2021 Focus on Design Program Call for Entries Now Open
We are pleased to announce that the 2021 Focus on Design Awards Program is now open! The Project Entry Submission Deadline is October 1. The Awards celebration will be held on Wednesday, December 1 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM in the Arcade Rotunda, downtown Dayton.
All the information you need to plan your award entries is included in this document. Please download and save the document before you begin your award submission in the Open Water submission portal.
Please note that both members and nonmembers are invited to submit in the Makers and Architectural Photography categories -- both new categories that were added in 2019
The jury for the Architecture, Interior Architecture, Student and Makers submissions is AIA Northern Minnesota. The jury for the Photography category is a local committee.
When you are ready to enter your projects, click here to be directed to the Open Water portal and select the AIA Dayton program.
Please contact the AIA Dayton office at with any questions.
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Mark your Calendar for the August Meeting
Title: Introduction to Lean in the Design Phase
Speaker: Greg Fox, VP Lean Construction, Miller Valentine Group
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM EST
Location: Kettering Govt Center, Virginia Room (North Building above the Police Station)
Register by Monday 9 AM
During the Design Phase, teams seek ways to improve client outcomes while maximizing design excellence. Introduction to Lean in The Design Phase participants gain insight to Lean approaches and tools relative to the design phase to optimize team communication, collaboration and results. Learners will understand how a Lean strategy can drive innovative solutions by connecting people, principles and practices. This course is foundationally important for anyone involved in preconstruction to improve the impact you are having on the project outcomes.
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Biophilic Design with Windows and Doors
Speaker: Marvin Windows
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 AM
Location: Kettering Govt. Center, Virginia Room (above the Police station)
Registration Coming Soon!
Credits: Approved for 1.0 AIA HSW
Windows and doors are the gateways to bring nature into the home with light, views, ventilation, access to nature and more. This session will demonstrate how applying the goals of biophilic design to windows and doors will help you cultivate well-being within the build environment for your residential clients and their families .
Learning Objectives
• Explore the importance of light, views, color, access to nature and ventilation to improve the health and well-being of building occupants.
• Integrate principles of biophilia in window and door applications within residential architectural design.
• Reference the science that supports well-being and Biophilic Design.
• Apply lessons learned from residential case studies where principles of biophilia and well-being are used.
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Upcoming Meetings
Mark your calendars for this upcoming event:
Wednesday, September 22 – Annual Sponsor Appreciation Picnic at Siebenthaler’s Nursery, Beavercreek
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All Ohio Convocation 2021
Join us Thursday, September 9, 2021 for our annual ALL OHIO Convocation being held at Nationwide Hotel & Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio.
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Sinclair Offers New Construction Administration Courses Starting Fall 2021
In response to industry requests, Sinclair is offering a series of four eight-week evening courses in Construction Administration. The new courses have been developed by Steve Ford, who last year transitioned from managing $60,000,000+ of recent Sinclair construction projects to be full time faculty.
These courses are included in a new fourteen credit hour Construction Administration certificate, or may be taken individually as needed. Course content includes project delivery methods, stakeholders, change management, project closeout, and more. Detailed descriptions are available at: https://www.sinclair.edu/program/params/programCode/CADM-S-STC/
Register before August 16 for fall term classes that begin August 23. For additional information contact Nina Allen at 937-512-2183 or [email protected]
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AIA Conference on Architecture 2021
A’21 brings together leaders in architecture and beyond for a four-day, immersive digital experience that defines the year ahead. It’s the architecture and design event of the year! Halfway through the ambitious four-day schedule of over 50 sessions, the remaining sessions are July 29 and August 19.
On July 29, the theme is Community Engagement. Communities prosper when architects are involved, but barrier remain to individual agency and action. The July 29 program focuses on helping you become an agent of change.
Keynote speakers for July 29 are Shelley Halstead and Gabriella Gomez-Mont . After attending law school, Shelley Halstead launched Black Women Build – Baltimore, a homeownership and wealth building initiative. Shelley will share how she’s creating intergenerational wealth by empowering women and communities.
Gabriella Gómez-Mont is transforming Mexico City into a nexus for the kind of architecture cities demand. Her newest project, Experimentalista, will debut in Amsterdam, London, and Mexico City this summer. Don’t miss Gabriella’s take on what architects need to understand to design creative solutions.
Keynote host is Roman Mars, the host and creator of 99% Invisible, one of the world’s most popular podcasts about architecture and design. He’s back at A’21 to host several keynote events and introduce the topics and big ideas our remarkable speakers will share with you.
The theme for August 19 is Building Efficiencies. Climate change highlights the need for drastically reducing our carbon emissions. The August 19 program showcases innovations that are changing firms’ work and the AEC industry. Closing keynote speaker on August 19 is Venus Williams. Tennis champion and entrepreneur Venus Williams has always been a steadfast advocate for equality. Keynote host Roman Mars will interview Venus about the need for change, purpose-driven leadership, transformation, and resilience.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Ron Blank hosts a full range of topics that meet the live education licensing and organization requirements you have.
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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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AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information
It's still not too late! 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.
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Daily digest: A $1 billion solar farm is scrapped over land art impact, Queens’ tallest tower is complete, and more
The $1 billion Battle Born Solar Project was supposed to have been the largest solar farm in the United States, covering the Moapa Valley hilltop in the desert north of Las Vegas. Then, last week, developers withdrew their application with the Bureau of Land Management after locals complained that the solar panels would overshadow local attractions and destroy the area’s tourism economy. Opponents claimed that the solar farm, which would have covered 9,000 acres across the 150,000-acre Mormon Mesa, would have negatively impacted endangered wildlife in the area and destroyed the context for Michael Heizer’s enormous work of land art, Double Negative. Built in 1969, Double Negative sees two 50-foot-deep trenches carved into the mesa at the end of an eastern valley, and was donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1984.
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Architect of collapsed condo suspended years ago for structural failure
William Friedman, who designed Champlain Towers South before it was built in 1981, was suspended for six months in 1967 after pylons on a sign atop another building collapsed after a major hurricane, the Real Deal reported.
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Work begins on the Palmer Museum of Art’s new Allied Works-designed home at Penn State
Construction has officially kicked off on the 71,000-square-foot new home for Pennsylvania State University’s Palmer Museum of Art, a nearly 50-year-old State College institution that ranks as the largest art museum located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and the most significant academic art museum in the Keystone State. Allied Works, an architectural firm with studios in New York City and Portland, Oregon, was originally tapped by Penn State for the $85 million project in 2019. Final plans were later approved, but not without opposition, by the Penn State Board of Trustees in early May, clearing the way for the building’s groundbreaking at a site adjacent to the Arboretum at Penn State’s famed H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens that, until recently, was home to a parking lot.
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The Aya delivers a new housing prototype with its four-faced facade
In an effort to improve services for homeless families in Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser officially closed down the city’s largest hospital-turned-shelter, DC General, in 2018. Simultaneously, an initiative to decentralize short-term housing to each of the city’s administrative wards was announced. Studio 27 Architecture and LEO A DALY responded to this call with the Aya, a social housing design that aimed to alleviate the issues residents previously faced, respect Pierre L’Enfant’s arterial streets, and most importantly incorporate early community engagement. Set on an isolated triangular lot, the seven-story building hosts 53,000 square feet of short-term housing for up to 50 families in need of emergency shelter.
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New Jersey will replace its lead water pipes over the next decade
Cities across the country are reckoning with infrastructural systems nearing the end of their lifespans. Perhaps the most palpable aspect of this crisis is the aging water lines crisscrossing municipal areas, that, in many circumstances rely on lead pipes that have poisoned successive generations of city residents. However, in a welcome turn of events, the State of New Jersey has just announced an ambitious 10-year plan to catalog and replace every lead service line across the state.
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