Photo credit: The Dayton Metro Library by LWC Incorporated and Group 4 Architecture won an Honor Award for Newly Completed Buildings at the 2018 Focus on Design Awards program.
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Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley at AIA Grassroots in DC
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AIA Dayton President Brian McAlexander, AIA, President-elect Charlie Setterfield, AIA, and AIA National Strategic Council member Terry Welker, FAIA are currently in Washington, DC for AIA Grassroots. Wednesday the trio visited Capitol Hill to meet with Rep. Mike Turner (R), among other congressional leaders and staff members. Thursday morning the program featured a Mayor’s Panel of influential mayors across the country, with Dayton’s own Mayor Nan Whaley as a featured panelist.
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Student Design Competition Submissions on Display at Northwest Library
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The 2019 Art in Architecture Student Design Competition submissions are now on display! Come to the Dayton Metro Library, Northwest Branch at 2410 Philadelphia Drive to check them out and vote for your favorite. The submissions are in the room directly ahead as you enter the library. They will be on display until Saturday, March 16, when we conclude with our awards ceremony at 3:00 PM.
The library is open Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM and Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM. Come check out the 40 tiny house designs and models!
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Opinion Poll Deadline Extended to March 15
AIA Dayton is hosting the state-wide AIA convention in 2020. We are starting the planning process and want your help. Please take a
very short survey to let us know your favorite venues, favorite speaker, and willingness to serve on the convention committee. It is only four questions – less than a minute of your time!
Please take the survey
here
by
Friday, March 15.
Charlie Setterfield, AIA, President-elect of AIA Dayton, is the chair for the Host Committee for the convention. The first planning meeting will be at Sinclair Community College on
Friday, March 22 at noon in Room 7-006 A&B
, adjacent to the Tartan Marketplace café on the lower level of Building 7. You are welcome to purchase food in the café and make it a lunch meeting.
Responses to the survey will help us build the agenda for the meeting, and we’ll be determining subcommittees, chairs, milestone deadlines, etc.
Just like a job meeting but without the paycheck!
Responding to the survey does not obligate you to be on the planning committee, but volunteers are welcome. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Joint meeting with AIA Dayton/CSI/AGC
on Construction Estimating
Speaker: Dan Frondorf, CPE, CDTDG, Frondorf and Associates LLC
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: LJB Inc., 2500 Newmark Dr., Miamisburg, Ohio
Cost: Free for AIA Dayton, CSI and AGC Members; $25 for Nonmembers
Register by March 15. 2019
Learning Objectives are:
1) To understand the construction cost estimating processes
2) To understand historical and modern methods of gathering information
3) To understand the importance of analyzing risk, the impact of human nature on the profession of estimating, and recognizing ethical bidding practices
4) To understand the value of the estimator in the overall design and construction community
Register by clicking
here
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Overcoming Structural and Life Safety Challenges in Large Scale Interior Public Art
(Approved for 1.0 AIA HSW)
Speaker: Terry Walker, FAIA
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Dayton Metro Library, 215 East 3rd Street Dayton, Ohio 45402
Cost: Free
Learn about the essentials of safe placemaking as Terry Welker, FAIA, demonstrates how art and science are merged to create unique aesthetic experiences. You will start in the three story atrium with Welker's giant Fractal Rain sculpture and tour the library to see how the complex spaces relate to the program, site and city with a number of large art works and how they enhance the built environment.
Register by clicking
here
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Discriminatory Harassment Awareness Training & Prevention
Speaker:
Todd Palmer, Attorney at Law
Date:
Wednesday, April 3 from 7:30 – 9:00 AM
Location:
Business Solutions Center, 1435 Cincinnati Street, Ste. 300, Dayton
Cost:
Free
RSVP:
Deadline for registration is Monday, March 25
Following examples set forward by AIA National and AIA Ohio, AIA Dayton adopted an Anti-Harassment Policy on December 12, 2018.
AIA Dayton and its members are committed to full compliance with all laws and regulations, and to maintaining the highest ethical standards in the way we conduct our operations and activities. This policy is designed to prevent sexual and other types of harassment within AIA Dayton, and to provide for corrective action as appropriate.
Click here for the policy.
AIA presents this workshop to its members any other interested partners to educate them on what constitutes
discriminatory harassment in public and in the workplace, and how to eliminate it.
Learning Objectives:
1.
To understand the background of the laws which prevent sexual harassment and other types of discriminatory harassment.
2.
To understand how sexual harassment is defined.
3.
To understand what a hostile work environment is and learn how to avoid and fix it.
4.
To learn how to notice a pattern of discriminatory harassment and to eliminate it.
Register by clicking
here
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Society of American Military Engineers Seeks 2019 Scholarship Applicants
Please make deserving students aware of the Kittyhawk (Dayton) Post of the Society of American Military Engineers’ (SAME) scholarships program. SAME’s scholarships encourage students from the Post’s region (Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky) to pursue careers in fields related to the Society’s mission including
engineering, architecture, construction, facilities management and environmental management/science
. The program assists all levels of post-high-school education to include associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees. The Post awarded $14,500 in 2018 to deserving students. Their
Traditional Student Scholarships
are provided for either students enrolled in, or high school seniors intending to pursue, a full-time accredited baccalaureate degree program. Information and applications for the scholarships are now available on their website at
http://samekittyhawkpost.org/education/scholarships/
Applications are due by April 3, 2018. For more information, please contact the education committee chair Nadja Turek,
nadja.turek@woolpert.com
or 937-531-1287.
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Upcoming LEED Study Courses
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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 Adjustment Program Information
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. Contact
AIA Dayton
at 937-291-1913 for a form.
AIA Trust
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Important Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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How to Design a Better City for Deaf People
A museum atrium with a grand, lofted ceiling. A restaurant with an open kitchen, a candle-lit bar, and trendy metal chairs. A conference room with a long, rectangular table.
These spaces might look good. But to deaf and hard-of-hearing people who pass through them, the designs can be alienating: too echoey or loud to hear voices; too shadowy, dark, or blinding to discern sign language or read lips; or lacking necessary sight-lines.
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‘Can a hospital heal?’: UMD lecture explores architecture’s influence on health
For Patricia Gruits, every building must have a purpose: improving lives.
Gruits, the senior principal and managing director of MASS Design Group — a Boston-based architecture collective — sees her work as a way of contributing to society’s well-being.
When MASS Design Group was approached more than a decade ago by the humanitarian nonprofit Partners in Health to design the first hospital in Burera, a northern district of Rwanda, their plan perfectly represented Gruits’ goals as an architect.
“Rwanda is beautiful. It is an incredibly comfortable place,” Gruits said. “The question and mission of that project really was: ‘Can a hospital heal?’”
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"Guides for Equitable Practice" publicly available on AIA's website
AIA sponsored the development of the guides to help educate architects and firms on best practices for equity, diversity and inclusion principles and to provide strategies for incorporating the values into architectural practice.
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Arata Isozaki, Whose Hybrid Style Forged 'New Paths,' Wins Pritzker Prize
Arata Isozaki spent much of his childhood in the shadow of World War II. As a native of the city of Oita, the Japanese architect grew up just across a slim body of water from Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb — and he says he saw firsthand the ease with which proud human achievements could be leveled.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
jane_treiber@aiadayton.org
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