AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

2021 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series: Art + Architecture
2021-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join AIA Baltimore and The Baltimore Architecture Foundation for the 2021 Spring Lecture Series…

Cover photo: United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
1.5 AIA LU, 1.5 LA/CES LU Available
Architecture is a manifestation of culture. On the occasion of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary, the AIA Baltimore and Baltimore Architecture Foundation 2021 Lecture Series will explore how the built environment simultaneously reflects and influences culture, in Baltimore and beyond. Each lecture will expose how cultural values shape design. The three lectures are focused around themes with specific local resonance in Baltimore, a city in which the arts and culture are key to community identity, history, and future vitality: Architecture and Identity, Art and Architecture, Architecture and Social Justice. Visiting and local speakers will examine and highlight the built environment and its relationship with the arts, community initiatives, sustainability goals, preservation, equity, the vernacular, and more, as we reflect on how these have been shaped by design practice throughout AIA Baltimore’s 150 year history.
Art + Architecture: This lecture will address the intersection of art and architecture, and the ways in which art, as an expression of culture, is reflected in the built environment. Speakers will discuss globally renowned cultural projects and museums, and local art and culture in Baltimore.

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Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will discuss how the studio’s significant cultural projects were acts of conservation, adaptation, and radical rethinking for contemporary use. With the transformation of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts campus and the recent MoMA expansion, DS+R sought to preserve the original DNA of two of New York’s most iconic modernist projects, while opening up and democratizing these traditional citadels of “high art.” The recently completed US Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs remediates an industrial brownfield area at the edge of the city center, to both revitalize the downtown core and build one of the most universally accessible museums in the nation.

Cara Ober, Founding Editor and Publisher of BmoreArt will address artist and museum culture and the way they intersect and collide, assessing how this impacts art communities and establishes hierarchies of value.
About the Presenters
Benjamin Gilmartin
Benjamin Gilmartin joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 2004 and became a partner in 2015. Ben led the redesign of Alice Tully Hall, multiple public spaces within the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts campus, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley. Most recently, Ben completed the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, hailed as one of the most accessible museums in the country. He is currently leading multiple projects in London, including a 5 kilometer-long public space network at Greenwich Peninsula. In addition to completing DS+R’s first building in Australia at the University of Sydney, Ben is also currently co-leading the design of a facility for MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning in Cambridge and a major tech headquarters in the Pacific Northwest.
Cara Ober
Cara Ober is an artist, arts writer, curator, and the founding editor and publisher at BmoreArt, Baltimore’s art and culture magazine. She writes regularly about artist, museum, and material culture, with emphasis on context and subtext in the art world.
In 2019, she was awarded a Rabkin Art Writers Grant and was commissioned by the Warhol Foundation to write “Artspeak and Audience” for Common Field’s Field Perspectives Series. In addition to her regular writing and editing for BmoreArt, Ober has published articles in Vulture: New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Art Papers, ARTnews, and The Baltimore Sun. Cara has taught classes and lectured at MICA, Johns Hopkins, American University, UMBC, and Goucher College.
She holds an MFA in painting from MICA and a degree in fine arts from American University. Over the past decade, Ober’s critical reviews, essays, and interviews have explored the political and economic impact of the arts in Baltimore and the way artists maintain a professional practice and thrive in a city full of rich and diverse cultural traditions as well as serious social issues.

Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!
Major Sponsor

Supporting Sponsor

Capitol Sponsor
Shaw
Corinthian Sponsor
GWWO Architects
James Posey Associates
Mueller Associates
Murphy Dittenhafer Architects
Mohawk Group
Northpoint Builders
Potomac Valley Brick & Supply
Site Resources
STV Inc.
Ionic Sponsor
APA Maryland
American Cedar & Millwork
Ames & Gough
Budova Engineering
Cianbro
Craig Gaulden Davis Architects
DoubleEdge Design
Hope Furrer Associates
Morabito Consultants
Moseley Architects
Pella Mid-Atlantic
Plano Coudon
Quinn Evans
Southway Builders
Suzanne Frasier, FAIA
T3XTURE
Ziger|Snead

This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Spring Lecture Series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.

Trailblazing Architect: Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA
2021-04-02 13:00 - 13:30
This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
Virtual Histories are back in 2021! The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present a series of 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this. This presentation is also co-hosted by the AIA Baltimore EQUITY Committee and the Maryland Chapter of ASLA.
As part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), we are hosting conversations with trailblazing architects who have impacted Baltimore’s built environment and rose to leadership positions in their profession. April 2nd’s Virtual History will feature Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA, one of the few professionals elected to both the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (in 1999) and to the College of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects (in 2010), the highest honor in those professions. During her residence in Baltimore, she rose to become the first woman president of the AIA Baltimore Chapter, serving for two years from 1983-1984.
About Our Presenter
Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA, is a leader in design and interdisciplinary thinking, with over 40 years of experience in urban design, public, and institutional projects. After graduating from Cornell University, she settled in Baltimore, attracted by the city’s efforts at renewal in the mid-seventies. In 1974, she founded Cho/Wilks Architects with Diane Cho and directed such noteworthy projects as Canton Cove, Brown’s Arcade, the Eubie Blake Jazz Museum, Goucher’s Dance Studio, and the Light Rail Stations, among many others.
After receiving a Masters of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania in 1993, she founded W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, a design-oriented, multidisciplinary practice in New York in 1999. Her projects range from urban public spaces, infrastructure, architecture, to parks, with her goal being to use design to create access and a means of participation — a public route to discovery, engagement and stewardship. Her award-winning public waterfronts can be found in Baltimore (Tide Point), Calgary, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Buffalo, and New York. https://w-architecture.com
She will discuss the development of her early waterfront work in Baltimore’s harbor and how that grew into her focus today, addressing places where city and nature come together and form new relationships, and how well-designed places can result in more sustainable relationships between ourselves, our communities, and the earth.
Introducing Barbara Wilks is Jillian Storms, AIA, who once worked with Barbara for over a decade at Cho Wilks & Benn Architects (now Quinn Evans Architects). She more recently led the Early Women of Architecture in Maryland project, culminating in a traveling exhibit and extensive programming for which she received BAF’s Roger Redden Award and Preservation Maryland’s Volunteer Award. She currently serves as co-chair of BAF’s research committee, the Dead Architects Society, and continues to highlight the stories of women’s achievements in the design profession.
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2021 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series: Signal Station North: On Light and Visibility in Baltimore City
2021-04-07 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIA Baltimore & The Baltimore Architecture Foundation for a Lunchtime Lecture.

Photograph Courtesy of Merrell Hambleton
Architecture is a manifestation of culture. On the occasion of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary, the AIA Baltimore and Baltimore Architecture Foundation 2021 Lecture Series will explore how the built environment simultaneously reflects and influences culture, in Baltimore and beyond. Each lecture will expose how cultural values shape design. The three lectures are focused around themes with specific local resonance in Baltimore, a city in which the arts and culture are key to community identity, history, and future vitality: Architecture and Identity, Art and Architecture, Architecture and Social Justice. Visiting and local speakers will examine and highlight the built environment and its relationship with the arts, community initiatives, sustainability goals, preservation, equity, the vernacular, and more, as we reflect on how these have been shaped by design practice throughout AIA Baltimore’s 150 year history.

Photograph Courtesy of Neightborhood Design Center
The infrastructure of public lighting in Baltimore City is often overlooked, and yet our street lamps, porch lights, illuminated windows and park lights animate the nighttime environment. For the past year and half, Signal Station North, a project of the Neighborhood Design Center, has sought to understand the nightscape of the Station North Arts District through analysis, observation, activation and conversation. We’ve learned that light can be warm and welcoming, but also aggressive; that it can invite us in or keep us out; and that at its best it can make us feel safe, secure, and at home. Through a history of light in Baltimore and insights from the Signal analysis, research, and engagement process, this talk will explore how light impacts our neighborhoods—and how neighbors can impact light in their places. Learn More About Signal Station Here
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About The Presenter

Merrell Hambleton leads Signal Station North, an NEA-funded project to plan for, invest in, and improve access to high-quality lighting in the public realm. As Program Manager for the Neighborhood Design Center, Merrell supports implementation and design-build services, including a forthcoming Designer-in-Residence program that will activate key green spaces in East Baltimore neighborhoods. Prior to her work with NDC, Merrell produced pathbreaking public art projects with NY-based nonprofit Creative Time and artist Stephen Powers. She has a dual MA in Social Design and Critical Studies from MICA and BA in History from Columbia University.

Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!
Major Sponsor
Ayers Saint Gross
Hord Coplan Macht
Maryland ASLA
Willdan
Supporting Sponsor
Oak Contracting
Design Collective
Gensler
inPLACE Design
JMT Architecture
Merritt Construction
Price Modern
TW Perry
Vision Technologies
Whiting-Turner
Wohlsen

Capitol Sponsor
Shaw
Corinthian Sponsor
GWWO Architects
James Posey Associates
Murphy Dittenhafer Architects
Mohawk Group
Northpoint Builders
Potomac Valley Brick & Supply
Site Resources
Mueller Associates
Ionic Sponsor
Hope Furrer Associates
Craig Gaulden Davis Architects
APA Maryland
American Cedar & Millwork
Ames & Gough
Budova Engineering
DoubleEdge Design
Morabito Consultants
Moseley Architects
Plano Coudon
Quinn Evans
Southway Builders
Suzane Frasier, FAIA
T3XTURE
Ziger|Snead

This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Spring Lecture Series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.

Materials passports for the built environment (Morgan State/Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee)
2021-04-07 13:00 - 14:20
Madaster considers the earth as a closed system where there should not be any waste. Raw materials are limited editions and scarce. Through registration and documentation of products and materials used in the built environment, they can be reused in a circular economy and waste can be eliminated. Marijn Emanuel will discuss:

Circular building strategies and case study
Materials passports
Initiatives for (inter)national guidelines and standards
The Madaster platform

TIME & REGISTRATION
1pm ET Maryland time, which is 19.00 CET Netherlands time. The lecture is approximately 1 hr, followed by 20 min panel discussion with Q&A.
Open to the public. Admission is free. Donations are optional; proceeds will be used for architecture education programs.
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AUDIENCE
The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, construction companies, engineers, building deconstruction companies, and students.
About the speaker
Marijn Emanuel is one of the six founders of Madaster, the register for materials of the built environment. Before founding and working for Madaster, he has been an architect at the office of RAU architects in Amsterdam, where is he still active. Currently, he is working on the content of this platform on a daily basis.
Recent article by Emanuel: Mind over Matter
About Madaster
The Madaster platform was established in 2017 and went live immediately with one goal: to eliminate waste in the construction sector. The philosophy is clear. A management system that gives materials a future is desperately needed. There is a need for more insight and cooperation in order to clarify the environmental impact of materials. Risks must be reduced and business cases must be worked on to increase the value of used materials. And that starts with a first step: establishing who owns which materials. Waste is material without identity. It is time to exchange the linear economy for a circular one. Because only a circular system can eliminate waste. Moreover, material with identity always retains its value. Madaster is neutral and independent, but above all easy to use. The target group that can use it is quite broad: From property owners, design teams, app developers, facility companies to the general public. It is available 24/7.
Video about Madaster platform
About this lecture series
This lecture is one of a series of lectures in 2021 organized by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P), with assistance from Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC). The lecture series includes speakers from the U.S.A. about Baltimore’s cityscape and urban design, and speakers from the Netherlands about innovative construction materials and circular design systems such as reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling in the built environment. Special thanks to Jeremiah Ekoja, Graduate Assistant at MSU SA+P, for his help with coordinating the lecture series.
See other lectures in this series

Intro to Bay-Wise Gardening and Invasives (Friends of the Jones Falls)
2021-04-08 12:00 - 12:30
The Friends of The Jones Falls is hosting special presentation to get you buzzing for spring gardening, and the start of our Jones Falls cleanups! Consider making a donation to the Friends of The Jones Falls to support programs like this and initiatives that steward the Jones Falls watershed.
You’ll learn about the top 10 alien invasives afflicting the Jones Falls watershed and how to spot and eradicate them.
We will be joined by master gardener Debbie Swartz. Debbie co-chairs the Bay Wise Master Gardening program in Baltimore City through the University of Maryland Extension, and coordinates the Bay-Wise Maryland Yard Stick — the rating system for how gardens and landscapes benefit local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay.
And please plan to join us for our first Jones Falls stream cleanup of the year on April 11. Details here: https://fb.me/e/11FpH3Wo8
Books recommended are: Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed (free download) Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, by Douglas W. Tallamy (updated and expanded version); Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer; The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, by Peter Wohlleben; Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines by William Cullina
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The Invention of Downtown
2021-04-09 13:00 - 13:30
How did Downtown as we know it come to be? Charlie Duff explains using London and Baltimore as examples.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present a series of 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
In 1666, the Great Fire of London destroyed the center of a city of 500,000 people and made 80,000 people homeless
.In 1904, the Great Baltimore Fire destroyed the center of a city of 500,000 people, and not one person became homeless.
In between those two dates, the North Atlantic cities invented the Central Business District. From Baltimore to London, the centers of cities became places where tens of thousands of people worked and no one lived.
Join Charlie Duff, author of The North Atlantic Cities, to find out how this happened and what the architectural results were – and why it didn’t happen in Paris, Rome, and the other great cities of Continental Europe.
Image: The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675)
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Baltimore Architecture Foundation is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Future of Mobility: What’s Next for American Cities? (Smart Growth)
2021-04-09 13:00 - 14:00
Just as increased access to cars transformed America after World War II, the next generation of mobility innovations will reshape the future of our cities and regions.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Congress for the New Urbanism at 1 p.m. Eastern, Friday, April 9, as officials from the City of Buffalo, New York and their planning team share the outcomes of their recent efforts to address the fundamental challenge posed by these rapid changes: how can Buffalo, and similar cities across North America, put mobility innovations to work and unlock a new era of opportunity, access and equity?
This session will explore the recommendations developed at a community workshop and adopted by the City of Buffalo, which propose to establish a mobility and equity innovation zone as a building block for the inclusive implementation of these new technologies.
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Good Deeds Stream Clean-Up (Friends Of The Jones Falls)
2021-04-11 12:00 - 13:30
Join us on Good Deeds Day Sunday, April 11th at 12:00 PM for a stream clean-up with the Friends Of The Jones Falls. We will work together to pick up trash and remove invasive species from the area. We will gather in the parking lot of Union Craft Brewery and then walk to the location of the clean-up. If you are looking to learn about invasive species and how to properly remove them The Friends of The Jones Falls is hosting a special presentation to get you buzzing for spring gardening and the start of our Jones Falls cleanups! If you need any accommodations to make this event accessible to you or are interested in the workshop please reach out to Harry at harry.marek@werepair.org
*This event is capped at 25 people and masks are required*
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Maximizing Tile Installation with Trim Profiles (Schluter Systems)
2021-04-13 10:00 - 17:00
Manufacturers produce a variety of beautiful and durable tiles, but the availability of coordinating trim pieces can be limited. This has led to the development of a wide range of trim profiles. This seminar will focus on how trim profiles improve the integrity of tile installations and increase the versatility of tile in various applications, including floors, walls, countertops, and more. At the end of this presentation, the participant will be able to: 1. Identify tile trim profiles and understand their basic design and function. 2. Understand how to incorporate trim profiles into specific ceramic tile and dimension stone tile applications, including floors, walls, countertops, and more.
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JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION: A FACILITATED DISCUSSION [VIRTUAL] (AIA Potomac Valley)
2021-04-13 12:00 - 13:30
1.5 LU/HSW
Co-hosted by AIA Potomac Valley and AIA Northern Virginia Women in Architecture
Without question, the last 12 months have challenged the nation and raised important questions about how we will be in relationship with one another as a community and a society. This directly affects architects and the design community both personally and professionally. With that in mind and to support our commitment to equity, health, and wellbeing, we will host a virtual session providing an opportunity to learn about identity-based inequities, to discuss their impacts, and to explore what we each can do to combat oppression and injustice.
This session consists of a presentation from a nationally-known speaker, strategist, master facilitator, and public health leader, followed by a facilitated discussion. Attendees will gain greater understanding of, and tools to address, equity-based issues.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This session will lay a foundation and common understanding for working together with people from diverse backgrounds, while providing an opportunity to connect meaningfully as we share perspectives, experiences, and hope for the future.
Participants will explore a common language for equity-focused work and historical context for identity-based inequities.
Attendees will learn key concepts related to equity, including the roles of privilege and oppression; equity, diversity, and inclusion; and an equity lens.
Participants will gain a greater understanding of the importance of equitable approaches within the context of current sociopolitical conditions, including:

How they can apply an equity lens to policies, programs, and practices
How to apply an equity lens to decisions, behaviors, and actions as equitable leaders and professionals
The importance of intent vs. impact
The importance of allyship and anti-racist/”anti-ist” approaches within the context of current socio-political conditions
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Laser Scanning Training Sessions - View, Measure, & Model
2021-04-14 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIA Baltimore and our friends at Multivista for a training session on 3D Laser Scanning..
An introduction to the latest in Laser Scanning technology and services that include high-resolution imagery and point cloud information, while creating accurate as-builts or 3D/BIM modeling. 3D Laser Scanning Tech that incorporates a visual element that offers a no data size element, requiring no data barriers and allows for remote visual access.

1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW Pending
Mark King-Product Manager – 3D Laser Scanning | Multivista Systems, Vancouver, BC Canada
Mark King
Mark King has extensive experience in the laser scanning space and for the past six years has been working with Leica Geosystems helping major construction companies throughout Europe, Asia and Africa adopt reality capture tech.
As Product Manager – 3D Laser Scanning at Multivista, Marks’s role is to lead the development of reality capture services through to company-wide adoption as well as managing the product road-map and collaborate with internal sales, marketing and senior management teams to develop processes and procedures to achieve business objectives. Throughout his professional career he has worked for several international technology companies and has been involved heavily in the adoption of digital workflows.
Jason Donahoe
Jason Donahoe is the Senior Regional Partner of Multivista, Mid-Atlantic the World Leaders in Reality Capture Technologies for the Construction Industry. Immediately after graduating from Towson University in 1996 Jason moved to Telluride, Colorado to follow his passion for Snowboarding. Luckily for him, he also fell in love with real estate development and acquisitions. After a decade of being part of the development teams for some of the most upscale resorts and residential communities in Colorado and North Carolina, Jason left the residential development industry right at its peak. In 2008 He and several of his childhood friends acquired regional footprints of an emerging company called Multivista. The company took off in one of the worst economic downturns in U.S. History.
In November of 2016 Multivista became acquired via a strategic partnership with Hexagon AB the parent company of Leica Geosystems. This synergy is harmonizing to visually change how we manage and know our construction projects both during construction and for the life of our projects.
Jason credits his decade-long experience in development and his degrees in Advertising, Business and Photography as the unforeseen perfect springboard for his division’s success in showing the world what Multivista is and growing the company’s portfolio of services and clients.

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Creating Your Submission for SAY IT LOUD Maryland
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:00
*Due to a sudden conflict in scheduling, we are updating our program to next Thursday, April 15th at 12:00 pm. Please let us know if this does not work with your schedule and we would be happy to send you a recording of the presentation. Email our Communications Manager Olivia Miles at omiles@aiabalt.com

This informational session will go over how you can enter a project for SAY IT LOUD Maryland

Baltimore Architecture Foundation, AIA Baltimore, and Bmore NOMA are partnering to develop SAY IT LOUD Maryland, an exhibition that will spotlight the contributions of diverse design professionals to the built environment. Created by Beyond the Built Environment, SAY IT LOUD will launch a virtual exhibition in Summer 2021 and a physical exhibition at the Baltimore Center for Architecture and Design in Fall 2021.
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, of Beyond the Built Environment will go over everything you need to know to enter a project for SAY IT LOUD Maryland. BIPOC and women architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planners, engineers, and all who work in built environment professions who practice or reside in Maryland, as well as students of these disciplines, are encouraged to submit to attend..
The deadline to submit an entry is May 30, 2021.
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An Ecology of Equity (Morgan SA+P)
2021-04-15 15:30 - 17:00
The built environment reveals how architecture and its respective commissioned process embodies spatialized psychologies (mental perceptions and behaviour) towards the authorship of human value. All too often to the detriment of reinforcing and architecting perceptions of supremacy, inequity, and dehumanization.
Transdisciplinary applications steeped in this understanding will invoke the necessary pedagogy and methodologies to interrogate/dismantle/abolish existing paradigms while co- actualizing representations of a spatialized ecology of equity.
April De Simone’s lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with:

Thijs van Spaandonk, Dean of Urban Design, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAvB)
Dr. Roberto Rocco, spatial planner and researcher at the Section of Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

TIME & REGISTRATION
3:30pm EDT Maryland time, which is 21.30 CET Netherlands time. The lecture is approximately 1 hr, followed by 30 min panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Open to the public.
Admission is free but we invite people to register using the ‘Donation Ticket’ and pay whatever you can afford, for example $3 (€3), $5, $10, or $30. Donations go to the speaker and her organization ‘designing the WE’ to support the powerful work they do to bring positive systematic changes to the urban landscape!
Advance registration required.
The webinar will be conducted in English language.
About the speaker:
April De Simone is a transdisciplinary design practitioner focused on the intersectionality of systems thinking human condition and design to advance equitable strategies within the built environment. Ms. De Simone explores how dominant mental models and perceptions centered on hierarchical value systems inform design outputs that perpetuate unsustainable and inequitable systemic conditions. In 2015 she co-founded designing the WE.
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Patterson Park - The Jewel of Baltimore's Eastside
2021-04-16 13:00 - 13:30
This presentation will cover the park’s history and the Olmsted vision for the site.

In this Virtual Histories Series, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage host weekly 30-minute lunchtime presentations on Zoom focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation, and history. Attendees have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter(s). Upon registering, you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com at least 1-hour prior to the start of the program, or admittance cannot be guaranteed.
This presentation is also co-hosted by the Maryland Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Friends of Patterson Park, and the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) as part of Olmsted 200 celebration of the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr’s birth. Reservations are donation-based. Please give what you can to support BAF, Baltimore Heritage, and FMOPL. Your support helps ALL three non-profit organizations make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create future programs of interest.
Patterson Park is an urban oasis – a beloved green space surrounded by brick rowhouses, diverse cultures and neighborhoods. Generations of Baltimoreans have picnicked under its tall tulip poplars, strolled the deeply curved paths and enjoyed the rich architectural design of this 137-acre East Baltimore park.
This presentation will touch on the park’s history, from its earliest beginnings as a 6-acre “Public Walk” donated to the city by William Patterson in April 1827, to its growth and development under the guiding hands of George A. Frederick, designer of City Hall, who served as Park Architect from 1863 to 1895, and of Charles H. Latrobe, who served as Engineer and General Superintendent of Parks from 1884 to 1902. Both were responsible for such impressive structures as the iconic Patterson Park Pagoda, a 60-foot tall Observatory built at top Hampstead Hill for its incredible views of the harbor and the city.
In 1904, the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects were hired to prepare a plan for the Eastern extension of the park. Their 1904 “Report Upon the Development of Public Grounds for Greater Baltimore” had urged for an expansion of the park to “offer the working people of East Baltimore a conveniently accessible body of refreshing scenery, retired to a great degree from the turmoil of the city.” The firm, founded by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, and continued by his sons, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles, were the leading park architects of the day and continued to enhance the park’s design through 1915.
In Patterson Park, one can see the two sides of the Olmsted vision: the pastoral vistas and sweeping hills championed by the senior Olmsted and carried on by his sons, as well as the recognition by the younger Olmsteds of the features required by the active recreation movement of the period. The role of Patterson Park in creating social cohesiveness and quality of life is still paramount, nearly two centuries from its humble beginnings. This presentation will feature fascinating insights and rich historical imagery of this Jewel of Baltimore’s Eastside.
Presenter
Tim Almaguer has been hiking through, learning from and working with urban parks for over 20 years, first with the Friends of Patterson Park for over 10 years and now as the Chief of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnership at Baltimore City Recreation and Parks. Tim received a Master degree in Recreation and Parks Management from Frostburg State University and wrote “Baltimore’s Patterson Park” in 2006, published by Arcadia Publishing.

AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series: Architecture + Social Justice
2021-04-21 18:00 - 19:30
Join AIA Baltimore and The Baltimore Architecture Foundation for the 2021 Spring Lecture Series…

Cover photo: National Slavery Museum at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail, image courtesy of SmithGroup
1.5 AIA LU HSW Available, ASLA 1.5 LU/HSW

Architecture is a manifestation of culture. On the occasion of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary, the AIA Baltimore and Baltimore Architecture Foundation 2021 Lecture Series will explore how the built environment simultaneously reflects and influences culture, in Baltimore and beyond. Each lecture will expose how cultural values shape design. The three lectures are focused around themes with specific local resonance in Baltimore, a city in which the arts and culture are key to community identity, history, and future vitality: Architecture and Identity, Art and Architecture, Architecture and Social Justice. Visiting and local speakers will examine and highlight the built environment and its relationship with the arts, community initiatives, sustainability goals, preservation, equity, the vernacular, and more, as we reflect on how these have been shaped by design practice throughout AIA Baltimore’s 150 year history.
Architecture + Social Justice lecturers will speak about designing for social justice in urban and landscape projects.

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National Slavery Museum at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail, image courtesy of SmithGroup
Dayton Schroeter, AIA, SmithGroup, Design Principal
Dayton Schroeter, AIA with SmithGroup will address how architecture has the power to uncover buried stories and hidden history. The African American experience is a story of disruption and lost history compounded by the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, imperialism and capitalist globalization. As such African American history has been tragically distorted, removed and/or hidden from contemporary discussions about race and Black life in America. Architecture can be a redeeming force in reconciling this loss, reconnecting African Americans with their history and telling a more complete story of American history.

Dear Chinatown, DC, Image courtesy of The Urban Studio
Maisie Hughes, ASLA, APA
The Urban Studio
Co-Founder + Treasurer, Urban Planner | Landscape Architect | Certified Arborist
Masie Hughes will discuss a project that precedes the Urban Studio; co-Founders Maisie Hughes and Kendra Hyson piloted a 10-week environmental education program that taught high school students how to develop design solutions to some of the DC-area’s most pressing stormwater issues. The students were tasked with addressing stormwater and water quality issues in the students’ neighborhoods, which are located in some of the most polluted watersheds in the city according to DOEE. These brilliant students developed a comprehensive landscape plan that included much-needed community amenities and green infrastructure strategies to capture and clean the stormwater on their perspective sites. The program not only inspired us to launch the Urban Studio, it inspired us to put values at the center of our work. This presentation will discuss how values centered work can inform and transform how we practice.

About the Presenters
Dayton Schroeter, AIA, SmithGroup, Design Principal
Dayton is a Design Principal who has championed design justice advocacy throughout his career at SmithGroup. As a leader of the firm’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, his charge is to lead design projects that address the systemic injustice that architecture and planning have perpetuated for historically disenfranchised communities of color. Leveraging his tenacious passion for design justice with authenticity and creativity, he is currently leading antiracism efforts in design projects including an installation called Society’s Cage that sheds national awareness of the intersectional effects of racism on our society’s collective health, safety and welfare, as well as Lumpkin’s Slave Jail, also known as the “Devil’s Half Acre,” an interpretive museum in Richmond, Virginia.
Maisie Hughes, ASLA, APA
The Urban Studio, Co-Founder + Treasurer, Urban Planner | Landscape Architect | Certified Arborist
Maisie brings decades of leadership and management to her practice. As a 2018-2019 Leadership and Innovation Fellow with the Landscape Architecture Foundation, she brings honest and unvarnished insights to provide a framework for people-centered design. Maisie won the National Capital Area Chapter of the American Planning Association 2016 Fredrick Gutheim Award for Distinguished Leadership by a Professional Planner and the 2014 Award of Merrit for the “Citizen Advocate Handbook”. Maisie is an ISA Certified Arborist, with an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University, a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Morgan State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Afro-American studies from Howard University.
Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!
Major Sponsor

Supporting Sponsor

Capitol Sponsor
Shaw
Corinthian Sponsor
GWWO Architects
James Posey Associates
Mueller Associates
Murphy Dittenhafer Architects
Mohawk Group
Northpoint Builders
Potomac Valley Brick & Supply
Site Resources
STV Inc.
Ionic Sponsor
APA Maryland
American Cedar & Millwork
Ames & Gough
Budova Engineering
Cianbro
Craig Gaulden Davis Architects
DoubleEdge Design
Hope Furrer Associates
Morabito Consultants
Moseley Architects
Pella Mid-Atlantic
Plano Coudon
Quinn Evans
Southway Builders
Suzanne Frasier, FAIA
T3XTURE
Ziger|Snead

This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Spring Lecture Series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.

Trailblazing Architects: Leon Bridges, FAIA, NOMA
2021-04-23 13:00 - 13:30
Join us for a conversation with trailblazing architect Leon Bridges, FAIA

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
Virtual Histories are back in 2021! The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present a series of 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
As part of the celebration of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary, we are hosting conversations with trailblazing architects in Baltimore, discussing their impact on the profession and our communities.
Leon Bridges, FAIA, NOMA, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a Past Vice President of the organization. Since entering the architecture profession as a draftsman in 1956, Bridges has won 20 national, regional and local awards for design excellence including the restoration of Baltimore’s Penn Station and Baltimore City College. Bridges is also a Past President of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). Bridges semi-retired from active practice in 2005 to become an Assistant Professor in the Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning. His major interest is in preparing African American students for the practice of architecture.
Moderating the conversation is Melanie Ray, AIA, NOMA, a board member of AIA Baltimore and Bmore NOMA. She is an architect at Hord Coplan Macht, and is active in the design community and various neighborhoods of the city, including as a volunteer with the Neighborhood Design Center.

Discover Baltimore’s Middle Branch ( Friends of Maryland's Olmsted Parks and Landscapes)
2021-04-24 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday, April 24 • 10am • Middle Branch Park
Reviving the importance of the Middle Branch waterfront that Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.’s report on the future park needs of the City called attention to a century ago, the re-imagining of the Middle Branch has been underway for over a decade.
With the vision of creating connections to highlight this potential world-class waterfront and serve the neighborhoods of the City’s south side, as well as the metro area as a whole, many plans, projects and initiatives are already in motion.
Come and explore the area and learn more about the future plans.
Meet at the Baltimore Rowing Club and then join us for a one mile hike through Middle Branch Park — with an option to continue all the way around the Middle Branch for anyone that’s up to the challenge (approx. six miles total).
$15 per person. Masks and social distancing will be required.
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A Guided Tour of the JPPM Grounds (Built by Women DC)
2021-04-24 12:00 - 17:00
Date & Time: Saturday April 24, 2021 @ 12:00pm & 1:00 pm:
Attendees can continue to view the exhibit or take a guided tour
Register at the exhibit when you arrive to the Park. Limited to 4 family groupings each.
Location: Start at The Pavilion at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
10515 Mackall Road, Saint Leonard, MD 20685
GPS Coordinates: Lat: 38.3985426 Long: -76.5071373
The Built by Women DC exhibit (BxW DC) will be on display for a special weekend public viewing April 24-25, 2021 in an outdoor pavilion on the grounds of the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (JPPM) in Leonard, Maryland. The juried exhibit showcases 30 outstanding sites in the Washington D.C. metropolitan region, including Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia, where women were directly responsible for leading the design or construction of the project.
On Saturday, from 11:00pm-12:00noon women design professionals will be on hand to answer questions on the exhibit and some of the projects. Starting at 12noon and 1:00pm there will be guided tours of the park grounds, which is one of four projects in the exhibit that merited historical recognition. JPPM was once the Jefferson Patterson Estate at Point Farm, designed by Gertrude Sawyer, AIA (1895-1996). For over a 40-year period, starting in 1932, she designed or renovated over 26 farm or residential buildings on the property. The entire property is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Come celebrate the achievement of women in the fields of architecture and construction and enjoy a Spring day in the park with its 560 scenic acres of trails and vistas along the Patuxent River.

Energy Models – What Are They Good For Anyway? A Guide For Beginners
2021-04-27 17:00 - 18:00
1.0 AIA/LU/HSW
Join The AIA Baltimore Committee on the Environment for a webinar exploring energy modeling…

Join Committee Co-Chair Ben Roush as he and other energy modelers discuss energy models, their uses, their limitations, and what architects can do in house. The presentation will include showing several modeling tools, how to parse results, and how to “reality check” your energy model results.
Learning objectives:
• Learn about the uses and limitation of energy models
• Will cover multiple energy modeling tools, limitations and appropriate uses
• Will use the concept of Energy use Intensity (EUI) to talk about how architects can reality check energy model results
• Will discuss the phases of project, where energy model input is important, and what architects can and should do in house to improve their building designs for energy performance.
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Thank You To Our Promotional Partner

Celebrating Culture and History Of Baltimore Through The Evolution of Space
2021-04-28 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for our 3rd and final Lunch Lecture as part of the 43rd AIA Baltimore/BAF Spring Lecture Series

Architecture is a manifestation of culture. On the occasion of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary, the AIA Baltimore and Baltimore Architecture Foundation 2021 Lecture Series will explore how the built environment simultaneously reflects and influences culture, in Baltimore and beyond. Each lecture will expose how cultural values shape design. The three lectures are focused around themes with specific local resonance in Baltimore, a city in which the arts and culture are key to community identity, history, and future vitality: Architecture and Identity, Art and Architecture, Architecture and Social Justice. Visiting and local speakers will examine and highlight the built environment and its relationship with the arts, community initiatives, sustainability goals, preservation, equity, the vernacular, and more, as we reflect on how these have been shaped by design practice throughout AIA Baltimore’s 150-year history.
Baltimore is one of the oldest cities in America. Its development and neighborhoods are not only an impression of its past but a reflection of its present and future. Today, many of our present spaces and buildings pay homage to the many years of life, people, and culture that preceded this moment. The Frederick Douglass- Isaac Myers Maritime Park, the Chick Webb recreation center in the Perkins/Somerset/Olde Town redevelopment project, and the Pennsylvania Arts District are examples of the evolution of how that culture is expressed in community development.
On its face, it may seem that these are extremely different, but they both represent pivotal points, and the importance of the African-American presence, commerce, culture, and development of Baltimore. Today we celebrate them in place and design for all to experience through not only historical interpretation, but allowing their stories to continue by breathing new life into the buildings and sites. The Frederick Douglass- Isaac Myers Maritime Park, the Chick Webb recreation center, and the Pennsylvania Arts District represent the intersection of how the built environment meets everyday life, the arts, community design, preservation, and the evolution of equity and social justice in a 21st Century Baltimore.
About Our Presenters
Chris Ryer, Director of Baltimore City Department of Planning
Chris Ryer began working in community development over 30 years ago as an intern at the Baltimore Planning Department. After ten years as a community planner with the Department, he moved to the non-profit sector where he worked for the Trust for Public Lands and a community-based organization in southwest Baltimore.
In 2002 he returned to the Baltimore Planning Department where he served as Chief of Comprehensive Planning and Deputy Director. After a short period at the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, he served as the Director of the Southeast Community Development Corporation for over ten years before returning to the Planning Department as Director in 2019.
Tamara Woods, Chief of Urban Design, Baltimore City Department of Planning
Tamara Woods has been with the Department of Planning since 2002. As a Planning, Redevelopment and Policy Administrator she combines her expertise in land use planning and neighborhood planning to work primarily on land use policy initiatives and regulatory writing, such as working extensively on the zoning code rewrite. In addition, she focuses on project development and management of large-scale or complex development efforts that are multi-phased and/or have high neighborhood transformation impacts.

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Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!
Major Sponsor
Ayers Saint Gross
Hord Coplan Macht
Maryland ASLA
Willdan
Supporting Sponsor
Oak Contracting
Design Collective
Gensler
inPLACE Design
JMT Architecture
Merritt Construction
Price Modern
TW Perry
Vision Technologies
Whiting-Turner
Wohlsen

Capitol Sponsor
Shaw
Corinthian Sponsor
GWWO Architects
James Posey Associates
Murphy Dittenhafer Architects
Mohawk Group
Northpoint Builders
Potomac Valley Brick & Supply
Site Resources
Mueller Associates
Ionic Sponsor
Hope Furrer Associates
Craig Gaulden Davis Architects
APA Maryland
American Cedar & Millwork
Ames & Gough
Budova Engineering
Craig Gaulden Davis Architects
DoubleEdge Design
Morabito Consultants
Moseley Architects
Plano Coudon
Quinn Evans
Southway Builders
Suzane Frasier, FAIA
T3XTURE
Ziger|Snead

This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Spring Lecture Series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.

What is a Walkability Study, and Why Should You Do One? (SmartGrowth)
2021-04-29 14:00 - 15:00
What is a Walkability Study, and Why Should You Do One?
Thursday, April 29 at 2:00 p.m. EDT
Participants of the live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
In 2008, Oklahoma City was named the least walkable city in the United States by a national magazine. Mayor Mick Cornett responded by commissioning a walkability study, a project that led to a transformation of 40 blocks of downtown streets.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 29, as Jeff Speck, one the nation’s leading pedestrian experts, explains his approach in Oklahoma City and other communities, how walkability studies are conducted, and how local planners can work with neighborhoods, business groups and citizens to complete similar studies of their own.
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Virtual Tour of the Cloisters
2021-04-30 13:00 - 13:30
Join us for an on location virtual tour of the Cloisters, Baltimore’s slice of medieval Europe

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
Settled high on a hill in Lutherville among 60 acres of secluded woods, The Cloisters reflects the beauty and grandeur of medieval Europe, with delicately carved wood, exquisitely detailed stained glass, and ornately designed wrought iron.
Sumner and Dudrea Parker designed the castle to highlight their extensive collection of medieval artwork and artifacts. Today, the Cloisters is managed by BOPA and its unforgettable setting is used for special events like weddings, parties, and business receptions.
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Equity in Policy and Practice: Addressing Past Inequities in Planning for the Future (SmartGrowth)
2021-04-30 13:00 - 14:00
Equity in Policy and Practice: Addressing Past Inequities in Planning for the Future
Friday, April 30 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Participants of the live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
Planning efforts are increasingly focused on the need to consider the impacts of plans on all community members, and to plan for the future by using tools and practices that consciously avoid intentional or unintentional inequities.
In 2019, the American Planning Association adopted a policy guide exclusively addressing planning for equity. The Planning for Equity Policy Guide offers a broad look at policies and approaches needed for planners, policymakers and associated professionals to advance social equity and justice across all planning efforts.
The guide offers direction in key equity planning areas, including gentrification, community engagement, and environmental justice.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the American Planning Association at 1 p.m. Eastern, Friday, April 30, as Susan Wood, FAICP, Jay Renkens, AICP, and Leigh Anne King, AICP discuss how APA’s equity policy guide can be used and then look at how the Charlotte (NC) Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan, scheduled for adoption this summer, is using an equitable growth framework to shape the city’s future.
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2021 Virtual Montgomery County Energy Summit [Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection & USGBC National Capital Region]
2021-05-04
Join us for the 8th Annual Montgomery County Energy Summit!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Energy Summit will take place virtually over 3 days, May 4-6. For the past seven years and counting, the Summit has annually offered cutting-edge education focused on the latest trends in green building, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and related topics pertinent to commercial, multifamily, and residential projects in Montgomery County. Our target audience includes building owners, property managers, developers, energy contractors, and other sustainability professionals working in Montgomery County and the larger DMV area. The Summit will include breakout education sessions, a keynote address, topical networking salons, and interactive brown bag lunches. All education sessions will be approved for GBCI and AIA continuing education credits.
The theme for 2021 is “Resiliency, from Building to Community.” We will explore strategies, technologies, and case studies focused on enhancing the resiliency of the commercial, multifamily, and residential built environment. Not only must we adapt to changing climate hazards in our buildings, but our economy and public health must become more resilient as well. Together, our community can adapt and become more resilient against changes to our regional and global climate, while striving to reach the County’s ambitious goal of zero carbon emissions by 2035.
When:
Tuesday, May 4 – 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 5 – 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Thursday, May 6 – 9:30 am to 2:45 pm

Where: Online
Hosts: Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection and US Green Building Council National Capital Region
Registration:
Early Bird Full Summit Pass (before 4/9) – $70
Full Summit Pass (after 4/9) – $85
Membership Special: Full Summit Pass + USGBC-NCR individual annual membership – $175
Day 1 Pass – $45
Day 2 Pass – $30
Day 3 Pass – $30
Register at: http://mcenergysummit.org

Business of Architecture (PMC)
2021-05-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Webinar
Legal Considerations for the Evolving Workplace – post-COVID. Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP.

Legal Considerations for the Evolving Workplace – COVID, Social Issues and the Biden Administration are bringing about seismic changes in the workplace. This presentation will address how to navigate the legal implications of those changes. Topics addressed will include: FLSA, EEO and practical implications of a “post-COVID” workplace; Changes at the Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board and EEOC that will affect the workplace, expansion of LGBTQ protections, and immigration law changes.
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Baltimore Architectural Research/Dead Architects Society Meeting
2021-05-05 08:00 - 17:00
As part of AIA Baltimore’s and BAF’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), this committee meeting is only accessible via tele-conference. The call-in information is only sent out via email. If you are not on the list-serve for this committee reach out to BAF staff, Margaret Stella Mstella@aiabalt.com or Eric Lowe at elowe@designcollective.com for call-in information.

The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train: The People’s View from Baltimore
2021-05-07 13:00 - 13:30
This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
On June 8 1968, the Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train rode through Baltimore, on its way to Washington D.C., carrying the body of Senator Robert F Kennedy. On board the train was photographer Paul Fusco, who during the journey photographed the many bewildered mourners paying their final respects. A cross-section of American society—Black and White, city-dwellers and country folk—all stared at the slowly passing train.
We hope you’ll join us to hear photographer Rein Jelle Terpstra talk about his project to search for the reverse photographic perspective: pictures and films made by the bystanders that stood along the railroad that day. Here, the mourners do not merely play a role in someone else’s pictures, but are the photographers and filmmakers themselves. With their cameras, they gazed back at the train and recorded it in their own fashion. On his research trips, Terpstra visited almost all of the places that the funeral train passed through in an effort to track down people who took photographs of the train passing. This project is entirely based on memories, snapshots, home movies, and sound, recorded by bystanders standing along the tracks that day.
The project was on show at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, in Les Rencontres D’Arles (France 2018), the International Center of Photography (New York City 2018) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2019).

About the Speaker:
Rein Jelle Terpstra teaches fine arts and photography at Minerva Art Academy, Groningen (NL). After a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam), he began investigating the relationships between perception, memory and history by making slideshow installations and books. His work is held in various collections, including the collection of the SFMOMA (San Francisco), MoMA Library (New York), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam), The Royal Museum of Arts (Brussels), Yale University Library (New Haven), and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). During the spring of 2017, Terpstra undertook a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington, D.C. to work on the subject of this lecture.

Virtual Tour of The Tremco Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility
2021-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Join BEC Baltimore & AIA Baltimore for an inside look at Tremco’s state-of-the-art sustainable building solutions test facility…

Tremco’s Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility offers a unique educational opportunity — In addition to mitigating risk for your clients by testing systems for performance and compatibility, Tremco’s facility has helped third party labs and consultants understand the limitations of various systems, and learn proper application techniques to ensure optimal performance in adverse environmental conditions.
The Tour Will Include:
• A personalized tour of the Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility, including our brand new Thermal Environmental Chamber
• 1.0 LU/HSW on restoration, stop water intrusion in your building enclosure
• An inside view of what’s new with Tremco CPG, which has brought together Tremco Incorporated’s Commercial Sealants & Waterproofing and Roofing & Building Maintenance operating divisions; Dryvit Systems, Inc.; Nudura Inc.; Willseal; Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. and Weatherproofing Technologies Canada, Inc.
• Q&A with subject matter experts
Tours are presented by Marcy Tyler, Director of Building Science for Tremco Incorporated. Marcy and her team lead system design, compatibility testing and training for the whole family of Tremco Construction Products Group (CPG) companies.
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Designing the AVAM – Winner of Baltimore Architecture Madness
2021-05-21 13:00 - 13:30
AVAM Founder and Director Rebecca Hoffberger, and architects Rebecca Swanston and Diane Cho celebrate the design of this Baltimore treasure

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). Follow them on Facebook and Twitter: @theavam and Instagram: @the_avam.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) was crowned winner of BAF’s Architecture Madness Tournament, which included 64 exceptional Baltimore buildings built between 1870 and today, hosted in celebration of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary.
We’ll be joined by AVAM founder and director Rebecca Hoffberger and architects Diane Cho and Rebecca Swanston to celebrate and reflect upon the design of Baltimore’s most beloved building of the past 150 years.
Completed in 1995, AVAM is a brilliant example of sculptural expression. Architect Rebecca Swanston, FAIA and designer Alex Castro incorporated the curving Trolley Works building and enlarged it with an addition that echoes its curves and creates a strong sense of motion. Its playful, eye-catching facade, created by youth in the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services as a way to provide them with tangible skills and personal development, was an echoing sentiment from Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Founder/Director and Primary Curator of AVAM that “social justice is life’s highest performance art”. The shimmering and whimsy exterior mirrors the artworks found inside by self-taught individuals that make AVAM one of the city’s most beloved institutions. Architect Diane Cho, AIA of Cho Benn Holback + Associates (today Quinn Evans) led the 2004 expansion of the museum transforming an old whiskey barrel warehouse into AVAM’s Jim Rouse Visionary Center. Both projects are stellar examples of adaptive use – the creative repurposing of historic buildings.
When asked to describe why they voted the way they did, Architecture Madness voters emphasized how AVAM’s architecture embodies the museum’s spirit. As one voter put it, “It feels alive. It feels like a building that embraces all people and inspires creativity and a sense of wonder.”
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Station North Architecture Walking Tour
2021-05-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Penn Station-Baltimore, 1500 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States
Join Charlie Duff on a special tour of Baltimore’s Station North Arts District…

Photograph Courtesy of Vivian Doering
Join us for our first in-person tour since February, 2020! On May 22, much of Charles Street will be closed to vehicular traffic, so we’re taking advantage of it with a tour of Station North led by Charlie Duff. Located in the heart of Baltimore, Station North was the first area in Baltimore to receive the State designation as an Arts & Entertainment District in 2002.
Spanning the neighborhoods of Charles North, Greenmount West, and Barclay, Station North is a diverse collection of artist live-work spaces, galleries, rowhomes, and businesses, all just steps away from Penn Station, Mount Vernon, Charles Village, the Maryland Institute College of Art, the University of Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University. Please note: this tour will be limited to fifteen participants in light of COVID-19 restrictions. Facemasks required. Meet at the Male/Female Statue in front of Penn Station. It’s impossible to miss!
About the Presenter
Charles Duff is a planner, teacher, developer, and historian. Since 1987, Mr. Duff has been President of Jubilee Baltimore, a non-profit group that has built or rebuilt more than 300 buildings in historic Baltimore neighborhoods and is leading the development of the Station North Arts District. He has been President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the Patterson Park Community Development Corporation. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University, he lectures widely and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State. He co-wrote Then and Now: Baltimore Architecture in 2005 and contributed to The Architecture of Baltimore. His book The North Atlantic Cities has just been published.

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Don’t forget to stop by the Charles Street Promenade that will be happening all day from 9:00 am to 9:00pm on North Charles street. Find out more information here.
