AIA Dayton Mini-Golf Outing Scores with Attendees
Yes, it was a little cold for October 1 and yes, there was a period of rain that blew through Young’s Dairy in the middle of the evening, but this is 2020 and we have all come to expect the unexpected!
That said, 55 attendees – AIA Dayton members, their families and friends, and industry partners – attended the first mini-golf family outing that was fun, family friendly and a welcome event in the outdoors in an otherwise year of Zoom conferences and meetings.
Many thanks to our sponsors – Event Sponsor Snyder Brick & Block; Dinner and Beverage Sponsor Elements IV Interiors; Hole-in-One Sponsor ElitAire; Corn Maze Sponsor Marsh Building Products; Batting Cage Sponsor Shell & Meyer; and Ice Cream Sponsor Koroseal. Also thanks to Hole Sponsors Brackett Builders, Chapel Electric, DMI Metals, L2Engineering, M-Engineering, Prater Engineering, Tri-Tech Engineering, and The Underground Detective.
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2020 AIA Dayton Scholarship Recipients Named
AIA Dayton has awarded four scholarships to deserving recipients in the Miami Valley. The awards went to: Lauren Bowling, from Fairborn, Sophomore at University of Cincinnati; Breann Kroeker, from Vandalia, Freshman at Miami University; and Mackenzie Pittman, from Bellbrook, Freshman at University of Notre Dame.
The three were awarded a total of $2,850 in scholarship monies through the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Foundation. The awards were made possible through a matching grant from AIA National.
Since 2007, the scholarship fund has awarded 46 scholarships totaling $55,750.
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Who wins? You choose in the AIA Film Challenge!
The AIA Film Challenge 2020 films are in. Now it’s time to vote for the People’s Choice winner, an award that comes with a $2,000 cash prize. Watch the films, then vote for your favorites—up to once an hour. Voting ends October 4.
Matt Sauer, AIA submitted an entry for the Gem City Market. Here is the link to the video: CLICK HERE. Vote early and vote often!
Also, check out the film “Lavender”, created by Terry Welker, FAIA, here.
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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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Heapy Pivot Virtual Conference (formerly Heapy Green Expo)
Collaborate with businesses, architects,engineers, contractors, suppliers, government representatives, experts, and non-profits committed to environmental sustainability.
This year’s conference will focus on
PEOPLE, RESILIENCY and PERFORMANCE
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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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Power Moves: A WLS Virtual Series
Power Moves is a new virtual series that aims to help women architects overcome the challenges they're facing right now. Based on AIA's Women's Leadership Summit-the largest leadership event for women in architecture-Power Moves is three powerful professional development sessions designed to help women architects build virtual networks with other women in architecture, get tips and successful tactics for overcoming professional and personal challenges, and learn key strategies to succeed in end-of-the-year negotiations.
October 6 session:
October 28 session:
November 19 session:
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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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Architect-Advocate Pascale Sablan Is Revising The History Of The Built Environment
“There is a difference between activism and advocacy. Activism is posters, marches, protests, getting everybody aware and informed, mobilizing, cultivating resources to draw attention on a particular issue,” says Pascale Sablan. “Advocacy, to me, is more long-term, the nitty-gritty of policy writing, getting information and statistics embedded so that regardless of the person in charge, this rule has to be followed. Although I do play both roles, I think I lend myself more as an advocacy leader and I have been strategic about selecting board positions that allow me to create policy changes.”
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Why one architecture firm is looking at planes to construct buildings of the future
The way buildings are designed is backward, and a team of architects, car designers, and aerospace engineers wants to turn it around.
“In a traditional design process, whether it’s modular, prefabricated, or traditional construction, an architect designs something and then everyone has to figure out how they’re going to make it,” says architect Chris Sharples. This makes projects expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes nearly impossible to actually get built. The process, he says, should be switched around so that how it will be built determines how it gets designed. “That’s how you build an airplane. That’s how you build a car. You don’t figure it out after you’ve designed it. The design process takes its lead from the manufacturing process.”
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Small Project Awards celebrates builds that punch above their weight
Each year, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Small Project Awards celebrates outstanding projects that are built to a relatively small budget and size. This year's winners include an impressive micro-housing project, a shipping container-based university arts building, and a cost-effective renovation of an apartment.
As was the case with the recent AIA Housing Awards, the AIA 2020 Small Project Awards is a relatively light year, comprising just seven projects (down from a dozen last year).
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Architecture & Design Film Festival 2020
The 2020 Architecture & Design Film Festival will bring 16 virtual film programs, special guests, and director Q+As to viewers across the U.S. and Canada, with humanistic stories about some of the world's most iconic architects & designers and compelling explorations of racial injustice, urbanization, & utopian societies.
Noteworthy highlights include the North American premieres of Tokyo Ride - a poignant film by acclaimed directors Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine that takes viewers on a road trip around Tokyo with Japanese architect Ryūe Nishizawa - and Making A Mountain - which follows Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) throughout the process of designing & building the world's cleanest waste-to-energy plant.
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National Trust for Historic Preservation Unveils 11 Most Endangered Historic Places of 2020
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its 2020 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. In this annual roster’s 30+ year history, over 300 historic sites throughout the country have been classified as being under imminent threat of destruction, and 95 percent of those were saved.
“It is in times like these, when it is difficult to find our way, that the monuments of the past have the power to reveal the possibilities of our future,” said National Trust president Paul Edmondson in a statement.
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15 Essential Design Events to Catch This Fall
Available to view virtually or at a safe social distance, these fairs, exhibitions, talks, and tours should be on your calendar.
The fall calendar of design events is typically a robust one, and while the listings are inevitably slimmer this year, there are still plenty of happenings to catch—even if it’s just from your laptop. The thought-provoking exhibitions, tours, films, and conversations below explore the impact of architecture and design during a time when new ways of thinking have never been more critical.
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Jane Treiber
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