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Celebrating Equity through DeafSpace Design: An Exploration of Gallaudet University's Campus
2021-04-30 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual – Online
Virtual Panel Discussion and Short-Film Screening
What would our cities and campuses look like if they were designed to be inclusive for the deaf and hard of hearing? DeafSpace is an emerging approach to design and architecture that is informed by the unique sensory experience and culture of those who rely on visual and tactile environments. Join the AIA Northern Virginia Committee on Architecture for Education, AIA Virginia, and Gallaudet University for a jointly held virtual film and discussion to learn more about this type of equitable design and how it can improve our learning environments and cities.
Panelists:
Christopher Hoffmann, Manager of Design Services and Space Planning, Gallaudet University
Derrick Behm-Josa, Development Specialist, Gallaudet University
Megan Tormey, AIA, Associate, Quinn Evans
Earn 1.5 LU | HSW
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Sponsored by:
Gallaudet University
Maginniss + del Ninno Architects
Hord Coplan Macht

Mid-Century Mayhem Scavenger Hunt
2021-04-30, 2021-04-29, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-27, 2021-04-26, 2021-04-25, 2021-04-24, 2021-04-23 and 4 more dates | Virtual – Online
Take a virtual trek across Virginia and try to locate as many Mid-Century Modern buildings as you can. Pull out (or pull up!) your map, follow the clues and discover some of the most unique historic places in the Commonwealth!
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A History of Zoning and Segregation in Virginia: Lessons for Today
2021-04-29 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual – Online
The issues Northern Virginia faces today regarding affordability and inequitable access to housing are not just a result of market forces of supply and demand. Our history of zoning and development shaped the way housing and neighborhoods in our cities and suburbs look and function today.
Join the Business for a Better World Center and the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship of the George Mason School of Business to discuss the historic roots of housing inequities and the opportunities for change, based on the recent “Zoning and Segregation in Virginia” report from a leading law firm in our area, McGuire Woods.
Earn 1 AIA LU | Elective
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Entering Field Survey Data into the Virginia Cultural Resources Information System (VCRIS)
2021-04-29 13:30 - 14:30 | Virtual – Online
Learn how to enter field survey data into the Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ VCRIS database.
Some familiarity with DHR’s survey terminology and methods would be helpful. The information in the database and in DHR’s archives is available to the public for study and educational use.
This program is a collaboration between AIA Virginia, Modern Richmond, and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | Elective
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BEHR BP102 The Energy of Color One
2021-04-29 12:00 - 13:00
In this course you will understand the origins, elements and effects of color, the relationship of color and the light spectrum, the potential energy savings from the spectrum of solar radiation and the psychology and perception of color.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
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Conducting Field Surveys of Significant Architectural Resources from the Recent Past
2021-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
This hour-long webinar shows participants how to complete a reconnaissance-level field survey using Highland Hills — a significant mid-1950s neighborhood in Bon Air, Virginia with 73 houses designed by Charles Goodman — as a case study. Goodman is best known for having designed the Hollin Hills in Alexandria and the main terminal at Reagan National Airport. After training, participants will be invited to participate in field surveys in early May. The completed Highland Hills surveys will be archived at the Department of Historic Resources.
No previous experience is required. Participants should be comfortable recognizing and describing basic building and site materials and forms.
This program is a collaboration between AIA Virginia, Modern Richmond, and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU
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Spotlight on Design: DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
2021-04-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Online
Learn how empathy for the public’s engagement with memorials and park spaces informs the work of Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm DAVID RUBIN Land Collective. Founding principal David A. Rubin, FASLA, FAAR, discusses the joys and challenges of navigating Washington, D.C.’s complex federal and local public space environment, all while steadfastly emphasizing and advocating for the equity, access, and inclusion of every visitor. Projects discussed include Canal Park, Potomac Park Levee, the National World War I Memorial, and Franklin Park. Jennifer Reut, acting editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine, facilitates the program.
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BxW – Built by Women Exhibit
2021-04-24
Organized by the AIA Northern Virginia Women in Architecture Committee, Built by Women DC 2016, is a juried exhibition of 38 DC metro area women architects, which will be on display at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum near Solomons, Maryland. The grounds are open to the public free of charge.
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Long Bridge Aquatics Center Virtual Hard Hat Tour
2021-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Join the AIA Hampton Roads and AIA Northern Virginia for a jointly held virtual event on the newly completed Long Bridge Aquatics Center in Northern Virginia. You will hear directly from the project team, Page/ Architects, Coakley Williams Construction, and Arlington Parks & Recreation, about the story of how this project was conceived, developed, and realized. The new aquatics center occupies a prominent, but tightly constrained site at the gateway between Arlington and Washington, and is an iconic origami-inspired form developed through economical means and a simple material palette.
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Submitted for AIA CES approval.
This is a free, 1-hour, virtual webinar.

Harbor's Edge River Tower Hard Hat Tour
2021-04-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Harbor’s Edge River Tower, 125 Colley Avenue, Norfolk, VA, United States
Merging residential living with the ease of a professionally maintained community, Harbor’s Edge partnered with Clark Nexsen and W.M. Jordan to design a sleek, 24-story high-rise tower of retirement housing. The new facility will enable residents to access different levels of care based on their progressing needs, with on-site assisted living, memory care services, a wellness program, and skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Situated on the riverfront in Norfolk, River Tower at Harbor’s Edge will be a sophisticated, resort-style retirement community offering a wealth of amenities and continuing care accommodations.
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The North Atlantic Cities: A Book Event & Lecture with Author Charles B. Duff
2021-04-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Online
“The North Atlantic Cities” by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few.
The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered – the row house, which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world’s great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600’s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU
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Let's Start the Climate Take Back
2021-04-22 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual – Online
According to research conducted by Interface and Net Impact, 95% of climate experts believe that it is possible to reverse global warming and 91% of young leaders agree. The reason that both think it is possible is because we have everything we need, and both think the only thing that stands in our way is business as usual. Last year, the most comprehensive guide to reversing global warming was introduced by Paul Hawken entitled Drawdown followed by Bruce King™s The New Carbon Architecture. Interface™s ‘Climate Take Back’ plan offers an easy-to-understand framework which can be understood, adopted, and implemented by any organization. The research and the framework will be provided to all participants.
CEU is AIA, IDCEC, HSW, and GBCI approved.
Register online and enter the code 4X1Z

RWiD + Girls For A Change Joint Event
2021-04-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual – Online
Join RWiD and Girls for a Change for a collaborative program on April 21 at 5:30 p.m.
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WIA Workshop: Small Talk, Conversation Skills, and Building Confidence when Meeting People
2021-04-21 16:30 - 18:30 | Virtual – Online
How often do you get into a conversation virtually or in person and you have no idea what to say – or even how to introduce yourself? Meeting people won’t end any time soon, so let’s dig in together!
Join us for an interactive workshop to flex small talk and conversation skills with Jen Brown, founder of The Engaging Educator.
Additional communication workshops will be held on May 19 and June 23. The workshop series is sponsored by Shalom Baranes Associates.
Learn more and register here.
Save the dates! WIA will be hosting two additional sessions scheduled for May 19 and June 23.

Key Retirement Planning Strategies for Architects and Firm Owners
2021-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
“RETIREMENT PLANNING IS LIKE A GAME OF CHESS”: Key Retirement Planning Strategies, Lessons, and Moves for Architects and Architectural Firm Owners to Help Build and Achieve a Life-long Winning Retirement Game Plan for Themselves and Their Families.
Author Allan Rufus once said, “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move.” As this is true in chess, so it is also true in life and in creating and achieving a winning financial and retirement plan for yourself, your family and business if you are a principal owner.
But in an increasingly changing world, how do we know what moves to make? Our current times have been labeled as the “4th Industrial Revolution.” This “revolution” is being described as one that will usher in incredible changes in the way we work and the way we view work. How will this effect your industry, your investment choices, and your personal retirement planning?
This webinar presentation will include relevant historical evidence and solution-based strategies to help solve the complex issues of investment, tax, and legacy planning for you and your family. The goal of presentation is to share some insight into how to better prepare for these potential changes and address what specific moves it takes for you to build, implement and maintain a solid, comprehensive retirement and legacy plan that is adaptable, preemptive, and well positioned for success given your unique situation.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | Elective
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Future of Design + Construction in the Commonwealth
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:00
Join members of NAWIC and AIA Blue Ridge for a virtual panel discussion focused on emerging trends in the design and construction industries, including: smart construction, economic development, design technologies, talent recruitment, and more.
This event is free. The panel discussion will be conducted virtually, allowing access and participation for all. Additional details are available.
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A socially distance networking event takes place at 11 a.m. in Roanoke. (15 person limit) Learn more.

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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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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Architecture at its Best - An Exhibition of Projects by Local Architects
2021-04-19 | Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, 22314
On view April 19-25, 2021
Visit the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria to view an exhibit of award-winning projects from AIA Northern Virginia’s Design Awards Program, on display in the ground floor lobby. Free and open to the public.
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