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VANOMA ARE Series: Practice Management Exam Prep
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join VANOMA for our ARE study group series, led by Joel Mieses. For this session, we will be focused on the Practice Management Exam. Please register in advance ‒ registration information coming to www.vanoma.org/events

VANOMA Spotlight: Sonny Joy-Hogg
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:00
Join VANOMA for our upcoming virtual spotlight event on February 16th at 7pm featuring Sonny Joy-Hogg ‒ Project Architect at Baskervill in Richmond, Virginia and recent recipient of the AIA Virginia 2022 Emerging Professional Award.
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Cultivating Your Path to Fellowship (Session 4)
2023-02-15 12:00 - 13:00
Cultivating Your Path to Fellowship
Reverse Engineering the FAIA Submission Process to Develop Meaning & Purpose in Practice
Four, 1-hour sessions starting Wednesday, January 25th.
4 AIA LU | Elective
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Too often AIA members approach achieving Fellowship at the end of a significant phase of their career. The result is the demographic composition of the College of Fellows remains predominantly older, white males. These sessions seek to elevate diversity in the College’s ranks by teaching young and mid-career architects to reverse engineer their path to Fellowship using the AIA’s Sample Application, a specialized outline, storytelling techniques, and writing basics to define and amplify their voices and accomplishments. This method advances meaning and intention in attendees’ career paths and, ultimately, will bring younger and more diverse professionals to advancing the mission and leadership of the College of Fellows and its grant funding activities.
Mapping a career around AIA Fellowship provides a path to positively impact others and elevate the value, potential and reach of the many career paths architects take. Attendees will gain inspiration on finding time for introspection, planning and preparation to explore, define and elevate meaning in practice.
Learning Objectives

Gain detailed understanding of AIA Fellowship & the process of submission.
Learn about the value of AIA Fellowship for the advancement of individuals and their work.
Acquire skills to develop storylines and narratives to capture career milestones and projects.
Take-away resources on story structure and guidelines for better professional writing

Passing the Torch Series
2023-02-14 12:00 - 13:00
Passing the Torch Series
Presented by VANOMA + NCNOMA
Free Virtual Events
In honor of Black History Month, please join this two-part series presented by NCNOMA + VANOMA.
Feb. 14: Part 1 will feature Wendell T. Green, Owner of WTG Design Architects in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Feb. 23: Part 2 will feature Kimberly M. Mobley, Project Architect for Brownstone Construction Group in Charlotte, NC.
Learn more.

AIA Leadership Summit (formerly Grassroots)
2023-02-14 08:00 - 2023-02-17 17:00
After two years of virtual gatherings, AIA’s premier chapter leadership training event returns to Washington, DC, February 14–17 with a new name and an exceptional program. Join us at AIA Leadership Summit 2023 (formerly Grassroots) for four days of vital leadership training designed to help you be an effective leader in your chapter, firm, and community.
AIA Leadership Summit brings together AIA volunteer leaders, chapter executives, and chapter staff across regions, specialties, firm sizes, and career stages. This year’s theme—Architecture’s Generations at Work—focuses on building bridges to create a better world and a stronger profession, skills you can apply to every facet of your professional life.
Register online.

Erich Theophile - Nepal's Kathmandu Valley
2023-02-13 17:00 - 18:00
Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley: Architecture, Advocacy, and the 2015 Earthquake — FULL info here
Speaker: Erich Theophile
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, and Principal, H. Theophile
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.

Galentines Day Pop Up Lunch
2023-02-13 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIA Northern Virginia’s Women in Architecture for a pop up lunch this Galentines Day.
4 Locations:
Old Town – Mai Thai (map), host Deborah Buelo
Arlington – True Kitchen (map), host Susy Mikhail
Fairfax – Bartaco (map), host Becca Mezny
Georgetown – Chaia (map), host Anna Barbour
Please RSVP by completing this form.

30 Women in 30 Days: Nominations Due
2023-02-10 01:00 - 23:59
Join with the AIA Northern Virginia Women in Architecture Committee to submit a nomination for their annual 30 Women in 30 Days feature.
Throughout the month of March, WIA will recognize 30 amazing women within architecture and the allied fields on our social media platforms, highlighting the incredible work and dedication of women throughout the DMV and beyond. Tell us about a woman who inspires you!
Nominate any woman within the design, architecture, and allied professions. Nominations are not limited to women within the DMV. Following your nomination, we’ll ask you to help us work with the nominee to produce a brief bio, headshot, and project photo to include in each social media posting.
Nominate a remarkable woman that you know for nomination today!

Lunch & Learn: Stone Designs
2023-02-09 12:00 - 13:00 | AIA Virginia, 2201 W. Broad St., Ste. 207, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Join AIA Richmond’s February Lunch and Learn in the conference room at AIA Virginia’s offices in the Bookbindery Building. Discuss the formation of natural stone and compare it with the natural process technology of manufacturing Calcium Silicate Stone Units.
Architectural detailing for stone masonry veneers promoting moisture management principles and considerations for control of movement in masonry walls is covered. A variety of design styles incorporating stone masonry materials are highlighted.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU|HSW
This program is hosted by Shade & Wise.
Register online.

Cultivating Your Path to Fellowship (Session 3)
2023-02-08 12:00 - 13:00

Annual Committee Appreciation and Kick Off
2023-02-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Triple Crossing Fulton, 5203 Hatcher Street, Richmond, VA, 23231
Join AIA Richmond for the annual Committee Appreciation and Kick Off event and discover all the ways you can engage with the architectural community in Richmond!
Register online.

Esra Ackan - Right to Heal
2023-02-06 17:00 - 18:00
Right to Heal: Human Rights, Reparations, and the Future of Memorials — FULL info here
Speaker: Esra Ackan
Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory and Resident Director in the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University
What is the role of the designed environment both in the opportunistic responses to conflicts and disasters, and in the much-needed debates of accountability, reckoning with the past, and transitional justice? In this lecture, scholar and author Esra Akcan explores the concept of right to heal and architecture’s role within, by defining a healing space as one where political and ecological harms are confronted, and accountability and reparations are instituted. She raises the question of harm and healing after human rights violations in the past, and the right-to-truth.
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.

ARE Prep®: Practice Management (PcM)
2023-02-04 10:00 - 16:00
Register NOW!
6 AIA LU|HSW offered for this class.
This year’s classes will be held both virtually and in-person. Advance registration is required by 5:00pm on the Thursday directly prior to the class.
Each class offers attendees an opportunity to learn from top-notch design professionals while gaining knowledge that can be used to prepare for each section of the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®). Topics covered include Practice Management; Project Management; Programming + Analysis; Project Planning and Design; Project Development + Documentation; and Construction and Evaluation. All sessions offer AIA LU|HSW credits.
In-person classes will be held at CannonDesign, 1560 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, (map) with limited seating. Lunch will be provided.
Virtual class participation link will be sent the day immediately prior to each class.
Series Schedule
Feb. 04 – Practice Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Mar. 11 – Project Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Apr. 15 – Programming + Analysis (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
May 20 – Project Planning and Design (6 LU | HSW), 10:00-4:00p
June 17 – Project Development + Documentation (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
July 15 – Construction and Evaluation (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
Cost:
Complete Series Package: $250 (AIA Member); $400 (Non-Member)
Individual Seminar Classes: $50 (AIA Member); $75 (Non-Member)
Register online.

ARE Prep®: Practice Management (PcM) (CE)
2023-02-04 10:00 - 16:00
Register NOW!
6 AIA LU|HSW offered for this class.
This year’s classes will be held both virtually and in-person. Advance registration is required by 5:00pm on the Thursday directly prior to the class.
Each class offers attendees an opportunity to learn from top-notch design professionals while gaining knowledge that can be used to prepare for each section of the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®). Topics covered include Practice Management; Project Management; Programming + Analysis; Project Planning and Design; Project Development + Documentation; and Construction and Evaluation. All sessions offer AIA LU|HSW credits.
In-person classes will be held at CannonDesign, 1560 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, (map) with limited seating. Lunch will be provided.
Virtual class participation link will be sent the day immediately prior to each class.
Series Schedule
Feb. 04 – Practice Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Mar. 11 – Project Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Apr. 15 – Programming + Analysis (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
May 20 – Project Planning and Design (6 LU | HSW), 10:00-4:00p
June 17 – Project Development + Documentation (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
July 15 – Construction and Evaluation (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
Cost:
Complete Series Package: $250 (AIA Member); $400 (Non-Member)
Individual Seminar Classes: $50 (AIA Member); $75 (Non-Member)
Individual Seminar classes are available but advance registration is required by 5:00pm on the Thursday directly prior to the seminar.
Seminar Class Bundles: Attendees choosing the series package are permitted one session cancellation, minus credit card fees and cost of in-person lunch, as applicable. Additional missed sessions will not be refunded, but will entitle attendees to receive any pre-/post-session class materials which the instructors may decide to make available.
Cancellation requests must be received by email (via aianova@aianova.org) no later than 5:00pm on the Wednesday immediately prior to the class, and the refund will be minus credit card fees and cost of in-person lunch, as applicable. Missed sessions will not be refunded but will entitle attendees to receive any pre- /post-session class materials which the instructors may decide to make available. Class materials from any refunded session will not be provided.

AIA NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Provider Number: A058
Course: NOVA2023-001
Session: 1

WIA Construction Tour: The Commodore
2023-02-03 16:30 - 18:00
$15 per person
Happy Hour at Courthhaus Social to follow. (map)
Tour Waiver Form – Please download, sign and bring with you to the tour
Participants will tour The Commodore, a 20-story, 423-unit apartment building that is primarily new construction yet also incorporates facades of two historically important buildings. The project is pursuing LEED Platinum and is situated adjacent to the Arlington Virginia’s Courthouse Complex. It will be the tallest building in the area capturing sweeping views from downtown DC to the National Monument, National Cathedral, Tysons Corner, Arlington Cemetery and the Pentagon via the occupied roof deck. This architect-led tour will do a deep-dive into how the building systems had to be designed and constructed to meet the challenges of the metro tunnels running directly underneath the development’s 3-story, below-grade parking area and ground floor retail spaces. In addition, they will experience how lower floors of residential buildings can be designed to provide over 33,000 sf of amenity space for the residents including outdoor terraces and a pool.
PPE will be required, including: Hard hat, sturdy boots, safety vests and googles.
Tour Waiver Form is required for participation.
Participation is limited, so reserve your space now!
AIA NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Provider Number: A058
Course: NOVA2023-007
Session: 1

Taliesin Colloquium 2023: The Evolution of Preservation Standards and Guidelines
2023-02-03 08:00 - 2023-02-04 17:00
Join the AIA National Historic Resources Committee for a colloquium on The Evolution of Preservation Standards and Guidelines sponsored to be held at Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 3-4.

This event will inform dialogue on historic district guidelines at the local level, as well as the state and national level on ways that preservation standards and guidelines can better interact with and complement energy codes and performance standards, as well as resilience guidelines, and to foster community equity.

We must ask if the current policies and standards governing historic preservation continue to be viable as the world is far different than it was when the standards were written. The current climate crisis has changed codes and regulations and goals toward sustainable building practices. Equally our understanding of the need for historic preservation to take on a more holistic view of sustainability including social, cultural and economic equity has intensified and calls for us to look closely as to whether current standards are inclusive or exclusive. Are the current policies and practices of historic preservation still valid or must they mature to meet the current challenges? How can we respond to these challenges and prepare for the future? Do policies and practices need to be open to change? Some say that current Standards provide the required flexibility and that that it is the interpretation that has become too rigid. Others believe that we need additional standards to address issues of social and economic equity. This Colloquium will take a deep dive into the global issues that preservationists face today and the Standards and Guidelines that have been the backbone of our practice.

Organized by:
AIA National Historic Resources Committee

Price

$300 for AIA members
$500 for non-members
Registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, reception, sessions, reception, and Twilight tour.

Credits

11.25 HSW|LUs

Cultivating A Path To Fellowship (Session 2)
2023-02-01 12:00 - 13:00

Hanaa Dahy - Materials as a Design Tool
2023-01-30 17:00 - 18:00 | University of Virginia
Materials as a Design Tool: A Travel Through Innovative Circular Design Philosophy & Smart Sustainable Building Practices — FULL info here
Speaker: Hanaa Dahy
Associate Professor, Sustainable Design within Innovation & Technology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, and Director, BioMat + BioMat@Copenhagen
‘Materials as a Design Tool’ is the design philosophy of architect and engineer Hanaa Dahy, whose practice is based on giving alternative renewable resources a second chance and a vital role in the design process. Focused on locally available and sustainable materials, Hanaa Dahy and her BioMat research teams in Stuttgart and Copenhagen take an innovative and carbon-reducing approach to construction by using natural, fiber-based biocomposites and seasonal plant-based materials like straw, flax, and hemp. BioMat’s wide-ranging work includes shell constructions, bridges, furniture, building components, multi-functional integrated sandwich panels, and adaptive façade systems that integrate robotic fabrication, additive manufacturing, and automation technologies.
In this lecture, Dahy will highlight the novel work of BioMat and discuss how smart materials, diverse manufacturing technologies, and the rediscovery of local crafts are providing new ways of understanding the future of sustainable architecture.
Select works by BioMat will be on view in Campbell Hall’s Elmaleh Gallery from January 18–February 3, 2023.
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.

The Windshield and Rear View Mirror: A Stock Market & Economy Recap of 2022 and What to Expect in 2023
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
After his popular session in November, Samuel LaNeave from Wealth Management is back to share his economic insights.
1) Economic Summary for 2022 and 2023 Expectations
2) Stock Market Signals for 2023
3) Why Investing in Innovation Should Pay off in the Long Run
Register online.

Cultivating A Path To Fellowship
2023-01-25 12:00 - 13:00

VANOMA Spotlight: Ashleigh Brewer
2023-01-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Online
Monthly Spotlight presentation featuring Brightpoint Community College Adjunct Professor, Ashleigh Brewer. Come learn about her journey as a designer, educator, and community volunteer.
Learn more

Roundtable Workshop: Ask the BIM Experts - 3D Modeling Strategies
2023-01-18 12:30 - 13:30
Roundtable Workshop: Ask the BIM Experts – 3D Modeling Strategies Series Part 1 – Coordination Between Disciplines – FULL info here
Moderator:
Sidney Griffin
Session Description
Together we will walk through the challenges we face when coordinating models from each discipline and discuss how we could improve this process. We will address considerations for each discipline’s unique BIM goals and strategize what we each could do differently to improve the workflows for one another. This is a great opportunity to develop BIM management skills to implement BIM in any type of AEC firm on any type of project. Lastly, we will look at new BIM technologies and assess if the solutions they provide outweigh the cost of implementing the product.
Learning Objectives

Learn strategies to address and improve upon the challenges we face when coordinating models from other disciplines.

Understand alternative modeling techniques to support other disciplines’ workflows.

Identify new BIM technologies and assess their value to cost ratio for the AEC industry.

Explore ways to use data and graphics from other discipline’s BIM Models.

1HR AIA LU | Elective

VANOMA ARE Series: Intro to the ARE
2023-01-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Get started on your path to licensure, led by Joel Mieses. Learn more about the upcoming series schedule, session topics, and receive an overview of the content provide throughout the series.
Free.
Learn more.

ARE® Prep Series: NCARB Roundtable
2023-01-11 18:30 - 20:00
Join AIA Northern Virginia for the kickoff event for the 2023 ARE® Prep season!
We will have representation from NCARB with us to give the presentation, along with members of our Young Architects Forum committee.
We hope to see you there!
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*DATES ARE PENDING CONFIRMATION
FREE Introductory Session
Jan. 11 – ARE® Prep Series: NCARB Roundtable
Series*
Jan. 21 – Practice Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Feb. 25 – Project Management (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
Mar. 11 – Programming + Analysis (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
Apr. 15 – Project Planning and Design (6 LU | HSW), 10:00-4:00p
May 13 – Project Development + Documentation (6 LU | HSW), 10:00a-4:00p
June 17 – Construction and Evaluation (5 LU | HSW), 10:00a-3:00p
Registration and pricing are coming soon. Learn more.

VA NOMA 2023 Kick-Off Interest Meeting
2023-01-10 19:00 - 20:00
Join online and learn more about the Virginia NOMA organization, what we have planned for the calendar year, and how you can get involved! This meeting is free and open to all, so invite your friends and colleagues.
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Lunch & Learn: Mass Timber
2023-01-03 08:00 - 17:00
Join us in person for a session on mass timber structural systems to gain an overall understanding and increase knowledge on available system types.
Learning objectives:

Understand different mass timber structural systems available to explore for project types
Utilize resources for determining max allowable spans for each system to layout load bearing elements in floor plans
Estimate overall structural depths based on spans required for floor plan layouts
Participants will learn the various advantages to combining composite structures and mass timber slabs from start to finish of the project

Earn 1.0 AIA LU|HSW
Presented in collaboration with Lynch Mykins
This program takes place at the Richmond office of Lynch Mykins or online via Zoom.
Register

Procrastinator Series
2022-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-14 12:00 - 13:00
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute.
Because we get it.

We hope you’ll join us below:
Procrastinator Series

AIA Richmond 2022 Annual Meeting & Holiday Party
2022-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Hardywood Richmond, 2410 Ownby Ln., Richmond, VA, 23220
Join AIA Richmond for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Membership and Holiday Party!
Learn more or register online.
