AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Emerging Professionals Happy Hour
2026-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Center for Architecture and Design, 100 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Join the AIA Baltimore Emerging Professionals Committee for a monthly recurring happy hour to network and mingle with other members of the AEC community in the greater Baltimore area.
Happy Hours are FREE and open to all, with venues rotating monthly.
Register here!
Interested in hosting the next happy hour? Email Emerging Professionals Committee Co-Chair Griffin Sanderoff at gsanderoff@gmail.com

Design Awards Committee
2026-03-11 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-04-08 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-05-13 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-06-10 08:00 - 09:00
The annual AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards program recognizes excellence in architectural design by AIA Baltimore members and AIA members with projects in AIA Baltimore’s region. Built and unbuilt projects submitted by AIA members are judged by a distinguished jury of AIA architects.
The Design Awards Committee steers the awards program and plans the awards ceremony and reception. The committee meets virtually at 8-9:00am the second Wednesday of the month, January – October.
To join this committee, please contact chair:
Chair
Eric Lowe, AIA
Design Collective
Staff Liaison:
Katherine Somerville: ksomerville@aiabalt.com
Learn more about Design Awards

Future Architects Resources (FAR)/Kids-in-Design Committee Meeting
2026-03-11 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-04-08 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-05-13 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-06-10 17:30 - 18:30
Future Architects Resources (FAR)/Kids-in-Design Committee, serves as a vehicle for collaboration among professionals and educators towards the education of young citizens on matters affecting the built environment.
The committee is dedicated to increasing exposure among local elementary and middle school-aged students to design education and career opportunities in Architecture and Design.
Contact a committee chair for information about joining:
Lauren Meister, Assoc. AIA, Marshall Craft Associates

Lighting Control Design + the Patient/Clinician Experience
2026-03-12 17:30 - 19:30 | The Center for Architecture and Design, 100 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
AIA Baltimore’s Health and Wellness Design Committee presents: Lighting Control Design + the Patient/Clinician Experience on Thursday, March 12th from 5:30-7:30pm The event will be held at the Center for Architecture and Design.
5:30 to 6:30pm – Enjoy refreshments and meet with vendors.
6:30 to 7:30pm – Hear from our respected panelists on Lighting Control Design + the Patient/Clinician Experience with audience questions to follow at the end.
Bespoke lighting design and the use of curated lighting controls is an integral part of how patients experience a space and how a clinician functions in a space. The same space needs to allow for visual acuity, patient rest and recovery, and intuitive controls use by the facility and clinician teams. There are now time-tested strategies and emerging innovations in lighting design. Use of daylight harvesting and sensor-based dimming is now commonplace, and lighting strategies akin to nature’s circadian rhythms are backed by evidence-based design research. Ongoing considerations include choosing light fixtures for ease of cleaning to maximize infection control, and a focus on patient and clinician satisfaction. New lighting controls strategies will be explored.
AIA 1.0 LU HSW approved.
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MODERATOR & PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Brendon J. Burley, PhD, PE, LEED AP,
BKMA, Senior Associate, Healthcare Practice Leader
Dr. Burley has been in the AEC industry for over 25 years and designing for healthcare settings for over 15 years. He leads the Healthcare Market Sector for Burdette, Koehler, Murphy and Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD and is an active participant in ASHRAE. He serves as the Chair of ASHRAE Standard 62.1 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality and curates submissions for the regular Indoor Environmental Quality Column for ASHRAE Journal. In addition, Dr. Burley is as a member of ASHRAE Standard 170 Ventilation of Health Care Facilities, TC9.6 Healthcare Facilities, and ASHRAE Standard 241 Control of Infectious Aerosols.

OWNER: Holly Boyd, Sheppard Pratt
Dr. Boyd received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Misericordia University in Dallas, PA and received her Doctor of Occupational Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Boyd has presented and been published nationally and internationally. She has been honored to share her knowledge of and experience in working as an occupational therapist as an adjunct professor and as a guest lecturer. Throughout her career she has worked in, and overseen service provision in a variety of settings including in-patient rehabilitation, long-term and acute care, mental health, intermediate care
facilities, group homes, and home health services. With a large focus on function, she specializes in the development and structuring of facility operations, programs, and procedures in order to enhance the patient and staff experience and to achieve greater organizational outcomes.

ARCHITECT: Kim McMurray, BHFC
McMurray, offering an expertise in behavioral and mental health design, is a practicing healthcare planner and architect with over 40 years of leadership experience in healthcare on academic, non-profit, and private medical campus architecture. McMurray has a decade of experience from the owner’s perspective and collaborating with multi-disciplinary user groups, thereby embracing a unique perspective and response to client needs; applying her knowledge of clinical operations, evidence based design, lean operational planning; to lead projects from programming and concept development through design. McMurray is Principal of Behavioral Health Facility Consulting, LLC (BHFC Design) a 100% Woman Owned Enterprise

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Sean Darra, Lightglass
Mr. Darras is the Founder and CEO of LUXTECH, LLC, a leader in developing advanced light engines for the architectural sector. He has also founded Lightglass, a simulated window brand installed in over 150 hospitals, as well as Lightly, a sustainable lighting brand. Mr. Darras earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business at the University of Delaware and has completed executive studies at The Wharton School of Business. Mr. Darras is an active triathlete and currently resides in the Greater Philadelphia Area with this wife and two children.

Practice Management Committee Meeting
2026-03-17 08:30 - 09:30, 2026-04-21 08:30 - 09:30, 2026-05-19 08:30 - 09:30
The AIA Baltimore Practice Management Committee seeks to encourage open discourse among AIA Baltimore architects, allied members, and other professional organizations to advance member understanding of practice-related issues.
These include business, ethics, construction law, taxes, human resources, marketing, and technology. In addition, the Practice Management Committee assists in organizing the annual AIA/BAF Annual Meeting.
To join this committee, please contact co-chairs:
Rosalie Tilghman, AIA: Ayers Saint Gross
Sharon Day, AIA, LEED AP: GWWO Architects

Historic Resources Committee (HRC) Committee Meeting
2026-03-17 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-21 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-19 17:00 - 18:00
The Historic Resources Committee organizes events that promote the knowledge and appreciation of the restoration and adaptive use of Baltimore’s historic buildings and neighborhoods.
To join this committee, please contact co-chairs:
Ward Bucher, AIA, Encore Sustainable Architects
ward@encoresustainablearchitects.com

Patrick O’Brien, BECS (Building Envelope Consultants and Scientists)
patrick.obrien@becsmd.com

COTE|R Committee Meeting
2026-03-24 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-26 17:00 - 18:00
The Committee on the Environment was formed to promote the benefits of environmentally-conscious design and construction within the building professions and the community at large. We are involved in a number of projects, some in partnership with community organizations, to promote a healthier, more sustainable environment in the Baltimore region.
The AIA Baltimore Resiliency Committee joined COTE in January 2015. The subcommittee is a network of building design professionals dedicated to educating, promoting and implementing programs that help prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters within our design community and the community at large.
To join this committee, please contact co-chair:
Ben Roush, PE-ME, FPE, LEED AP BD+C, CCP, ASHRAE BEMP and BEAP: benr@fsi-engineers.com
FSi Engineers
Austen Hesler, AIA, NCARB, LFA: austenh@bctdesigngroup.com
BCT Design Group

Urban Design Committee Meeting
2026-03-24 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-28 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-26 18:00 - 19:00
The Urban Design Committee aims to improve the quality of the urban realm by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through public outreach, in concert with allied community and professional groups.
UDC meets every 4th Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
Contact the committee chair for information about joining.
Co-Chairs
Griffin Sanderoff, Assoc. AIA, BCT
Eric Johnson, Druid Heights CDC

Materials & Methods: Materialism with Daniel Sundlin
2026-03-26 18:00 - 19:30 | MICA Brown Center, 1301 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21217, United States
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
We seek to reclaim the term materialism—not as a symbol of empty consumerism, but as a meaningful practice: shaping our future through form and matter. For most of our history, life adapted to the material world around us. That changed the moment we discovered tools, technology, and architecture. With them, we gained the power to shape the material world in service of the life we wanted to lead. Human history can be read as a story told through materials—each breakthrough marking a new chapter in our evolution. We named entire eras after the substances we learned to master: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Silicon Age. Our ability to manipulate matter has been one of the most powerful forces driving civilization forward. In this spirit, we invite you on an odyssey through the material world, as seen through the works of BIG—from the permanence of solid rock to the invisible flow of electrons.
ABOUT DANIEL SUNDLIN, BIG
Daniel Sundlin’s approach to design is anchored in holistic thinking, focusing on the synergies between community, economy, ecology, and sustainability. His design expertise spans various scales, from product design, interiors, and architecture to master planning. Daniel joined BIG Copenhagen in 2008, and in 2010, he opened BIG’s first office outside Denmark by establishing BIG New York. As a Partner at BIG, he has worked on The Height Public School in Arlington, Virginia; VIA 57 West in Manhattan; Wildflower Film Studios in New York City; and the sustainable Google Bay View campus in California. His work also extends to the urban scale, including the East Side Coastal Resiliency project (BIG U), a master plan to protect 10 miles of Manhattan’s coastline. His urban design projects span the globe, including Penang South Islands in Malaysia and OCEANIX Busan, a sustainable floating city prototype in collaboration with the United Nations. In addition to his professional work, Daniel is involved in academia as a guest critic at various universities and as an instructor at the New York Institute of Technology.
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AIA, ASLA and NOMA members may register at a discounted rate.
*We are offering school students free admission! Please bring your school ID to show upon arrival
Please note that the venue for this event is not ADA accessible.

Materials & Methods: Bio_Lent Machines with Daniela Atencio & Claudio Rossi
2026-04-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD, United States
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
The presentation examines the contemporary Latin American landscape as a complex, time-based assemblage of economic, social, cultural, and ecological systems, shaped by multiple forms of violence ranging from urbanization, extraction, and inequality to planetary processes such as climate change. Rather than treating these conditions as static problems, the lecture frames the collision between architecture, infrastructure, and landscape as a productive field for restitution and repair. Through the concept of Bio_lent Machines, the work proposes restorative architectural devices and pedagogical methodologies that integrate time, technology, and nature as mediators. Emphasis is placed on the use of robotic arms as both tools and conceptual mediums within design processes to explore mechanisms capable of reverting, recomposing, and redefining relationships within damaged territories. The lecture unfolds an open, transdisciplinary discussion of design strategies, technological workflows, and representational practices across scales, addressing architecture and landscape as active agents in reorienting violent processes toward regenerative futures.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Daniela Atencio is an architect and Master of Design Research in Emerging Systems, Technologies, and Media from SCI-Arc. She is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Universidad de Los Andes and Visiting Faculty at Florida International University (2025). Her work focuses on advanced technologies in architecture and design, including representation, computational design, and computer-controlled robotics as creative and critical design instruments. Her research and practice have been widely published and exhibited internationally at venues and platforms such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, ROB | ARCH (International Association for Robots in Architecture), ACADIA, Parametric Architecture (PA), DigitalFUTURES, SIGraDi, AD Journal, Routledge, and Miami Art Week, among others. She is the author of Robotic Translations: Design Processes—Latin America, to be published by ACTAR, and is an active member of theWomen in Robotics Association and related international research networks.
Claudio Rossi, PhD, is an architect, researcher, and tenured professor with more than 25 years of international academic and professional experience. His work investigates the integration of emerging technologies—particularly robotics and artificial intelligence—within landscape-oriented, socially embedded, and territorially grounded architectural practices. Rossi’s research and practice address computational representation, environmental infrastructures, and territorial design, with a sustained focus on post-colonial Latin American contexts and the redefinition of architectural agency in ecologically vulnerable regions. His scholarly and creative work has been widely exhibited, published, and presented across the Americas, Europe, and Australia, contributing to transdisciplinary debates at the intersection of design, technology, and territory. He has received multiple awards and has been invited as a lecturer and visiting professor at institutions including PennDesign, MIT, Politecnico di Torino, and the University of Melbourne.
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AIA 1.0 LU HSW and 1.0 LA CES HSW approved
AIA, ASLA and NOMA members may register at a discounted rate.
*We are offering school students free admission! Please bring your school ID to show upon arrival
Please note that the venue for this event is not ADA accessible.

Materials & Methods: Crafting Excellence with Caren Yglesias
2026-04-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD, United States
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
National award-winning projects have something in common: not only are they designed to be sustainable and require zero-net energy once built, but they also respect and respond to the local community’s history and culture, as well as the Genius Loci. Further, they are designed while thinking about form and materials in creative and innovative ways. This presentation looks at thirty projects, large and small, by different architects and landscape architects, for the inspiring ways the traditional fourteen materials are employed reflecting 21st century needs and goals.
ABOUT CAREN YGLESIAS, PhD, AIA, Hon.ASLA, University of Maryland
7 years to obtain a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania after getting a B Arch from Virginia Tech, MA in philosophy from Georgetown University, and a MS in Architecture from Penn.
15 years of service as a member of the American Association of University Women, reviewing the international fellowship grants in the Arts & Humanities for graduate studies in this country.
3 books: The Complete House and Grounds: Learning from Andrew Jackson Downing’s Domestic Architecture, published by the Center for American Places, Columbia College Chicago in 2011; The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture: History, Theory and Performance published by McFarland in 2014; and a monograph of landscape architect Steve Martino’s work, Desert Gardens of Steve Martino published by The Monacelli Press in 2018, which was reviewed by the New York Times, a lifelong dream of mine. Currently working on an expanded and revised second edition of the materials book, to be released in 2026.
24 years teaching architecture and landscape architecture at Virginia Tech, UC Berkeley, and currently at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Courses include history, theory, and construction materials and structures.
40 years as principal of an architecture practice at many scales and primarily in historic districts in Washington, D.C.
1 marriage, 3 children, 3 grandsons, and too many dogs to count.
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AIA 1.0 LU HSW and 1.0 LA CES HSW approved
AIA, ASLA and NOMA members may register at a discounted rate.
*We are offering school students free admission! Please bring your school ID to show upon arrival
Please note that the venue for this event is not ADA accessible.

Dead Architects Society Meeting
2026-04-13 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-06-08 17:00 - 18:30
The Dead Architects Society is the research committee of BAF, originally formed to uncover the lives of Baltimore’s first architects. It is responsible for many of its publications including our collection of Architect Biographies. Architectural history buffs welcome!

Materials & Methods: Glenstone and the Museum of Modern Art with Thomas Phifer
2026-04-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 10 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD, United States
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
Architect Thomas Phifer will present the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, and the Wagner Park Pavilion, a key component of the South Battery Park Resiliency Project in Lower Manhattan. Located on nearly 300 acres of rolling grassland and woodlands just outside Washington, DC, Glenstone offers a serene, contemplative environment for visitors to experience contemporary art. Glenstone presents post-World War II artworks in a series of indoor and outdoor rooms designed to foster meaningful encounters. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland (MSN Warsaw) is the Museum’s first permanent home since its founding in 2005, when it was established as a collecting institution focused on art created since 1989. Defined by a luminous white concrete form and open civic ground floor, the museum brings art, public life, and history into calm, enduring dialogue. Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park and Pavilion reimagine Battery Park City’s waterfront as a resilient civic landscape. An elevated park conceals flood infrastructure while preserving views, access, and ecology. The Pavilion, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, frames harbor vistas and delivers climate-adapted, zero-carbon–targeted performance for year-round dining and community programming.
ABOUT THOMAS PHIFER, FAIA, Thomas Phifer & Partners
Since founding his firm in 1997, Thomas Phifer has completed the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, an expansion of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, an expansion of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas, the Wagner Park Pavilion in Lower Manhattan, two campus buildings for Indiana University, and houses across the United States. Projects under construction include the TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, a laboratory at the Ohio State University, an artists’ retreat in Maine, and the Cine Colombia Headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. Thomas Phifer is also engaged in private residences in Texas and New York. Since 1997, Thomas Phifer has received more than thirty honor awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, the Medal of Honor and President’s Award from the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Design Award in Architectural Design from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Architectural Record’s inaugural “Architect of RECORD” award. He is a lifetime member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and the New York Review of Architecture.
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AIA 1.0 LU HSW and 1.0 LA CES HSW approved
AIA, ASLA and NOMA members may register at a discounted rate.
*We are offering school students free admission! Please bring your school ID to show upon arrival
Please note that the venue for this event is not ADA accessible.

Emerging Professionals Speed Mentoring Night
2026-04-23 18:00 - 19:30 | The Center for Architecture and Design, 100 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Join AIA Baltimore’s Emerging Professionals Committee on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 6 pm at the Center for Architecture and Design for an evening of speed mentoring—an opportunity to connect with experienced architects and design professionals in a fast-paced, engaging format.
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Maryland Legislative Recap 2026
2026-04-28 17:00 - 18:00 | The Center for Architecture and Design, 100 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Join AIA Baltimore’s Committee on the Environment (COTE/R) for a recap of the 2026 Maryland legislative session. The presentation will be led by Chris Parts, AIA, Principal at Hord Coplan Macht and AIA Maryland Legislative committee chair. The presentation will center on legislation that impacts the built environment and the practice of architecture including bills that passed, bills that didn’t pass, and what we might see come back for the 2027 legislative session. The program will conclude with a brief discussion with Ben Roush, PE, Principal at FSi Engineers, and AIA Baltimore COTE|R co-chair, on the Maryland Green Building Council. The Council assists the Governor and General Assembly on reviews and recommendations regarding green building legislation and promotes green building throughout Maryland’s government and private sector. Ben will present on updates to the Maryland High Performance Green Building Program taking effect in April for all electric buildings and LEED v5.
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Enduring Fabric: The Reinvention of the Crown Cork and Seal Site
2026-05-12 17:30 - 19:30
AIA Baltimore’s Historic Resources Committee presents its third annual Spring Garden Party and Lecture featuring Tom Liebel, FAIA. Join us as this year’s Garden Party takes an industrial turn!
The invention of the crown cork in 1892 transformed not only the bottling industry, but also the trajectory of industrial manufacturing in the United States—firmly anchoring Baltimore as a center of innovation and production. The Eastern Avenue campus of Crown Cork & Seal grew into a sprawling industrial complex of more than one million square feet, reflecting a legacy of technological advancement, labor history, and urban evolution. Today, this historic site stands at a pivotal moment. Through a thoughtful and ambitious adaptive reuse strategy, the campus is being reimagined as a vibrant, mixed-use destination—one that honors its industrial heritage while positioning it for a resilient and sustainable future. This presentation will trace the arc from invention to industrial prominence to reinvention, exploring how preservation, design, and community engagement can converge to unlock new value in legacy places. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities and challenges inherent in repositioning large-scale historic industrial assets—and the critical role such projects play in shaping the next chapter of Baltimore’s built environment.
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This presentation is approved for AIA continuing education, 1.0 LU|HSW.
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