News Brief 6-26-20
Chapter News
AIA Dayton Participates in the AIA Ohio IDEATION CHARRETTE

AIA Ohio invited Architects, Designers and Students to participate in an Ideas Charrette to explore what learning environments can look like in a post-COVID-19 world. Dayton’s Alex Bohler, AIA , participated and will make a final presentation via Zoom meeting today, starting at noon. Alex and Aaron Kuck were paired together as a team and have presented once already as part of 12 teams that finished the project. Their project is now one of five for the final presentations or curated ideas.

Presentations of 15 minutes each are in this order: 

Team: Mollie McNally
Team: Ashley Kerwood
Individual: Eric Pros
Team: Stephen Gastright
Team: Alexandra Bohler combined with Aaron Kuck
Join AIA Ohio to see what Ohio's architects envision for Ohio's K-12 schools as they prepare to open in the fall.  If you haven't yet registered, you can do so by clicking here .

Following the event, AIA Ohio will be compiling all of the submissions into a document to share with school administrators.
Other Programs
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. 
Join Us Tomorrow and Next Tuesday for a 1-Hour Free Webinar.

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.
 
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.
 
AIA News
AIA RE-OCCUPANCY TOOL

In an effort to support employers, public officials, and design professionals with reopening buildings more safely, AIA brought together more than 50 architects, public health experts, mechanical engineers, physicians, and facility managers to create Reopening America: Strategies for safer buildings . This initiative includes:

  1. A report detailing the background, process, and outcomes of the initiative
  2. A summary of COVID-19 emerging research and public health briefings
  3. A Risk Management Plan and worksheet to empower teams to identify and prioritize the hazards, risks, and strategies for their specific building.
  4. An expanded Re-occupancy Assessment Tool; now featuring COVID-19 mitigation strategies specific to schools, offices, restaurants, senior living facilities, retail establishments, and multifamily housing facilities.
  5. An expanded ArchMap featuring firms' design projects that reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
  6. Building type specific renderings and reports illustrating and characterizing the hazards and strategies specific to building types. Offices and retail establishments are the first reports to be completed with more to come.

This resource has been updated to version 2.0, so be sure to update your component resources with this NEW tool.

ARCHIPREP IS FREE THROUGH AUGUST!
COVID-19 is changing everything, and AIA wants to help. ArchiPrep is free through August 31, 2020. Use promo code FREEMONTH by July 31, 2020

Offer valid for Assoc. AIA members only, Free access is provided in one-month increments, and may be renewed on a monthly basis using FREEMONTH promo code. Promo code valid through July 31, 2020, 11:59pm EDT. No credit card required.


F REE 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.

AIA Ohio News







While the convention has been cancelled for this year, there will still be some form of an awards program and a business meeting in the fall.  The deadline for design awards submissions has been extended to August 3rd.  Please click on the links below to make your submissions.
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.

The Deadline for Submitting has been extended to August 3
In The Media
An Architectural Designer Made a List of 200 Black Creatives You Should Follow

Who do you follow on Instagram?  Sean Canty , an architectural designer and a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, has a couple hundred suggestions for making that list more diverse. Earlier this month, in an epic Instagram Stories archive, he compiled a list of Black creatives working in architecture, furniture design, art, fashion, and urbanism. He’s now created an  Airtable called “200 Black Creators”  based on the Stories to help you discover your next favorite follow.

Read More: Curbed
Number of U.S. Architects Continues Upward Trend

Washington, DC—The number of architects licensed in the United States rose to 116,242 in 2019, according to the annual Survey of Architectural Registration Boards. This represents a 1 percent increase from 2018 and a 10 percentage point increase compared to the number of U.S. architects seen a decade ago.

Conducted annually by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the survey provides exclusive insight into data from the architectural licensing boards of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Read More: NCARB
How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture

In recent months, we have arrived at a new juncture of disease and architecture, where fear of contamination again controls what kinds of spaces we want to be in. As tuberculosis shaped modernism, so  covid-19  and our collective experience of staying inside for months on end will influence architecture’s near future. During quarantine, “we are asked to be inside our own little cells,” Colomina told me when I called her recently at her apartment, in downtown Manhattan. “The enemy is in the street, in public spaces, in mass transit. The houses are presumably the safe space.” The problem is, the modernist aesthetic has become shorthand for good taste, rehashed by West Elm and minimalist life-style influencers; our homes and offices have been designed as so many blank, empty boxes. We’ve gone, Colomina said, “from hospital architecture to living in a place like a hospital,” and suddenly, in the pandemic, that template seems less useful.

Read More: New Yorker
What Happened When the Office Came Home

Before the pandemic, architect David Hart noticed a growing glimmer of interest in a somewhat unfashionable interior feature: the home office. Hart is the president and CEO of  Steinberg Hart , a firm that designs large mixed-use apartment complexes in cities around the world, among other projects. His clients had lately been asking about reducing the size of closets and bathrooms in favor of creating a small nook or alcove that fits a desk. Pre-Covid-19, only 10% to 15% percent of the apartment units his firm was building had some type of dedicated office space. Going forward, he says, he expects that figure will be more like 75%.

Read More: CityLab