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Friday, November 6th at 7:00 - 11:00 PM at The Excelsior Building (next to Jay’s Seafood) at 207 E. 6th Street, Oregon District, Dayton. Pecha Kucha. Pe-chawk-cha. "This is the most fun I've ever had at an AIA event!", exclaimed Barry Buckman, AIA, President Elect of AIA Dayton. Barry, along with approximately 100 other participants crowded the second floor of the Excelsior Building in the Oregon District last Friday night to hear nine local speakers share their talents and interests in 20 slides and 6 minutes 40 seconds of dialogue. Four architects, an interior designer, a landscape designer and three artists espoused their knowledge on a colorful variety of topics from the negative impact the 1950's had on good design in urban planning to the celebration of funk in Dayton to Evel Knievel jumping the Snake River Canyon.
Thanks to Platinum Sponsors Pella Sales and Snyder Brick and Block for making this program possible. Also thanks to the Focus on Design PK Lecture Committee: Kim Duncan, Elements IV; Tessa Kalman; Fernando Oseguera, App Architecture; Matt Sauer, Rogero Buckman Architects; Jill Davis, Design Forum; Tim Bement, App Architecture; and Ken Raiteri, John Poe Architects.
August 2009. The Eighteenth Annual AIA Dayton Golf Outing was a successful event once again thanks to this year’s golfers and generous sponsors. Over 100 golfers enjoyed a sunny day at Bellbrook’s Sugar Valley Country Club. They started the day with a delicious City Barbeque lunch sponsored by Shook Construction. Golf carts were sponsored by JMD Architectural Products and Shell + Meyer Associates. After the 1:00 shotgun start, players competed over 18 holes of golf as they quenched their thirst at various beverage centers sponsored by Chapel Electric and Becker Construction. $1000 was raised for the AIA Dayton Scholarship Fund and the winning team scored 18 under par.
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June 2009. AIA Dayton awarded a total of $4,000 in scholarships to a group of outstanding high school seniors and college students from the Dayton Miami Valley region.
Ryan Benson, a 2007 graduate of Piqua High School, and Kaley Bartosik, a 2008 graduate of Kettering Fairmont High School, were each awarded $1,000 scholarships and will be continuing their architecture studies at Miami University this fall. Tyler Gentry, a 2009 graduate of Bellbrook High School was also awarded a $1,000 scholarship, and will attend the University of Cincinnati where he will study architecture. Benita Cheng, a 2009 graduate of Centerville High School, is planning to study architecture at Washington University in St. Louis with the assistance of AIA Dayton’s $1,000 scholarship.
Scholarship recipients were selected on the basis of their academic achievements, artistic talent, and an essay about their educational and career goals as they relate to the field of Architecture. The scholarships are funded through the generous donations of AIA Dayton Members, contributions from AIA Dayton, and through a matching funds grant from AIA National. AIA Dayton doubled the amount of scholarship funds awarded this year with the matching funds grant from AIA National. The fund is administered by AIA Dayton, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
March 2009. AIA Dayton architects participating in the Strategic Building Re-use Project: New Ideas for Downtown Spaces and Places. The project was spearheaded by the Downtown Dayton Partnership and the results of the ten firms' efforts were unveiled on March 25th at a news conference in the former Third National/Key Bank Building. Coverage of the event was carried by all the local networks, the Dayton Daily News and numerous other media outlets. Building owners and developers attended the news conference and reception, as did local government officials, business leaders, community activists, architects and many others. Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin, an enthusiastic supporter of the project, addressed the packed lobby and praised the creativity and applicability of the proposed designs for the vacant/underused buildings. Excitement was the key word for the event. The proposed possibilities for housing, retail, market, and landscape design were very diverse and electric. The architects' renderings will be on display in the Kettering Tower Lobby from now until April 10. The architects' visions of what downtown Dayton could be were exciting indeed. A big thank you to: App Architecture, The Architectural Group, Earl Reeder Associates, Greg L. Lauterbach Architect, John Poe Architects, Jeff Wray Architects, Levin Porter Associates, Lorenz Williams, Matrix Architects and Rogero Buckman Architects.
To read more and to see more photos consider these links: The Dayton Daily News Story, the DDN Photo Presentation and the DowntownDayton.org site.
March 2009. Thirty-three students from 14 area high schools participated in the 28th annual Art in Architecture Student Design Program. In partnership with the AIAS Student Chapter of Miami University and the Humane Society of Greater Dayton this year’s program was the designing of a pet adoption center. The center is intended to be a fun welcoming area for people to come and meet animals in need of new homes. Student designers included office space, meeting rooms, pet interaction area and relief areas within their projects. They took into account animal’s favorite activities such as fetching, swimming, climbing. The goal was to create a fun and exciting building, a place where people want to visit. Students were assisted with with this project by their high school advisers as well as a team of designers including Laura McCaffrey, Dan McNulty of App Architecture, Brian Petro of Interbrand Design Forum, the entire Trademark Drafting staff and Miami University Design and Architect Students.
For a list of 2009 winners, photos of project and events click here.
November 2008. On Thursday evening, November 20, about 140 Dayton area architects and designers, construction industry supporters, and guests gathered in the Winter Garden of the Schuster Center to pay tribute to the 2008 Design Award winners. A memorial tribute to Benjamin Kline, longtime Dayton Daily News reporter whose beat included architecture, was also part of the evening as the AIA Dayton posthumously awarded Mr. Kline with the 2008 Architecture Advocacy Award. For photos and more information click here.
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May 2008. AIA Dayton's participation in AIA150 Blueprint for Your Neighborhood: A Gift to the Community, over a period of 4 months, assisted a Dayton neighborhood with many potential revitalization projects in their area. This past week, this Dayton neighborhood of South Park took 1st Place as Neighborhood of the Year in the Physical Revitalization - Single Neighborhood category. The annual award from Neighborhoods USA recognizes projects initiated by a neighborhood group that focuses on the physical aspects of the community such as parks, green spaces, housing improvement, lighting, litter control, traffic management, signs and business district enhancement. AIA150, in cooperation with AIA Dayton as well as their October 2007 Rehabarama assisted South Park earn this national award. Click here for the Dayton Daily News story. Click here for the YouTube video, created by Morgan Howard, used for South Park's final presentation.
Congratulations South Parkand and AIA Dayton’s AIA150 Committee!!
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