News Brief 3-6-20
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Chapter Programs
Joint Meeting with CSI and AGC:
Construction Industry Economic Forecast for 2020
(Approved for 1.0 AIA LU)

Date:   Tuesday, March 17
Time: 11:30 - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Ken Simonson, AGC Chief Economist
Location: Business Solutions Center, 1435 Cincinnati St., # 300, Dayton



Special EP Development Seminar “Designing Your Career”   


Date: Thursday, March 19
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Speaker: Terry Welker, FAIA, and other AIA Fellows
Location: The Dayton Metro Library, Conference Room 1B



Join AIA Dayton, Terry Welker and other AIA Fellows for a workshop on shaping your career and leadership with a focus on emerging professionals. We will discuss the Young Architect’s award, the various paths one might take to achieve it, and offer guidelines toward making a submission. Learn how to advance yourself, your career, and your profession. Fellows from around the area will be available to answer questions, such as: How will I know whether I'm ready? What is the process of submission? Who will guide me?

Join us in Conference Room 1B on the Main Floor at the Downtown Dayton Metro Library on March 19th from 5:30- 7:00. Free Parking is available at the Library Garage, with an entrance on N St. Clair Street. 

Happy Hour to follow at Warped Wing Brewing!
AIA Dayton Student Design Competition Awards Program Recognizes a Platform for Peace

Date: Saturday, March 21, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley & Senator Peggy Lehner, 6 th District, Ohio Senate
Location: Dayton Metro Library, Main Branch, Opportunity Space @ Patterson, 215 E. 3 rd Street, Dayton
Cost: Free

Light Refreshments Provided

Join us on March 21 to recognize the winners of the 2020 Student Design Competition, “A Platform for Peace.”  Forty-seven students from 7 Miami Valley area schools and 15 volunteers have been working since January on what it means to be Dayton Strong by designing a platform for peace within an urban infill lot in the historic Oregon District. 

All student projects will be on display from March 7 – 21 for public viewing in the Opportunity Space @ Patterson in the Main Library, and there will be voting for a People’s Choice award on March 21. Many scholarships and awards will be given, including the Honor Award by L2M Architects, the 2 nd Place Award by Heapy, the Pathways to Success scholarship by Sinclair Community College, and numerous book and skills awards.

Thank you to the following sponsors for the 2020 program:

L2M – $1500 Honor Award Scholarship
Heapy – $1000 Runner-up Award
SCC – Pathways for Success Scholarship
Bowser-Morner
Sherwin-Williams Company
MODA4 Design
Hatch Architects
App Architecture
Other Programs
Society of American Military Engineers Seeks 2020 Scholarship Applicants  

Application Deadline: April 2, 2020
Contact: The Education Committee Chair,
Nadja Turek
937-531-1287

The Kittyhawk (Dayton) Post of the Society of American Military Engineers’ (SAME) scholarships program is seeking scholarship applicants. SAME’s scholarships encourage students from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to pursue careers in fields related to engineering, architecture, construction, facilities management and environmental management/science. The program assists all levels of post-high-school education to include associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees. The Post awarded $15,500 in 2019 to deserving students. Information and applications for the scholarships are now available on SAME's website at https://www.same.org/kittyhawk under the STEM tab.

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 Small Firm Compensation Report
Newly updated for 2020, the second-ever AIA Small Firm Compensation Report is dedicated to the unique needs and structure of small architecture firms, including details on benefits offered and 23 detailed compensation tables broken out for six positions by firm type, firm revenue, region of the country, and more.


AIA Dayton has a copy of the report that may be viewed in the office only (per AIA, we may not post this online or otherwise share or distribute the report). Contact Jane Treiber at [email protected] if you are interested in viewing the report. The report PDF is now available for purchase through the AIA’s online store. For more information, visit the landing page at  www.aia.org/smallfirmreport.  


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In The Media
How the Architecture Industry Is Reacting to Climate Change

When it comes to climate change, building construction is a major culprit. According to the 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme, the building and construction sector accounted for 36 percent of final energy use and 39 percent of energy and process-related CO2 emissions in 2018. After leveling off between 2013 and 2016, in 2018 global emissions from buildings increased for the second year in a row. In order to meet the benchmarks set by the Paris Agreement and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Developments Goals, the report noted that the energy efficiency of buildings must be improved by 3 percent each year, a standard that will require significant and widespread effort to reach.

Architect designs wearable shield to protect against coronavirus outbreaks

Chinese architect  Sun Dayong  has created a  conceptual design  for a shield that would protect a wearer during a  coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilize itself.

Named Be a Bat Man, the mobile safety device would be for "people who are exposed to the dangerous situation during the coronavirus emergency", said Sun Dayong, who co-founded architecture studio  Penda .


Read More: Dezeen
A Conversation with Curtis Moody, FAIA on What It Means to Help Shape a Future for Black Architects

Within the realm of architectural practice, the need to write and re-frame the narratives and contributions of women in architecture, Black architects, and other minority-identifying designers has gained increasing urgency in recent years. And while architects like  Paul Revere Williams ,  Phillip Freelon ,  Norma Merrick Sklarek ,  Zena Howard ,  Gabrielle Bullock , and  Kimberly Dowdell  are nearly household names in design, these architects constitute but a few of Black architects who have impacted the profession. 

Read More: Archinect
Architect Rem Koolhaas contemplates the future of cities - and the countryside

The star-studded opening at New York's Guggenheim Museum in February was a glitzy kickoff for a thought-provoking exhibition, one with a few twists. It's a show at an art museum, with virtually no art, its subject – the countryside – being presented in the middle of a city. Add to that, the man behind all this is not famous for designing exhibitions, but rather for buildings which define skylines.

Read More: CBS Sunday Morning
The internet decimated creative industries. It’s coming for architecture, too

Jean Brownhill is an architect and the founder and CEO of  Sweeten , a service that matches people with major renovation projects to general contractors. She developed Sweeten while attending Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow in 2011 and is one of just 11 African-American female entrepreneurs in the United States to raise more than $1 million in venture capital. Here, she shares what she learned working as an architect at Coach, why architects should build digital platforms, and why creatives should “optimize for their obituary.”

Read More: Fast Company
Experts toil in dangerous conditions to restore fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral nearly a year after inferno

PARIS — Nearly a year into restoring the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral, experts are working through a backlog of now-blackened artifacts that once graced the landmark.

Tasked with analyzing and repairing the artifacts from the beloved cathedral, archaeologists, historians and architects are toiling to meet an ambitious reopening deadline.

The day after  the massive April 15 inferno  engulfed the masterpiece of Gothic architecture, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Notre Dame would be rebuilt by 2024.

Read More: CNBC