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The Committee on the Environment (COTE) meets the first Wednesday of each month. COTE is currently working on organizing sustainability tours and planning an Ice Box Challenge to advance passive house knowledge in Cincinnati. COTE is looking to grow our active members, if you’re passionate about sustainability, please reach out or join our next meeting!

AIA Cincinnati’s Early Professionals working group includes recent graduates, professionals working toward licensure, and recently licensed architects. You're invited to join the monthly virtual planning meetings to share ideas, coordinate ARE study materials and study sessions, and plan activities.

AIA Cincinnati’s Urban Design Community is part of AIA’s national network of Knowledge Communities. UDC provides opportunities to share informed viewpoints on specific urban planning issues through meetings, workshops, and public forums while increasing the role of Cincinnati architects in the public/private sector decision-making process. Urban Design works to continue an exchange of practices and ideas for architecture beyond individual buildings and client interests, with active partnering relationships that impact expected changes.

The Local Advocacy Working Group works to strengthen the position of architects in the building industry by identifying and promoting the issues, policies, and positions important to the profession, the business, and the practice of architecture.

AIA Cincinnati is partnering with AIA Dayton and AIA Northern Kentucky to launch the Knowledge Exchange - a working group charged with providing engaging, in-depth, continuing education programs to support professional growth and technical expertise on topics from building codes and professional practice to technology and working with consulting disciplines. Have ideas? Want to help put programs together? Sign up.

It’s probably safe to say that most architects didn’t choose the profession to become salespeople. It may even be true that doing sales is a necessary evil to get to do the work you’re passionate about - designing beautiful, functional spaces. This session will show you how to tap into your passion for design so you can communicate the true value you deliver to your clients in a compelling way while creating a professional sales approach that will produce consistent results.

Join your colleagues and AIA Cincinnati leadership for a review of 2024, a preview of 2025, and the installation of the new Board of Directors. The event starts with social time, followed by a program (5:45-6:30) and more time to mingle. This is a great opportunity to meet new members, network with other design professionals, and reconnect with AIA Cincinnati, all over refreshments!

Please register by January 16.

Join Mithun, the 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award winner, to explore how a unique design practice continues to evolve, thrive and anticipate the future of design. Learn how this integrated design firm driven by a mission of “Design for Positive Change” capitalizes on the power of partnerships, experiments and innovates through research and development, incorporates advanced sustainability thinking into both practice and projects, and continues to create design excellence for each unique place and person that lives, learns and works within their powerful designs.

Structural design is an important part of building design.  Architects who do not frequently do this work and engage structural engineers to perform the task may find the designs presented seem somewhat esoteric. This course will present three key factors which together inform all aspects of structural design, an understanding of which removes some of the mystery.

This course, led by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), provides a detailed examination of how the condition of historic windows is assessed within the framework of the Historic Tax Credit Program. The presentation will tie in National Park Service Brief 9, focusing on the standards and practices for window restoration and rehabilitation. Attendees will learn how these evaluations influence decisions about restoration, replacement, and repair, ensuring compliance with preservation standards while addressing modern building performance expectations.

Join us to celebrate the best professional residential design in the Cincinnati region. Winners of CRANawards represent the highest level of architectural design for the most intimate of architectural spaces. Tickets include dinner and a drink ticket.