AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Uncoupling Principles (Schluter Systems)
2020-10-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Oct 9, 2020 02:00 PM
Schluter Systems – Uncoupling Principles
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://schluter.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ODLv-kXtTuqVOeK1ZhIWlg

Maximizing Tile Installation Using Profiles (Schluter Systems)
2020-10-09 12:00 - 13:00
October 9th at 12:00pm
Schluter Systems Presents: AIA and IDCEC accredited seminar presenting Maximizing Tile Installation Using Profiles.
Topic: Schluter Systems – Maximizing Tile Installation Using Profile’s
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://schluter.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jfwE3jfbQDiQU9EnFb9EXg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

The Health of Baltimore City Waterways Then and Now
2020-10-08 17:30 - 18:30
Presented as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020 Civic Pride Week

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Baltimore’s historic dumping place for all its waste and sewage was its waterways. How has the city’s sewage management changed over time and how healthy are Baltimore’s waterways today? This presentation shares information about the current health of our urban watershed and actions you can take to improve the health of our waterways.
The mission of Blue Water Baltimore is to protect and restore Baltimore’s waterways through enforcement, fieldwork, and citizen action. Our ultimate goal is to make our waterways safe for recreation (including fishing and swimming), to improve public health, and to improve the health of our ecosystem.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this. Donations will be split with Blue Water Baltimore.
This event has been organized by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and Blue Water Baltimore. Learn more about Doors Open Baltimore 2020.

Allied Members Committee Meeting: Keith Daw presentation on LinkedIn
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
As part of AIA Baltimore’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), this meeting will be held via tele-conference. Information will be sent to participant, or please contact Margaret Stella (Mstella@aiabalt.com) one hour before the meeting if you have not received this.

Maximize LinkedIn: Business Development in a Virtual World
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
AIA Baltimore Practice Management Committee Continues The Covid-19 Webinar series…

Join AIA for the next post- Covid speaker event featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training.
If you’re like most professionals tasked with business development, you may be:
• Not understanding how to leverage your current clients and network to create new business opportunities
• Worrying about keeping up with the latest trends on business development in a virtual world
• Wondering how to get more warm referrals and introductions
• Confused about where to best spend your time and how
At “Maximize LinkedIn: Business Development in a Virtual World” learn how to drive opportunities and revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your new business pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling with LinkedIn that you can immediately implement to close the year strong and create momentum for 2021.
Bio:
Keith Daw is the Vice President and a trainer with McDonell Consulting Group, an authorized licensee of Sandler Training, with a state-of-the-art training center in Towson as well as full virtual training capabilities. He places his focus and energy on amplifying professionals, teams, and organizations in the areas of leadership, sales, strategic customer care, organizational excellence, and especially that human communications thing where many sometimes struggle. For nearly 9 years, Daw has served a dual role of both producer as well as practitioner, and intentionally incorporates many of his own lessons learned into his talks and trainings.
Prior, Daw spent more than 25 years as business owner, strategist, and salesperson at privately-owned, national, and international companies across a myriad of industries and disciplines.

Equity Committee - Meeting
2020-10-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual meeting
The Equity Committee (former Women in Architecture/Diversity Committee) meets every 2nd Thursday at noon.
Contact co-chairs for more information:
Valerie Lopez, AIA
Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.
Vlopez@hcm2.com
Hilary Zoretic, AIA
Gensler
Hilary_Zoretic@gensler.com

Behind the Scenes Virtual Tour of the Vernon Pumping Station
2020-10-07 12:00 - 12:30
Presented as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020 Civic Pride and Industry Week

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
“What’s that green roof peeking over the 28th Street Exit of I-83?”
If you have ever asked yourself this question, then this is the tour for you. The Vernon Pumping Station was built in 1931 to move water from Druid Lake and it continues to serve the Department of Public Works to this very day. Despite its demure location, the building packs an architectural punch complete with details like glazed terracotta, wrought iron railings, and bronze-faced doors. This rarely seen building is a great example of Baltimore’s enduring legacy of providing clean drinking water with beautiful architecture.
Photo courtesy Meg Fielding
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
Learn more about Doors Open Baltimore 2020

AIA Baltimore Board Meeting
2020-10-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Virtual meeting
As part of AIA Baltimore’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), this meeting will be held via tele-conference. Information will be sent to partipants, or please contact Kathleen Lane (klane@aiabalt.com) one hour before the meeting if you have not received this.

UNCHARTED TERRITORY SA+P Fall 2020 Lecture Series (Net Zero Energy Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences)
2020-10-06 16:00 - 17:00
10.06
4pm
Ming Hu
Assistant Professor of
Architecture, University of
Maryland, College Park
Net Zero Energy
Building: Predicted
and Unintended
Consequences
All lectures to take place on ZOOM:
URL: https://morganstate.zoom.us/j/83869931059
Phone: 1-301-715-8592 | Meeting ID: 838 6993 1059
Questions? Email sap@morgan.edu

Virtual Historic West Baltimore Tour
2020-10-03 13:00 - 13:30
Presented as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020 African American Heritage & Civil Rights Week

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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 tour will explore Baltimore’s historic African American neighborhood. Visitors will learn about Baltimore’s civil rights and women’s suffrage legacy, visit a rich tapestry of residential and church architecture, and learn about Pennsylvania Avenue’s special place in history as one of the nation’s premier African American entertainment districts.
The tour will also include a brief visit to Baltimore’s beautiful Bolton Hill neighborhood and the impressive Francis Scott Key statue and learn about the history of the Prince Hall Masons.
Bradley Alston is an award-winning Urban Ranger and Baltimore history tour guide.
Photo courtesy Vivian Marie Doering
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
Learn more about Doors Open Baltimore 2020

Doors Open Baltimore Kick-Off Lecture: Aaron Henkin on Out of the Blocks
2020-10-02 13:00 - 14:00
BAF is proud to kick-off Doors Open Baltimore with a special presentation by WYPR’s Aaron Henkin, co-hosted with Baltimore Heritage.

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Doors Open Baltimore is going all virtual in 2020 with a month’s worth of programming. Kicking off the festivities is Aaron Henkin, producer and co-host of WYPR’s award-winning Out of the Blocks.
Aaron will guide viewers behind the scenes of Out of the Blocks and share some of the incredible stories exploring Baltimore block-by-block and tuning into the city’s mosaic of soundscapes and voices.
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.
Learn more about Doors Open Baltimore 2020

Virtual Tour of the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum
2020-10-02 13:00 - 13:30
Presented as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020 African American Heritage & Civil Rights Week

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Join us for a virtual tour of the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum as part of Doors Open Baltimore 2020. The museum tells the story of Baltimore’s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of the freedom fighting activism of Lillie Carroll Jackson, the president of the Baltimore NAACP for 35 years in the early 20th century, the Jackson-Mitchell family, and their allies. The tour will be led by award-winning curator and program planner, Dr. Iris Leigh Barnes. Dr. Barnes teaches at the University of Delaware and serves on the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Morgan State University.
Photo courtesy Vivian Marie Doering
About the Presenter
Dr. Iris Leigh Barnes is currently the Curator of the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum in Baltimore, which is owned by Morgan State University. She earned her doctorate in History with a concentration in African American and Twentieth-Century United States History; her master’s degree in Museum Studies and Historical Preservation; and her bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and Art Education. She has received numerous awards: the Excellence in Exhibitions and Programming Award from the Maryland Historical Trust, a Diversity Fellowship from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the John Kinard SEMC JIMI Award from the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture, among them.
Learn more about Doors Open Baltimore

Phoenix Rising 2020…At the Drive In! (Preservation Maryland)
2020-10-01 18:00 - 21:30 | Bengie’s Drive In Theatre, 3417 Eastern Blvd, Middle River, MD, 21220, United States
The Money Pit will show at Bengies Drive-In for one-night-only at a special event hosted by Preservation Maryland!
Preservation Maryland invites you to a very special evening event at Bengies Drive-In on Thursday, October 1, 2020 – the safe and celebratory event will reimagine two of our favorite events of the year – Phoenix Rising and the Best of Maryland Awards!
The “preview” will be a video update about Preservation Maryland, our major programs and projects, and this year’s Best of Maryland Awards – and our feature presentation will be “The Money Pit” on the big screen!
One-night only! Special screening of the slapstick, family-friendly comedy about home renovations: “The Money Pit” (1986) starring Tom Hanks & Shelley Long.
Please enjoy complimentary popcorn and soda throughout the event thanks to our generous sponsors!
All proceeds support Preservation Maryland.
One Ticket Per Car (8 Person Max Per Car)

Early bird rate is $60 per car through 8/31/20
Regular price is $75 per car from 9/1/20 to 9/30/20
No on-site ticket sales!
You must register before the event.
Please print your ticket and ticket code.

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“SKYSCRAPERS - A Historic Survey of Design Goals and Methods” (SEI)
2020-10-01 12:00 - 13:00
Presented by Dr. Richard Furlong
P.E., Ph. D., Distinguished Member of ASCE, FACI
Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin
Receive 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

12Noon – 1PM EST

Presentation Topic:
This presentation discusses the evolving use of materials, technology and need for tall structures, beginning with American structures and ending with six of the world’s tallest buildings.
Speaker Biography:
D. Furlong obtained his BSCE from Southern Methodist University 1952 followed by 6 EIT years in St. Louis with McDonnell Aircraft and F. Ray Martin, Inc. He helped design about 40 bridges, a dozen buildings, while part time, and obtained MSCE from Washington University in 1957. He joined the faculty at UT-Austin in 1958. He performed Concrete Column Research with Phil Ferguson for a PhD in 1963. He continued research with ACI , ASCE, AISC committee work on columns, composite structures, frame analysis, and design aids with part time consulting until his retirement in 1999. Afterwards, he continued consulting and began lectures for Senior learning groups.
His research and writing brought advancements to composite column design during the last third of the 20th Century. Dr. Furlong’s work in the design of composite columns helped make them important components of earthquake-resistant building frames and bridges. His research on biaxial bending of columns, column slenderness and inelastic behavior of frames contributed to improvements in design specifications for both steel and concrete structures. In addition, his studies of inverted T-beam bent caps also earned the Raymond C. Reese Award from the American Concrete Institute (ACI), while his numerous design aids for concrete structures have been part of the ACI Handbook for 25 years.
After service on the Board of Directors of both ACI and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), he was elected President of the Texas Section ASCE in 1997. He was recognized as an Honorary Member of ASCE in 2001. In 2004, Dr. Furlong was awarded the ACI’s Educational Activities Committee (EAC) Speaker of the Year Award. The award is in recognition of his efforts in establishing one of the most successful ACI seminar series, “Reinforced Concrete Design”, and for his many years as an instructor in cities across the United States.
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System Source Pizza Webinar – “Boosting Network Performance & Security” (System Source)
2020-09-29 12:00 - 13:00
Tue, Sep 29, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
System Source & Barracuda invite you to a free pizza lunch & live webinar on “Boosting Network Performance and Security with Barracuda SD-WAN” for IT Directors, CTOs, managers, and staff. We’ll deliver pizza to your home or office to enjoy during this webinar! Brian Whatley, System Source Senior Consultant, and a Barracuda solutions architect, will discuss: • Replacing costly MPLS and connecting through headquarters • Securely interconnect and control headquarters, branches and remote users • Integrating new locations, acquisitions and mobile sites • How adopting SaaS solutions & public cloud changes your security & network needs • Application-aware QoS • Optionally integrate SD-WAN with firewalls • Gaining load balanced and redundant site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity across WAN connections of any type
This delicious webinar is Tuesday, September 29th from Noon – 1.

Building Baltimore: Benjamin Latrobe in the Monumental City
2020-09-25 13:00 - 13:30
A new book explores the legacy of America’s first professional architect

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Join author Jean Baker to learn about the life and works of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, America’s first professional architect. Most of the lecture will focus on his work in Baltimore especially the Basilica and the Merchants Exchange.
The presentation is based off Baker’s new book, Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The book traces the life of Latrobe and his rise to fame designing treasures like the US Capitol and the Baltimore Basilica. The themes that emerge in this biography are the critical role Latrobe played in the culture of the early republic through his buildings and his genius in neoclassical design.
“With this fine biography, historian Baker rescues Benjamin Henry Latrobe from obscurity and restores his reputation as the ‘Father of American Architecture.” -National Book Review
About the Presenter
Jean H. Baker is Bennett-Harwood Professor of History Emerita at Goucher College. An eminent political historian and biographer, she is the author of Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists, James Buchanan, and Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, among other titles.

Urban Design Committee - Meeting
2020-09-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual meeting
The Urban Design Committee (UDC) meets every fourth Wednesday at 6:00 pm. New members are always welcome. Please note, during the COVID-19 pandemic all board, committee, and individual meetings have been rescheduled as virtual meetings.
For access to the virtual meeting, please contact, Zevi Thomas zthomas@aiabalt.com
More info about UDC: http://www.aiabalt.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=48 Committee co-chairs: Sam Lynch, Assoc. AIA: slynch@ci-designinc.com and Ren Southard, Assoc. AIA: renata.southard@gmail.com

Building a Conservation District in Brunswick (Preservation Maryland)
2020-09-22 13:00 - 14:00
The City of Brunswick is undertaking an initiative to create protections for their historic communities in the form of a Conservation District. This session will walk through what a conservation district is, how it works to protect historic communities, the process Brunswick went through, and the lessons learned.
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Green by Design: Green Building Tax Incentives
2020-09-22 08:30 - 09:30
AIA Baltimore Practice Management Committee Continues It’s Webinar Series…

1.0 AIA LU available
Program Description
Discussion of tax benefits architectural firms create for their clients. We all know about the179-D deduction for energy-efficient design of public buildings – did you know that also applies directly to private owners? The new tax law allows your clients a significant depreciation deduction for new construction or renovations – see how they can write off up to 40% of those costs. Learn about this and other special deductions for renovation projects.
Learning Objectives

How your non-public owners benefit from 179-D energy efficient design and construction benefit
Increased depreciation deductions now available for new build and renovations
Asset disposition deductions create additional benefits for renovation projects

Presenter
Geoffrey R. Kimmel – Senior Business Development Director –Philadelphia
Geoff has an extensive financial services background including service in the specialty tax, commercial banking, and insurance industries. Since 2010, he has consulted heavily with ETSclients to identify, qualify, and capture tax benefits. Prior assignments included managing Treasury Management consulting teams serving clients ranging from Small Business to Fortune 500 companies designing and delivering custom-developed operational, systems and process improvement solutions. As CFO and Board Member for a regional bank, he managed all bank operational and financial activities.

Park(ing) Day and Virtual Discussion Panel (Maryland ASLA
2020-09-17 12:30 - 13:30
Please join us for our Park(ing) Day Virtual Panel Discussion on September 17th, 2020. Credits: 1.0 LA CES PDH – HSW, 1 AIA CEU
About this Event
Panelists/Discussion Topics:

Jennifer Goold, Executive Director, Neighborhood Design Center

Erik Evans, Executive Director, Annapolis Downtown Partnership

Anna Dennis, Senior Associate, Design Collective

Big Questions/Learning Objectives:

How do temporary park spaces in urban districts bring relief to businesses, residents, and visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic?
How can government agencies, local partners, and design firms get involved with the design, implementation, and management of relief zones and pop up parks?
What have been some of the most successful pieces of urban pop up parks? What are some tweaks and changes that needed to be made once the parks were installed?
What additional resources do you have to share?
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2020 AIA Baltimore Mentorship Roundtable
2020-09-16 18:00 - 19:00
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.
This event is intended for those at all career stages: from students to recent graduates, and from mid-career to seasoned professionals.
This event is an opportunity to share and receive career advice and experiences. The goal is to build professional networks and foster ongoing mentoring relationships. Participants with varying experience levels are encouraged to get to know one another in a conversational setting.
Professionals at all stages of their career are encouraged to sign up as a mentor or mentee.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Major Sponsor ($500) Company logo on website and marketing materials. Recognition at event.
Sponsor ($250) Company name included on website and marketing materials. Recognition at event.
To sponsor, select the Mentorship Roundtable using the Event Sponsorship Form. Thank you!

Price Industries: Architectural Acoustics and Air Distribution (Havtech)
2020-09-16 11:00 - 12:00
Wed, Sep 16, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Join Mauricio Salinas, Price Industries Applications Engineering Manager, in this AIA accredited course, as he discusses how important building acoustics are when trying to optimize occupant comfort. Salinas will explore how design trends over the past few decades have often resulted in declining acoustical requirements, how mechanical conditions are evolving, and how to balance efficiency, noise, and aesthetics while still providing a benefit to all involved parties. AIA / PDH Eligible

Price Industries | AIA & PDH Presents Eligible Architectural Acoustics and Air Distribution (Havtech)
2020-09-16 11:00 - 12:00
Join Mauricio Salinas, Price Industries Applications Engineering Manager, in this AIA accredited course, as he
discusses how important building acoustics are when trying to optimize occupant comfort. Salinas will
explore how design trends over the past few decades have often resulted in declining acoustical
requirements, how mechanical conditions are evolving, and how to balance efficiency, noise, and aesthetics
while still providing a benefit to all involved parties.
REGISTER HERE

Uncovering the Stories of the Peale
2020-09-11 13:00 - 13:30
Join us to hear some of the many stories of the historic Peale Museum building.

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Hear some of the many stories of the historic Peale Museum building, from its origins as the first purpose-built museum in the country, to the introduction of gaslight technology to the city, to its role as Baltimore’s first City Hall and public high school for people of color. Get a glimpse of what is coming next as the Peale relaunches as a center for Baltimore stories and studies, and a laboratory for reinventing the museum for the 21st century in the creative and innovative spirit of the Peale family.
About the Presenter
Nancy Proctor is founding director of the Peale, a center for Baltimore stories and studies and laboratory for cultural innovation based in the historic Peale Museum building. Previously, Nancy was Deputy Director of Digital Experience and Communications at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014-2016), Head of Mobile Strategy and Initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution (2010-2014), and Head of New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum (2008-2010). With a PhD in American art history and a background in filmmaking, curation and feminist theory and criticism in the arts, Nancy lectures and publishes widely on technology and innovation in museums, in French and Italian as well as English.

Society’s Cage: an Interpretive Design Pavilion for the Black Lives Matter Movement
2020-09-04 13:00 - 13:30
Society’s Cage: an Interpretive Design Pavilion for the Black Lives Matter Movement

Society’s Cage is a timely interpretive installation on the National Mall in Washington, DC on view from August 28-September 13. The project was conceived and designed by the architecture firm SmithGroup in partnership with the Architects Foundation in the aftermath of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders as our society reckons with institutional racism and white supremacy. The public installation features a bold interpretive pavilion sculpted to symbolize the historic forces of racialized state violence. The experience educates visitors and functions as a sanctuary to reflect, record and share personal thoughts. It is conceived in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as a mechanism for building empathy and healing.
The initial installation coincided with the March on Washington in support of Black Lives, held in Washington, DC on August 28, 2020, and is located on the National Mall at 12th Street and Madison Drive NW.
Society’s Cage reminds visitors that the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are not anomalies, but rather the latest examples in a 400+ year historic pattern of unmitigated, unbound, systemic anti-Blackness in the United States. The installation provides an opportunity to acknowledge and reckon with the severity of the racial biases inherent in the institutional structures of justice and creates a space for collective reflection, contemplation, sharing, and healing.
The pavilion is a series of bars that are hung to form a cube with a cavernous void that symbolizes our imperfect society and justice system. The void is shaped by historical data and serves as a visual metaphor to represent the primary institutional forces of racism that embody the Black American experience.
Financial donations to this Virtual History program will support this project, and the possibility of bringing it to Baltimore. Additional donations will benefit the Architects Foundation’s Diversity Advancement scholarships.
Presenters
Dayton Schroeter, AIA, Julian Arrington, and Chris Wood, SmithGroup
Dayton Schroeter, AIA
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.
Julian Arrington, Associate AIA
Julian Arrington is a lead designer in SmithGroup’s DC Cultural Studio. A proud graduate of Howard University, Julian has shaped concepts for multiple museum projects including a museum to address the history of slavery in Richmond, Virginia, the Universal Hip Hop Museum, the Museum of Pop Culture and others. A proponent of community-informed design, Julian has helped to lead stakeholder-engagement efforts to craft designs that reflect the goals and aspirations of the people they serve.
Chris Wood, AIA LEED AP BD+C
Chris Wood has led all phases of museum and collections center work, from visioning and programming through construction. As director of the Cultural Studio at SmithGroup’s Washington, DC office, Chris has helped to sustain and build a team of interdisciplinary designers focused solely on Cultural work – something rarely found in the architectural field. He believes that focus is necessary to tackle the unique challenges inherent in these projects – successfully integrating the institutional mission, collections care, and the visitor experience.
More info:
https://www.smithgroup.com/societys-cage
Architectural Record article:
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14777-designers-quantify-racial-injustice-in-data-driven-installation-on-national-mall?oly_enc_id=7210G7507989A9B
Donations:
https://architectsfoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/106171-society-s-cage-pavilion-project
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USGBC Maryland and AIA Baltimore Virtual Happy Hour
2020-09-02 16:00 - 17:00
Join USGBC Maryland and AIA Baltimore for a virtual happy hour to chat and connect with new contacts from our respective communities!
Join fellow architects and sustainability advocates from across Maryland for an online happy hour on Wednesday, August 19th at 4PM! Attendees will have the opportunity to connect and discuss their green interests by visiting virtual networking break-out rooms. Room topics will include:

Baltimore IgCC Code Updates
Energy Efficiency/Net Zero Energy
HVAC in the Age of COVID-19
Green and Efficient Schools
Commercial building fenestration & occupant well-being

Grab your favorite drink, and get ready for an early evening Happy Hour to meet new friends and catch up with old ones!
Cost:
General Admission is $10, free for USGBC Community Members and AIA Baltimore Members.
Please note: Ticket refunds can be issued up to a week before this event. Seven days or less, we will provide a refund but a 25% service fee will be withheld. Day of the event we will not provide a refund.
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Price Industries | AIA & PDH Eligible Present Integrated Architectural Solutions (Havtech)
2020-09-02 11:00 - 12:00
Join Joe Flore, Price Industries Manager of Strategic Accounts, in this AIA accredited course, as he discusses
how integrating architectural and air distribution systems allows designers to optimize solutions for a variety
of ceilings and applications. Flore will explore how successful statement spaces and architectural ceilings
such as wood-slat, torsion spring, and monolithic must consider aesthetics, acoustics, and budget during
design. This webinar will provide numerous case studies and share real-life applications.
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Pioneering Women of Architecture in Maryland
2020-08-28 13:00 - 2020-09-29 13:30
Attendees will learn about the first women to practice architecture in Maryland and their legacies.

This program is hosted on Zoom and Facebook Live. 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.
Women have been professionally practicing architecture in Maryland for over 80 years, yet little is known about those from earlier generations. AIA Baltimore and BAF Research of state architecture records have uncovered a number of women architects who practiced through the lean years of the World Wars and the Great Depression, designing buildings in Maryland and across the country.
Architect Jillian Storms will share the stories of these pioneering women and the buildings they designed.
About the Presenter
Jillian Storms, AIA, is an architect and capital programs manager at the School Facilities Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education. She is a former President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation. Jillian led the Early Women of Architecture project, culminating in a traveling exhibition featuring twelve women practicing architecture from the 1920s to the 1960s. Jillian continues to work with BAF to bring more stories of women architects to light and document their projects.

Trailblazing Women of Architecture in Maryland
2020-08-28 13:00 - 13:30
In honor of the Year of the Woman in Maryland and the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote, the non-profit Liriodendron Foundation is hosting free online special presentation on Wednesday, August 12 from 7:00-8:00 pm, celebrating women who contributed their design talents to Maryland’s built environment at a time when few women were in the profession. Many of the women practiced through the lean years of the Depression and World War II, designing buildings in Maryland and across the country, serving as a story of perseverance and determination.
The presentation is given in conjunction with the “Early Women of Architecture in Maryland” traveling exhibit on display at the Liriodendron Mansion’s galleries until August 26, 2020.
One of the twelve women showcased in the exhibit is Poldi Hirsch (1926-1987), a resident of Havre de Grace and the first female member to own her own firm in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Baltimore Chapter. Over 25 modern structures still stand in Harford County as a testament to her professional perseverance and pioneering legacy. Some of her artwork and architectural drawings are also on display and can be viewed with the exhibit during Liriodendron’s Open Houses hours between 11am-3pm on Sunday, August 9th and between 1:00-7:00pm on Wednesdays August 12th, 19th and 26th or by appointment by contacting 410.879.4424 or info@liriodendron.com.
The special presentation on August 12 will be given by the curator of the exhibit, Jillian Storms, AIA. Ms. Storms received BAF’s Roger Redden Award and Preservation Maryland’s George T. Harrison Volunteer Award in recognition of her extensive work in organizing the exhibit research and programming done in conjunction with members of the Women in Architecture (now EQUITY) Committee of AIA Baltimore and students from Morgan State University. She has a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Urban Studies and Planning from Goucher College, and once served as president of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, which sponsored the exhibit through a Maryland Humanities grant matched with generous contributions from architectural community and its allies.
If interested in the August 12 presentation, PLEASE RSVP so we have a sense of how many will be on the Zoom call.
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The Liriodendron Mansion, located at 502 W Gordon St, Bel Air, MD 21014, is a design wonder in itself to see and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by the firm of Wyatt & Nolting Architects in 1898 as the summer home for the family of Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, one of the four founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical College. The estate, comprised of multiple buildings and 108 acres of property, is now owned by Harford County. The Liriodendron Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, manages the property for the public benefit as a center for Harford County history and cultural arts, as well as offers the venue for wedding and conferences.
This exhibit is the first cultural event offered since the pandemic curtailed operations this spring. Don’t miss it!
For more information and updates, please visit https://liriodendron.com.

Jewish Museums Across the Seas: Australia
2020-08-27 19:00 - 20:00
Take a trip to the Antipodes and uncover stories of Jewish excellence and everydayness in Australia, from 1778 until today. Learn about our richly diverse, ever-evolving community with Director & CEO Jessica Bram, then explore our flagship Calling Australia Home exhibition with Senior Curator & Collection Manager Eleni Papavasileiou.
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