VSAIA

The Virginia Housing Development Authority, a self-supporting, non-profit created by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1972, helps Virginians attain quality, affordable housing. Their goals include increasing affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income households; under-served minority populations; people with disabilities; and the frail elderly. They also work to ensure an ongoing inventory of affordable housing.

Recognizing that architects can provide the solutions they seek, the VHDA is sponsoring the 2013 student prize. The Virginia Society AIA Prize presented by Virginia Housing Development Authority is held annually near the start of the year. Students will spend the weekend of Feb. 1–3 designing a response to a problem created by faculty from one of Virginia’s architecture schools in collaboration with the VHDA.

Each school’s faculty reviews the submissions and sends up to 10 finalists to Richmond for final judging, which is expected to take place in early March.

Recognizing that sustainable design practices have become a mainstream design intention in the architectural community, the Board of Directors has voted to allow the sustainable design education requirement to sunset at the end of calendar year 2012.

AIA members will no longer need to complete the sustainable design requirement to fulfill their AIA continuing education.

For 2013, AIA members are required to satisfy a minimum of 18 LUs per year. Of this total, 12 must meet the Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) criteria.

On Feb. 20, 2013, the Virginia Society AIA is offering a Significant Changes to the International Building Code 2012 seminar in Fairfax. Learn about the important changes from the 2009 edition of the code. You’ll discover the reasoning behind the changes and how they affect accessibility. Hear a summary of significant changes and discuss the intent behind each change and how it could affect designs and enforcement.

The seminar includes a book detailing each of the critical changes. Each change analysis features the affected code sections and identifies the change as newly added text, a modification of the existing language, or deleted text. Accompanying each change are detailed illustrations and concrete examples, which bring the technical jargon of the code to life in a real-world setting.

Registration is $170 and continental breakfast and lunch are included. (Non-members pay $230). The registration deadline in Friday, Feb. 1. Register here>>

In December 2012 the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the AIA’s Component Scholarship Grant program, awarded scholarships to the following Virginia Architecture students.

Hampton University – Meredith Stone, Iroda Karimova

University of Virginia – Aaron Gahr, Parker Sutton

Virginia Tech – Chelsea Kilburn, Sara Monsalve

Established in 1954, the Virginia Center for Architecture  Foundation awards scholarships each year to deserving students at Virginia architecture schools.  The Foundation and the Virginia Society AIA congratulate these students on their awards.

Get a taste of our latest release — B+D3: Get Outta Here.  This marks the third in our series of social, design-inspired conversations, and we’re pleased to “re-bottle” it under the Beer+Design label.  Stay tuned here and on Facebook for regular updates.

Beer+Design 3: Get Outta Here
Feb. 6, 2013
beginning at 5 p.m.
Storefront for Community Design
205 E. Broad Street
Richmond, Va.

Featuring:

Thom White – Work Program Architects, Norfolk

Fred Wolk + Dave Ackerman – Wolf Ackerman Architects, Charlottesville

Nelly Kate – Musician & Artist, Richmond

Giles Harnsberger – Storefront for Community Design, Richmond

Peter O’Shea – Siteworks, Charlottesville

Sponsors:

Blue Mountain Brewery

Storefront for Community Design

On Jan. 25, 2013, the Virginia Society AIA is offering a Significant Changes to the International Building Code 2012 seminar in Virginia Beach. Learn about the important changes from the 2009 edition of the code. You’ll discover the reasoning behind the changes and how they affect accessibility. Hear a summary of significant changes and discuss the intent behind each change and how it could affect designs and enforcement.

The seminar includes a book detailing each of the critical changes. Each change analysis features the affected code sections and identifies the change as newly added text, a modification of the existing language, or deleted text. Accompanying each change are detailed illustrations and concrete examples, which bring the technical jargon of the code to life in a real-world setting.

(REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.)

Registration is open for the 2013 Inform Awards, which recognize design excellence beyond the more strictly defined realm of whole-building design. Specifically they highlight LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, and OBJECT DESIGN.

The Inform Awards are open to anyone in the Inform magazine primary circulation area (Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and the District of Columbia). The program recognizes the work of  architects, interior designers, landscape architects, furniture designers, industrial designers, students, faculty, and clients.

Now is the time to position your award-winning talents (and those of colleagues whose work stands apart). Publication in Inform and in news releases to Mid-Atlantic publications will get that work before the eyes of your clients, potential clients, colleagues, and the public.

Entrants must have a business address in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, or North Carolina, and submitted work must have been completed after January 1, 2008. For members of the Virginia Society AIA, there is a special entry-fee discount.

Award winners in both the Honor and Merit categories will be featured in a special section of Inform magazine and announced to the public. The registration deadline is March 15, 2013, and you can enter online or via email, fax, or mail using the PDF registration form.

The Inform Awards fee structure for 2013 is $135 per project for members of the Virginia Society AIA, and $175 per project for entrants who are not members of the Virginia Society AIA. Note that the fees are due upon registration, non-refundable, and non-transferable.

As a clarification, the Object Design category covers furniture, appliances, fixtures, and building components and systems, as opposed to full-building design. For more details, click on one of the registration links above.

In preparation for the Virginia Society AIA’s 100^th anniversary in 2014, the Virginia Center for Architecture is seeking input from AIA members to identify Virginia’s Favorite Architecture. In what is expected to be a year-long celebration of Virginia’s built environment and those who create it, the Center is developing an exhibition and a series of public outreach programs saluting the very best architecture in Virginia.

Submit your favorite structures in the Commonwealth here and help set a baseline for public voting. In addition to Virginia’s many well-known historic structures, members are also encouraged to submit contemporary work and other noteworthy buildings.

Registration for the Dec. 7, 2012, Significant Changes to the International Building Code 2012 code seminar in Roanoke, Va., closes Nov. 20.

The seminar provides an overview of the changes from the 2009 to the 2012 IBC®. The instructor will review changes in organization and code requirements and the applicability of these requirements to design, plan review and inspection. This course uses the Significant Changes to the International Building Code 2012 Edition.

Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be better able to:

• Identify the most significant differences between the 2009 IBC and the 2012 IBC;
• Explain the differences between the current and previous edition;
• Identify changes in organization and code requirements;
• Identify the applicability of design, plan review and inspection requirements.

The seminar offers 6 AIA/CES learning units and registration is $170 for AIA members ($230 for non-member registration).

The class will be held at the Roanoke Higher Education Center from 8:15 a.m. – 4 p.m.  A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.  Register>>

The deadline for applications to the 2013 class of Emerging Leaders in Architecture: An Honors Academy of the Virginia Society AIA (ELA) has been extended to Nov. 26, 2012.

ELA is an intensive program of educational sessions structured around presentations, discussions, team exploration, analysis, consensus-building, collaboration, and case study activities undertaken over the course of a year by a small cadre of participants selected for their potential to be outstanding contributors to the profession and the community. Facilitators and mentors who are established leaders in the building, finance, non-profit, development, university, legal, consulting, and design professions and in the community at large develop and deliver the sessions, designed to provide participants with advanced knowledge and skills related to specific areas of leadership and practice.

The program consists of seven day-long seminars, several work sessions, culminating with a presentation at Architecture Exchange East. The application is available here. The seminars are interactive, drawing on real examples and actively involving participants. They rotate among sites in Roanoke, Charlottesville, Richmond, Alexandria and Norfolk in conjunction with the firms, schools, and the local AIA component in each area.

Nominations are encouraged from each of Virginia’s schools of architecture and local chapters within the state, state or local government institutions, allied industries, and architecture firms whose principal is an AIA member.  Interested applicants do not need to be nominated and can complete an application to be considered for one of the slots.

Find out more information by downloading the program outline and application or by contacting Wayne Conners, Director of Professional Development, by email at wconners@aiava.org or by phone at (804) 237-1769.

The 2012 Emerging Leaders in Architecture program is sponsored by Hanbury, Evans, Wright, Vlattas + Company, Glavé and Holmes Architecture, and BB&T Insurance Services.