Photo credit: The Dayton Metro Library, Vandalia Branch by Ruetschle Architects won a Merit Award for Newly Completed Buildings at the 2018 Focus on Design Awards program.
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Brian McAlexander, AIA, Sulllivan Bruck Architects
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Greetings AIA Dayton!
We have an exciting time ahead of us. We looked ahead 5 years at the recent board planning session to many great things, including hosting the AIA Ohio Convention in 2020! The last time we hosted was the OVR Regional in 2011 and it was UNconventional!
We do have a big ask for our members. With so much coming we need your support to get it all done. We need you to contact your product representatives and thank the ones who sponsor AIA Dayton and ask the ones who don't to do so. We need you to step up and volunteer for committees and events.
Student Design is off and runnning, but they need architects for a few hours on Saturdays for the charrette and design reviews. We need committee members for 2020 Convention-- yes, we need to start planning this far out. Golf outing, Parking Day, Architecture week, PK Night, Community outreach, Advocacy, and many other activities need people to step up.
We heard you when you expressed concern that the convention would bump the design awards back a year, leaving three years between awards instead of the normal two. So we are doing the awards again this year, but at a smaller scale. We need committee members!
We will be developing a mentoring program for our emerging professionals and we would like our Emeritus and FAIA members to step up and help mentor the new generation of architects. If you have ideas for the program drop us an e-mail.
It’s a big year ahead. A big 5 years ahead.
With your help we can get it done and show everyone what a great chapter we have!
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Scanning and 3D Visualization for Architecture: What Drones and Advanced Imagery Tells Us
Program: Scanning and 3D Visualization for Architecture: What Drones and Advanced Imagery Tells Us About Our Work
Speaker: Nadja Turek, Research and Development Facilitator, Woolpert
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 AM
Location: Woolpert, 4454 Idea Center Blvd., Beavercreek, Ohio
Cost: Free for AIA Dayton members; $25 for non-members
Register by: February 4, 2019
Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming March Meetings
Program: Structure, Requirements and Energy Savings
Speaker: Joint Meeting with AIA/ASHRAE
Date: Monday, March 11 2019
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Location: Aileron, 8860 Wildcat Road, Tipp City
Cost: TBD
Registration Information to follow
Program: Joint meeting with AIA/CSI/AGC on Cost Estimating
Speaker: Dan Frondorf, D G Frondorf and Associates
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: TBD
Cost: TBD
Registration Information to follow
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Ruetschle Architects Receives a Merit Award for the Dayton Metro Library, Vandalia Branch
The Vandalia Library is designed as the nexus of engagement that encourages active learning and a strong sense of place. Located next door to a high school, the Library celebrates the multiple facets of teen life supporting both academic and recreational activities. the library is located near an airport and a "destinations" theme was established through a sloped clerestory roof (emulating an airplane takeoff) and a rocket ship in the children's room. the clerestory roof highlights the marketplace, and showcases a custom dichroic glass sculpture which dynamically transmits reflected color throughout the library seamlessly integrating art and architecture.
Focus on Design Awards Jury comments included: The organization of the site and building program is a clear response to the surrounding site context. Inside, the "marketplace" analogy offers a nice balance of open social space with more focused spaces for learning, working and collaborating. This new library branch replacement sits very comfortably in its semi-suburban context. Its subtle references to the nearby Dayton Airport are most effective on the interior, which is spacious, navigable, and refreshing. Its well-lit interior does convey what is described in the design statement as a community living room. The simple block forms are integrated well with the clerestory spine, as depicted in the diagrams.
- Jury Chair Thom Danckaert, AIA Grand Rapids
For more information and a preview of all the submissions,
click here.
Many thanks to the event sponsors, without whom the awards program would not have been possible!
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2019 Student Design Competition Holds Charrette on January 19 and Members are Encouraged to Attend
The 2019 project is to design a tiny house on a site in northwest Dayton,
the future home of the Hope Center for Families, an initiative of the Omega Community Development Corporation.
The project kicks-off
January 19 with a design charrette and project introduction from Noon – 4 PM at the Omega Corporation Chapel, 800 Harvard Blvd. Members are invited to attend and participate. Any member wishing to assist at the charrette, please contact the
AIA Dayton office.
In addition to the charrette, there are two design reviews scheduled for February 2 and February 16 and members are needed to critique students' projects. There are historically about 50 students who enter the competition.
If you know of an eligible student who is interested in architecture or other aspects of the construction industry, encourage them to register for the program. The programs kicks off on January 19 with a design charrette at the Omega Community Development
Corporation.
For more information, click
here.
Consider a Year-end Contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund
Before you close out your 2018 books, please consider a contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund, administered by the Dayton Foundation and AIA Dayton. The fund was created in 1991 by Lynn App, Emeritus AIA, and has grown in value over the years to more than $114,000. Scholarship awards are made each year to deserving students in the Miami Valley attending an NAAB accredited college/university.
For a donation form, click
here.
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Save the Date!
The AIA 2019 Ohio Valley Region Convention is September 19 - 21, 2019, at the Hilton Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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AIA Dues Renewal Notices Have Been Mailed
AIA dues notices have been mailed and are 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. Contact
AIA Dayton
at 937-291-1913 for a form.
Individuals and firms that would like to pay dues via the
Dues Installment Program,
may do do by registering online at aia.org in your account. If you register now you may pay dues in up to four installments.
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Important Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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Ready to Manage a World Famous Building and Grapple with a Billion Dollar Backlog?
Do you like historic buildings? Are you undaunted by the prospect of working with tenants who are also your bosses and can’t seem to agree on much of anything?
Then this job is for you. The search for a new architect of the Capitol is underway, led by executive search firm JDG Associates.
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Trouble in River City
If Frank Lloyd Wright had not deserted his wife, six children and left for Europe with his next-door neighbor, Mamah Cheney, who deserted her husband and two children to be with Wright, Mason City, Iowa might have become the country’s greatest repository of Wright’s Prairie School architecture.
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11 Architectural Biennials to Pay Attention to in 2019
Venice captured all architects' hearts and minds last year, but 2019 —a Venice-less year— will be still a year full of biennials and festivals around the world (many of which we're proud to be official partners of). The excitement is already building.
From Chicago's new approaches to the traditional practices to Shenzhen's future technology prospect; from Oslo's degrowth agenda to Brazil's focus on everyday architecture, it's time to start saving dates for the following biennials around the world!
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7 Trends That Will Shape Commercial Construction in 2019
Is a trend really a trend if it repeats year after year? That's a valid concern in the commercial construction world. For a competitive and fragmented industry that happens to be resistant to some of the rapid evolution noted in others, participants and observers are continually seeing some of the same glacial movements take center stage.
For example, the skilled labor shortage that has roiled the country isn't going anywhere anytime soon, despite increased educational and outreach programs. Automation, drones and increasingly comprehensive technology solutions are infiltrating projects one jobsite at a time. Offsite building is becoming more and more prevalent to guard against safety hazards on a worksite and deliver projects faster, cheaper and more efficiently. Mitigating risk is still possibly the most important aspect of a successful job.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
jane_treiber@aiadayton.org
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