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AIA Forum on Architecture + Design More...
AIA Forum on Architecture + Design More...
AIA Forum on Architecture + Design More...
AIA Forum on Architecture + Design More...
Keynote | 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Angela Brooks, FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C, ENV SP
Principal, Brooks + Scarpa
Coast to Coast: Design, Density, and Social Capital
The presentation will focus on the aspects and implementation of affordable housing in the Los Angeles metro area. Affordable housing directly relates to health, safety, and welfare of building occupants and our speaker will present case studies that will be relevant to these types of projects across the country. Read more...
Session #1A | 10:10 - 11:10 AM
No Fowl Play Here: The What and Why of Bird-safe Design
Over 1 billion birds die annually as a result of striking human-made structures. The biggest offender for bird fatalities? Glass. Supported by Muhlenberg College’s renowned professor of ornithology, this session will explore the latest research about bird-safe design. Read more...
Session #2A | 11:20 - 12:20 PM
Mixed Reality Advanced Architectural Representation
Architecture in the digital age is moving towards a democratized design process, and it is better for it. With the increasing accessibility of augmented and virtual reality platforms, design has new opportunities for inclusivity, collaboration, and the streamlining of production, all of which benefit architecture. This session explores advances and applications of AR/VR technologies and their impact on design generation, fabrication, and installation. Read more...
Session #3A | 1:20 - 2:20 PM
Urban Heat Island x Gentrification in Philadelphia
Urban Design Committee and COTE / EJ have been collaborating on a series of talks discussing the entangled subjects of urban heat island, gentrification, and urban heat island mitigation. We began with methods for studying gentrification and urban heat island and heat vulnerable neighborhoods using GIS, Grasshopper, and Honeybee. Read more...
Session #4A | 2:30 - 3:30 PM
A New Model for Fighting Inequality in Architectural Education
By 2022, most White architects have attended at least one workshop on implicit bias. Despite this rise of participation, the actual changes in many White architects have remained at the intellectual level, failing to elicit the deep levels of emotional and empathetic change necessary for their own personal transformation. This in turn means that our industry is failing to build a tangible platform for systemic and permanent change. Read more...
Keynote | 3:40 - 4:40 PM
Claire Weisz, FAIA
Founding Partner, WXY
No More Lines: The Future of Practice
In the first two decades of the 21st Century, a changing urban context both locally and globally has brought into high relief the dilemma of designing for a single project and the risks of change to communities. In this lecture and through several case studies from the recent work of WXY; the idea of public space being essential to all architecture and planning projects, will be discussed and analyzed. Read more...
Keynote | 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Roberto de Leon, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Partner and co-founder, de Leon & Architecture
DISRUPTED PROCESS: Pre/Mid Pandemic Work
Roberto de Leon FAIA is a co-founder of De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop (DPAW), a collaborative design studio recognized for work that draws inspiration from regional traditions of craft, fabrication, and building, placing an emphasis on the potential of conventional materials and construction methods. Read more...
Session #1B | 10:10 - 11:40 AM
Enhancing Your Designs With Playful Learning
Playful Learning Landscapes is a global movement that combines placemaking with early learning. By creating environments for children that adhere to a set of research-based principles of playful learning, children are invited to playfully explore their world in ways that lead to defined learning goals. By referring to an evidence base and presenting the tools for measuring the effectiveness of environments, Science-Informed Design offers architects a form of practice in which the value of their work can be better understood by others.Read more...
Session #2B | 11:50 - 12:50 PM
Life Science Development and Design
A Life Science panel discussion focused on the current Innovation and Development that is bringing life science and real estate communities together to Philadelphia. Discussions will be focused around the key drivers of the life science industry in Philadelphia (its opportunity and potential), and the opportunities and challenges of life science real estate development and design in the region. Read more...
Session #3B | 1:50 - 2:50 PM
Using a Drone to Assess Historic Buildings
This presentation will explore some of the challenges and benefits of using drones to evaluate, observe, and document historic buildings. We will look at regulations, drone hardware, planning drone flights around historic buildings, and expectations for the flight results. Read more...
Session #4B | 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Bringing Mass Timber to Philadelphia at Amy Gutmann Hall
A case study on Amy Gutmann Hall, the new data science building at the University of Pennsylvania and first mass timber building in Philadelphia, will consist of a brief project and design overview followed by a panel discussion among representatives from the project team. Panelists will explore the decision to pursue mass timber, highlighting benefits to schedule, cost, sustainability, and impact on occupant well-being, as well as the feasibility and accessibility of this construction type. Read more...
Keynote | 4:10 - 5:10 PM
Felecia Davis
Principal, FELECIADAVISTUDIO
SEAMS: Crafting An Architecture
The path that one walks as a Black architect or designer has many seams, or places that one improvises and stitches together to make a story, or really understand where one is in the world and how to make sense of things that cannot under any circumstances make any sense and never did. Davis will present prior and current works in computational textiles or textiles that use sensors or microcontrollers or simply the natural properties of the textile itself to communicate some information to people. These projects are examples of soft architectures and work along a seam. Read more...
9 - 10 AM | Realizing Arrupe Hall at Saint Joseph’s University
A tour of the new Arrupe Hall, a 17,000 SF residence hall for the Jesuit Priests of Saint Joseph’s University and Saint Joseph’s Preparatory School.
9 - 10:30 AM | Reinventing Louis Kahn's Richards Medical Research Labs
A tour of the $35 million rehabilitation of Louis Kahn's Richards Medical Research Labs
9 - 11 AM | Playful Learning Case Studies - Site Visits
In this tour, participants will visit several Playful Learning project sites including Urban Thinkscape and a Playbrary project, two of the world’s first built playful learning spaces to see how the principles of healthy child development have been applied.
11:35 AM - 1:05 PM | The Pavilion at Penn Medicine
A tour of The Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania— a state-of-the-art inpatient facility and a new institutional and architectural icon for Penn Medicine on its extensive academic medical campus in West Philadelphia.
12:15 - 1:15 PM | The Good Lands
A tour exploring the variety of improvements spearheaded by HACE CDC over the last 25 years including streetscape improvements along "el centro de oro"
11:15 AM - 1:15 PM | Navy Yard Redevelopment: Innovation in a Mixed-use Campus
The redevelopment of Philadelphia’s 1,200 acre The Navy Yard has created one of the region’s most important planned developments of Live, Work, Play within the city.
2:05 - 3:35 PM | Building Schuylkill Yards: A Construction Tour of 3025 JFK
A construction tour of 3025 JFK, Schuylkill Yards' West Tower development, encompassing a review of: concrete structural system, window wall exterior assemblies, mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-ins and initial distribution runs, waterproofing and metal panel exterior assemblies.
2:10 - 3:25 PM | Jefferson Specialty Care Pavilion
A tour of Jefferson's new 462,000 GSF specialty care facility at 1101 Chestnut Street.
2:25 - 3:25 PM | Tour of Richard Neutra's Hassrick House
A tour of the Richard Neutra designed Hassrick house, now the public face of Jefferson University's Center for the Preservation of Modernism.