaw FAIA and John Zeisel, PhD present a workshop entitled “Brain-Mind Connections to Architecture” at the American Institute of Architects National Convention in Washington DC on Friday May 18^th, 2012.

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SAVE THE DATE: ANFA's first Annual Conference is happening September 21 - 22, 2012 at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Conference registration will open in June 2012. Please check back soon to view conference details and register!

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ANFA Board Member Michael Arbib will be a featured speaker at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture symposium titled: Minding Design: Neuroscience, Design Education and the Imagination. The symposium, which is co-sponsored by ANFA and also celebrates the 75th anniversary of Taliesin West and the 80th Reunion of the Taliesin Fellows, will be held on November 9 - 10, 2012 at the Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. Visit http://taliesin.edu/md/md.html for more information.

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Congratulations to ANFA Board Member Gil Cooke who was recently named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for his contributions to Architectural Education. These contributions include the incorporation of Neuroscience for Architecture courses into the curriculum at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design.

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ANFA’s Founding President, John Paul Eberhard, FAIA, has been invited to deliver the commencement address at the State University of New York at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning. As the founding Dean of the School, Eberhard is honored to speak its 40^th annual commencement ceremony this May. 

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Dr. Rusty Gage, ANFA board member and renowned neuroscientist, is joining forces with colleagues in La Jolla's newest research "collaboratory." This innovative facility, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, will unite 335 professionals with the goal of catalizing medical advancements using stem cells. More Info

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The wait is over, Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health is now available! More Info

ANFA board members Eduardo Macagno and Randal Peterson have been collaborating with ANFA reasearch associate Eve Edelstein and others on innovative research at UC San Diego's Calit2. Click here to learn about some of the recent findings that Dr. Macagno will be sharing at the Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design Symposium in November.

The verdict is in and the book, Design Informed: Driving Innovation with Evidence Based Design is a hit! Click here to see why this book, co-authored by ANFA board member Gordon Chong, and featuring a case study of ANFA board member John Zeisel, is innovating the architectural industry.

ANFA Board Member Michael Arbib of the University of Southern California gave a plenary address on "Brains, Machines and Buildings" as the opening talk of the NSF-sponsored symposium "From Brains to Machines" on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, California.

John Eberhard, ANFA's Founding President, Dr. Eduardo Macagno, ANFA's Immediate Past President, and Dr. Eve Edelstein, ANFA Research Associate have composed chapters within Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health. Currently in press, this text will be available on October 31, 2011. More Info

Dr. Tom Albright, ANFA’s current Vice President and Director of the Vision Center Laboratory at the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences, was recently awarded "The Conrad T. Prebys Chair in Vision Research." More Info

ANFA's founding president John Eberhard, FAIA participated in a panel discussion at The Science of the Arts Speaker Series hoste by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Institute in Baltimore, MD.

Gordon Chong, ANFA past president and current board member, co-wrote Design Informed: Driving Innovation with Evidence-Based Design (ISBN 9780470916407). The book was released in September 2010 and is currently available both in print and electronic reader formats.

Board Member Ken Kornberg co-authored a book titled, Greener Labs: Sustainable Laboratory Design. The book was published in April and is available only in Japanese via Maruzen.

Construction on a new National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (NICoE) has been completed. This innovative space at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland was dedicated in June 2010 and the officially opened for operation in October of that year.

On November 4, 2009, Board Member Fred Marks presented at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC as part of the a U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program.

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