Events

AIA Orlando Annual Meeting & Lecture with Payette

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Annual Meeting / Lecture with Payette – 2019 AIA Architecture Firm Award winner.

AIA Orlando Chapter’s official annual meeting where the elections for board positions take place and the membership gets an official progress report on the chapter. Official members will be voting and there will be a special guest speaker – The winner of the national firm of the year.

This is an exciting and engaging event.

Appetizers and drinks will be provided.

For more information, email kim@aiaorlando.com

 

Tickets

Architects
Architect AIA Members FREE
Architect Non-Members $25

AIA Allied Members
AIA Premier Partners FREE
Allied Members $20
Allied Non-Members $40

Students
Students $10

Understanding Codes & Textile Performance with Sina Pearson

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Gain an in-depth understanding of the four components of textile performance:

  1. Flammability
  2. Durability
  3. Cleanability
  4. Sustainability

This CEU equips you to evaluate textile performance using current industry studies. This will better enable you to avoid common specification mistakes and meet the aesthetic requirements of your projects.

CEU 1.0 IDCEC Credit

Presenter

Sina Pearson graduated from the Univ. of Washington with a double major in fine arts/textiles, and Swedish language and literature, then earned her MFA in textiles from Cranbrook. After working for SOM /Chicago as a color/materials specialist, she won a grant from the Swedish government to study at the Royal Academy of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

Returning to New York, she directed the textile divisions of a series of A-list firms, Jens Risom, Ward Bennet/Brickel Ass. and Unika Vaev. In 1985 she co-founded ACT, The Association for Contract Textiles; it remains the guide post for industry standards and promoting awareness of textiles. In 1990 she founded her own company, Sina Pearson Textiles, which designs, manufactures and distributes exclusive upholstery textiles for contract, healthcare, institutional, hospitality and residential use.

Tickets

Free Member Ticket

$20 Non-Member Ticket + Additional Taxes & Fees

AIA Orlando The Past, Current and Future Projections of Grimshaw Architects, a Lecture by Christian Hoenigschmid

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The lecture will be about the Grimshaw Architects’ design process and approach to an architectural project.

Pre-lecture social starts at 6:30 PM | DeVos Family Room
Presented in collaboration with AIA Orlando and HuntonBrady Architects

This lecture by Christian Hoenigschmid, Associate Principal at Grimshaw Architects in NYC, speaks about the Grimshaw Architects’ design process and approach to architectural projects. The presentation will recap current projects in Miami and Gainesville, as well as transportation projects and how they impact the urban fabric.

About Grimshaw Architects 

Founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980, Grimshaw operates worldwide, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Sydney and Dubai with over 600 staff globally.

The Grimshaw studio is founded on analysis and exploration. We relish the challenges inherent across a wide range of work, engaging our expertise and agility to deliver lasting, meaningful design that brings value and joy to clients and users.

About Christian Hoenigschmid

Associate Principal Christian Hoenigschmid has been with Grimshaw for nearly two decades. Initially based in the London studio, and in New York since 2004, he has overseen design and management of a diversity of landmark projects in the studio’s portfolio. His early Grimshaw work included such relevant projects as the Airside Centre at Zurich Airport, a Cancer Research Institute for University College London and the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Recently, he oversaw the design and now construction of the University of Florida’s Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence. Before that, he delivered a ‘Museum of Steel’ in Monterrey/Mexico—the “horno3: Museo del Acero”—as well as the Frost Museum of Science from competition to completion.