Missed DesignDC: Sustainability + Resilience? Catch up with on-demand courses!

Climate change is one of the most pressing existential challenges of our time, and architects in the District are in a unique position to lead the charge for positive change.

While the national average for carbon dioxide emissions hovers around 40% in the United States, our city's buildings account for close to 80% of the District’s emissions. Strengthening the way we practice architecture--and how we educate our clients on the value of that change--is a driving force behind making our cities healthier, sustainable, resilient, livable places.

DesignDC 2022 is a new hybrid experience for our members and design professionals throughout the region. Over two days of content, we will host a featured keynote speaker and a reception, followed by a day of virtual education with industry experts.

Schedule:

Day One - In Person 

5:30 – 6:00 pm: Welcome Reception

6:00 – 7:00 pm: Awards Presentations

7:00 – 8:00 pm: Cocktail Reception & Networking

Day Two - Virtual

8:45 am: Opening Remarks

9:00 – 10:00 am: Reducing Embodied Carbon: Strategies and Implementation

10:15 – 11:15 am: The DMV Design Community and Reuse Nonprofits: Partnering to Support Environmental Sustainability and Community Development

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: The Time is Now to Decarbonize Your Design!

1:00 – 2:00 pm: Understanding Thermally Modified Wood - Presented by CaraGreen

2:15 – 3:15 pm: How a government agency is reducing emissions: The DC DGS Energy Management Plan

3:30 – 4:30 pm:  Building Community Resilience from the Inside-Out and Outside-In

Two of the most important cities in Ukraine— Kyiv and Odesa—are currently under attack. Matthew Bell, FAIA presents historic analysis, and leads discussion of the principal architecture and urban design features of these cities with particular focus on the rebuilding of Kyiv after World War II.

This event is limited to 60 attendees.

Presented by:

Matthew Bell, FAIA—Principal, Perkins Eastman & Professor, University of Maryland

Matthew Bell, FAIA is Professor of Architecture at the University of Maryland and Principal at Perkins Eastman in Washington, DC.  His recent projects include: Dunbar High School (DC); the new Dining Commons at Catholic University; Cleveland Park Library (DC); Collection 14 (DC); campus master plans for GW and American University and master plans for McMillan (DC), Barcroft (VA) and RIA (DC). 



Bell is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Congress for the New Urbanism.  He currently serves on the Historic Preservation Review Board in Washington, DC and has degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Notre Dame and Cornell University.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the historic urban form of two important Ukrainian cities and how the form is experienced today;
• Understand the impact of large catastrophic events on cities and diverse strategies for reconstruction and rebuilding;
• Review how those strategies may be applicable to the present day as those cities are attacked in the current war;
• Gain insight into the relationship between the desire to memorialize the image of the city while advancing improvements made possible by tragic and catastrophic events.

Missed DesignDC: Equity and the Economy? Catch up with on-demand courses!

Design that supports occupant health, wellbeing, and the local economy has never been more urgent. Architects and designers are key actors in challenges wrought by the region’s housing shortage, economic insecurity, and a need for design that provides for safer, healthier users within every level of the built environment. During the second of three DesignDC symposia of 2022, AIA|DC aims to arm our members with the latest information surrounding design for equity and a changing economy.

Schedule:

Day One - In Person 

5:30 – 6:00 pm: Welcome Reception

6:00 – 7:00 pm: Keynote Presentation

7:00 – 8:00 pm: Cocktail Reception

Day Two - Virtual

8:45 am: Opening Remarks

9:00 – 10:00 am: Being a good neighbor: A Successful Design Process within Economically and Ethnically Diverse Stakeholder Groups

10:15 – 11:15 am: The Equitable Urban Block: A Philadelphia Case Study

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Delta Towers - Affordable Senior Living in Washington, DC

1:00 – 2:00 pm: Interior Non-Load Bearing Partitions - presented by Marino\WARE

2:15 – 3:15 pm: A Work in Progress: Equity in Practice

3:30 – 4:30 pm: Towards Toilet Equity: Where Do We "Go" From Here?

Keynote Speaker:

Bobby Boone, AICP, LEED AP - Founder + Chief Strategist, &Access

With nearly a decade of experience immersed in retail real estate, Bobby is impassioned about empowering engaged tenants, developers, and cities to create community-serving retail. He ensures the viability and sustainability of retail environments with tailored solutions that draw on his market analysis, planning, and strategic merchandising expertise.

Prior to founding &Access, Bobby led a citywide effort to attract and maintain small businesses in Detroit and tackled wide-ranging retail challenges as a senior strategist at Streetsense—from repositioning Fortune 500 brands and malls of yesteryear to crafting expansion strategies for emerging brands and commercial corridors. 

Bobby shares his love of retail with others as a University of Maryland and Harvard University lecturer and speaker at conferences across the nation. He received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from Florida A&M University and a Master of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He holds certifications from the American Institute of Certified Planners and LEED-Neighborhood Development.

Bobby also collaborates with other experts to cater an exchange of knowledge to help shape and grow the industry.

Join us as we announce the winners of the 2022 AIA|DC Chapter Design Awards. This annual competition places special emphasis and recognition on projects that exemplify the 10 Measures of Design Excellence. It's open exclusively to registered architects and invites submissions in four distinct project categories: architecture, interior architecture, historic resources, and urban design/master planning.

More details available here.

The AIA|DC Emerging Architects Committee (EAC) promotes education, leadership development, and community involvement among emerging architects, Associate AIA members, and architects licensed 10 years or less. We encourage the next generation of architects to start leading our community by heading committees, organizing events, participating in workshops, and attending our events.

The EAC has four major objectives: ADVOCATE for emerging architects, PROVOKE and talk about the future of the profession, MENTOR the next generation of architects, and perform OUTREACH to other AIA members, associated disciplines, and the community.