AIA Rochester Gives Back to the Community



Thank you to everyone who constructed and donated handmade ornaments to our first Ornament Auction which took place at our chapter's Holiday Party on December 9. Coupled with a cash donation, AIA Rochester was able to donate $382 to help our fellow Rochesterians via Open Door Mission.

2021 Chapter President Andrew Petrosky, AIA hand delivered our donation back on December 22. Thank you for your generosity, and be on the lookout for more philanthropic opportunities in 2022.



Abelard Reynolds- School #42 Participates in Future City Competition

Future City is a project-based learning program, where students in grades 6, 7, and 8 imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. This years team was led by teacher, Carletha Bell with the support of local AIA Members, Barbara Burke and Evan Graziano from LaBella Associates.

The Future City Competition engages more than 45,000 middle school students each year throughout the United States and abroad. The program increases motivation and excitement about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

2022 AIA Rochester Career Fair

February 8, 2022

The Career Fair is back! Bring your portfolio and resume and network with area architectural firms.

 Free for students; $50 for firms RIT Inn & Conference Center - Mohawk Cayuga Room.

Students from colleges in the Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse regions will be attending.

Register

Emerging Rochester Architects

January 6th

Open to all of Rochester's architectural young professionals including students, recent graduates, architects licensed less than 10 years, and the young at heart willing to serve as mentors. REGISTER

Landmark Society of WNY

Homes for the Holidays - Virtual Tour

December 27, 2021 - January 16, 2022

Join us as we celebrate and capture the magic of the holiday spirit on our Homes for the Holidays Virtual Experience, presented by Marshall Boxes! This event will include historical and architectural narrative highlights like our traditional tours for all our historic architecture groupies, but with an added holiday twist. For the first time, homeowners will share their favorite holiday traditions and special memories that add a unique and valuable experience when the heart of the home is shared.

REGISTER

AIA Rochester Directory

AIA Rochester Referral Book

Congratulations to Ryan Zegarelli, AIA from SWBR. He is the winner of the 2022 Directory Cover Contest and his submission is shown here. It will be the cover of our 2022 Directory due out in January!

We are in the process of making the final updates for the 2022 Directory and Referral Booklet and need to hear from you!



Below are links for the current directory and referral booklet. If you have changes from last year, please click on the Member Update Form, and fill it out!

2021 Membership Directory

2021 Referral Booklet

2022 Member Update Form

2022 Member Firm Update Form

Featured Building

47 Thurston Road Apartments

Architect: HUNT - EAS

Located within the City of Rochester, this site development project looked to restore and improve aging and neglected housing in one of the city’s neediest neighborhoods.

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Featured Article

Finding the Architecture in Infrastructure

It's probably not the right thing for an architect and business owner to admit but by the time the new $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill passed I was too tired of all the discussions to actually take the time to understand what was in the bill and how our region might benefit. The endless spin cycle of cable news networks and talk radio programs had finally caused me to completely tune out something that was going to benefit all of us. Sure, it was going to mean jobs and help to set up Americans to be more competitive in a global marketplace, but I had to wonder what it meant for architectural design in our region.

As as architect, I tend to think of infrastructure as all the "stuff" that gets people, goods, and services to the buildings we design. READ MORE