A colleague from AIA Columbus Committee on Design and I are hosting a virtual program (free for AIA members/students) on aligning architectural awards with values. With interactive discussions via Mentimeter, we'll collaborate on ideas about what exemplary design includes and how we can best recognize and promote it. Please join us!
AIA Columbus Committee on the Environment and Committee on Design
Designing for Distinction: Aligning Awards with Values
https://lnkd.in/gbvUb5dr
Tuesday July 8, 2025
12:00-1:00 PM ET Online via Zoom
1.0 LU (not HSW)
As AIA Columbus Awards opens for submission, AIA Columbus Committee on Design and Committee on the Environment invite you to participate in a reflective discussion about awards and how they align with our values. Awards at different levels-local, state, and national-have notable differences in what they recognize and how they accomplish the process of considering excellence. Some states and chapters have started using the AIA Framework for Design Excellence for awards, either indirectly or through the Common App for Design Excellence. We'll take time to review how effective these initiatives are, as we strive to elevate human experience through a better built environment.
AIA Members / Allied Members: Free
Assoc. AIA Members/ Students: Free
Non-Members: $25
Erin Reilly-Sanders, AIA
Erin Reilly-Sanders is a Senior Architect at Legat Architects. She currently serves as the President-Elect of AIA Columbus and is a member of the AIA Columbus Committee on the Environment (COTE). Over the last year, COTE has been working locally with the Committee on Design to strengthen the ways that our awards reflect the AIA Columbus focus on Environment and Equity. Before getting registered, she completed a PhD at The Ohio State University in education where she investigated representations of houses in children's picture books and the effects of such visual motifs on children. She won a 2024 Young Architect Award and the 2024 Ohio Emerging Professional Award for her education work spanning areas of sustainability, visual literacy, and advocacy for the profession.
Elizabeth Rajala, Assoc. AIA
Project Leader at Berardi + Partners, LLC working on low-income to market-rate Multi-Family projects. Past work in Chicago doing Multi-Family, Senior Living, and Health Care. Also worked in Wilmington, Delaware; Ithaca, NY; San Francisco, New York City and Baltimore on Education, Civic, Commercial and Residential projects.
Listening to food podcasts while making Revit behave at work. On my own time a member of Ace Archers Archery Club and trying to make time for art and craft projects at home. My parents are 'greener' than I am at the moment – ask them about Certified Backyard Habitats, compost machines and their homemade rain barrel. I am lucky if I remember to drop-off my compost.
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Erin Reilly-Sanders PhD AIA
Legat Architects
Columbus OH
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