News Brief 7-24-20
Chapter News
Seeking Nominees for AIA Dayton Board

Joe Bissaillon, AIA, AIA Dayton President Elect and Chair of the Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for the 2021 AIA Dayton Board of Directors. There are multiple openings, including:

Treasurer (two-year term)
Director (one-year term)
Associate Director (one-year term)
AIA Ohio Director (three-year term)

If you are interested in serving as an AIA Dayton Board of Director, or would like more information about any of the positions, please contact Joe Bissaillon or Jane Treiber.

Election of officers takes place at the Annual Business meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, October 28.
Chapter Programs
Center for Tissue Innovation and Research Phase II Tour - MARK YOUR CALENDAR
 
Date: Wednesday, August 26
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Speakers: Shook Construction and John Poe Architects
Location : 2900 College Dr., Kettering
Parking : Detailed information will be provided
RSVP: Coming Soon
 
This is a hard hat tour, and vests, boots and glasses are required. Attendees shall provide and wear appropriate PPE, inclulding face masks.


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. 
ATS Invites You to its Free Webinars

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
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
How experts in different countries envision city life after COVID-19

The pandemic will end eventually (hopefully). For many, the post-pandemic world can and should be different from what we knew before.

This is especially true among designers of the built environment, who’ve watched as lockdowns and social distancing have drained activity from many of the spaces their work is intended to enliven. How to bring that life back, and how these spaces should function going forward, is something to start thinking about now.

Read More: Fast Company
Coronavirus has emptied out office buildings. Could they help solve the housing crisis?
World leaders are looking at vacated office buildings and shuttered retail shops and seeing one thing: housing.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused many commercial spaces to empty out, either as a precaution for the safety of workers or as the result of going out of business. Top officials are hoping these spaces can be adaptively reused.

Read More: Fast Company
Five Ways the Workplace Must Adapt to the Coronavirus Era
The office as we knew it before the  coronavirus pandemic  hit is a distant memory. As some companies reopen, office workers find themselves entering a far different space than the one they left behind. At this moment of transition, organizations need to think deeply about long-term strategies to bring people together in a safe and healthy way, Meena Krenek, interior design director at Perkins and Will’s Los Angeles studio, points out. “We need to evolve…. Let’s really think about the employees and what they need, what work is really purposefully getting done in the office, and why we need the office,” Krenek says. “Do we need the office in the same way we did in the past?” AD PRO takes a look into five aspects of office life that will change. 

The 6-Feet Rule Will Guide Architects in a Post-Covid World

Six feet. As Covid-19 has torn through the world, that distance has come to define daily life. Six feet is how far we stand from other shoppers or the space we try to maintain while catching up with a friend.

It’s painfully clear that our world has been constructed for a reality that no longer exists. Crowded subway cars, packed restaurants, and bustling sidewalks all pose a threat every time someone nearby sneezes, talks, or even just breathes.

Modernist architecture has a dirty secret: Many of the buildings were too innovative

Some of the most unique pieces of modernist architecture from the 20th century are also the most endangered. Bold, and often comparatively weird, the modernist architecture of the mid- to late-1900s is now falling apart. With new and experimental forms that resist traditional conservation efforts, the buildings are victims of their innovation.

But they’re not lost causes just yet. Funding from the Getty Institute has just been awarded to help develop conservation plans for some of the world’s most extraordinary examples of modernist design.

Read More: Fast Company