Resiliency is a word we hear often in architecture and design. Usually it is in reference to a project’s ability to withstand and recover from a disaster. But as we near the end of 2020 I want to refer to us as resilient. We withstood storm after storm, and it seems the frequency and intensity have been increasing since Memorial Day 2019. We demonstrated our ability to recover again and again. As a community, a profession, and a chapter we demonstrated our strength and courage as we navigated new and different challenges.
The story of 2020 was not what I expected. Our usual chapter events could not occur, and our once-in-a-decade hosting of the AIA Ohio Convention was cancelled. But we were resilient. We continued to serve and support our members, often in new ways. We also resolved to support social justice across our programs.
I owe deep gratitude to many who supported AIA Dayton this year. The Board of Directors worked hard to bring you reimagined events and learning opportunities. Our sponsors stuck with us as we reinvented what a golf outing could be. And our Executive Director Jane Treiber provided steady wisdom and guidance.
2020 wasn’t the year I thought it would be, but 2020 is a year I am glad I had. Through all the chaos, doubt, and unprecedented challenges we found resilience. We stayed strong. We did what we could to support others. We looked forward with hope and optimism. I wish the same for you this holiday season, and I look forward to seeing you in 2021.
Charlie Setterfield, AIA, NCARB, CDT, CCCA
Sinclair Community College Chair, Built Environment
AIA Dayton President 2020
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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
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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Peter Exley inaugurated as AIA 2021 president
“While I am not naïve to the challenges our profession, industry, and society have been dealt in the face of the pandemic, I would like my tenure in 2021 to facilitate hope,” said Exley.”
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How iconic buildings like Dodger Stadium transformed during COVID-19
The pandemic posed an existential crisis for buildings. With a deadly airborne virus, many places became simply unsafe to use, from offices to movie theaters to restaurant dining rooms. If a building stands empty, is it needed at all?
In some cases, the answer is a qualified yes; it just needs a bit of reconsideration. Across the country, buildings that were unsafe for their original intentions suddenly found that, with a little imagination, they could be reborn and reused for completely new purposes.
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10 Books on Architecture For Non-Architects
Before the pandemic trapped me in my apartment, I liked looking at houses. I wouldn’t call it a passion for architecture by any means. In practice, it was just me absorbing HGTV from the gym TV while running on the elliptical. This turned into an obsession with scrolling through pictures of homes on Instagram. I wasn’t in the market, but I couldn’t stop looking at houses. When the gyms closed, I started running outside. That came with a harsh discovery that I had no vocabulary for architecture. In New Orleans, you hear about Creole cottages and shotgun houses. But what were those window things called? I realized what I’d been looking at was real estate, and what I wanted to know about was architecture.
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The Covid Recovery Must Begin With Climate Action
Global pandemics and deadly climate disasters should be once-in-a-generation crises. But in 2020, U.S. mayors from coast to coast have been forced to confront both.
New Orleans experienced its busiest hurricane season since 2005: Five hurricanes made landfall in Louisiana, and frequent rain storms flooded the streets of New Orleans. Meanwhile, Boston experienced one of its hottest, driest summers on record, while the fall brought flooding in some of our most densely populated neighborhoods.
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See inside a hospital designed by patients
It’s a unique challenge to design a place where no one wants to end up. When the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston started making plans several years ago to redesign its new children’s building—a facility where premature babies get ventilated in the intensive care unit and children with cancer endure the slow trauma of a life in treatment—its leaders decided early on that the new building needed a design that was as empathetic as possible to patients and families who would rather be anywhere else.
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Columbus architectural firm Moody Nolan receives top architecture award
The Columbus architectural firm Moody Nolan has received the 2021 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, the highest award the trade association gives to a practice.
The award, given to one firm a year since 1962, recognizes companies that have consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years.
Moody Nolan is the first African American and first Ohio firm to win the award, which has been given to a host of blue-chip practices including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, I.M. Pei & Partners and Cesar Pelli & Associates.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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