AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

The Carbon Balance of the Built Environment
2021-11-18 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
Join the AIA Baltimore Committee on the Environment + Resiliency in examining the total carbon balance of the built environment
1.0 LU/HSW Available

Carbon in the built environment is a larger contributor to global emissions that affect the climate. All participants of the Paris Climate Agreement have to meet certain GHG reduction targets. Meeting these targets is a fundamental condition of the health and well being of humankind now and in the future.
For a long time building green meant to reduce the energy that a building needs to operate. With a focus on GHG emissions, this concern has shifted from energy to carbon emissions, for example by demanding that a building should be fully electrified even if it is very energy efficient.
The focus on carbon as the critical metric brought into focus all aspects of the built environment that are not operations. Looking at the total carbon balance of the built environment brings a lot of other aspects into view, that have been previously less discussed, including land use, site design, what happens after the lifecycle of the various elements that make up the built environment and “embodied carbon”. The latter term has recently become a hot topic in the sustainability discussion, for example at this year’s Green Build Conference.
This discussion will look at the total carbon balance of the built environment by looking at all major phases and components of carbon emissions and the fact that the lines between embodied and operational carbon are not always easy to understand. Much what winds up as embodied carbon in infrastructure, sites or buildings has gone through operational stages during production or transport or, at a minimum embodies operational energy from those stages.
The presentation includes these keywords: Total Carbon Footprint of Buildings, Life Cycle Assessment, Embodied Carbon, importance of embodied carbon vs operational carbon, what industries produce the most carbon, where in a building embodied carbon is most concentrated. It will also address the carbon footprint of land use and site design and the ability of land itself to be a carbon sink or a carbon emitter.
Participants will be able to:
1. Recognize all stages in design, construction, operation and de-construction which contribute GHG emissions
2. Distinguish between operational and embodied carbon
3. Identify which early land use and site design decisions influence embodied and operational carbon
4. Identify strategies to allow land to be a carbon sink instead of an emitter
5. Find and use tools to estimate embodied carbon and make early decisions that avoid high embodied carbon content
About the Presenter:
Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, ArchPlan, Inc.
Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, is president of ArchPlan Inc., an architecture and urban design firm in Baltimore specializing in community revitalization, adaptive re-use, historic preservation and transportation planning since 1992. He has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for using his profession to affect communities through advocacy.
Additionally, Philipsen is or has been engaged in the nonprofit sector such as a statewide growth management group which he helped found (1994-2016) an urban land trust for which he is president, a non-profit design center in Baltimore which he co-founded, as chair of the Urban Design Committee of both the local Chapter of the American Institute of Architects until 2017, (AIA) and the national Regional and Urban Design Committee of AIA (RUDC); He was for 10 years a member of a Borough Council in Stuttgart. He currently chairs the Housing Subcommittee of the Social Determinants of Health Task Force at UMB.
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Slave Streets, Free Streets: Early Baltimore On-Line
2021-12-10 13:00 - 13:30
Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin discusses her digital project “Slave Streets: Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore.”
About this event
This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the George Peabody Library.
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.
About this Presentation:
Anne Sarah Rubin discusses her digital project “Slave Streets: Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore.” This website allows users to virtually stroll the streets of Baltimore circa 1815, while exploring the lives of free blacks and enslaved workers. She will also discuss the on-line games her students made about the Pratt Street Riots of 1861, suggesting some of the ways that modern technology can reconstruct the past in newly engaging ways.
Professor Rubin joined the UMBC History Department in Fall 2000. Her teaching and research focus on the American Civil War, the U.S. South, nineteenth-century America, and digital history. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and America, which explores the way Americans have remembered Sherman’s March, was published in 2014. Her first book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868, won the 2006 Avery O. Craven book prize for the best book in Civil War history. The book focuses on Confederate nationalism and identity. She has also worked extensively with electronic media and is co-author of a CD-ROM, The Valley of the Shadow: The Eve of War. This project won the first eLincoln Prize for the best digital project in American Civil War History and The James Harvey Robinson Prize which is awarded biennially for the teaching aid which has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes.
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ESCALATING EXCELLENCE: A 5-part Framework for Quality Management
2022-01-27 08:00 - 17:00
1 LU Pending
A firm’s reputation is directly linked to the quality of its work. People are at the heart of engineering designs and have a lot to offer beyond the typical technical knowledge. The topic is concentrated on leading technical improvements to the design processes, providing participants a perspective on a framework they can immediately implement at their firm. It offers a focus on shattering dysfunctional and unproductive routines and seeks to cultivate opportunities to leverage the unique experiences, knowledge, and perspectives from each person on your team resulting in a higher quality deliverable that can reduce headaches and increase profits.
Learning Objectives:
• Describe the G.R.E.A.T. framework for implementing quality reviews of project deliverables.
• Recognize tactics and opportunities to leverage staff experiences in new and empowering ways.
• Explain the different team roles and responsibilities for successful oversight programs.
• Apply fundamental problem solving thoughts to convert ordinary experiences into valuable learning opportunties
About Our Speaker:
Brian Wagner, P.E. is an engineer who specializes in civil site design and plan implementation. In addition to a career spanning nearly two decades of civil engineering, he has experience in Emergency 911 Communications, law enforcement corrections, and fire/rescue services including K9 Search and Rescue. This different and diverse range of experiences has prepared Brian for his career, but also positioned him to be an excellent speaker with a wide range of valuable experiences. He strives to motivate others to change their world and wants to do the same for you and your organization.
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Hybrid Panelization (BEC Baltimore + AIA Baltimore)
2022-02-10 12:30 - 13:30
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Via webinar
12:30-1:30pm (Eastern)
1 AIA LU (HSW) will be provided
Off-site panelized construction is a growing and efficient method of production in commercial construction. Typically, panels are fabricated completely off-site and transported and installed on-site as a full wall system. However, due to potential irregularities in building materials, challenges with ensuring continuity of control functions between panels can arise, specifically related to air and water control. The Philly Live! Hotel and Casino opted for a hybrid approach combining pre-fabrication of the wall panels including the CFMF substrate, gypsum sheathing and air/water resistive membrane, allowing for appropriate sealing between panels on site prior to installation of the exterior insulation and cladding. Please join BEC-Baltimore and EDA Contractors in a discussion on this hybrid approach.
In this session, participants will learn to:

Differentiate the positives and negatives of typical ‘panelization’ versus hybrid ‘panelization’;
Recognize the sequence coordination involved in constructing a complicated exterior panel rainscreen wall system;
Examine virtual design tools and functionality needed to synchronize the installer and design team; and
Appraise multiple virtual design tools in realistic scenarios in an actual case study during a pandemic.

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Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities (Jerome Gray/Zico Lopes)
2022-02-15 12:00 - 13:00
Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. (More information about this conversation series)
The February 15, 2022 edition features:

Jerome Gray Jerome C. Gray Architect (JCGA) (Baltimore)
Zico Lopes Spatial Codes – Studio for Architecture & Inclusion (Rotterdam)
Moderator: Roberto Rocco, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Technical University Delft
Host: Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

TIME & REGISTRATION
12:00pm EST Maryland time, which is 18.00 CET Netherlands time. Each speaker talks about their work, followed by panel discussion and Q&A.
Open to the public. Advance registration required.
The webinar will be conducted in English language.
AUDIENCE
The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, community organizers, social enterprises, city planners, policymakers, and professors and students of architecture and urban design.
About the speakers
Jerome Gray Jerome C. Gray Architect (JCGA)
Jerome Gray founded Jerome C. Gray Architect (JCGA) in 2013. Mr. Gray is a licensed architect in Maryland, Michigan and Washington, DC with over 30 years of experience in design and planning. Mr. Gray is an artist and historian who has documented the history of architects, buildings and sites through exhibitions, publications, seminars and lectures. He has served as a jurist and adviser for Morgan State’s Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies over the last decade. He was born, raised and educated in the “D” (Detroit, MI).
Jerome C. Gray Architect website
Zico Lopes Spatial Codes – Studio for Architecture & Inclusion
Zico Lopes is an architect and spatial researcher born (1983) on the Cape Verde Islands and raised in Rotterdam-West.
After high school he studied Architecture at TU Delft. Before graduating from the University in 2009, he did a semester at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and attempted the studio “Revitalizing Brightmoor, Detroit“ under the supervision of Prof. Craig Wilkins. After his graduation he started working as a freelance architect. He been involved in several projects in the Netherlands and abroad, including National Art Museum in Mindelo Cabo Verde in collaboration with Ramos Castellano Architects.
In 2018 he founded Spatial Codes – Studio for Architecture & Inclusion, an architecture studio that deals with the relationship between humans and their immediate living environment with the aim of creating spatial interventions that add values and at the same time amplify the sense of space, place and time for both the environment as well as the user(s).
Spatial Codes website
Roberto Rocco, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Technical University Delft
Dr. Roberto Rocco is specialized in governance and policy for urban sustainability. He deals with the concept of justice in spatial planning via political economy and philosophy, and works as a consultant for the Union for the Mediterranean and the European Commission.

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Baltimore + Rotterdam | EastWing + IND
2022-02-22 12:00 - 13:00
Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. (More information about this conversation series)
The February 22, 2022 edition features:

Evan Wivell EastWing Architects (Baltimore)
Felix Madrazo IND [Inter.National.Design] (Rotterdam)
Moderator: coleman a. jordan, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P)
Host: Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

TIME & REGISTRATION
12:00pm EST Maryland time, which is 18.00 CET Netherlands time. Each speaker talks about their work, followed by panel discussion and Q&A.
Open to the public. Advance registration required.
The webinar will be conducted in English language.
AUDIENCE
The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, community organizers, social enterprises, city planners, policymakers, and professors and students of architecture and urban design.
About the speakers
Evan Wivell EastWing Architects
Evan Wivell, AIA is Principal Architect at EastWing Achitects. He is a registered Architect with over 15 years of professional experience in the architecture and construction industry. His work includes a range of scales and styles, from large commercial projects to small residential installations. Evan is particularly interested in the realization of meaningful spaces and places that reflect an intimate relationship between creator and consumer. Before forming East Wing Design + Build, Evan spent time as a musician, technical draftsman, residential builder, and staff designer for Washington, DC based Travis Price, Architects.
EastWing Architects website
Felix Madrazo IND [Inter.National.Design]
Felix Madrazo (Saltillo, Mexico 1972) is an architect, urbanist, researcher and lecturer. He is a founding partner of the architecture studio IND [Inter.National.Design], co-founder of the research collective Supersudaca and lecturer in various universities including TU Delft /The Why Factory. He studied architecture in La Salle in Mexico City and has a architecture master’s degree from the Berlage Institute. He is co-author with Prof. Winy Maas of the books City Shocks and Copy Paste done at the Why Factory and published by Nai010 Press.
IND website
coleman a. jordan Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning
coleman a. jordan [ebo] is an Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning’s Graduate Architecture Program. He is the Principal of studio caj.e, an interdisciplinary research design practice, and co-founder of a not-for-profit organization in Canada, called corners. His projects focus on social justice and development in underrepresented communities in both domestic and international contexts. His research investigates the implications, past and present, on the spaces and identity of the Black Atlantic, stemming from the historical “Black Atlantic (En)Slaved Trade.” Lastly, he exhibits works using multimedia platforms to expose social underpinnings of architecture and design. Most recently, he curated the exhibition, WE the 7: A Conversation with the African Diaspora, at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in Venice, Italy.
About this webinar series
This webinar is one of a series of design conversations with Baltimore + Rotterdam architects and urban designers.
See other webinars in this series
Series is coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, with assistance from Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC).
Event Partners: AIA Baltimore ; Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)
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Remembering Laurel Cemetery
2022-04-01 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 omiles@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
About this Presentation
Laurel Cemetery was incorporated in 1852 as Baltimore’s first nondenominational cemetery for African Americans. It quickly became a popular place of burial for people across Black Baltimore’s socioeconomic spectrum, including 230 Black Civil War veterans and notables such as Civil Rights activist Reverend Harvey Johnson.
In 1958 and after a series of lawsuits failed to prevail in the courts, Laurel Cemetery was leveled. Today it is the site of the Belair-Edison Crossing Shopping Center, and home to several businesses. However, many current patrons and nearby residents have no knowledge of the site’s former purpose and significance. Join Dr. Isaac Shearn of the Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project to learn more about the important history of the site and how we can preserve its memory.
About Our Presenter
Isaac Shearn earned his PhD in 2014 at the University of Florida and is an adjunct professor at the Community College of Baltimore County, University of Baltimore, and Coppin State University. His research is on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Caribbean and South America, with a focus on public archaeology, developing inclusive and participatory methods. His recent efforts have been oriented toward integrating three-dimensional photogrammetric mapping techniques with more traditional archaeological methods.
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The Society of These Young Men: Black Ship Caulkers in Antebellum Baltimore
2022-04-15 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 omiles@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
About Our Presentation
Baltimore’s most famous ship caulker, Frederick Douglass, described his fellow Black caulkers as “a circle of honest and warm-hearted friends” and declared that he “owe[d] much to the society of these young men.” Join us to learn more about the lives of the ship caulkers and their families through the story of Israel Jones, a president of the Caulkers Trade Union Association. Jones and others worked in the middle of the 1800s to build a strong Black community with philanthropic organizations, education/debating societies, and churches. His story is one of the many that the Friends of the Ship Caulkers’ Houses and the Preservation Society will tell through the ongoing stabilization, rehabilitation, and interpretation of the Ship Caulkers’ Houses at 612-614 S Wolfe Street in Fell’s Point. Join architectural historian Sarah Groesbeck to learn about Israel Jones, the Caulkers’ Houses, and more.
About Our Presenter
Sarah Groesbeck has a B.A. in Art History from Virginia Tech and an M.A. in Historic Preservation from The George Washington University. She is an architectural historian with the Maryland Environmental Service and MDOT State Highway Administration and a board member of the Friends of the Ship Caulkers Houses and the Preservation Society.
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The Evolution of Olmsted's Sudbrook Park
2022-04-29 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 omiles@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
About this Presentation
On Friday April 29, 2022, author Melanie Anson will give a Virtual History on the evolution of Sudbrook Park, a planned community in northwest Baltimore designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.. Olmsted, often seen as America’s first landscape architect, conceived this “suburban village” with curved roads and open green spaces, traits that set the community apart from its contemporaries. Portions of Sudbrook Park are registered on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a Baltimore County Historic District.
Melanie Anson is the author of the scholarly work “Olmsted’s Sudbrook: The Making of a Community.” She will be joined by landscape architect, Deane Rundell, FASLA, President Sudbrook Park Community Organization. They will be giving a close-to-sold-out tour of the neighborhood on Sunday April 24 for the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes as part of the Olmsted 200 celebration of the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr’s birth.
Come celebrate the heritage of this unique Baltimore community with us online!
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AIA Baltimore & AIA Maryland Legislative Session Recap
2022-05-24 17:00 - 18:00
Join AIA Baltimore and AIA Maryland for a Legislative session recap. Come and hear what passed, how it will impact future designs, and what upcoming changes you can help your clients work through.
Big topics include:
*The return of the Climate Solutions Now act—what passed, what does it do
*Other notable legislation for buildings
*How To Get Involved In The Legislative Process as a Citizen for 2023
Four learning objectives:
*Learn about Maryland legislative process
*Learn about specific bills that passed, what requirements are coming for buildings
*Learn about citizen involvement and testimony, how AIA participated in this session
*Learn about how to bring a great idea into a bill
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The Olmsted Firm's Evolving Relationship with the Roland Park Company
2022-06-03 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 omiles@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
About Our Presentation
On Friday June 3, 2022, author Ann G. Giroux will give a Virtual History on “The Olmsted Firm’s Evolving Relationship with the Roland Park Company” starting at 1:00pm. The Roland Park Company, headed by Edward H. Bouton, collaborated with the Olmsted firm on numerous projects both in and out of Baltimore’s historic Roland Park Company District. This professional relationship, which spanned several decades, produced dramatically different landscape treatments, reflecting Bouton’s growing experience, confidence and stature, evolving trends in suburban residential design, and financial considerations. This program will show through pictures and plans how the Olmsteds adapted their planning principles to meet Bouton’s requirements for the communities of Roland Park (1890s), Guilford (1910s) and Homeland (1920s)
About Our Presenter
Formerly a consultant for historic projects in the State of Maryland, author Ann G. Giroux now spends her time researching and writing about The Roland Park Company District in, northern Baltimore City . She is an avid historic home and garden enthusiast who alternates between digging in her Guilford garden and digging through dusty archival records. Ann has served as a member of the Guilford Association Board of Managers, of the Guilford Architectural Review Committee, and of the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks and Landscapes’ Board of Directors.
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Baltimore + Rotterdam: Designing Cities Conversation Series
2023-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Hosted on Zoom
This series is a sequel to the previous webinar series from spring 2022. The spring 2023 theme is: Infrastructure as a Barrier. The 2023 series intends to critically look at the theory gained through the 2022 series and provide practical input to current urban challenges.
Architects, designers, and researchers from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), discuss “How do architects design spaces for people?” together with the audience — in 4 round tables facilitated by international moderators. Each round table dynamically explores designs that value infrastructures, cities, public spaces, communities, and individuals. Each webinar will explore a specific theme. This is a unique opportunity to hear how different types of firms approach design in two cities with similar historical legacies (working class cities with port industries).
This series is designed and coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.
Dates: Every Tuesday from February 14 to March 7, 2023, 12pm ET (US) / 18.00 CET (NL)
Format: Online webinar — moderated panel discussion and Q&A.
AIA continuing education credits: 1.0 AIA LU|HSW per webinar.
Registration: Admission is free but donations to support student travel to Rotterdam are appreciated (donation page accessible via link above).
February 14 Urban Ecology: Approaches for Environmental + Social Justice
Urbanization is domesticating our ecosystems. Cities are spatially heterogeneous, complex adaptive systems. Furthermore, contemporary cities tend to be big in size and ecological footprint, fast in growth in population and land, and irregular in landscape configuration. Although the dynamic trajectory of cities can never be controlled, its evolution can be guided toward desirable directions through planning and design that are based on urban ecological knowledge and sustainability approaches. Register here.
February 21 Collective Reuse: The Art of Reuse through Community Participation
Adaptive Reuse is the use of buildings and materials for purposes other than originally intended. Although adaptive reuse has a long tradition in arts and crafts, more recently environmental awareness and design for sustainability have revitalized the role of a trash-to- treasures approach, providing a wide array of contemporary urban design which is an important part of today’s city sustainability. In this session, we will explore the roles of adaptive reuse in the urban environment, focusing on repurposed objects (also) found in urban public spaces in order to (re)define the city. Register here.
February 28 The Generous City: Infrastructure and the Highway to Nowhere

Cities and infrastructure can have an incredible impact on the lives of people. In the 1950s, the United States undertook an ambitious national interstate highway project with the goal of building roads to connect American cities. The design was, however, intertwined with racial prejudice creating segregation and impoverishing communities. In the Netherlands, cities like Rotterdam were rebuilt after the war and focused on cars as opposed to people. Urban highways have largely had a negative impact on urban life. This is the opposite of a “generous city”. In this session, architects from the Netherlands and the US will discuss how cities and their infrastructures can consciously contribute to empower people through generosity-by-design. Register here.
March 7 The Power of Design! Working with Stakeholders to Design Human Spaces
In order to improve the way we live, we ought to design healthier and safer cities and smarter buildings. To do so, collaboration is key. Our world faces challenges that are too great to be tackled by a single discipline. Baltimore and Rotterdam, like many cities around the world, face challenges related to food segregation, water resiliency, and poverty (also connected to homelessness), to name a few. More than ever, inviting users, customers, governance, and other stakeholders into the process of design is fundamental. These “new” stakeholders need to be brought in as active co-designers, to confront the big issues and develop actionable ways to improve experiences and to co-create new solutions. How can we, the designers, guarantee the welfare of citizens, through the creation of the built environment? Collaboration is discovering and using unique perspectives and benefiting from collective exploration. Register here.

Demystifying AIA Fellowship
2023-04-18 12:00 - 13:30
April 18, 2023
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Virtual
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Join us for an informal session on preparation for the AIA Fellows application process. Emerging Professionals are encouraged to attend.
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.
Questions?
For questions please email Suzanne Frasier at Suzanne.Frasier@morgan.edu
