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- Ed Shriver Founder of New AIA National Retail and Entertainment Advisory Committee
PITTSBURGH, PA – Edward A. Shriver, Jr., AIA, is the founder and 2006 chair of the new American Institute of Architects (AIA) Retail and Entertainment Committee (REC). This national knowledge community was formed to foster the creation, discussion and dissemination of knowledge about the retail and entertainment environments among practioners, developers, retailers and the general public regarding how the quality of retail environments directly impacts the quality of life in a community. The advisory board is made up of members from Strada, The Walt Disney Company, Economic Research Associates, Gensler, and RTKL. Membership will be open to current members of the AIA nationally. The goals of the group are to: • Provide a forum for discussion about issues and best practices in the area of retail and entertainment architecture and urban design by actively engaging members of the AIA as well as allied professions and public officials. • Provide examples of how quality retail design promotes more livable communities through the creation of places that engender and reinforce a sense of community and to assist members and their clients in promoting high quality retail design. • Promote the creation of new knowledge through selected research projects of particular interest and use to the retail design community including retails role in the community, retail and sustainability, and retail and the marketplace. Ed Shriver, an expert in corporate and retail development, decided to form this knowledge community because “better retail design can help communities to create or repair a core social environment within their communities. A better understanding of, and ability to achieve, a higher quality of retail/entertainment design will allow architects to help clients and communities to manage and control retail development to achieve long term community improvements as well as improved retail health and success.” The advisory group meets monthly by conference call and will host conferences, workshops and other member activities. The REC will be holding a workshop at the AIA National Convention in Los Angles, CA this June entitled “Designing The Magic: Design Process Employed by Imagineering.” Ed Shriver has over twenty years of retail and corporate project experience ranging from the remodel of the Galleria Mall to the recent work on the North Shore for Continental Real Estate Companies and downtown retail planning projects such as the Fifth Avenue District plan for MadisonMarquette and Toll Brothers. He is currently leading the transformation of the former Lazarus department store into the new Piatt Place, a mixed-use development; Del Monte Foods Pittsburgh office on the North Shore; and The Crossroads, a revitalization plan for downtown Washington, PA. Strada, an architecture, interior design, landscape, and urban design firm, is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Strada embraces projects that create places for people including academic buildings, master plans, mixed-use urban developments, corporate offices, and retail spaces.
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