AIA Baltimore

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Join us next week for a workshop on resilient waterfront design! ????? Baltimore’s waterfront is one of the city’s most valuable assets—driving investment, supporting community-led initiatives, and shaping transformative projects through resilient design. On March 25, 2025, Waterfront Alliance, in partnership with the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability, Design Collective, Inc., ASLA Maryland and AIA Baltimore, is hosting a WEDG? (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) workshop at the Inner Harbor. WEDG? is a national rating system that guides waterfront development with a focus on resilience, ecology, and accessibility. This event will feature local experts from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, City of Baltimore Office of Sustainability, and Waterfront Alliance to discuss key changes in the region’s waterfront and how WEDG? is shaping projects nationwide. Event Agenda: 4:30 - 6:00 PM | WEDG? Presentation & Discussion 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Happy Hour at Phillips Seafood *This workshop offers both ASLA and AIA CEUs* Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and help shape Baltimore’s waterfront future! ?? Register now: https://bit.ly/WEDG-BALT #Baltimore #WaterfrontDevelopment #ResilientDesign #Sustainability #UrbanPlanning #WEDG #ASLAMaryland #AIAMaryland #CommunityDesign

"An Architect's Worst Nightmare" See you there! https://lnkd.in/eqign7R4 MICA Brown Center 6:00 PM ?? March 27: "Mapping Inequalities: A radical atlas of Ferguson, USA" ft. Patty Heyda, LEED AP ??April 10: "Sister Cities: Alternative means of urban development" ft. Thijs van Spaandonk and Zico Lopes of Amsterdam/Rotterdam delegations in partnership with Baltimore Sister Cities #AIABaltimore #SpringLectureSeries #ContinuingEducation #HSW #ASLAMaryland #BmoreNOMA #LACES

TOMORROW is the first lecture of our Spring Lecture Series! Don't miss out! "Resilience in Practice: Designing Coastal Futures from Vision to Implementation" with Despo Thoma March 13, 2025 MICA Brown Center 6:00 PM Despo Thoma is the Director of Resilience at?SCAPE, where she leads teams in urban design and resilience planning to forge nature-based, community-centered strategies that help communities adapt to our changing climate. In this talk, Despo will provide an overview of transformative coastal resilience projects from concept to implementation, blending urban design, resilience planning, and creative storytelling. Drawing on projects like Climate Ready Dorchester in Boston, Salem's Resilient Together El Punto, and Louisiana’s 2023 Coastal Master Plan, Despo will highlight how tailored solutions—whether addressing flooding, extreme heat, or social equity—are grounded in local context and community needs. She’ll explore how these projects create not just physical infrastructure, but stronger, more resilient neighborhoods through inclusive, actionable plans. From visionary design to multi-scale implementation, Despo’s work shows that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution—every challenge offers a unique opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and build a more sustainable future. This talk will inspire anyone seeking fresh perspectives on how cities can adapt, thrive, and connect with the natural systems that sustain them. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/gyP6-Jb6

A quarter of my presidential term has passed and we’re just getting the party started. Presenting my March President’s letter. https://lnkd.in/efbiwVW2

Maryland AIA Leaders at the 2025 AIA Leadership Summit last week! The AIA Leadership Summit offers attendees a unique platform to engage in critical policy discussions with lawmakers while enhancing their leadership skills. #AIA #AIAMaryland #AIABaltimore #AIALeadershipSummit

Exploring the theme of "Mirror Image" - cities that resemble Baltimore, we are excited to announce that the first lecture of our 2025 Spring Lecture Series is "Resilience in Practice: Designing Coastal Futures from Vision to Implementation" with Despo Thoma, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC When: March 13, 2025, 6:00 PM Where: MICA Brown Center Credit: AIA 1.0 LU HSW, ASLA 1.0 LA CES HSW Get a discounted bundle to all three lectures by March 10th! Despo is the Director of Resilience at?SCAPE, where she leads teams in urban design and resilience planning to forge nature-based, community-centered strategies that help communities adapt to our changing climate. Her work connects the dots between the environment, design, and people—whether through actionable resilience plans that reduce climate risk, implementation of multi-layered and multi-benefit infrastructure, or climate visualizations that make complex challenges accessible and guide decision-making. In this talk, Despo will provide an overview of transformative coastal resilience projects from concept to implementation, blending urban design, resilience planning, and creative storytelling. Drawing on projects like Climate Ready Dorchester in Boston, Salem's Resilient Together El Punto, and Louisiana’s 2023 Coastal Master Plan, Despo will highlight how tailored solutions—whether addressing flooding, extreme heat, or social equity—are grounded in local context and community needs. She’ll explore how these projects create not just physical infrastructure, but stronger, more resilient neighborhoods through inclusive, actionable plans. From visionary design to multi-scale implementation, Despo’s work shows that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution—every challenge offers a unique opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and build a more sustainable future. This talk will inspire anyone seeking fresh perspectives on how cities can adapt, thrive, and connect with the natural systems that sustain them. View all lectures here: https://lnkd.in/eqign7R4

Next week - Join AIA Baltimore's Emerging Professionals Committee for our first Happy Hour of the year from 5:30-7:30pm on Thursday, February 27th! BCT Design Group will host our group, assisted by Chesapeake Contracting Group Building on our successes from last year, this year's goal is to increase the value provided by these events through being more intentional and educational. By inviting and engaging more parties like contractors, developers, landscape architects, engineers, and product reps to host and/or assist, we're enabling ourselves to learn about architecture from more & increasingly diverse perspectives. Also, on a?quarterly?basis we're looking to add a little more program and fun into this year:?whether it's an under-construction building tour, an educational panel/presentation, or an organized volunteer tree-planting event, the Emerging Professionals Committee is looking to further our engagements with a broad spectrum of architecture-allied professionals and events!! Register for free with the link below

Inside the Studio - How Architects Use Ai Today, hosted by the AIA Baltimore Practice Management Committee. Interesting discussion on how Ai is being used, legal and copyright risks, what the future holds and much more. Great job to the panelists Gayatri Hegde AIA, LEED AP, BCT Design Group; Andrew Watkins, Design Collective, Joseph H. Jones, Jr., Travelers and moderator Dan Audette, AIA, GWWO Architects! Extra thanks to Basil Rousos for organizing this!

Join Us for AIA Maryland Advocacy Day! Don’t miss this chance to engage directly with legislators and connect with fellow AIA members to discuss the issues that matter most to architects in Maryland. Together, we can shape the future of our profession! ?? Date: February 20, 2025 ?? Location: 86 Maryland Ave, Annapolis, MD ?? Register here: https://lnkd.in/eJxhRnPy Let’s advocate for the profession we love! #AIAMaryland #AdvocacyDay #ArchitectsLead