AIA Gala

Chris’s architecture firm invited Chris to attend the American Institute of Architects gala last December. It’s an award ceremony, dinner and drinks kind of event. We had to get all dressed up (which Chris wasn’t so happy about). Chris didn’t win any awards, but got a lot of honorable mentions for some excellent work he did for the AIA-South chapter. This year he managed a project where he and a bunch of other architects from other firms in town generated 3-D models of downtown Colorado Springs for Google Earth. He also won a door prize. He won a free license to Google Sketch Up Pro (Google’s 3-D software worth $500). Everyone thought that was pretty funny since he is the local Sketch-Up expert amongst the architects in town.