AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Materials passports for the built environment (Morgan State/Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee)
2021-04-07 13:00 - 14:20 (America/New_York)
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.
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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.

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: Art + Architecture
2021-03-31 18:00 - 19:30
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.

Replenish: Supporting the Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity (Smart Growth)
2021-03-30 13:00 - 14:00
Humans have long disrupted the natural water cycle. Yet we continue to suffer from droughts, floods and other disruptions despite building dams and levees and completing other feats of engineering.
What if, instead of further disrupting the water cycle, we sought to repair and replenish it?
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 1 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday, March 30, as Sandra Postel, one of the world’s foremost freshwater experts, explores projects and approaches worldwide that work with nature’s rhythms to safeguard drinking water, reduce polluted runoff, replenish depleted rivers and aquifers, and capture rainwater to curb urban flooding.
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Gray to Green Communities: Addressing Affordable Housing and Sustainability (Smart Growth)
2021-03-26 13:00 - 14:00
Communities are facing the twin challenges of creating affordable housing while also addressing climate issues. How can we move from a “gray” housing model to a “green” one that addresses the health and well-being of residents, communities and the world at large?
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 1 p.m. Eastern, Friday, March 26, as Dana Bourland shares her experience creating the first standard for green affordable housing that is designed to deliver measurable health, economic and environmental benefits.
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Trailblazing Architects: Kathleen Sherrill
2021-03-26 13:00 - 13:30
To cap off Women’s History Month, we are highlighting trailblazers who rose to leadership in the community and the profession.

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 in Baltimore, discussing their impact on the profession and our communities. To cap off Women’s History Month, we are featuring Kathleen P. S. Sherrill, AIA, NOMA, NCARB, LEED AP, the first (and only) African American to serve as president of AIA Baltimore in 2012 and AIA Maryland in 2016. Kathleen founded the AIA Baltimore’s Women in Architecture Committee in 2012 (now EQUITY Committee) who are co-hosting this event.
Kathleen will highlight her work along the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor, Maryland’s only designated Black Arts and Entertainment District, as well as touch on several other projects in different areas of Baltimore, including Edmondson Village, Hampden, Upton and Reservoir Hill. In highlighting these projects, she will call on the needed leadership development of the professional community. She firmly believes that architects should challenge themselves to play a key role in improving and supporting Baltimore’s underserved neighborhoods. Guiding communities to invest in themselves and the next generation through ownership. Raising awareness of what a community can become through revitalization, not gentrification. Helping residents discover “pride of place” in where they identified as home. It’s critical to the survival of these communities and our city.
About Our Presenter
Kathleen founded her firm of SP Arch Inc. in 2005 with former partner Mahendra Parekh (who retired in 2008). It offers a broad array of planning, architectural design, and landscape architecture services. In 2011, Kathleen was awarded both Top 100 Minority Business Enterprises in the Mid-Atlantic Region and outstanding alumni by the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University (MSU). She has served as a guest lecturer at MSU and as an adjunct professor teaching Management, Practice, and Law. In 2017, Kathleen helped establish the local chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and served as its first president. She enjoys mentoring aspiring architects through her office and leadership roles. www.spa-corp.com
Introducing Kathleen Sherrill is Jillian Storms, AIA, who co-chaired the Women in Architecture Committee with her and went on to lead 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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Good Design = Good Health: AIA Baltimore Health & Wellness Annual Showcase
2021-03-24 17:00 - 18:00
This event has been moved to September 1, 2021 and is now tentatively planned as an in-person event. More information to follow…
Join the AIA Baltimore Health & Wellness Committee in the 6th Annual Design Showcase- Good Design=Good Health.
Date: September 1, 2021
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM

Project Submission Deadline: August 19
The AIA Baltimore Health & Wellness Committee will be hosting its 6th Annual Design Showcase- Good Design=Good Health on Wednesday, March 24th, 2020 from 5-6PM. This exhibition is intended to be a fun way for architects, engineers, urban planners, interior designers, contractors, and others to show the local community how they have been creating healthy spaces. The goal of this exhibition is to showcase designs that promote health and wellness in a variety of ways.
The theme of the showcase, Good Design=Good Health, paints a broad stroke of healthy design. Cities and communities that foster healthy living, mental well-being and social connectedness don’t just happen. It takes forward thinking and innovative designers to create spaces that elevate a community’s way of life. For our showcase, we are encouraging architects, engineers, general contractors, landscape architects, urban planners, and artists to submit projects and designs that broadly speak to community health. From the urban planner who designed new bike lane routes throughout the city, to the landscape architect’s healing garden for children, to the contractors bringing the adaptive reuse vision to life, to the architect’s design of community schools bringing to life one’s vision of academics and healthcare access coming together under one roof- everyone brings their own idea of a healthy environment and how to create it.
What you can look forward to: The AIA Baltimore Health & Wellness Committee is interested in bringing members of the design community together with a BRAND-NEW forum to showcase their designs with peers, while also being afforded the opportunity to observe the creative work of others. On this night we will come together to celebrate our successes, share best practices, strategize solutions, and discuss adaptation. To ensure our committee and community members maintain their health, this year’s event will be held virtually. Break out groups will be created, with 5 submissions in each, coupled based on a common underlying theme. This will allow for more intimate conversation and a deeper dive into each project.
Cost
Presenters: $25 for AIA Baltimore and MD ASLA members; $45 for non-members.
Attendees (those not presenting): FREE for AIA Baltimore and MD ASLA members; $20 for non-members.
Submissions: We are seeking submissions from the design community for projects that speak to the idea of a healthy city or a healthy environment. The promotion of good health comes in so many shapes and sizes; we want to celebrate them all!
Eligibility: Projects must have been designed or constructed within the past 3 years (2018-2020). Projects may be of any size or value.
Format: Slides (in PDF format), maximum of 4. Slides are due to AIA Baltimore by August 19th. Firms may make multiple submissions, if interested, but will need 1 presenter for each project to accommodate this year’s virtual format.
After purchasing your presenter ticket please: Click Here To Access Your Project Submission Form!
Questions?
Contact Kathleen Lane, Executive Director at klane@aiabalt.com

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Become A Sponsor For This Event!
Sponsoring the showcase is a great way to bring exposure to your company at an event promoting the best in healthy design.
Major Sponsor ($500)
Company logo listed on the AIA Baltimore event page, newsletter promotion, and logo recognition in the virtual Showcase presentation. Additionally, your firm will receive two complimentary project submissions, to include event registration.
Sponsor ($250)
Company name listed on the AIA Baltimore event page, newsletter promotion, and logo recognition in the virtual Showcase presentation. Additionally, your firm will receive one complimentary project submissions, to include event registration.
For more information on sponsorship contact Margaret Stella Melikian at mstella@aiabalt.com. Sponsorship registration is available via Eventbrite or by check, or credit card payment.

Not Nontraditional: Women In The Building Trades (Preservation Maryland)
2021-03-24 13:00 - 14:30
According to the Department of Labor, construction is a “nontraditional” career field for women because they account for fewer than 25% of the registered workforce. The term “nontraditional”, however, implies that women did not and do not traditionally participate in construction work. This is inaccurate. This misconception erases women’s contribution to historic structures and disservices present-day women working in building trades. This webinar will delve into women’s roles in construction, historically and today.

Speakers:

Shelley E. Roff, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, University of Texas at San Antonio
Lisa Sasser, Principal, Quid Tum Historic Structures Consulting
Amy McCauley, Preservation Joiner, George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Demystifying AIA Fellowship
2021-03-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Webinar
An informational meeting for 2021 FAIA candidates and those interested in learning more about AIA Fellowship and the application process.

AIA Fellows are recognized with the AIA’s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Architects who have made significant contributions to the profession and society and who exemplify architectural excellence can become a member of the AIA College of Fellows.
Resources:

AIA Fellowship Information page
Frequently asked questions
Learn more about the AIA College of Fellows here.
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Mermaids & Promenades: Schaefer and the Cultural Redevelopment of Baltimore
2021-03-19 13:00 - 13:30
Mary Rizzo will examine forgotten moments from Schaefer’s terms as mayor.

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.
In the 1970s, Mayor William Donald Schaefer used arts and culture to sell a new image of Baltimore as quirky and charming to both tourists and business leaders. In this talk, Mary Rizzo will examine forgotten moments from Schaefer’s terms as mayor, from the creation of a failed local version of the Oscars, called “The Don” awards to honor Baltimore’s film business, to the Baltimore Promenade, a public art project designed to integrate city neighborhoods through the act of walking. While Schaefer is remembered for large-scale projects like Harborplace and stunts like posing with a mermaid for the opening of the Baltimore aquarium, his legacy should include his reimagining city government to include arts and culture–for good and ill.
Presenter Bio:
Mary Rizzo is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. She works at the intersection of inclusive public history, digital humanities, urban studies, and 20th century U.S. cultural history. She is the author of Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) and Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle (University of Nevada Press). She is the founder of the Chicory Revitalization Project, which uses the black community poetry magazine Chicory to spur dialogue on place and identity. Follow it on Instagram @Chicory_Baltimore. She tweets as @rizzo_pubhist.

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Using MEP Systems to Reduce Transmission Rates
2021-03-18 16:00 - 17:00
Join BEC-Baltimore & AIA Baltimore in discussing how MEP systems can help mitigate the spread of airborne pathogens.

Over the past twelve months, practitioners in design and construction fields have grappled with the realities of a global pandemic and its far-reaching impacts on our indoor environments. Acknowledging that COVID-19 is primarily spread as an airborne virus, this discussion will review how MEP design can help mitigate those risks. We provide a base understanding of how viruses including COVID-19 are transmitted and review actionable items for reopening and long term strategies for pathogen control.
We will focus the discussion to assist participants in:

Understanding the three primary transmission methods of COVID-19 & typical preventative measures

Understanding infectious dose & viral load

Understanding short term HVAC approaches to reduce transmission (including ventilation & filtration)

Understanding long term solutions for pathogen control including air sanitization

Understand other MEP design contributors to pathogen control

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Speaker:
David Van der Vossen
As Senior Vice President, David Van der Vossen brings a vast array of design experience to his projects. During his tenure with the company, Dave’s role has evolved – from his entry level position as a drafter in 1993 to his current SVP role where he is responsible for overseeing company operations. In his corporate role, Dave works closely with Zack to assist with corporate business functions and with individual office leadership to ensure implementation of quality control measures, client service, profitability and team training. His business and broad engineering background brings a unique skill set to the company, and he upholds the firm’s commitment to community engagement through not only providing direct design support to many local non-profits, but also by actively participating in local organizations such as the Greater Salisbury Committee, Salisbury Environmental Task Force, Boy Scouts of America and ACE Mentoring. Most recently, Dave oversaw the firm’s COVID-19 research, education and response, providing free seminars to over 60 groups and 800 individuals on aerosol transmission of COVID-19 and how to reduce it using HVAC systems. He is currently focused on opening the firm’s newest office location in Wilmington, NC.

Applying circular economy principles to the built environment (Morgan State/Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee)
2021-03-17 13:00 - 14:20
The general concepts of the circular economy are widely agreed upon: material reuse and refurbishment leading to zero waste and lower environmental degradation, but what does that mean for buildings and campuses, architects and developers? This talk will walk through the practical applications of circular economy principles in the built environment – at every level from design to deconstruction and at every scale from building to region/nation. We will cover topics from urban mining to circular building design and circularity in neighborhood development.
Related article from Metabolic: Urban Mining and Circular Construction
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 speakers
Nico Schouten works as a Green Building Consultant at Metabolic where he helps governments, architects and developers make their projects more sustainable. Here he focuses on the building phase (weighing different types of embodied impacts and the impact of design interventions) as well as the use phase and how to create incentives for the users of the building to behave more sustainably. While studying Architecture at TU Delft, Nico became interested in using architecture to make a more sustainable world. This led him to further research the concept of systems thinking and implementing circular strategies in his designs. After his graduation Nico worked at the AMS Institute as an in-house designer for the transformation of their office, where he helped design a circular meeting space. He also worked at the Centre for Sustainability of the LDE alliance where he was a program manager for research projects on inclusive circular design in metropolitan areas.
Andrew McCue is Sustainability Consultant at Metabolic. He has been involved in food and food systems for many years. Aiming to bring quality, varied, and sustainable food to larger populations, he pursued work on sustainable agriculture with both soil-based and hydroponic farms. Towards the end of this period Andrew worked as a key account manager helping nascent hydroponic farms to build their businesses. Frustrated with the scale of environmental and social issues he saw in the food system, Andrew took to the teachings of Donella Meadows and began to pursue systems thinking as a way to understand the roadblocks continually encountered in the industry. From this perspective, it became clear that redesigning the relationship between urban regions and the food they consume was going to be key in unlocking the change needed to build a sustainable and just food system. The reputation of the Netherlands as a hub of sustainable cities and high tech agriculture, drew Andrew to Amsterdam where he joined Metabolic as a sustainability consultant and business developer for projects in Agrifood and Circular Cities. Andrew is passionate about food and cities, and even more so about making the connections needed to build a fundamentally sustainable, just, and enjoyable future.
About Metabolic
Metabolic is a consulting, research, and venture building firm focused on tackling global sustainability challenges and advancing a circular economy. We advise governments, businesses, and NGOs on how to adapt to a fast-changing global context, while creating disruptive solutions that can dramatically shift how the economy functions. Combining systems thinking and data science, we map and understand local and global systems to assess where to intervene for the biggest impact.
Headquartered in Amsterdam, Metabolic has three core areas of operation. Our consulting arm has developed systems analyses and circular economy strategies for numerous global clients, including WWF, Danone, Duracell, and Akzo Nobel, and city governments such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Charlotte. Our non-profit think tank works at the intersection of academic research and real-world experimentation, advancing open-source knowledge on global sustainability issues,, and our venture building arm has launched spin-offs focused on the renewable energy transition, green chemistry, and sustainable urban development in underserved communities.
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.
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2021 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series: Money & Hose
2021-03-17 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIA Baltimore & The Baltimore Architecture Foundation for a Lunchtime Lecture.

Photograph Courtesy of Phaan Howng
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.
Phaan Howng is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist focused on exploring the production of landscape through large-scale landscape painting, sculptures, installations, and performance. Guided by philosophical, anthropological, and socio-political thinking, Howng’s immersive environments are a response to the toxic extractive practices of global capitalism that hinder environmentally and socially just landscapes. Her work attempts to deconstruct man’s presumed power over nature by focusing on the geopolitics of displaced plant-life and questioning the labor and management that result from processing nature as product. Howng will provide an overview of her work and present on her latest exhibition, A Bag Of Rocks For A Bag Of Rice, urging us to rethink how gardening and landscaping practices can mobilize the development of more environmentally thoughtful and sustainable futures.

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About The Presenter
Phaan Howng is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist focused on exploring the production of landscape through large-scale landscape painting, sculptures, installations, and performance. Guided by philosophical, anthropological, and socio-political thinking, Howng’s immersive environments are a response to the toxic extractive practices of global capitalism that hinder environmentally and socially just landscapes. Her work attempts to deconstruct man’s presumed power over nature by focusing on the geopolitics of displaced plant-life and questioning the labor and management that result from processing nature as product. Howng received her BFA in Painting from Boston University (2004) and her MFA from the Mt. Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute of College of Art (2015), where she is currently an adjunct professor. Howng’s work has been exhibited across the United States at major venues and cultural-institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD 2017-2018), the Smithsonian Arts and Industry Museum (Washington D.C. 2018), Spring Break Art Show (New York, NY 2019) Art Kiosk (Redwood City, CA 2019), Facebook (Washington D.C. 2019), and The Asian Arts and Culture Center at Towson University (Towson, MD 2020).

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

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.

Demystifying the Financial Stressors Faced by Your Clients (PMC)
2021-03-16 08:30 - 09:30
Is there something you can do as an architect or a builder to help your client smooth out the process?

1.0 AIA LU
It’s the day before that big deadline and your phone rings. The project on your screen is about to change yet again – the fifth change you’ve been asked to make this month. Your fees aren’t structured for this, and neither is your patience.
What really happens behind the scenes on your client’s end? Why do they make what seem like endless and erratic decisions about scope and schedule? Is there something you can do as an architect or a builder to help your client smooth out the process? Do you feel helpless each time a project stalls or dies for economic reasons? And what exactly do all those finance terms mean anyway?
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We Are Living in a Materials World: Examining How Building Materials Age
2021-03-12 13:00 - 13:30
Visualizing the future of an urban environment through a discussion of how building materials age

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.
Tickets to all Virtual Histories are donation based. 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 between BAF and Baltimore Heritage.
The choices we make in building materials determine the lifespan and efficacy of any building, outdoor sculpture, or monument. Taking a look through some case studies of some of the most well known landmarked monuments, sculptures and buildings in NYC, DC and Baltimore; we can see how materials have changed, and what steps we can take to respect, conserve and maintain metals and masonry. Case Studies include Baltimore City Hall, the Roland Water Tower, the U.S. Capitol Building, and Louise Nevelson’s monumental sculpture Night Presence IV in NYC.
Involved in the international conservation community for over 20 years, Christine specializes in the conservation of architectural building materials and outdoor sculpture. She received a MS in Historic Preservation from the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation at Columbia University, and worked with City of New York for fourteen years as a conservator for their collection of historic houses, outdoor sculpture and monuments.
Christine relocated to Baltimore in 2016 and is currently the Conservator for the City of Baltimore overseeing the exterior restoration of City Hall and ongoing preservation projects throughout the city. She continues to serve as a consultant and research associate with the Monument Conservation Collaborative based in North Adams, Massachusetts.

2021 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series: Architecture, Identity, & Place
2021-03-10 18:00 - 19:30
Cover Photo: New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village Fayetteville, UACDC
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.
Our first lecture will explore the overall theme and how architecture and the built environment are directly influenced by cultural values. It will examine this through the lens of community-based design initiatives nationally and projects specific to Baltimore.
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Stephen Luoni, Associate AIA, Director of University of Arkansas Community Design Center will address public-interest design and its role in producing public goods, the very definition of what it means to be a professional. Placemaking platforms in housing and food will be discussed through urban design projects underway.
Architects are asked with greater frequency to solve for complex public-interest problems, or “wicked problems” with multi-variate challenges characterized by social complexity. The University of Arkansas Community Design, a teaching office with professional staff, has developed building blocks for a new ecology of the city. A repertoire of eight placemaking platforms triangulates public policy, best practices, and design in agricultural urbanism, missing middle-scale housing, context-sensitive street design, development-oriented transit, watershed urbanism, and low impact development. Our focus on expansive problem-solving through new design tools and pattern languages address the public good in addressing the grand challenges that enlarge the design professions.

Greenmount West Bright Lane: Community Design Workshop
Becky Slogeris, Associate Director at the Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) will present Made You Look: Design as if People Mattered.
The Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is dedicated to demonstrating and promoting the value of design in advancing equity and social justice, and to inspiring and preparing the next generation of creative changemakers. In July 2018, a team of students and staff at the Center launched Made You Look, an ongoing initiative to create a safer Baltimore for pedestrians and bicyclists. In collaboration with community stakeholders and the support of Maryland Department of Transportation, Made You Look aims to make Baltimore a safer place for pedestrians and bicyclists by increasing visibility on two levels: (1) raising the visibility of individuals walking or biking in the city and (2) making local safety concerns visible to policymakers.
About the Presenters
Stephen Luoni
Stephen Luoni is Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC) where he is the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies and a Distinguished Professor of Architecture. UACDC is one of a few university-based teaching offices in the United States dedicated to delivering urban design work. His work at UACDC specializes in interdisciplinary public-interest design combining ecological, urban, and architectural design. UACDC has developed several place-making platforms to shape civic design and public policy, including work in missing middle housing, agricultural urbanism, transit-oriented development, context-sensitive street design, watershed urbanism, and low impact development.
Under his direction since 2003, UACDC’s work has won more than 175 awards for urban design, research, and education, including Progressive Architecture Awards, American Institute of Architects Honors Awards for Regional and Urban Design, Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism, American Society of Landscape Architecture Awards, Environmental Design Research Association Awards, American Architecture Awards, and the international LafargeHolcim Awards.
Luoni directed production of the center’s books: Houses for Aging Socially, Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan, and Low Impact Development: a design manual for urban areas—which has been translated into Chinese. His work has been published in Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architect, Places, and in international journals. He was appointed a 2012 United States Artists Ford Fellow. Luoni has a BS in Architecture from Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Becky Slogeris
Becky Slogeris is Associate Director at the Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she brings MICA students together with outside partners to advance equity and social justice through design. Her work touches many of the most pressing challenges in Baltimore – from hearing healthcare for older adults to underage drinking prevention, reproductive justice for women to smoke free homes, HIV stigma to pedestrian and bicyclist safety. She is a graduate of MICA with a BFA in graphic design and an MA in Social Design.
Quinton Batts & Vilde Ulset are Associates at MICA’s Center for Social Design and graduates of the MA in Social Design program. As leads of the Center’s Made You Look initiative in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Highway Safety Office, they work to equip communities with the tools needed to create safer places for pedestrians and bicyclists.

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.

Dead Architects Society Meeting
2021-03-08 17:00 - 18:00
March 8, 2021 at 5:00 pm | Free Event
In addition to discussing the ongoing celebration of 150th Anniversary of AIA Baltimore, Jillian Storms, AIA will virtually share how researchers can tap the vast treasure trove of primary materials on the Olmsteds’ work in Baltimore ahead of Olmsted 200 – the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth.
For zoom access email Jillian Storms, AIA at jillian.storms@maryland.gov
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, for call in information.

A vessel for change: Floating Office Rotterdam (Morgan State/Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee)
2021-03-08 13:00 - 14:20
Moored at Rijnhaven port in Rotterdam, the Floating Office Rotterdam (FOR) for the Global Center on Adaptation is a building for a new age. Built in timber, it’s off grid and carbon-neutral, it will float – rather than flood – if water levels rise due to climate change. Fun as well as functional, it also forms a key element in a newly redeveloped port environment by providing public waterside space – and even a swimming pool. Powerhouse Company designed the floating office to reflect the values of its inhabitants: the Global Center on Adaptation. This Rotterdam NGO aims at promoting planning, investment and technology to mitigate climate change. With its own solar energy source and water-based heat-exchange system, the Floating Office Rotterdam is completely self-sufficient.
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, and students.
About the speaker
As associate and design director at Powerhouse Company, Albert Takashi Richters heads the so-called pitch-team where initial design concepts are conceived ranging in scales from villas all the way up to urban strategies. In 2016 Albert joined Powerhouse Company after winning the competition for the Çanakkale broadcasting tower and visitor center in Turkey for which he was part of the collaborating design team at IND [Inter.National.Design].
In his work as an architect, Albert understands the architect’s role as one of mediation between parties. As such he has been involved in various competitions and large-scale urban strategies such as the recently presented Codrico Masterplan for the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam. A masterplan that demands a good balance between the place’s history, the city’s needs and the developer’s requirements by means of an architectural ensemble.
This holistic approach is one that is carried through in the architecture projects that Albert has been worked on, where an understanding of ambitions, feasibility and technical solutions becomes a way to mediate between design and a project’s further development. It is here where the Floating Office Rotterdam fits in as a design that is part of larger ambitions of the city whilst being a design that requires a representative and elegant building that is efficient, sustainable and of course, buoyant.
As a TU Delft graduate Albert has been a design tutor at the TU Delft for the Chair of Complex Projects under Prof. Kees Kaan and currently is tutoring at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design.
About Powerhouse Company
We give meaning to space through profound form and function.
We are Powerhouse Company, an award-winning architecture office based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Our story begins in 2005. Newly founded back then, we operated from kitchen tables in Rotterdam and Copenhagen. We have since grown into a multidisciplinary office of around 100 professionals, with international studios in Beijing, Oslo and Munich. Along the way we have won a number of prizes, including the Dutch Design Award, the Maaskant Prize and the World Architecture Festival Award.
Some things don’t change however. We are still led by founder Nanne de Ru, these days along with Paul Stavert, Stijn Kemper, Stefan Prins, Sander Apperlo (Munich) and Johanne Borthne (Oslo).
Our mission is to create meaningful spaces that enhance people’s lives.
We shape our projects through the collective intelligence of our dedicated team, plus our in-depth research into the historical and future context. We love to be close to our clients, thinking along with them so that we can embrace their social, economic and sustainability goals. Our multi-disciplinary team and collaborative ethos allow us to take full responsibility for any project, from sketch to construction.
We pride ourselves on the sensorial richness of our work, which results from our constant search for the sweet spot between constraints and possibilities. This process enables us to make conscious design decisions that enhance the subconscious design experience. Our approach to function is based on our belief that every inch in and around a building should enrich the overall sensation it creates. This is how we intertwine context, aesthetics and function. The outcome is the serene clarity that people sense in all our projects.
We are Powerhouse Company. We give meaning to space.
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.

History of the Edgar Allan Poe House
2021-03-05 13:00 - 13:30
Director Enrica Jang will provide a brief history of this important site and its significance to Edgar Allan Poe’s life.

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.
Tickets to all Virtual Histories are donation based. 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 between BAF, Baltimore Heritage, and the Poe Baltimore.
The remnant of a N. Amity Street duplex built in 1830’s is the last surviving home in the city of Baltimore where Edgar Allan Poe lived with his family. The house is a National Historic Landmark and a United for Libraries Literary Landmark, the first designated as such in the State of Maryland. The house, now a popular museum, is open to visitors and operates within the bounds of one of the oldest public housing projects in the United States. House museum Director, Enrica Jang, will provide a brief history of this important site, including the significance of the house to Edgar Allan Poe’s history. She will share how Poe House survived development in the early part of the 20th century and discuss the future of Poe House as further development continues in the modern day.

2021 Economic Aid Act Impact on Small Businesses (Better Business Bureau)
2021-03-04 08:30 - 09:30
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 has wide-ranging impacts on individuals and small businesses for this year and beyond, as well as retroactively for 2020.
Many business leaders have questions regarding how this legislation affects them and what they can do to leverage the financial opportunities within the new laws.
Representatives from the BBB Accredited accounting firm, KatzAbosch, will explore:

How the Act affects individuals, including unemployment benefits, charitable deductions, and expanded tax credits
Tax strategies for your business to accommodate these new legislative opportunities
About the Employee Retention Tax Credit for businesses, now available to PPP borrowers
Documentation best practices to mitigate issues for PPP compliance and reporting

Come ask questions and learn about how this legislation could benefit your business’s financial future.
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Aligning Budgets with Energy Conservation Goals
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIA Baltimore in “Aligning Budgets with Energy Conservation Goals”…

1 AIA LU/HSW
Identifying energy efficiency strategies while balancing real-world constraints such as budget can be challenging when designing a building. Take part in this interactive course that demonstrates how energy-efficiency goals—when addressed beginning early in design—can be successfully achieved, saving valuable resources such as design time and client budgets. The session begins with an overview of comparative analysis towards achieving energy conservation goals alongside factors that drive energy use. A real case study forming the basis of the charrette will be presented, including an overview of conservation strategies available for consideration. Participants will utilize live polling to assemble “bundles” of selected energy efficiency measures to play out what-if scenarios. Facilitators will run real-time energy modeling simulations to show the results of bundled measures and discuss the merits and challenges of each. Charrette results will be revealed alongside energy-savings trends, dispelling common misconceptions about the link between budget and energy savings. Actual energy performance of the case study building will be reviewed.
Learning Objectives
• Recognize the value early energy analysis provides to the design process and client decision-making
• Identify a range of energy-efficiency options and their impacts on energy outcomes during various stages of design
• Interpret building performance and financial information provided by energy analysis results
• Understand how decisions made early in design can increase energy savings opportunities

Baltimore Architecture Madness
2021-03-01 - 2021-04-12
Baltimore Architecture Foundation is celebrating AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary with a March Madness tournament of Baltimore buildings built between 1870 and 2021. Public voting will determine which buildings advance to each round of the tournament.
Congratulations to Architecture Madness Champion:
American Visionary Art Museum – Alex Castro, Rebecca Swanston, and Davis, Bowen & Friedel (1995), Diane Cho, Cho Benn Holback + Associates (2004)
View Championship Voting Results
VIEW THE ARCHITECTURE MADNESS BRACKET

Visit Our Championship Match-Up Page

View Early Round Voting Results:
See Round of 64 voting results
See Round of 32 voting results
See Sweet 16 Match-Up Page!
See Sweet Sixteen Voting Results
See Quarterfinals Voting Results

How We Selected the Building Nominations
BAF sought to include a diverse selection of buildings built over the course of AIA Baltimore’s history. 10 buildings were selected from each decade. AIA Baltimore and BAF committee leaders led the effort to select buildings using sources such as the AIA Baltimore Design Awards, The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture, and National Register listings. Public voting then determined which buildings were entered into the tournament.
The following rules were used:

Buildings must be in the Baltimore region (AIA Baltimore zone)

Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, Harford County, Carroll County, Cecil County

Buildings must be built within AIA Baltimore’s lifespan (1870-2021)
Buildings must be extant

For the most part, BAF avoided including single-family homes to protect the privacy of current homeowners.
Why Create an Architecture March Madness Tournament?
The tournament is intended to celebrate 150 years of architecture since the founding of AIA Baltimore in 1871. This is not a definitive ranking of the ‘best’ buildings in Baltimore. We want to see which buildings you love and learn why you love them. BAF’s overall goal is to spread more awareness about Baltimore architecture. As the tournament goes on we will be including articles about the buildings and from experts about the features of architecture that stand the test of time.
Please direct questions and comments to Nathan Dennies at ndennies@aiabalt.com.

Design for Distancing: Reopening Baltimore Together
2021-02-26 13:00 - 13:30
Learn how local designers are working to make public spaces safer during the pandemic

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.
Tickets to all Virtual Histories are donation based. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this. Donations from this program will also be split with Baltimore Heritage and the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Hear from three local design teams – Envirocollab, Graham Projects and Living Design Lab – who are working to adapt public spaces for COVID-19 and how Baltimore’s Design for Distancing program can serve as a model for other cities. This program is presented in partnership with Neighborhood Design Center, AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation, the Maryland Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (MD ASLA) and the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Design for Distancing is a program of the City of Baltimore, Office of the Mayor and the Baltimore Development Corporation, in partnership with local nonprofit the Neighborhood Design Center. Developed in the summer of 2020 in response to COVID-19 and the challenges faced by local businesses, the Design for Distancing program called on Baltimore’s world class design and public health communities to develop innovative approaches to safe, physically distant gathering.

Food Insecurity and Community Sustainability in Baltimore
2021-02-23 17:00 - 18:00
Sponsored by the AIA Baltimore Committee on the Environment + Resilience

One in eight people in Maryland, and one in four in Baltimore City, are food insecure. Many children in the Baltimore region are hungry when they arrive to school, and many have not eaten a full meal since they left school the day before.*
According to the USDA, as of 2016 there are at least 13 million children who live in food-insecure homes in the United States. Due to the pandemic, over 18 million children this year could be facing food insecurity.
Join us in a discussion with community leaders as we dialogue on current efforts and new innovative solutions to food insecurity and sustainability efforts in Baltimore.
Speakers:
Sha’Von Terrell
Black Church Food Security Network
Holly Freishtat
Food Policy Director
City of Baltimore │Department of Planning
Baltimore Food Policy Initiative
Monica Guerrero Vazquez, MPH, MS
Executive Director
Centro SOL
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Moderator: Peter Doo, FAIA, Architect and Principal, Doo Consulting
Thank You to our Generous Sponsor!
Doo Consulting
*Source: St. Vincent De Paul Food Service Program

Vanishing Heritage: Baltimore County’s Historic African American Communities (Preservation Alliance of Baltimore County)
2021-02-20 15:00 - 16:00
Preservation Alliance of Baltimore County presents: Carolyn Greenfield Adam, Historian & Preservation Alliance Board Member
Vanishing Heritage: Baltimore County’s Historic African American Communities
Baltimore County’s forty historic African American communities developed based on Maryland’s history of coexisting slave and free Black populations and the resulting legal and social segregation. The existence of these communities and their buildings helped to preserve their mostly overlooked history. But development and societal changes are adversely impacting these historic places. In rural Northern Baltimore County many have already disappeared leaving few traces. You have probably driven past or even lived nearby many of them without even realizing it. Those that do remain are important for what they can teach us about this largely undocumented part of Maryland’s history.
This presentation will give an overall view of that history and look at several of the remaining communities or structures in more detail.
Topic: Baltimore County’s Historic African American Communities
Time: Feb 20, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Achieving Registration Together: ARE 5.0 Study Sessions
2021-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Webinar
Join AIA Baltimore in preparing with these essential ARE study sessions, tips, and practice with fellow emerging professionals!

2021 is the year to get started or revisit your quest to becoming a registered architect!
To help you on the path to licensure, AIA Baltimore Emerging Professionals Committee organizes Achieving Registration Together (ART), a series of ARE study sessions with tips, discussions and practice led by fellow EPs who have recently completed the exams.*
Joining a virtual study group is an effective strategy to maximize your time as you prepare for your exam. Group members are stronger together because we each can share unique insights and talents and because we set goals together and hold each other accountable.
*Please note, during the COVID-19 pandemic all AIA Baltimore board, committee, and individual meetings have been rescheduled as virtual events.
Schedule 2021 ARE 5.0 Study Sessions
January 2020 – June 2021
$5 AIA members
$10.00 Non-members
Study sessions are scheduled for Saturdays from 10 AM to Noon and are hosted virtually on Zoom.
Practice Management (PcM) — January 23, 2020
Project Management (PjM) — February 20, 2020
Construction Evaluation (CE) — March 20, 2020
Programing and Analysis (PA) — April 17, 2020
Project Planning and Design (PPD) — May 8, 2020
Project Development and Documentation (PDD) — June 5, 2020

Olmsted Brothers Vision for Wyman Park and the Stony Run Stream Valley
2021-02-19 13:00 - 13:30
The presentation will focus on the Olmsted vision and what remains today.

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. A portion of donations will also go to Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL).
Wyman Park and the Stony Run Stream valley demonstrate the premier design work of the Olmsted Brothers from 1903 to 1947. The influential landscape architecture firm was established in 1898 by brothers John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., sons of the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The Municipal Art Society hired them to produce the City’s first comprehensive park system plan in 1904, the Development of Public Grounds for Greater Baltimore Report. The Wyman family had donated land for Johns Hopkins University in 1902 for use as a northern campus and that same year, the University gave the remainder of the land to the City of Baltimore to serve as a public park.
In the 1904 Report, the Olmsted Brothers identified Wyman Park, with its old beech trees and bold topography, as one of the finest single passages of scenery to be so near a large city and advocated for it to become a stream valley reserve and extended north and south Bookending the University to the southeast and fitting into the City grid is the intact Wyman Park Dell, a 16-acre public park noted for its steep enclosing slopes and a large, sweeping lower lawn, fully realized and conceived by the Olmsted Brothers. The presentation will focus on their vision and what remains today from Stony Run’s headwaters at the city’s northern border to where the stream joins the Jones Falls River to the south.
In addition to the Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage, Inc., this Virtual History is co-sponsored by the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) and the Maryland Society of Landscape Architects.
Presenters’ Bios:
Since 1986, Sandy Sparks, founding president of the FMOPL, is strongly committed to the non-profit organization’s involvement in streetscape, park system and watershed planning, in addition to its significant archive of Olmsted drawings. Since the 1990s, Sandy has served as the designer/editor of The Olmstedian monograph series focused on Olmsted designs in the Baltimore region. A strong believer in the value of stakeholder-based parks friends groups, Sandy launched the Friends of Wyman Park Dell (1983), Friends of Mt. Vernon Place (2000) and Friends of Stony Run (2011). With support from the Central Baltimore Partnership, she led the launch of the Friends of the Jones Falls, becoming the group’s first President in 2019. A graduate of the University of Illinois (BFA) and Maryland Institute of Art (MFA), Sandy remains an active leader in Charles Village, where she has lived since 1966 and continues to design/edit The Charles Villager.
Jillian Storms, AIA, is an architect in the School Facilities Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education. She once served on the Board of Directors and Inventory Committee of FMOPL. She is a former President of the BAF and now serves as co-chair of its research committee, the Dead Architects’ Society. She received BAF’s Roger Redden Award and Preservation Maryland’s George T. Harrison Volunteer Award in recognition of her extensive architectural research and public programming and has already graced us with a couple of Virtual Histories focused on that research

Finding Eutaw Farm: The Herring Run Archaeology Project
2021-02-12 13:00 - 13:30
Join us to learn about how Eutaw Farm was discovered and its role in Baltimore history

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.
Jason Shellenhamer and Lisa Kraus are the co-directors of the Herring Run Archaeology Project, a free public archaeology program in the City of Baltimore. Jason, Lisa and their team of volunteers have spent the last 6 years exploring the remains of Eutaw Farm, an 18th and 19th century estate located in modern Herring Run Park. The house at Eutaw Farm burned down in 1865, and vanished from memory, but it was never really gone. Join us to learn about how Eutaw Farm was discovered, the roles it played in Baltimore’s history, and the fascinating people who once called Eutaw home.

AIA Baltimore Equity Committee + Morgan State AIAS
2021-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Webinar
Architects, designers, volunteer list for a portfolio review of Morgan SA+P students.

Join the Equity Committee and AIAS and take part in a virtual portfolio review of projects by architecture students at Morgan State School of Architecture and Planning.
