AIA East KY August 2017 E-News

September 6, 2017

Contents:

What's Happening

Learning Opportunities

Good News

Upcoming Events

What's Happening: East Kentucky and Beyond

Design Slam 2017!!

The 5th Annual Design Slam at West Sixth Brewing will be on September 9th at 5:30pm this year!

The Design Slam is an annual fundraising event for AIA East Kentucky and Lexington Habitat for Humanity. Watch teams from local architecture organizations put together compelling designs for a space in Lexington while audience members cheer and vote for their favorite designs. Each team will have one hour to complete their design using physical or digital media to create, render or illustrate their work.

Please come out to support your local chapter and Lexington Habitat!

Additionally, if you would like to explore sponsoring this year's event, please contact Jody Boelhauf for additional information.

For tickets to the event or online voting, please visit this website. Tickets and additional votes can also be purchased at the door.

UK College of Design

The UK College of Design School of Architecture partnered with the Moontower Music Festival to design and build an installation featured at the festival at Masterson Station Park. The students worked over the summer as part of a Summer Fabrication Studio to take their design for a "moontower" from abstract ideas to a completed physical structure.

Professor: Jordan Hines

Visiting Professor: Erin Ruhl

Assistant Professor: Barry Richardson

UK CoD Lecture Series -

This year's lecture series has several interesting presentations planned. The following is a list of upcoming lecture dates and presenters:

9/25 - Patkau Architects - 5pm

10/25 - design/buildLAB -

5pm

2017 AIA East Kentucky Scholarship - This year's Scholarship ( supported by matching grant funds from AIA National) was presented to Lauren Delventhal. Lauren has been working this summer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on a girls' orphanage damaged by the recent earthquakes there. To learn more about Lauren and her work go here.

Habitat for Humanity

A build date on 9/16/17 is available for our members. 4 to 7 people are needed to install siding at one of the build sites and open spots are first come, first served. If you'd like more info on this build date, please contact Jordan Goff.

For additional volunteering opportunities with Habitat for Humanity you can click here for a comprehensive list.

Lexington Emerging Professionals Network

The Lexington Emerging Professionals Network (LEPN) was started in October of 2016, to provide architectural emerging professionals in the Lexington area an opportunity to network and participate in fellowship with their peers. The LEPN will hold monthly meet-ups at local restaurants, where all area emerging professionals will be welcomed regardless of AIA membership. The goal of the LEPN is to engage all emerging professionals in the larger Lexington architectural community.

If you are an emerging professional in the Lexington area, please follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lexepnetwork, and stay up-to-date on future events.

Learning Opportunities

East Kentucky's "Third" Thursday Lunches

Free Lunch and Drinks Provided to AIA/ NCARB Members

Topic: Fire Joint Framing and Protection
Presenter: ClarkDietrich - Troy Kehr

When: September 21st, 2017

Where: Lexington Public Library, Beaumont Branch: 11:45am-1:00 pm: 1 AIA LU/HSW

USGBC - WELL Workshop

USGBC Kentucky is hosting a WELL Building Standard Workshop on 9/15/17 at Hershaw Trane in Louisville. There will be 6 CEU's available for AIA, LEED AP's, and WELL AP's.

Click here for more information and to sign up.

Good News!

AIA EKC would like to extend a warm welcome to its newest members: