AIA Happy Hour at GDCG Design Studio:
Mark your calendar for June 28!
Join us on Tuesday, June 28 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM for an AIA Dayton Happy Hourl at the new GDCG Design Studio in Beavercreek, located at 3600 Dayton Xenia Road.
Come out and see what the Design Studio offers while socializing with AIA Dayton friends and community colleagues.
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Join an AIA Dayton Committee
Several AIA Dayton committees are looking for volunteers.
AIA Dayton Focus on Design Committee - Looking for volunteers to help plan this Fall's Focus on Design Lecture. Event will be held in November and will appeal to all members.
AIA Dayton Mini-Golf and TopGolf Outings - Looking for volunteers to help plan and promote the mini-golf family outing at Youngs in the fall, and the TopGolf Outing for all members in the spring of 2023.
AIA Dayton 2023 Student Design Committee - Looking for volunteers to help plan and execute the 2023 competition. Planning begins in the early fall and the program takes place with meetings with high school students from February - April.
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AIA Ohio 2022 Programs
AIA Ohio Technology Summit
July 28-29 | Dayton
Attend training seminars and case study workshops to learn how integrating technology in practice impacts design and project delivery.
Registration will open soon.
AIA Ohio Design Symposium
September 22-23 | Cleveland
This program will get you out in Cleveland! Tour different Cleveland area buildings and hear from architects and designers on their projects. Stay for the AIA Ohio Design Awards presentation.
Registration will open in July, 2022
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FREE AIAU Courses for AIA Members
Browse free courses for AIA members to support architects, design professionals, and architecture firms prepare for the future.
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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.
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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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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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Albert Kahn designed hundreds of buildings in Detroit; his legacy still lives on today
Albert Kahn's building designs dot the landscape of Downtown Detroit, and his work still stands tall more than a century later.
“From houses to mausoleums to clubs to factories, all kinds of stuff, the schools, the hospitals, he’s done it all," Heidi Pfannes, the president of the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation, said.
The Allbert Kahn story is now on display at the Detroit Historical Museum. I toured the exhibition with Pfannes, and anyone who has an interest in history would find the exhibit fascinating.
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Architect Francis Kéré Finds Magic in Wood and Clay
At the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional masks of sub-Saharan Africa motivated artists such as Picasso and Matisse to remake the human form. A century later, these masks have become a prime source of inspiration for Berlin-based architect Francis Kéré, who earlier this year became the first African to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. “I see masks as part of my life,” he said in an interview at his office in March. Often suggestive of animals, African masks are made of everyday materials that are imbued by their owners and viewers with powerful, even mystical significance—“a piece of wood that pushes you to think,” he says.
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The Japanese Home Design That Strikes a Work-Life Balance
While the pandemic has turned many kitchens and bedrooms into makeshift home offices around the world, there’s one style of housing in Japan that’s been mixing business and living space for centuries.
The city of Kyoto is known for its stock of unique historical structures called Machiya, which get their name from two Japanese characters: machi — which in this context can mean a neighborhood, market or group of workshops — and ya, meaning dwelling. These beautiful wooden townhouses, which mingle residences with storefronts and workshops, offer a rare window into traditional Japanese life and architecture. Their design also raises an important contemporary question: How can aging homes created for a bygone lifestyle be incorporated into a modern city?
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Biden administration unveils action plan to boost affordable housing
The Biden administration announced an action plan Monday aimed at boosting the supply of affordable housing amid rising home prices and overall high inflation.
Taken together, administration officials said, the actions announced will help close the affordable housing gap and “ease the burden of housing costs,” noting that housing prices are a key driver of inflation.
The move is the latest step by the administration to show it is working to get a handle on high prices nationwide. US home prices continued to surge higher in February, according to the most recent data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index. Prices rose 19.8% year-over-year in February, an even higher rate than the 19.2% growth seen in January. Meanwhile, rents are up nearly 20% from two years ago.
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From Around the World, Help Arrives for Ukrainian Designers and Students
Until early March, Mariia Rusanova, an architect and Ph.D. student at Ukraine’s Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, lived comfortably in a city just a few miles from Russia. The window in her apartment looked out toward the border, and, one morning after the Russian invasion began on February 24, she awoke to the sound of bombs exploding. For a week afterward, she practically lived in her basement, before finally realizing the war would not end soon and deciding to flee into Poland with her brother and his family.
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Education Facility Design Awards 2022 Winners
Education continues to evolve, and the projects from this year’s Education Facility Design Awards program—presented by AIA and its Committee on Architecture for Education—showcase innovation across the entire learning continuum, displaying how architects are creating cutting edge spaces that enhance modern pedagogy.
From early childhood facilities to higher education and throughout the learning continuum, architecture can be used to inspire learners, educators, administrators, and campus communities alike. This year’s seven Awards of Excellence and five Awards of Merit were vibrant examples of contemporary educational architecture.
Read More and See the Winners: AIA
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