Thank you to everyone who submitted artwork for our member birthday postcard. The Member Services Advisory Council has selected 3 designs to use over the next 3 years.
1st place
Aidan Brown, Associate AIA
Greetings! I’m Aidan Brown, a Project Designer at SFCS in Roanoke, Virginia. I graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Architecture and am currently on the path toward licensure. I’m also part of the 2025 Emerging Leaders in Architecture (ELA) program, where I’ve been enjoying the chance to explore different aspects of the profession and figure out where I fit within the field.
I submitted to the AIA Virginia Birthday Card Contest because I am an artist at heart. Finding new ways to artistically express myself outside of the office is very important to me, and I felt like this was a great opportunity to design something comical and playful. I’ve always found demolition notes unintentionally funny. When I saw the call for submissions, I thought to myself, Why not make a cake demolition plan?
2nd Place
Stephanie Smid, Associate AIA
3rd Place
Arushi Mathur, Associate AIA
