News Brief 6-11-21
Chapter Programs
AIA Dayton is Taking a Break!
 
There is no continuing education program in July. Programs resume in August, with Greg Fox, Miller Valentine Group, presenting Lean/Integrated Project Delivery Systems and Principles on August 10 at 8:00 AM. 

Mark your calendar now for the meeting.
AIA Dayton Annual Golf Outing

Date: Monday, July 19, 2021 
Time: 11:45 AM - 7:00 PM EST
Cost: $125 AIA Members & Sponsors; $80 AIA Emerging Professionals; $145 Non-AIA
Location: Meadowbrook Country Club, Clayton
Registration: Click to Register
  
Mark your calendars for the annual AIA Dayton Golf outing at Meadowbrook Golf Club. Join your fellow AIA members, associates, sponsors and guests for a day of camaraderie and golf! The outing includes a grab-and-go lunch followed by 18 holes of challenging golf on a Dayton Parks public course with refreshments along the way, then social time to visit with friends before dinner and door prizes, including a whopping $10,000 prize for a Hole-In-One, on one of the preselected golf holes! More information to follow! 
AIA News
Architects in Action 2021

AIA Legislative Exchange.

Architects in Action is AIA's premier annual policy and advocacy event for citizen architects and component leaders. Join us virtually July 15-16 for two days of dynamic keynote speakers and thought-provoking conversations featuring award-winning architects. You’ll also have an opportunity to participate in online workshops, join the AIA Advocacy & Relationships team for a listening session, and meet someone new at a virtual networking break. 
 
Architects in Action 2021 builds on the 30-plus year legacy of the State & Local Government Network Annual Meeting, providing a forum for AIA advocacy leaders to discuss pressing legislative issues and learn directly from one another. 
Enter the AIA Film Challenge today!

The AIA Film Challenge 2021 invites you to share your story about architects partnering with civic leaders and communities to design a zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, just, and equitable built environment.
Produce a 1:30- to 3-minute short film on any device for your chance to win up to $7,000, plus recognition by the architecture and film communities.
AIA Conference: Profitability leads to possibility

James Beard Award-winning chef José Andrés has achieved independent success in a competitive industry, which he has parlayed into a values-driven enterprise. In 2010, he launched World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that works across the globe to deliver post-disaster food relief. “We are all in business,” says José, “but we must also be in business for all.”
José’s keynote kicks off A’21 with a powerful message for architects and design professionals: How profitability leads to new possibilities and how to harness the power of our driving purpose and core values to design a better world, together. Keynote host Roman Mars kicks off the conversation.
AIA Ohio 2021 Design Awards

In a year where celebrations have been few and far between, it's time to CELEBRATE DESIGN! The AIA Ohio Design Awards Program promotes projects that have distinguished themselves, through attention to quality design, high performance design, and AIA's Framework for Design Excellence. These awards recognize the best of Ohio Architecture.
 
In the spirit of embracing change and recognizing the differences between project types, AIA Ohio has changed the Design Award submission categories and added two new supplemental awards.
 
·    Category 1: Newly Completed Buildings
·   Category 2: Additions, Renovations and Restorations
·    Category 3: Interior Architecture
·    Category 4: Small Projects (Less than 5,000 sf and under $1.5M)
·    Category 5: Unbuilt Projects (Not built and not intended to be realized)
·    Category 6: 25 Year Award
 
In addition to the above six categories, AIA Ohio shall have two supplemental design awards available for considerations. These include:

·    The AIA Ohio Impact Award
·   The AIA Ohio People’s Choice Award

All projects must be submitted by July 1, 2021. 
Advocacy Begins with You: A Series for Architects

AIA Ohio’s mission is to advocate for the profession of architecture.  This six-part series empowers members to support our mission by exploring ways you can become a stronger leader and advocate for the profession. Members may attend all six sessions and gain the tools and techniques needed to become advocacy leaders in the profession or, select a few sessions that focus on your individual advocacy training needs. All sessions are free to attend for AIA Ohio members. 
 
Session: Implementing a Successful Advocacy Plan
Date: June 30
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET

Take advocacy to the next level by building a successful advocacy plan. This session will offer members an opportunity to join in the conversation with leaders from different sized components across the United States who identified their passions, created successful advocacy plans, and put their ideas into action. Learn how they did it, what obstacles they overcame, and the successes they realized.
AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information

AIA dues notices were 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. There is still time to contact AIA Dayton at 937-291-1913 for a form. 
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.
Other - CE Opportunities
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. 
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.
 
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.
 
In The Media

From the day when an architect and a client sit down to the day when a contractor has to get paid, it can easily be 18 months, and a lot can change in the costs during that period of time. The National Association of Homebuilders recently put out a report about how much the price of lumber is adding to the cost of building a home on average these days, and it was something like $30,000 or $40,000.

We have been talking about pricing a lot, which is really serious. But availability can be a worse problem because you can easily find yourself halfway through a project and needing to pause everything until your material comes back into stock. If you’re building a home and you have to wait 3 or 4 months to get the materials you need, that could have serious implications for you as an architect, as a subcontractor, and as a client.

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Studio Gang's One Hundred tower angles for improved light and views

Work has finally been completed on Studio Gang's One Hundred tower in St. Louis, Missouri. The remarkable residential high-rise is defined by an angled exterior that juts outward, creating balcony spaces for some of the residents and maximizing daylight and views inside.

The One Hundred tower is part of Studio Gang's "Solar Carving" series of buildings which includes the 40 Tenth Avenue. However, while the hook with that office tower was that it didn't ruin light and views for surrounding areas, the unusual form of One Hundred – which is arranged into the shape of a leaf – is very much focused on the needs of the residents themselves.

Read More: New Atlas
Architect plans to build luxury floating resort out of ocean plastic

A British architecture practice has revealed plans to build a luxury floating island resort made from recovered ocean plastic at a remote location in the Indian Ocean.

Margot Krasojević, founder of Margot Krasojević Architecture, told CNN that the 75-room hotel concept has funding to be built, though she did not disclose the financial backer.

The hotel will be built on top of a "floating island" situated in Australia's Cocos archipelago -- a chain of islands situated 2750 kilometers northwest of Perth, Western Australia.

Read More: CNN
WeWork plans a post-Covid return, hiring more architects while shifting efforts south

Before the Covid-19 pandemic forced most office workers to indefinitely take their work home, the New York-based WeWork had a dramatic rise and fall. With a widely-reported, botched IPO in 2019, the office space company’s ascent was emblematic of an unprecedented alliance between data, finance, real estate, and architecture. This volatile blend of ambition earned it the notorious reputation as a multibillion-dollar “unicorn” and a Hulu special documenting its “shamanic” leader, Adam Neuman. 

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Construction Startup Katerra Shutting Down

The Seattle Times reported June 1 that 117 people will be laid off in the closure. The company had received roughly $200 billion in funding from investors in recent years, including $865 million in 2018 and $200 million at the end of 2020. Much of that funding came from SoftBank, a Japanese multinational conglomerate that invests in technology, energy and financial companies. SoftBank operates Vision Fund, the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund, with more than $100 billion in capital. 

12 Outstanding “Before & Afters” of Century-Old Buildings

There are as many approaches to remodeling as there are old buildings, but these 12 projects strike a balancing act best summed up by architect Johnny Chu of JC Architecture: "It’s about what has been conserved and what has been added to allow for modern life in this historical context."

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Cities around the country explore removing elevated highways with federal funding

In cities around the country, residents are in various stages of working to remove elevated or sunken highways that seemed promising in the 1950s and 1960s but are now considered by many to be planning blunders.

These highways were built with federal funds to make it easy for commuters to get in and out of cities quickly by bypassing an older grid of narrow streets and stoplights. Many cut off one part of town from another and take potential customers away from stores and restaurants below. Others literally wiped out livable communities by displacing homes and businesses in their path.