The Washington Architectural Foundation is pleased to announce the Fall Design Fête will take place at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on November 15, 2024. This event will celebrate our community and honor several worthy individuals and programs that have made Washington a better place through their contributions as designers, advocates and clients.

This year’s Fete will include a cocktail reception and seated dinner with a program.  Along with celebrating the contributions of these worthy individuals, the Fall Design Fête supports the Washington Architectural Foundation’s education and community outreach programs. Thanks to wonderful sponsors like you, the Foundation can better meet its mission to share the power of architecture to transform community. 

Honorees

2024 Centennial Medal Winner – Yolanda Cole, FAIA

2024 Glenn Brown Award Winner – Uwe Brandes

2024 Architect Educator Award Winner – Amy Gardner, FAIA

2024 Emerging Architect Winner – Kumi Wickramanayaka, AIA

2024 Wieb Award Winner – Ian Walker

2024 Partnership for the Planet Award Winner – Heather Jauregui, AIA

2024 Donald B. Myer Award for Public Service – Brian J. Hanlon, AIA

Washington Architectural Foundation is grateful to the following sponsors for the generosity and early commitment in support of the 12th annual Fall Design Fete:

Cornerstone
Brailsford & Dunlavey

Bar Sponsor
Interface Engineering 

Corbel

AECOM
The American Institute of Architects
Barnes Vanze Architects
Bonstra |Haresign Architects
Clark Construction Group 
District of Columbia Department of Buildings
Georgetown University
Hickok Cole
Lee and Associates
Page
Quinn Evans Architects
Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
SmithGroup
University of Maryland

Cocktail
Michael J. Armstrong

Music 
ARUP

Dessert
DLR Group
 

Keystone
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
David M. Schwarz Architects
EEReed
Fentress Architects
Hartman-Cox Architects
MV+A Architects
Perkins Eastman
Walter P. Moore
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Quoin 
Ames & Gough Insurance/Risk Management
EskewDumezRipple
Fox Architects
Gardner Architects
Gensler
Grunley Construction Company
HGA
HKS
HOK
Jensen Hughes
Lam Partners
Lee/Shoemaker
LeoADaly
David Metzger, FAIA
Neumann Lewis Buchanan Architects
Perkins&Will
Joseph Sacco, AIA
Shalom Baranes Associates Architects
SK&A Structural Engineers
Thornton Tomasetti

In this hour-long remote learning seminar, learn how to create unique, visually open public spaces with responsible materials and unmatched acoustics. This course will cover the use of architecturally-aesthetic design solutions for open structure projects ranging from simple canopies to huge airport concourses. Many types of projects—schools, gymnasiums, natatoria, canopies, transportation facilities, conference centers, wellness facilities, multi-tenant buildings, perforated architectural screening, and more are addressed.
In addition, the course describes how these systems have been engineered to achieve practical design features that contribute to USGBC LEED certification. These features include: building product disclosure and optimization; environmental product declarations; sourcing of raw materials; material ingredients; construction and demolition waste management; acoustic performance; and innovation. The course will also focus on multiple unique shapes and features of deck profiles, span and structural performance, basic acoustic theory and performance (NRC Value, STC Value, ICC Value), access/utility concealment options, NFPA approved hanging devices, building code requirements ( U.L. Rating, FM Rating, ICC Rating), paint finishes, indoor/outdoor air control, curved/arched structural systems, factory integration of daylighting solutions, and numerous visual representations of existing projects.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the many types of projects which can function as ceilings and roof decks with acoustic and non-acoustic structural components.
• Describe how these can be used to achieve LEED certification.
• Summarize basic acoustic theory and performance in these features.
• Identify how these features comply with multiple building code requirements.

Presented by:

David Weber LEED GA, Regional Sales Manager – Mid-Atlantic, EPIC Metals

David Weber has over 25 years of experience working in the construction Industry, initially in project management for large commercial contractors and the last twelve as a sales and marketing professional in the AEC industry.

Organized by:

It’s back! Come to mix, mingle, drink, and network with others in real estate, design, development, and architecture.

Highlights include:
• Network with DC's architecture, design, development, and construction community;
• Food and drinks;
• Bring colleagues to discount your ticket; and
• All for a good cause as we give out this year's Barbara G. Laurie Scholarships and support the GREAT WORK of the Washington Architectural Foundation.

Bring a friend and your ticket price drops! Sign up today! 

Thank you to our sponsors:

Clark Construction Group, LLC

Michael J. Armstrong

Delon Hampton & Associates, Chartered

Ayers Saint Gross

HGA

Joseph Sacco, AIA

Perkins Eastman

Jeffrey Kerr

Smithgroup

Site Resources, Inc. 

Hear the stories behind our best loved and little-known museums on the Mall!
Washington’s famous plethora of museums are all laid out along the east side of the National Mall between the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument. Called “America’s Attic,” the Smithsonian Institution is one of the largest museum organizations in the world, with 30 million annual visitors, 19 museums and over 140 million items in the collection. On this tour, explore how the Smithsonian Institution has helped shape the fabric of the National Mall since 1847, with grand buildings, secret gardens, and both beloved and reviled designs.

Please note we’ll be discussing the museums from the exterior, with the exception of the National Gallery of Art, which we will briefly go inside.

What to Bring
Sturdy walking shoes, bottled water and comfortable clothes are recommended!

Where to Meet
Meet your guide outside the Smithsonian Castle
GPS Address: 1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC 20560

Your tour will end at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

Sights and stops include:
Smithsonian Castle & Garden
James V. Forrestal Building (Dept of Energy)
Arts and Industries Building
Hirshhorn Museum
National Air and Space Museum
National Gallery of Art (inside and out!)
National Museum of the American Indian
United States Botanic Garden
United States Capitol Building

In partnership with DC Design Tours

The Annual Fellows Celebration Dinner honors local Chapter Fellows, new and old, from the DMV including AIA|DC, AIA NOVA and AIA Potomac Valley. Along with the celebration of their achievements, this event is also a major fundraiser for the Fellows’ Endowment of the Washington Architectural Foundation’s Barbara G. Laurie Scholarship Program.  Awarded initially in the freshman year, the scholarship follows the student through a four-or-five-year degree as long as they remain in an architecture program in the United States and maintain a good grade point average.

Our scholarship was renamed in 2013 in memory of Barbara G. Laurie. Laurie, an architect who was devoted to the Washington Architectural Foundation and the community, was a partner of Devrouax + Purnell, a prominent architecture firm in DC. She was a founding member of the Organization of Black Designers and professor of architecture at Howard University.

In 2023, WAF supported four scholars:

Raina Lee, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Miriam Shron, University of Virgina

Jasmine Gallion, Ithaca College

Theza Argueta Quintanilla, The Catholic University of America

Thank you to our sponsors:

Dinner Sponsors:

Bar Sponsors:

David and Patricia Haresign

Quinn Evans

Sponsorship Opportunities

Dinner Sponsorship - $2,000

• Preferred seating for 4 Guests
• Company or Individual Name of Event Materials
• Hyperlink on Scholarship Webpage

Bar Sponsorship - $1,000

• Preferred seating for 2 Guests
• Company or Individual Name of Event Materials
• Hyperlink on Scholarship Webpage

Individual Tickets $295.00

All current members and interested newcomers are encouraged to attend LA.IDEA committee meetings, these meetings are free and open to all. 

All current members and interested newcomers are encouraged to attend LA.IDEA committee meetings, these meetings are free and open to all. 

Great for ages 5 and up!

In this family workshop, kids of all ages can build the castle of their dreams! We will look at how castles were designed, built and structured centuries ago, using David MacAulay’s book, Castle.

Kids will be encouraged to make up a story about their castle. 

2024 AIA|DC Chapter Design Awards Jury

Anne Marie Duval-Decker, FAIA, Duvall Decker, Jackson, MS
Erin Sterling Lewis, FAIA, Open Studio Design, Raleigh, NC
Dina Griffin, FAIA, Interactive Design Architects, Chicago IL
Sara Grant, AIA, MBB Architects, New York, NY
Hans Butzer, FAIA, Butzer Architects and Urbanism, Oklahoma City, OK

PURPOSE

The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC) Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in the categories of architecture, interior architecture, historic resources, and urban design/master planning. The program not only demonstrates the value of good design, but also illustrates the wide variety of services performed by architects. It is conducted independent of other awards programs sponsored by the Institute and other AIA components.

ELIGIBILITY

The program is open to all registered architects. The architect submitting a project must be a member though not necessarily the head of the design team responsible for it. Project eligibility depends on the status of the submitting architect as follows:

• Any registered architect who is a member (assigned or unassigned) of AIA|DC may submit any architecture, interior architecture, or historic resource project completed or urban design/master planning project initiated after January 1, 2019
• Any registered architect who is a member of another AIA chapter or who is not a member of the Institute may submit any architecture, interior architecture or historic resource project completed or urban design/master planning project initiated after January 1, 2019, located within Washington, DC.

For architecture, interior architecture, and historic resources, “completed” shall mean “substantially completed” as defined in standard AIA documents governing construction.

For urban design/master planning, “initiated” shall mean a completed or incomplete project, where a significant portion has been completed, implemented, or adopted by a local jurisdiction, authority, institution, or private client. Unimplemented urban design/master planning projects must have an actual, identifiable client and must not be academic projects or competitions.

If a project was given an Award or Jury Citation in the Architecture, Interior Architecture or Historic Resources categories in previous years, it is no longer eligible for a Chapter Design Award. If an Urban Design/Master Planning project was given an award in previous years, that project is no longer eligible to be considered in this or future awards programs. However, individual buildings in an urban design/master plan may be submitted under the architecture or historic resources category if not previously awarded as noted above.

If you have any questions about the eligibility requirements, please contact the AIA DC. AIA|DC shall have the sole authority to verify that eligibility requirements have been met.

JURY AND AWARDS

A panel consisting of five jurors will review all submission categories. No juror shall be from the Washington area, and each shall be a qualified judge in their own right. Although most jurors will be practicing architects, some may be primarily employed as historians, educators, critics, urban designers, planners or preservationists. Jurors will be selected and/or approved by the AIA|DC Executive Committee. Each jury’s composition is at the Chapter’s discretion and shall not be subject to review.

The Jury will consider awards in all four categories and entries will be considered individually. The Jury may grant awards to as many projects it considers justified by the quality of the design. While the jury has the sole discretion to grant an award, the Chapter will instruct jurists to take into consideration the following:

1. Design quality
2. The context of working in a specific region. The DC context for example, creates unique opportunities and challenges.
3. The Framework for Design Excellence topics described above.
4. Project size, scale, or budget – modest projects may be significant, including single family residences or projects which display finely executed detail.

Click here for full submission details and requirements.

Join the ICAA in welcoming Mark McInturff. In this talk, architect Mark McInturff FAIA will discuss the common roots of Classical and Modern Architecture.

Beginning with the training and early work of the iconic Modernists including Mies, Le Corbusier, Wright and Kahn, the talk will illustrate common denominators of both directions, including structural expression, plan hierarchies, and material expression.

McInturff will illustrate these parallels with historic work and his own.

The successes and failures of modernism as compared to Classicism will be discussed openly.