It has been a pleasure to serve as President for 2021 with the great team of board members who are supportive, committed, and excited about leading and adding value to this chapter.
The planning initiated during 2020 by then chapter President Charlie Setterfield was instrumental in our ability to be flexible for 2021, a year where professional organizations struggled to get back to their pre-pandemic tempo. Most functions remained virtual for a significant part of the year, and even then, typically only when outdoors. We were thankfully able to host the Focus on Design Awards Banquet to close out the year at the Arcade in December where we were able to recognize a record number of award recipients.
Everything that we were able to accomplish is thanks to a dedicated team of fellow board members, committee members, and especially our Executive Director.
Thank You to each and every member for supporting our chapter through another unusual year. I can sense the momentum building and look forward to supporting in 2022 and our incoming president Dan Wyckoff.
Joe Bissaillon, AIA
Past Presdident
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AIA Dayton Student Design Program Announced and Seeking Donations from Firms
Our 2022 high school student design competition is now underway, and we are asking for your support! This year's program is to create a welcome center that would create a space for introduction to the opportunities that a makerspace can provide. Please consider donating as a firm and/or individual to support future architects and designers. Donations are needed for the college scholarships, book awards, registration sponsorships, and event costs, such as refreshments and T-shirts.
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Augmented Reality as an Approach to Successfully Execute Design:
Experience Chalkline4D
at the AIA Dayton
February 16 ABB
at the Kettering Government Center
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Location: Kettering Government Center, Deeds and Van Buren Rooms, 3600 Shroyer Road, Kettering
Presenter: Jeff Samuelson, AIA, Chalkline4D/JZ Technologies
Following the program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand how to effectively impact an improvement in the design efficiency and collaboration with the Construction Team to allow for better installation and management of the underground plumbing, HVAC and electrical, and above ground layout of walls, soffits, counters and other design elements.
2. Understand the impact on overall budget control and schedule with a more efficient and collaborative layout process.
3. Learn collaborative techniques to allow for better execution of the intended design component with limited rework and schedule delays
4. Learn how the augmented reality approach in concert with precise communication impacts the constructibility of complex shapes, and underground utilities that will impact the physical, emotional, and social well being of the building occupants and building owners, as well as efficiency of installation of building components.
Registration Coming Soon!
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Save the Date for these upcoming programs!
Joint Meeting with ASHRAE on Passive house HVAC Design
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Engineer's Club of Dayton and Zoom (for virtual attendees)
Presenter: Erdem Kokgil, Application Engineering Team Leader for Oxygen8
Joint Meeting with Construction Builder's Association and AGC
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Location: Business Solutions Center
Presenter: Ken Simonson, AGC Chief Economist
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FREE AIAU Courses for AIA Members
Working 100% from home is new territory for many of us, as is the rapidly changing business environment that’s impacting our jobs, our firms, and our work. To help navigate these uncertain times, we’re offering valuable learning resources—some of AIAU’s best business and tech courses—to AIA members for free.
Learn about virtual practice, successful business strategies, risk management, and more from some of the most innovative architects, firms, and design professionals.
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Ron Blank & Associates Offers Free Webinars
If you prefer live, interactive continuing education but prefer the comfort of your office, studio or home, webinars may be the perfect fit for your CE needs. Ron Blank hosts a full range of topics that meet the live education licensing and organization requirements you have.
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GreenCE Offers Free Webinars
GreenCE offes live instructor-led continuing education webinars. The webinars can offer LEED Specific Hours, AIA HSW CE Hours, and ADA/Barrier-Free CE Hours.
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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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What Will It Take to Design (Actually) Healthy Cities?
As the latest COVID-19 variant sweeps through New York City, I’m struck by how much of this public-health crisis is being framed as a matter of individual responsibility — of vaccine status, of shopping for the right mask, of being able to afford the time and money to get a test. City and state officials have neglected that the circumstances in which there really isn’t much individual control — where you live, your employer’s policies, and how you get around — matter a whole lot as well.
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Remembering those we lost in 2021
Three Pritzker Prize laureates. A trailblazing Canadian landscape architect who melded modernist principles with a sense of social responsibility. A beloved journalistic mover and shaker on the New York City architecture scene. An entrepreneurial multi-hyphenate whose talents spanned fashion, architecture, music, and product design. A tireless champion of “buildings and communities that are not just good-looking but good for us.” The incomparable German-born architect behind one of this year’s most talked-about (and once-imperiled) buildings not just in Chicago but anywhere.
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Design for All
When Seattle’s iconic Space Needle reopened three years ago after a “reinvention” by architects at the firm Olson Kundig, Karen Braitmayer was one of the first to experience its newly accessible interiors. Braitmayer, who uses a wheelchair to get around, was excited by—among other features—a lift that allowed her to bypass the five steps that most visitors take to reach the needle’s outdoor observation deck. The lift rises out of the curved stairs, lowers the wheelchair to the deck level, and then retracts into the stairs, where it becomes invisible. “It’s beautifully done,” says Braitmayer, who was pleased, but not surprised. She had worked with Olson Kundig principal Alan Maskin to make the Space Needle, which first opened in 1962, barrier-free after half a century in which disabled visitors were disadvantaged. .
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Buildings don't have to be bird-killers
The narrow stretch that separates Quay Tower from a thatch of bamboo and oaks in Brooklyn Bridge Park doesn’t look like much, especially in winter. Unless you’re a bird.
To a bird, the copper-colored building’s glass is a mirror, reflecting the thick grove of trees and suggesting that the wilderness continues across the road. To a bird, that can be a deadly mistake.
“You see that reflection? To a bird that looks like a tree, that is a tree, and they will go right for the tree,” says Catherine Quayle, social media director at the Wild Bird Fund.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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