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The Focus on Design Awards program will promote and focus attention on quality design, high performance design, and AIA’s 10 Principles of Livable Communities. The jury will evaluate all projects based on the aesthetic, functional, contextual and social characteristics of the design. The jury will also evaluate submissions in categories 1-4 based on their successful response to one or more of AIA’s 10 Principles of Livable Communities. Click here for more information and registration forms.
DESIGN AWARDS SCHEDULE
July 7 Call for Entries announced
August 9 Early registration deadline
August 23 Registration deadline
August 25 Submission deadline
November 4 Design Awards Banquet
August 2010. The Nineteenth Annual AIA Dayton Golf Outing will be held at Bellbrook’s Sugar Valley Country Club on Thursday, August 12. Lunch will be served from 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM. The Golf "Shotgun Start" will be at 1:00 PM followind by Dinner, Awards and Prizes at 6:00 PM. Click here for the registration form.
To see last year's outing photos click here.
June 2010. AIA Dayton awarded a total of $3,000 in scholarships to three outstanding high school seniors and college students from the Dayton Miami Valley region.
Tyler Gentry, a 2009 graduate of Bellbrook High School, was awarded, for the second year, a $1,000 scholarship and will be continuing his architecture studies at the University of Cincinnait this fall. Paul Conover, a 2010 Troy Christian High School Senior, was awarded a $1,000 scholarship and will attend the University of Cincinnati where he plans to study architecture. Christopher Walker, a 2010 Bellefontaine High School Senior, is also planning to study architecture at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning with the assistance of an AIA Dayton $1,000 scholarship.
The AIA Dayton Architecture Scholarship Fund of The Dayton Foundation was established in 1997 to encourage and assist students graduating or graduated from high schools in the Dayton/Miami Valley Region to pursue a degree in architecture at a college or university with an NAAB accredited architecture program. 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 the American Institute of Architects. The fund is administered by AIA Dayton, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
March 2010. Despite an ominous weather forecast, over 30 volunteers arrived in their working clothes early Saturday morning outside an East Dayton home. The house, sponsored by AIA, was one of 27 in the area being renovated as part of National Rebuilding Day. Fortunately, the thunderstorms stayed away as high school students, interns, architects, and family members teamed up to paint the house, garage, and ramp. Flowerbeds were created to brighten the front yard. Crumbling concrete steps and walkways were demolished and formwork put in place.
The homeowner, an elderly gentleman with limited mobility, and his daughter expressed sincere appreciation for the volunteers' work. "He was amazed and grateful beyond words," said Jim Faulkner who talked to the homeowner after concrete was poured the following Tuesday. Additional improvements still underway include electrical work and hiring a professional mason to repair two chimneys. Thank you everyone who came out to help on a not so sunny day!
To read more and to see more photos consider these links: Photos from Rebuilding Day
April 2010. Thirty-one students participated in the 29th annual Art in Architecture Student Design Program. In partnership with the AIAS Student Chapter of Miami University and the Caesar Creek Soaring Club of Waynesville, this year’s focus was the design of the Caesar Creek Soaring Clubhouse. Student designers included camping sites, meeting/training area, kitchen, restrooms, office, a cookout gathering and an observation/viewing area within their projects. Students were assisted with this project by their high school advisers as well as a team of designers including Laura McCaffrey, Assoc. AIA, Dan McNulty, Assoc. AIA, of App Architecture, Brian McAlexander, Assoc. AIA, of Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc, Brian Petro of Sinclair Community College, Natalie Snyder, Assoc. AIA, of Evergreen Architecture and Miami University Design and Architect Students.
Julie Klosterman, a senior at Celina High School, was awarded the first place Honor Award and a $1200 scholarship. Second Place Merit award and an $800 scholarship went to Celina High School Senior, Cassandra Chittum. The two Honorable Mention Book awards were earned by Marcel Georgin, senior at Oakwood High School, and Ashley Swope, senior at Pontiz Career Technology Center each received Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design by Lee W. Waldrep.
An award for the Master Craftsman, given for best presentation, went to Adrian Helton, a Junior at Upper Valley JVS; while Northmont senior, Katie Meyer received the Future Architect Award for a great concept project. Rounding out the prizes and receiving the Most Creative Use of Material Award went to Megan Myers a junior at Piqua’s Upper Valley Joint Vocational School.
For a list of 2010 winners, photos of project and events click here.
November 2009. The Excelsior Building at 207 E. 6th Street, Oregon District was the location of 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.
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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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