Can Land Laws Be Fixed? A Look Inside the DesegregateCT Movement
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual – Online
Learn how this coalition is organizing to create a more equal, integrated society, foster inclusive growth, and protect the environment. Founder Sara Bronin, AIA, will describe groundbreaking education, research, and advocacy efforts being undertaken and arm you with tools to use in your own communities.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
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Brent Leggs: Building a True National Identity
2021-03-01 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual – Online
Brent Leggs is the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Envisioned as a social movement for justice, equity, and reconciliation, the Action Fund promotes the role of cultural preservation in telling the nation’s full history, and empowers activists, entrepreneurs, artists, and civic leaders to advocate on behalf of African American historic places.
A Harvard University Loeb Fellow and author of Preserving African American Historic Places, which is considered the “seminal publication on preserving African American historic sites” by the Smithsonian Institution, Brent is a national leader in the U.S. preservation movement and the 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award. He is a Senior Advisor and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s graduate program in Historic Preservation.
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Plumbing for Architects
2021-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Plumbing … it’s often a last consideration but there are many factors that can affect overall project design. Know these factors first and save time and money.
Learn about various types of plumbing fixtures and installation requirements, code requirements, user needs, budget considerations, and LEED Water Reduction and it’s relation to plumbing fixture selection.
Learning Objectives:
– Plumbing fixtures affecting design
– Various types of plumbing fixtures and installation requirements
– Plumbing fixtures and a combination of code requirements including:
* User Needs
* Aesthetic Preference
* Construction Conditions
* Budget Considerations
– LEED Water Reduction and it’s relation to plumbing fixture selection
Presented in partnership with GPI
Earn 1 AIA LU|HSW, IDCEC 1 CEU/HSW
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Landscapes of Learning: The Heights Building
2021-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
A Panel Discussion with Bjarke Ingels Group, Leo A. Daly, Arlington Public Schools, Silman, and Gilbane
Join the AIA Northern Virginia Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) and AIA Virginia at noon on Friday, March 5, 2021 for a virtual tour and panel discussion about the new Heights Building, an Arlington Public School (APS) facility in Northern Virginia.
The structural masterpiece is inspired by the values and educational mission of APS and serves as a model example for innovative solutions to school design. Green terraces at each floor become an extension of the classrooms, creating an indoor-outdoor learning landscape for both students and teachers — an educational oasis rather than a traditional school setting, addressing the academic needs of the school’s program while forming a vertical community within its dense urban context.
Explore the AIA Northern Virginia Virtual Tour site. Register online.
The panel discussion features speakers from Bjarke Ingels Group, Leo A. Daly, Arlington Public Schools, Silman, and Gilbane.
About the Panel
Tony-Saba Shiber AIA | Senior Architect, Designer at Bjarke Ingels GroupDaniel Sundlin | Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group
Aran Coakley, AIA | Project Manager, Bjarke Ingels GroupTim Duffy, AIA, LEED AP, CSI | Vice President, Leo A. DalyAndrew Graham, AIA | Associate, Leo A. DalyDr. Casey Robinson | Principal, Arlington Public SchoolsJason Myers, PE, SE, LEED AP BD+C | Associate, SilmanTyler Swartzwelder, DBIA, LEED AP | Senior Project Executive, GilbaneJenine Kotob, AIA | Chair, AIA Northern Virginia CAE

Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW. This event is free.
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To learn more or get involved with CAE NoVa email cae@aianova.org. Follow CAE NoVa on Instagram to stay up-to-date with the latest news and activities.

Equity in the Built Environment: Improving Racial Equity through Greener Design
2021-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Understand how architects across the U.S. are working to improve the environmental and social sustainability of communities by protecting neighborhoods from gentrification, installing parks and public art exhibits in urban centers, and creating state-of-the-art libraries in financially challenged neighborhoods. Antoine Bryant, Assoc. AIA, project manager and business development at the Houston office of Moody Nolan; Gabrielle Bullock, FAIA, a principal and the director of global diversity at Perkins&Will in Los Angeles; and Rico Quirindongo, AIA, formerly a principal at DLR Group, now Deputy Director for City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development; discuss their work in these cities. Projects discussed include Midtown Public Square in Seattle; Destination Crenshaw in Los Angeles; and the Library Learning Center in Houston.
Improving Racial Equity Through Greener Design is based on the American Institute of Architects’ Blueprint for Better campaign to transform the day-to-day practice of architecture to achieve a zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, just, and equitable built environment.
This program continues the National Building Museum’s Equity in the Built Environment series of conversations that focus on how buildings, landscapes, interiors, and streets can be the cause of—and, more important, the cure for—social and racial disparities.

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Optimized Acoustics
2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Complying with the more stringent acoustic performance criteria in the standards, guidelines, and building rating systems has become more challenging in today’s predominantly larger and more open commercial interiors. This is in part due to trends towards more reflective floor materials, fewer walls, and an abundance of glass. Higher amounts of sound absorption are required to limit reverberation, increase speech intelligibility and prevent widespread noise disturbances. This presentation will educate designers on achieving the required amount of noise control using high-performance, modular, acoustic ceilings. In locations where transmission of noise from one room into another needs to be prevented, the use of ceilings alone as sound blockers, for example when the demising wall stops at the ceiling level, no longer complies with the standards, guidelines and rating systems. This presentation will educate designers on blocking sound using walls and lightweight plenum barriers so that their designs comply not only with user expectations, but also the higher sound isolation criteria in the acoustics standards and guidelines.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
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Presented in collaboration with Rockfon.

AEC Spring Symposium
2021-03-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Virtual – Online
The 2021 AEC Virginia Spring Symposium is a virtual event hosted by the Virginia chapters of the American Council of Engineering Companies, the American Institute of Architects, and the Associated General Contractors on March 17-19. Its vision is to bridge together architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to collaborate, create, and build for the future. The symposium will give participants a preview of the 2022 in-person conference being planned for Virginia Beach.
Speakers:
Chris Chmura, Ph.D.
Founder of Chmura Economics & Analytics
The Honorable Ralph Northam
The 73rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
The Honorable Emmett W. Hanger, Jr.
Senate of Virginia – 24th District
Finance and Appropriations Committee
The Honorable Mark D. Sickles
Virginia House of Delegates – 43rd District
Vice-Chair of Appropriations Committee
Jason El Koubi
Executive Vice President of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Registration is now closed. Contact info@aiava.org for more information.

Insulated Metal Panels: The Perfect Envelope Solution
2021-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
This course reduces a relatively complex subject into practical concepts for the building designer.
Review the physics of building envelopes, including hygrothermal loads, control layers, climate zones and cladding functions.
Study the importance of control layer continuity at wall, roof, and slab connections.
Look at how IMPs perform the same functions as multi-component wall systems through the use of panels joints, sealants and an insulating core.
Describe the concept of the “Perfect/Universal Wall,” and how to utilize the proper ordering of wall components to greatly simplify wall design in all climate zones.
This course also touches on Energy codes, including their impact on the use of “Perfect/Universal Wall” designs.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
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Presented in collaboration with Metl-Span.

D.C.'s Midcentury Master: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Livable City
2021-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Learn about Chloethiel Woodard Smith, FAIA (1910–1992), an American modernist architect and urban planner whose career was centered in Washington, D.C. She was the sixth woman inaugurated into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, and at the peak of her practice led the country’s largest woman-owned architecture firm. Neil Flanagan, architectural designer and writer, Peter Sefton, independent architectural historian, and Catherine Zipf, architectural historian and author, discuss the career and legacy of Smith, whose work in the District includes Harbour Square, Capitol Park Apartments and Townhouses, and a study of new uses for the Pension Building, now the National Building Museum. The program is moderated by Susan Piedmont-Palladino, director, Washington Alexandria Architecture Center and consulting curator, National Building Museum.
Begin your introduction to Chloethiel Woodard Smith by attending Washington Walks Women’s History Month 2021 Virtual Experiences, which features a virtual tour of some of her projects in Washington, D.C., in a program that airs at 12:30 pm on this day.
Learn more and purchase your tickets online.

ARE Exam Prep Series
2021-03-20 10:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-17 10:00 - 16:00
Each year the AIA Northern Virginia Young Architects Forum organizes seminars for those preparing to take the Architect Registration Exam® (ARE). Our award-winning series offers the opportunity to learn from a professional in each subject area and use that knowledge in preparation for the ARE. This year’s series runs through July. Session will be held virtually.
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J.E.D.I. IRL (Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Real Life)
2021-03-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
As a follow-up to the WIA 2020 EDI panel discussions, the newly formed WIA J.E.D.I. task force invites you to join us for a series of informal off the record discussions of how firms are tackling J.E.D.I. initiatives. This open forum is for people to exchange ideas of how their firms are approaching J.E.D.I.
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1 x 1: The Potential of the Singular
2021-03-23 09:00 - 16:00, 2021-03-24 09:00 - 16:00, 2021-03-25 09:00 - 16:00, 2021-03-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – Online
The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) is hosting the 2021 Symposium on March 23-26.
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West Virginia Construction and Design Online Expo
2021-03-24 09:00 - 14:30, 2021-03-25 09:00 - 14:30, 2021-03-26 09:00 - 14:30 | Virtual – Online
Registration is now open for the 2021 West Virginia Construction and Design Online EXPO.
AIA West Virginia presents 3 days of keynote speakers and seminars.
Earn up to 4.5 AIA LU | HSW and 5 LU | Elective
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College of William & Mary Architecture Alumni Exhibition Panel Discussion
2021-03-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual – Online
The Art & Art History Department of the College of William & Mary presents a virtual panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition “30 Years of Architecture: 1991-2021 Alumni Exhibition.” The panelists who are participating in the discussion will be three previous students of Ed Pease, Architect, W&M Senior Lecturer, and curator of this show.
Panelists:
Kareem Obey, Workshop AD, Seattle, Washington
Alyson Fletcher, Nelson Nygaard, Boston, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Elberfeld, Teltta, Boston, Massachusetts
Moderator:
David Stemann, AIA, Stemann | Pease Architecture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Asbestos, Lead Based Paint and Mold Awareness
2021-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom Virtual Meeting
Provides the participant with an introduction to asbestos-containing materials and lead-based paint and what issues may arise during renovations. The following general questions will be answered: what is asbestos and lead-based paint? What are the federal regulations governing asbestos and lead-based paint? What can I do if asbestos or lead-based paint is present on a project I am working on?
Earn 1 AIA LU|HSW; BOMI credit also available
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Art & Art History Distinguished Lecture Series presents Architect, Zena Howard
2021-03-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual – Online
The W&M Department of Art & Art History Spring 2021 Distinguished Lecture Series presents:

Zena Howard, a Principal and Managing Director of the North Carolina practice of global architecture and design firm Perkins&Will. An award-winning architect, strategist, mentor and team builder, Zena is known for her success leading visionary, complex, and culturally-significant projects.
These achievements include the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In her role as Senior Project Manager, Zena led a multi-firm and multi-stakeholder team along an eight-year journey from its underfunded concept phase to final occupancy and celebrated public success. Other noteworthy projects include The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, NC, the District of Columbia Anacostia and Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Libraries in Washington, D.C., the Motown Museum expansion in Detroit, MI, and urban remembrance projects for Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver, BC, Greenville Town Common in Greenville, NC, and Destination Crenshaw in Los Angeles, CA.
Through her work with private and public institutions, Zena engages disenfranchised stakeholders, unites disparate parties, and infuses cultural meaning into all her projects. Her leadership embraces cross-disciplinary collaboration as an essential tool for success, integrating a broad range of experience and specialized knowledge such as urban design, public policy, history, economics, and anthropology into the architectural process.
A native of North Carolina, Zena earned her undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a LEED-Accredited Professional, and a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects.
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Spotlight on Design: Walter Hood
2021-03-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Hear Walter Hood, founding principal and creative director of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, describe how the elevation of neglected spaces in urban neighborhoods through landscape interventions and public art offers opportunities to address stories of marginalized communities. He also discusses his book Black Landscapes Matter, a collection of essays co-authored with Grace Mitchell Tada, which acknowledges the widespread erasure of black geographies and cultural landscapes, and sheds important light on recognizing and honoring their significance.
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Book Talk: Chateau La Coste - Art and Architecture in Provence
2021-04-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Take a tour of Chateau La Coste, a unique property in Provence, France, that combines sculptural artworks by leading contemporary artists alongside pavilions and buildings by some of the world’s best-known architects, all within the grounds of a working vineyard. A privately owned winery, Chateau La Coste makes its grounds, artwork, and architecture available to the general public for a small fee (and, often, freely to visiting school groups). Architectural photographer Alan Karchmer and Robert Ivy, FAIA, CEO of the American Institute of Architects, talk about their book Chateau La Coste: Art and Architecture in Provence, which Ivy co-authored and for which Karchmer was the commissioned photographer. Beth Broome, managing editor of Architectural Record, moderates a discussion about this unusual combination of landscape, architecture, and art, of private industry and public benefit.
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Enduring Beauty: High Performance Open Jointed Cladding Systems
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
This course encourages participants to think outside the box and consider using polymer cladding as a material to create aesthetic, enduring, and moisture resistant rainscreens that will better protect buildings and its occupants.
We will discuss other more commonly used products and the issues faced with each. We will also consider life cycle costs of various cladding options, including polymer. Finally, participants will leave with a thorough understanding of how to install polymer extrusions as cladding. We will explore doing so on different substrates, detailing around openings, transitions between differing cladding materials and how to handle joints between cladding components with the goal of using polymer to promote health, safety, and welfare of both people and the environment.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
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Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion: A Facilitated Discussion
2021-04-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual – Online
Presented by AIA Potomac Valley in collaboration with AIA Northern Virginia Women in Architecture.
This session provides an opportunity to learn about identity-based inequities, to discuss their impacts, and to explore what we each can do to combat oppression and injustice. AIAPV has retained Natalie Burke, President and CEO of CommonHealth ACTION, an expert in developing people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.
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Design for Water: Resilience and Discovery
2021-04-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual – Online
This session explores how design engages with water, conservation, water quality protection, and how resilient design responds to rainfall, storms, and flooding. We will also discuss how design offers teachable moments of water as a resource and mutable element.
As designers focused on designing equitable and resilient educational spaces, this session explores how design engages with water, one of earth’s precious resources: water conservation and protection of water quality at the building, campus and regional scales; resilient design responses to rainfall, storms, flood and inundation; design that offers teachable moments about water as resource and mutable element; strategies that promote a sense of discovery and delight about water; fostering a relationship between designers, users and operators for project performance.
Confirmed presenters:
Phoebe Crisman, AIA, UVA, Director of Global Environments + Sustainability Major
Erin English, PE, LEED AP, Practice Leader, Biohabitats
Ole Schrøder, Partner at TREDJE NATUR/THIRD NATURE, a Copenhagen-based multi-disciplinary design firm
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2021 AIA Virginia Prize Panel Discussion
2021-04-16 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual – Online
The 2021 AIA Virginia Prize competition — which took place over the weekend of Jan. 22–25 — was inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative’s Community Remembrance Project and challenged students to design a pillar installation for the City of Alexandria’s Market Square. Each school’s faculty reviewed the submissions and sent up to 10 finalists for final consideration by the jury
In a new initiative this year, AIA Virginia is convening a post-competition conversation with the students from the 4 schools, the jurors, and designers from the region. The virtual panel discussion takes place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 16.
Register to see the winning submissions, hear jury comments, and join the discussion.
Submitted for AIA CES approval.

The Landscapes of Frank Lloyd Wright
2021-04-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Discover how Frank Lloyd Wright, usually known solely as an architect, considered the landscape as an integral element in his work. Mark Bayer, Bayer Landscape Architects, PLLC; Stuart Graff, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Jennifer Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, Columbia University; Justin W. Gunther, Falling Water; and moderator Stephen Morris, National Park Service, discuss how and why the work of Frank Lloyd Wright was sensitively integrated within their natural landscape settings and enhanced by their designed landscapes. The discussion includes several component buildings of the joint Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site announced in 2019 as the first modern architecture designation in the United States, and the recently restored landscape of the Martin House.
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Sustainable Development & Hot-Dip Galvanizing
2021-04-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual – Online
This 1-hour online seminar will introduce you to the basics of hot-dip galvanizing steel for sustainable development. Hot-dip galvanizing (HDG) is a proven steel corrosion protection system that transcends time with minimal economic or environmental impact. Not only does hot-dip galvanizing provide decades of maintenance-free longevity, but its primary components, zinc and steel, are natural, abundant, and 100% recyclable, making hot-dip galvanized steel an infinitely renewable building material.
Earn 1 AIA LU | HSW, plus available ACEC/RCEP credit.
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