Chapter Programs

Election of Officers and Directors Happening at the AIA Dayton Annual Membership Meeting

Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 

Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Location: Moeller Brew Barn, 416 E. 1st Street, Dayton

Join us for Happy Hour and Free Food!

AIA Dayton members and sponsors admitted for free.

2023-24 Candidates for the AIA Dayton Board

The Nominating Committee presents the following slate of candidates to be voted on by the membership at its annual meeting. The slate of candidates:

* President-elect: Bryan Greene, AIA

* Secretary (2-year term): Cally Lange, AIA

* Director (elect two): Mike Duke, AIA; ONE POSITION OPEN

* Associate Director (elect two) : Lauren McCarroll, Assoc. AIA; Katie McCall, Assoc. AIA

* AIA Ohio Director (1st year of 3-year term): Joe Bissaillon, AIA

Fulfilling their previously elected 2024 positions:

* President: Rebecca Nikolai, AIA

* Past President: Alex Bohler AIA

* Treasurer (2nd of 2-year term): Erin McNicholl, AIA

The election of Officers and Directors will take place October 18 at 5:30 PM. All members are encouraged to attend. Sign up for the meeting will follow soon!

Thanks to our meeting sponsors Kimley Horn and Snyder Brick and Block!

AIA News

Terry Welker, FAIA, Receives Highest State Award

AIA Ohio, awarded Terry Welker, FAIA, with the AIA Ohio Gold Medal Award at its annual Awards Recognition Program on September 10 in Columbus.. The AIA Ohio Gold Medal is the highest honor that AIA Ohio can bestow on an individual.

It is conferred by the AIA Ohio Board of Directors in recognition of exemplary efforts and significant accomplishments. This award is granted to an individual who has demonstrated how their achievements address one or more of the criteria of Design, Leadership and Service. 

“The AIA Ohio Board of Directors was impressed with the high quality of Terry’s overall body of work,” said AIA Ohio President, John Orsini, AIA. “Additionally, Terry’s community service, dedication to the AIA and inspiring artistic creations reflect his passion for elevating the profession of architecture.” 

In addition to being an architect and artist, Welker is also an educator. He has taught classes and workshops for over two decades on building codes, design excellence and public art. He is a past recipient of the AIA Ohio Public Service Award. 

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Pictured above are AIA Dayton members in attendance at the Awards Ceremony.

The 2023 AIA Compensation & Benefits Survey has been Released

Nine Individual regional reports are available for purchase through the AIA online store. You can also purchase a full report, or a top metro area report. Nine metro areas were added this year, including Des Moines, New Orleans, Omaha, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Nashville, and San Antonio.

 For a free summary of the key findings of the report, visit www.aia.org/compensation. 

A Free resource for AIA components and members

The AIA Trust Legal Network, a free member resource, is a searchable database to find experienced A/E construction lawyers by state. Enrollment is free for qualifying law firms. Encourage any A/E law firms not yet listed to enroll—or send their contact information to [email protected] for follow-up

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Career Opportunities

Local Career Opportunities (updated May 12, 2023)

AIA Ohio Career Opportunities

AIA National Career Opportunities

Important AIA Resources

AIA Dayton Website 

AIA Ohio Website

AIA National Website

Your Transcript 

AIAU Website

AIA Dayton Contract Documents

AIA Trust

Coping with the Inevitable Firm Transitions

AIA National

AIA College of Fellows Submissions

In the Media

‘A contradiction’: U.S. subsidizes ‘sustainable’ buildings, but leaves them vulnerable to floods

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was the kind of extreme weather event that happened all too often this year: On an unseasonably warm day, more than two feet of rain inundated the city, flooding hundreds of cars and buildings, including a recently constructed luxury apartment tower that touts its sustainability credentials to prospective tenants.

Shaped like a massive bow tie, the 18-story Vu New River is gray and white with navy blue accents. Water quickly flooded its palm tree-lined rooftop patio, streamed into upper-floor apartments and coursed down the building’s elevator shaft, with some even splashing into the neon-lit lobby.

Read More: Politico

An Architect Uses AI to Explore Surreal Black Worlds

Hackett is the designer behind a series of provocations made using AI to remix Black vernacular architecture in kaleidoscopic Afrofuturist landscapes. Specifically, he’s assembling images with Midjourney, an AI tool favored by architects to imagine what buildings might look like. Hackett’s prompts result in straightforward yet surreal sets, including roadside Popeyes kiosks in rural North Carolina, homes with inflatable porches in the Florida panhandle and park benches made out of the couch from grandma’s living room. Quilts, basket weaving and other cultural modes associated with American South are the building materials for Hackett’s speculative futures.

Read More: Bloomberg CityLab

The architect of L.A.’s iconic Capitol Records building sets the record straight — again — on that needle

Architect Louis Naidorf had a disastrous 80th birthday cake. In 2008, Naidorf, who designed the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, was presented with a celebration cake that had been custom-baked in the shape of his iconic cylindrical building. But the pastry soon reflected the rather substantial difference between concrete and flour.

“When the cake was brought out, it gently collapsed, and everyone applauded,” Naidorf says, laughing over the phone from his home in Santa Rosa. “It was like in one of the movies where the Capitol Records building was destroyed.” Thankfully the cake for his 95th birthday, which he celebrated last month, was more structurally sound.

Read More: Los Angeles Times

How School Design Can Help Children Feel Safe by Erin Peavey, AIA

Childhood can be hard even in the best of times. Children are inherently at a power disadvantage, still learning how to manage their emotions, and at the will of adults for food, shelter, and emotional regulation. Frustration, failure, and conflict are unavoidable, but not necessarily bad for children in the long run.

But children today face some uniquely difficult conditions, from school shootings (or the threat of them), to the looming threat of climate change, to the pandemic uprooting their sense of structure, control, and predictability. The accumulation of these overwhelming events, occurring on a regular basis—not to mention the additional very real challenges that many children face at home—could contribute to what some call “small T-trauma” (a term I admittedly don’t love).

Read More: Psychology Today

Inside the World Trade Center’s new glowing cube

A new type of theater building has been blossoming over the past decade. Let’s call it the “transformer theater,” where walls can drop from ceilings and entire seating rows can lift up and down on command. Such is the premise behind the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, the soon-to-open Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University—and the Perelman Performing Arts Center, or PAC NYC, which just opened in Lower Manhattan.

Read More: Fast Company

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