News Brief 3-20-20
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Chapter Programs
AIA Dayton Student Design Competition Awards Program Recognizes a Platform for Peace



Date: Saturday, March 21, 2020 - CANCELLED



AIA Dayton Coronavirus Local Forum

Moderated by : Peter Harsh, AIA, and Charlie Setterfield, AIA, President
Date and Time: Thursday, March 26; 7:30 - 8:30 AM
Platform:  This will be a virtual program, presented via Zoom
Registration : Free; Must register by March 25

Information for Zoom meeting will be send to all registrants on March 25
 
 
As the architectural profession responds to the novel coronavirus, we all have questions. While there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, what we know for certain is there will be impacts on your business, your clients, your employees and your projects. 
 
Membership in the AIA binds the architectural community together and connecting with your colleagues during these troubling times can help. Crowd sourcing best practices and sharing information can help you deal with this disruption to project delivery. We want to hear from you – your concerns, your challenges and your ideas about what AIA can do for you. 

You are invited to a conversation to share stories and learn from each other about steps being taken to weather this storm. While none of us have all the answers, or answers that are appropriate everywhere, collectively we can share our concerns, responses and ideas. This intel will help frame a statewide panel discussion (via webinar) within a few weeks.

If you are unable to join, but would like to share your thoughts, procedures, ideas and questions, please contact Charlie Setterfield, AIA, so we can all learn.

We hope you will join us to share your experience.


Other Programs
Built Environment, Summer Institute for High School Students

Date: Monday, June 15 - Thursday June 25
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Sinclair Community College
Cost: $125 through April 1

Designing, constructing, and maintaining the Built Environment is critical, challenging work. We have the opportunity to shape our world, and at the same time, be good stewards. of our resources. Sinclair’s Built Environment academic programs prepares students to create a world that is a reaction of their values and aspirations.

If you know a high school student who would be interested in this first-time summer institute, please pass this information along.

 
AIA News
AIA Ohio Convention, Call For Presentations

AIA Convention
Sept. 24-26, 2020
Dayton, OH

The AIA Ohio Convention, planned for September 24-26, 2020, will bring together architects and allied professionals from around the state for three days of programs and activities. The convention will take place at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, offering traditional classrooms for education as well as technology-based workshops. 

The AIA Ohio Programs Task Force is interested in providing a wide range of programs that will appeal to needs of all of the convention attendees. It is the committee’s intention that programs submitted will address the needs of a broad representation of the Institute’s membership and allied professionals. Rather than forcing submissions into two or three tracks, the Programs Task Force has developed several key concepts that we hope to have addressed in the educational offerings. Those programs deemed to address the needs of the widest range of participants will be given the highest consideration. Click here to see the Key Concepts and access the presentation submission form. 
AIA Ohio Honor Awards - NEW AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Architects are outstanding for more than the projects they design. They deserve recognition for their leadership, public service, mentorship and their work to make the profession of ever-increasing service to society. AIA Ohio has a NEW HONOR AWARD category this year: the Emerging Professionals Award. The AIA Ohio Emerging Professional Award identifies and promotes exceptional accomplishments of Associate Members and Young Architect members and their continuing development within the profession.

AIA Ohio Design Awards - 2020 Guidelines

The AIA Ohio design awards program seeks to promote and focus attention on quality design, sustainability, and AIA's 10 principles of livable communities. The jury will evaluate all projects based on the aesthetic, functional, contextual, social and sustainable characteristics of the design. The jury will also evaluate submissions based on their successful response to one or more of AIA's 10 principles of livable communities. The program opens April 1 - start thinking now about projects you can submit.

Coronavirus Resources


Best Practice Materials from AIA and AIA Trust


NCARB / ARE

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, NCARB has adjusted our testing policies through April 30, 2020, to protect your health and safety.  Read the full message .
With the health and safety of test takers and staff in mind,  Prometric has decided to temporarily close all test centers  in the United States and Canada for the next 30 days, beginning on March 18, 2020.

Additional Information


In The Media
AIA's Robert Ivy issues guidance for architecture firms coping with COVID-19 fall out 

Robert Ivy , Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ) has penned a letter to AIA members offering advice and resources for how firms and individuals can navigate the ongoing  COVID-19  crisis. 

The global spread of the novel coronavirus-19 strain has  swiftly disrupted the work of the architecture and construction industries  over the last few days as  cities across the country  (and the world) have enacted restrictions on travel and as many businesses and  universities have transitioned  to temporary  remote work situations . 

Read More: Archinect
The Best Books on Architecture, Art, and Design to Read While at Home

Sometime in the mid–17th century, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.” Some 400 years later, most people around the world are feeling the weight of Pascal’s words. This is, of course, due to the dire global pandemic caused by COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus. While government officials in China forced its citizens into mandatory lockdown, here in the U.S. we are being urged to stay indoors while practicing social distancing as much as possible. To help blunt the ensuing boredom, we at AD have asked a few of our editors to select their favorite books on architecture, art, and design to help stimulate your mind.

Design in the age of pandemics

The  Lovell Health House , in Los Angeles, is one of those places that makes you green with envy. Perched on a hillside, the gleaming, all-white modernist house is bathed in sunlight and has floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. There’s a soaking pool, avocado trees in the yard, huge porches, and a roofdeck. It’s house porn with a higher purpose: Its architect—Richard Neutra, famous for his case study houses—designed it in the late 1920s for Philip Lovell, a nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, and Los Angeles Times columnist who believed in the virtues of a raw-food diet, ample sun, and fresh air. His home was tailored for a lifestyle of health and wellness—and it takes its cues from buildings designed to cure tuberculosis. . 

Read More: Curbed
National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Completes Renovations

After three months of construction, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., was ready to reopen its doors to the public on March 13. That is, of course, until the coronavirus outbreak derailed those plans. Due to the global pandemic, the building had to be closed off to the public with hopes of restricting the spread of the virus. While the timing is unfortunate, it doesn’t take away from the fact that the renovation was a success.

Vittorio Gregotti, renowned Italian architect, dies of coronavirus at 92

Vittorio Gregotti, an Italian architect who helped design the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics stadium, has died aged 92 after catching the coronavirus, Italian media said.

Gregotti died of pneumonia on Sunday after being hospitalised in Milan, having fallen ill with Covid-19, the Corriere della Sera newspaper and AGI news agency reported.


Read More: The Guardian (UK)
Transformative architecture, year after year

At KieranTimberlake, invention is organic. The firm tackles tough design problems, and in doing so, discovers new ways to advance architecture. Some of its well-known projects include the U.S. Embassy in London, designed to embody the pillars of democracy while ensuring security and sustainability, and a multi-use building for New York University designed to foster new ways to work and learn.

For more than three decades,  KieranTimberlake  has cultivated a “culture of inquiry,” in which firm members at all levels ask questions at every juncture in a never-ending pursuit to do things better. Sometimes, project work leads to meaningful research or the creation of new tools. The firm’s leadership believes in sharing those developments for the good of the industry.

Read More: Fast Company