Happy New Year!
2020 was quite a challenging year for all of us. Each new year offers an exciting opportunity for a fresh start and new beginnings, perhaps 2021 more than ever. As I think about the opportunities that lie ahead, it's important to reflect on our chapter’s leadership over the past year. I am grateful for Charlie’s leadership as our chapter President through all of the challenges that presented themselves and excited that he will remain on our Board not only as Past President this year but also as AIA Ohio Director for the next three.
Our Board and committees have been hard at work developing new ways to reach and support our membership, and that will continue into 2021. Most notably as we worked to replace the planned AIA Ohio Convention to be hosted in Dayton we closed out the last quarter of 2020 with the Code Series and we kick off 2021 with the Tech Series; a unique and exciting group of sessions that will dive into technology to make your life easier. We will continue to offer regular educational opportunities, we will return in 2021 with our Design Awards, and we plan to continue our social events in a safe manner – planning both a return of our yearly golf scramble/outing and picking up where we left off last fall with our mini golf family outing.
As always, the success of our chapter is highly dependent on everyone; our Board of Directors, volunteers, mentors, sponsors, members, and especially our Executive Director Jane Treiber. I see firsthand the bright future our chapter has in store.
It is an honor to serve as your AIA Dayton President in 2021. I know that the year will pass by quicker than we can imagine but I hope for the opportunity to engage with each of you, in person, in the year ahead.
Joe Bissailon, AIA
Woolpert Inc.
AIA Dayton President 2021
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Philip Borkowski is one of two architects at Ferguson Construction. Philip joined the company in 2019, and since then he has played key roles in various large scale projects.
Before joining the Ferguson team, Philip gained a diverse set of design skills while working as a Senior Project Leader with FRCH’s Specialty Retail Architecture studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2015 Philip graduated from Ball State University with a Master’s degree in Architecture. Prior to his Master’s degree, Philip received a Bachelor’s degree in the Science of Architecture from Bowling Green State University.
Philip Borkowski is originally from New Bremen, Ohio. In his free time, he enjoys staying active and following the Cincinnati Reds.
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Free VR cardboard headset to first 20 who claim them after registration! See below for details.
Mission: A Dive into Technology to Make Your Life Easier
Dates: January 12, 19, 26 & February 2, 2020
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 AM EST
Speaker: Presentation Titles & Speakers are listed below
All sessions will be presented via Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom invitation the day before the start of Session 1.
Start the year off right with 8 credit hours! Join AIA Dayton for a series of four 2-hour sessions:
Session 1: Conceptual Energy Modeling Tools for Architects
Andrew Pederson and Nadja Turek from Woolpert
-Tuesday, January 12 8:00 am – 10:00 am 2 AIA HSW learning units
Session 2: Basics of Virtual Reality: How to show clients 360 and VR image renderings with a just few dollars + Advanced VR
Charlie Setterfield and Alexandra Bohler from Sinclair Community College
Becca Hughes from Moda4
-Tuesday, January 19 8:00 am – 10:00 am 2 AIA LUs
For those who are registered, a free VR headset is available for
pick up at Sinclair Community College, Bldg. 11 Room 426,
between 9:00 and 2:00 on Tuesday, Jan 12 and Wednesday, Jan 13. The googles will be individually boxed and located on a table by the office door.
There will be a sheet of registrants and you can cross off your name.
Free parking is available in the garage on Fifth Street.
Note: the campus still has limited entry, so enter through the
bridge between the garage and Building 14. Masks are required in all buildings.
Session 3: Environmental Impact of Customized Repetitive Manufacturing
Dana Gulling from North Carolina State University
-Tuesday, January 26 8:00 am – 10:00 am 2 AIA HSW learning units
Session 4: A Peek into Ohio’s Architecture Schools: A Roundtable Discussion Highlighting Programs at Each University
Ohio Architecture Schools:
Andreas Luescher from Bowling Green State University
Curtis Roth from Ohio State University
Ed Mitchell from University of Cincinnati
From Kent State University
Mary Rogero from Miami University
-Tuesday, February 2 8:00 am – 10:00 am 2 AIA LUs
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Consider a Year-end Contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund
Before you close out your 2020 books, please consider a contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund, administered by the Dayton Foundation and AIA Dayton. The fund was created in 1991 by Lynn App, Emeritus AIA, and has grown in value over the years to more than $120,000. Scholarship awards are made each year to deserving students in the Miami Valley attending an NAAB accredited college/university.
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Annual AIAS BGSU Co-op Fair
The annual AIAS BGSU Co-op fair is a professional development event that allows professionals and architecture students to network and find potential employment opportunities. The Co-op Fair takes place on Friday, January 22, 2021, from 12-3 PM.
Click the link below to register, (Scroll to the bottom of the page upon clicking the link.) This will allow you to reserve a spot at the Architecture Student exclusive co-op fair. If you would like free registration, please confirm with a registration form by January 4, 2021.
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Free CE Programs
Multiple vendors and organizations are offering free CE programs to AIA members. Below are links with very brief descriptions so you can check out the programs you may have an interest in.
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ATS Invites You to its Free Webinars
Live 1-Hour FREE Courses Featuring Today's Product Innovations and Architectural Solutions. ATS files your credits with the AIA and USGBC. Valid for 1 AIA HSW and 1 USGBC credit. (AIBC, AAA, OAA). Easy to register, easy to join at course time. Interactive courses allow you to ask questions and download materials.
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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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AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information
AIA dues notices are due by January 15. For members with hardships, AIA is offering its Dues Adjustment Program again this year. This program is for members with a medical disability, those taking sabbatical or family leave, or members who are unemployed or partially employed. Contact AIA Dayton at 937-291-1913 for a form.
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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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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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The transformative buildings set to shape the world in 2021
The pandemic may have brought work to a halt on projects around the world, but next year is nonetheless set to welcome an exciting array of new buildings.
Commissioned and designed years ago, these structures are unlikely to reflect the new design priorities that will emerge from Covid-19. Yet, they are very much in keeping with the civically generous and sustainable spirit of the world's best contemporary architecture.
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The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
Coronavirus will not kill the office. If anything, it figures to be more dynamic than ever. The ability to work remotely will not drive most people away from cities and offices, but it will enable many to live and work in new ways and places — while causing its fair share of disruption.
Even before the pandemic, there were signs of trouble with the office market in the handful of cities where the “creative class” had been flocking. In 2018, net migration to New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco was negative, while the U.S. economy grew at a healthy 2.9 percent. Creative magnets like London and Paris were experiencing similar declines.
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The Radical Architecture of Tomorrow Already Exists
The world of tomorrow tends toward grandiosity, at least in popular imagination.
From 1950s utopias with towering skyscrapers and flying cars, to 1980s dystopian mega cities like the one in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, to recent futurists’ designs of sprawling “green” metropolises, the one thing that everyone can agree on, it seems, is that the future is going to be full of heroic, monumental structures.
But what if the world of tomorrow is already here? And what if it’s not very grand at all?
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After Brexit, licensed U.K. architects aren’t recognized in Europe
Big Ben bonged for Brexit after all (maybe) on January 1, and with it, the United Kingdom has formally left the European Union. A major trade deal was hammered out at the very last moment, but there’s one problem: Licensed architects from Europe can work in the U.K., but architects licensed in the U.K. are no longer recognized in 29 of the 30 European Economic Area (EEA) member states and Switzerland.
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Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City’
In 2020, as pandemic lockdowns forced billions of people around the world to become intimately familiar with their neighborhoods, one of the hottest ideas in urban planning was the “15-minute city.” A vision for a decentralized urban area that allows residents to meet their daily needs within a quarter-hour walk or bike from their homes, the concept has been pursued as a means of cutting greenhouse emissions and boosting livability in a host of global cities — especially Paris, where Mayor Anne Hidalgo has embraced the model as a blueprint for the French capital’s post-Covid recovery.
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The Best Architecture Interviews of 2020
One of the most rewarding aspects of working with architecture publications is the possibility of meeting and becoming closer to the experts that are effectively transforming the discipline, either with built projects, research, experiments, theories, or even with works in other fields. In this sense, interviews perform a special role among all the different types of content published every day by ArchDaily, as we can get a closer insight into what some of the most distinguished and promising people have to say about the present and the future of architecture and cities.
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This company is making building tiles out of polluted air
Indian architect Tejas Sidnal was shocked to discover the construction industry's role in the pollution crisis. "That was a crazy eye opener," he says. "As architects, we are responsible for so much air pollution. We can do better."
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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