2019 AIA Cleveland Design Awards Program Book

Tonight’s Venue

Downtown Cleveland as we know it today was designed in 1903 by Daniel Burnham as a vast green Mall flanked by the City’s major government buildings. The mall is considered one of the major urban spaces in the United States (Burnham also completed designs for Washington DC and the Chicago Lakefront). The site for the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel occupies the last available site on that civic green. Cleveland’s Convention Center is located under two thirds of the Mall. The county’s and city’s challenge challenges to the architects’ team included to design a building respectful to the Burnham Plan that was unique to Cleveland, creating an iconic image for Cleveland’s skyline.

The building can be viewed as having two parts: the building base and the building tower.

The design for the building base was directly influenced by existing neoclassical buildings flanking the Mall. The shared characteristics of those buildings, base, middle and top, expressed with solid corners, were applied to the hotel base but

in a modern architectural language.

All of the older buildings flanking the mall have a distinctive cornice line 90 feet above grade. The Hilton Hotel design has a cornice at 90 feet that becomes a tall porch and continues the strong horizontal line of the surrounding buildings.

The porch connects the Hotel to the Mall. The result is a modern building that connects to the historic context and that is unique to Cleveland.

The glass tower of the hotel is articulated as three slender towers.

Each of the three towers has a unique expression in the glass metal curtain wall. Near the top of the tower, the glass façade tilts out over the Mall. On the upper most floor a terrace for the roof top bar is cut out of the glass providing an outdoor area overlooking the lakefront. The tower’s unique sculptural form will create an iconic image for Cleveland’s skyline.

The hotel entry is on Lakeside Drive directly adjacent to the entry to the Convention Center to encourage a strong connection both visually and physically. The hotel’s restaurant and public spaces are positioned on the Mall.

The project is LEED-Silver certified.

Friday, November 1st , 2019

5:00pm:

Doors Open

5:30pm: Keynote: Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA Brooks + Scarpa 6:30pm:

Cocktail Hour

7:30pm: Design Awards Ceremony

9:00pm: After-Party featuring The Schematics

AIA Design Awards Chair

Brooks+Scarpa The work of Lawrence Scarpa has redefined the role of the architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. He does this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building. Each project appears as an opportunity to rethink the way things normally get done – with material, form, construction, even financing – and to subsequently redefine it to cull out to latent potentials – as Lawrence aptly describes: making the “ordinary extraordinary.” This produces entirely inventive work; work that is quite difficult to categorize. It is environmentally sustainable, but not ‘sustainable design;’ it employs new materials, digital practices and technologies, but is not ‘tech or digital;’ it is socially and community conscious, but not politically correct. Rather, it is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday, and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways.

Mr. Scarpa has received more than 200 major design awards including twenty-one National AIA Awards, Architect Magazine’s HIVE 50 Innovator Award, 2017 National AIA Collaborative Achievement Award, 2017 AIA Los Angeles Chapter

Gold Medal, 2018, 2016 & 2014 Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Architecture Firms (ranked 2nd, 4th and 9th respectively), 2015 AIA California Council Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, five AIA COTE “Top Ten Green Building” Awards and was a finalist for the World Habitat Award, one of ten firms selected worldwide. In 2004 The Architectural League of New York selected him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture.

His work has been exhibited internationally including the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. He has been Featured in NEWSWEEK and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2009 Interior Design Magazine honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, his firm Brooks + Scarpa was awarded the National and State of California Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects.

He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools. Since 2013 he has been on the faculty at the University

of Southern California. He was also the 2012 Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2011 and 2012 John Jerde Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, the 2010 Ivan Smith Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, 2009 E. Fay Jones Visiting Professor at the University of Arkansas, the 2008 Ruth and James Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, 2005 Max Fisher Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2004 Freidman Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of Livable Places, Inc.; a nonprofit development and public policy organization dedicated to building mixed-use housing on under-utilized and problematic parcels of land. Most recently he co-founded the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute (AHDLI) to help develop more sustainable and livable communities.

David Dowell | El Dorado David Dowell, AIA, is a partner at EL DORADO, and founder of the Design+Make Studio at Kansas State University. Both are enormously optimistic, interwoven endeavors, focused on architecture as a tool to cultivate dignified common ground. David and his partners at EL DORADO believe that good design is possible anywhere, for anyone; and that well-crafted buildings still matter. David’s work spans a broad range of typologies - from bridges to houses, academic facilities to streetscapes, cultural buildings to master plans.

With students, he recently completed an affordable housing duplex, and an environmental education facility in the Kansas Flint Hills, the most endangered ecosystem in North America. All of his work involves some degree of hands-on self-performance in implementation, ranging from fabrication of select details to wholesale oversight of design and construction.

Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA | Duvall Decker Architects Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA, is a founding principal of Duvall Decker Architects, located in Jackson, Mississippi. Duvall Decker is an expanded design practice whose work includes architectural design, community planning, real estate development and facility maintenance.

The firm’s work and approach has been highlighted in publications such as the The New York Times, dwell, ARCHITECT Magazine, and the Journal of Architectural Education. In 2017, the Architectural League of New York selected Duvall Decker as one of its Emerging Voices. Anne Marie is often invited to share the firm’s work and her experience as a lecturer, critic, teacher and design juror, recently serving on the jury for the 2018 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture.

Rene Gonzalez | Rene Gonzalez Architects For Rene Gonzalez, architecture is a sensory experience. His approach is based on the idea that the buildings we inhabit have a profound impact on our lives, and therefore should be designed to leave lasting, positive impressions. Tactile, experiential, and holistic, the work of his firm, Rene Gonzalez Architects, demonstrates a belief in the inextricable connection between nature and architecture. He seeks to distill the essence of a place by interpreting patterns, ideas, and cultural conditions, rather than imposing stylized architectural forms. His is a holistic approach that integrates architecture, interiors, and the landscape. He achieves the heightened experiential quality in his work through the manipulation of spaces, materials and perception. The unexpected juxtaposition of these elements in the firm’s work reveals the potential of architecture to be memorable and timeless. Rene is especially attuned to environmental issues that are affecting the world, and which will drastically alter design practice in the coming years. RGA is receiving widespread attention for its efforts to respond to these emerging conditions by developing resilient solutions to sea-level rise in coastal communities. The projects his firm is designing reveal his commitment to embracing and celebrating the environment, and thereby seizing the opportunity to enhance our future.

Gonzalez founded his firm, RGA, in 1997 and has since received a number of prestigious awards, including two from the National American Institute of Architecture. He was the first Miami architect in more than 50 years to be honored twice by the organization for projects in this city. Rene is also the recipient of AIA Miami’s 2012 H. Samuel Kruse Silver Medal for Design and the firm received AIA Miami’s 2011 Firm of the Year award, among many others. In July 2018, Monacelli published the first monograph on the firm’s work, entitled Not Lost in Translation.

Rene has lectured and taught widely. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA and a Bachelor of Design degree from the University of Florida. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Jonathan Kurtz, AIA | JKURTZ Architects Jonathan Kurtz founded JKURTZ Architects Ltd. in Cleveland in 2016. A practice in a committed search for insight, beauty, and resonant meaning in relation to the places, landscapes, clients, and missions with which it is engaged. The studio produces works that manifest and generate culture.

His work has received broad recognition by peers and publications for over 15 years in which time he’s lead projects to win over 40 design awards. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award for Architecture and recognized as one of 40 under 40 by Building Design and Construction Magazine.He has taught design studios and served as a guest critic at universities throughout the country, and has acted as design juror for multiple State AIA and ASLA Awards programs. Jonathan has been a guest speaker and moderator at both professional and academic institutions for art and architecture.

Jonathan holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Kent State University.

Anna Acklin | JKURTZ Architects Anna is a licensed architect and has been practicing in Cleveland for seven years. Upon joining JKURTZ in the spring of 2019, Anna brought with her, experience across the library, higher education, and healthcare industries.

Across these diverse industries, she celebrates the unique processes, people, and design problems that inform each individual project.

Anna is an adjunct faculty member and design studio instructor at Kent State’s College of Architecture of Environmental Design. She has also contributed to research efforts in exploring GIS software as an urban planning tool, mapping census data to reveal latent networks and communities. As part of the American City 2.5 exhibit, her work has been on display at McGill University and Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.

She has a Master of Architecture from Syracuse University and received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Kent State University.

Chris Diehl | JKURTZ Architects Chris Diehl is a project architect at JKURTZ Architects with 10 years of architectural experience working on cultural, performing arts and education facilities. He is involved in all aspects of the design process from initial project design and programming to construction documentation and administration.

As a project architect his research craft and coordination of material assemblies and building systems ensure the design intent is beautifully and thoughtfully executed from conception through construction. In addition, Chris has served as a teaching assistant, adjunct faculty and frequent guest critic at the Kent State University College of Architecture & Environmental Design.

Chris has a Master of Architecture from Kent State University where he also received his Bachelor of Architecture.

Matt Hutchinson | PATH As an architect, educator, and maker, Matt Hutchinson believes in the reciprocal relationship between designing and making. Interests in the potential convergence of traditional technique and digital process inform his own architecture and design practice – PATH. He was recently a fellow of the Autodesk Pier 9 Residency Program, currently instructs there and is also faculty at California College of the Arts, where he teaches architecture studios as well as seminars which build on his own materials and fabrication research.

Hutchinson’s previous professional design experience, ranging from Vincent James Associates (Minneapolis), to SHoP Architects (NYC), and to FACE Design (NYC) (among others) has afforded him a diverse and multi-disciplinary perspective. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture at Kent State University and his Master of Architecture at Yale University, where he received the Eero Saarinen scholarship and was twice a finalist for the H. I. Feldman design prize, the school’s highest design honor.

Kathryn Strand | Kent State University CAED Kathryn Strand’s research-based practice with husband Jason Turnidge is focused on the choreography of architectural environments through fabrication of material and virtual situation. Interests include the examination of traditional to contemporary methods of architectural representation as generative tools that mediate between individual idea and constructed environment. The work has been recognized with numerous local to international awards and related research has been presented and published both nationally and internationally.

Additional professional experience includes work as a design associate at Thom Stauffer Architect[s] in Kent, OH where she was a design team member on numerous awardwinning projects, including the Ceruti Residence, which received a House of the Year Award in 2006 from Architecture Magazine.

Strand received a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania where she spent a semester studying at the Architecture Association in London and was a participant in the International Laboratory of Architecture and Environmental Design held in Venice, Italy.

Strand is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University where she coordinates the First Year Foundation Sequence and conducts undergraduate design studios, architectural history, and a theory seminar on media and representation.

Scott Olson | Artist Scott Olson (b. 1976, Syracuse, New York) has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Stockholm. In 2017, the Cleveland Museum of Art organized a solo exhibition of his work, presented at the Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH. His work is included in the permanent collections of institutions including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Olson has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including City Prince/sses, curated by Chris Sharp, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); The Great Lakes Research, a part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Institute of Art (2018); The Young Years at the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College; Realization is Better than Anticipation, MOCA Cleveland (2013) and Painter Painter at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2013).

The artist currently lives and works in Kent, Ohio.

Zahra Safaverdi | Kent State University CAED Zahra Safaverdi is an architecture practitioner and educator whose work explores the effects of Pictorial realm and Imagery at large on architecture, in practice and discourse.

Zahra is the founder of “the living Room”, director of “MASKS” and the editor in chief of its journal. MASKS is an initiative that constructs a framework for young practitioners, theorists, and historians in design and its intersecting disciplines to explicate a thought through the process of critical writing or foster pedagogical experimentation. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Luis Obispo, Cambridge, Madrid and Locarno.

In parallel with her speculative projects, Zahra has been involved with the practice of architecture, working with wide range of clients from intimate scale of single family housing and fit-outs for non-profit organizations to broader scale of institutional, higher education buildings and most recently Google’s campus in Cambridge.

She received her Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude, from CalPoly San Luis Obispo and her Master of Architecture, with commendation, from Harvard University.

Jon Yoder | Kent State University CAED Jon Yoder is a designer and scholar of Modern architecture and visual media who received his PhD in Architecture from UCLA. He teaches design and theory in the Kent State CAED and taught previously at Syracuse University and SCI-Arc. His work with Pei Cobb Freed, ZGF Architects and SPF:architects has been published widely, and his research and teaching have been supported by numerous grants and awards. These include an ARCHITECT Studio Prize for his graduate design studio “Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture,” and a Graham Foundation grant for his forthcoming Getty Research Institute Publications book, Widescreen Architecture.

Project Submissions:

Loft House Robert Maschke Architects Inc.

Murphy Arts District – Griffin Music Venue & Amphitheater DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Eric Baker Nord Performing Arts Annex, Oberlin College DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Point Park University, Pittsburgh Playhouse and Academic Complex DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Tampa Theatre Renovation DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

University Arts Building – University of Nevada, Reno DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Massillon Musuem Expansion + Renovation DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Lake Forest College Lillard Science Center Renovation and Addition Stantec Architecture

Cleveland Institute of Art McCullough Building Renovation and Addition Stantec Architecture

Chagrin Falls Intermediate School Renovation and Addition Stantec Architecture

The Quarter Vocon

Process Technology Vocon

The New City of Cleveland Kennel Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc

Kent Police Department DS Architecture

L.N. Gross Company Building DS Architecture

Cleveland Public Library Facilities Master Plan Bialosky Cleveland

Metro Campus Center at Cuyahoga Community College Bialosky Cleveland

One University Circle Dimit Architects

Brecksville Residence Dimit Architects

Forest City Savings & Trust Building and Seymour Block Dimit Architects

Harbor Verandas Dimit Architects

School of the Arts Moody Nolan, Inc.

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine Clinic DLR Group

The Historic Agora Theatre & Ballroom LDA architects

Rainbow Center for Women and Children Moody Nolan, Inc.

Lakeland Community College Health Technologies Center AECOM

Summa Health West Tower Perspectus Architecture and Hasenstab Architects

Centers for Dialysis Care - Cleveland East Perspectus Architecture

Toledo Lucas County Public Library Mott Branch Bostwick Design Partnership

University Heights Library Addition and Renovation CBLH Design, Inc.

MetroHealth Brecksville Health Center CBLH Design, Inc., and Perspectus Architecture

MetroHealth Medical Center Critical Care Pavilion Vertical Expansion CBLH Design, Inc.

CPL South Branch HBM Architects

Grove City Library HBM Architects

King Road Library HBM Architects

Madison Branch Library HBM Architects

CCPL Orange Branch Library HBM Architects

Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus Transformation City Architecture

Universal Windows Direct World Headquarters HSB Architects + Engineers

Project Submissions:

Murphy USA Headquarters Renovation DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

APG Vocon

Architecture Office Vocon

Experience Center - Tokyo Vocon

Floor 24 Vocon

St. Theresa of Calcutta Chapel Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc

Cuyahoga Community College East Education Center DS Architecture

Luster Dimit Architects

Crow Residence AoDK, Inc.

Washkewicz Hall College of Engineering Building CBLH Design, Inc.

Zimmer Biomet HSB Architects

SPACES Gallery Process Creative Studios Inc.

Project Submissions:

slots-n-folds STUDIO Robert Maschke Architects Inc.

Oberlin House Addition Kordalski Architects Inc.

Weinberg Wealth Management Office Kordalski Architects Inc.

Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream - Van Aken District Dimit Architects

Schrader Residence AoDK, Inc.

Visocky O’ Grady Residence AODK, Inc.

Holbrook Hollows Park Pavillion AECOM

1684 Lorain Avenue Horton Harper Architects

LSDA Architecture Office

The Grove Amphitheatre - Bandshell Meld Architects, Inc.

Project Submissions:

Coastal Arts Pavilion at Freeman Park DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Fujairah Fine Arts Academy DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Chestnut Hills Addition JKURTZ Architects

Nectar Tequila Bar AODK, Inc.

Modular Living Pods AoDK, Inc

Martin Luther King Jr. Library LDA architects

Form Follows FUNction Roberta Pegg |Student at Kent State University

The Extension Roberta Pegg |Student at Kent State University

Project Submissions:

Intelligent Swarm Kinetic Housing YunYao | Student at Kent State University

Broken Barriers Jennifer Rufener | Student at Kent State University

Inner Growth Faris Turkistani | Student at Kent State University

Davey Institute East Campus Jacob Hoffman | Student at Kent State University

Lakeshore East Tower Brennan Cox | Student at Kent State University

Cleveland Boolean Collective Justin Crasi | Student at Kent State University

The Davey Tree Expert Company, East Campus Zhamilya Suieubayeva | Student at Kent State University

Glomar Building Alex Sanchez | Student at Kent State University

Transit Ornamentalism Julian Colicchio | Student at Kent State University

Seam[less] Keely Mager | Student at Kent State University

Project Submissions:

Tower East Lobby Desk and Benches Kordalski Architects Inc.

Light Tornado Bialosky Cleveland

Betty Credenza 44 STEEL

WVUM - Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Wall Installation IKM Architecture

Project Submissions:

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Red Carpet Sponsor

Platinum | Firm/Company Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

Silver Drink Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Contributor Sponsors Artisdate Services Inc. Civitad Services LLC Formglas Hammaker-Schuster Solutions Inc. IIDA Cleveland Akron City Center Interface Intertek-PSI Karpinski Engineering Lighting and Controls Maniet Architects MDC Wall Milliken Seibold Baker Sherwin-Williams The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Tim O’Neil & Associates USG

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2019 AIA Cleveland President Christopher Toddy, AIA

2019 AIA Cleveland Board of Directors President-Elect:

Jodi van der Wiel, AIA

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Wayne Mortensen, AIA

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Robert Klann, AIA

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Megan Haftl, AIA

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Adam Yaracs, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB | 2019 AIA National Young Architect Award

Seth Duke, AIA Nicholas Gervasi, AIA Alex Johnson, RA Timothy Larke, AIA Amanda Pierce, AIA Tyler Rice, RA Kelly Shaulis, RA Douglas Shaulis, RA Edward Singer, RA Nicholas Slaughterbeck, AIA Stephen Stika, AIA Scott Sturm, AIA Utako Tanebe, AIA

Westleigh Harper, AIA | 2019 AIA Ohio - Honorable Mention Michael Horton, AIA | 2019 AIA Ohio - Honorable Mention Robert Maschke, FAIA | 2019 AIA Ohio Gold Medal William Ayars, AIA, ACHA, MBA | Northeast Ohio Smart 50 Award Theodore Ferringer, Jr., AIA, LEED GA | Crain’s 40 Under 40 Jack Alan Bialosky Jr., FAIA, LEED AP | AIA Ohio Presidential Citation Steven Kordalski, AIA | 2019 AIA Ohio Mentor Award Dave Robar, AIA| 2019 AIA Ohio Public Service Award

2020 AIA Cleveland Scholarship Recipient and KSU AIAS Chapter Support

Lucas Denmeade, AIAS | Kent State University Lucas Denmeade is a second year architecture student at Kent State University. He is an active member of Kent State’s Chapter of AIAS and is currently the treasurer for the professional fraternity Alpha Rho Chi.

Sand Fest Nearly fifty teams hit Edgewater Beach this August for the largest AIA Cleveland Sand Festival! The event was again delivered by Independence Excavating and presented with the generous assistance of Live Cleveland and Turner Construction.

When all the sand had settled, four sand teams stood above the others.

Castle: Best of the Beach honoree— decided by an online poll that logged 6,892 votes—is: Sculpture:

Theme: The event benefactor continues to be the ACE Mentor Program—an after-school mentorship initiative that teams fourteen CMSD students teams with architecture, construction, and engineering mentors to respond to a Cleveland-driven RFP. This year, $7,800 was raised to help fund scholarships for participating students interested in a career in architecture.

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Committee Chairs Beau Bock, AIA | Bialosky Cleveland Beau is an Associate with Bialosky Cleveland. Growing up outside of Orlando, he graduated from the University of Florida and Georgia Tech with a degree in Design and Architecture. He is also currently an Adjunct Faculty member at Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environment Design. Beau enjoys spending time outdoors and is an avid runner.

Kate Csontos, Assoc. AIA | Stantec Kate is a Project Manager and Senior Associate at Stantec Architecture + Engineers working out of the downtown Cleveland, Ohio office. Having graduated with a Masters in Architecture, she relied on her education to advance her career over the last 12 years. Kate specializes in an integrated project approach and open communication; between consultants, clients, contractors and Landlords. Her problem solving, production detailing, and communication skills have resulted in successful projects and satisfied clients across the US. Throughout all project phases the focus remains on the details, while providing the Client with high level design under budget and on time.

The cornerstone of her projects are well managed budgets, schedules, and technical aspects; believing project management is not a separate function but rather a piece of the whole design/construction process.

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Committee Chairs Steven Kordalski, AIA | Kordalski Architects Inc. Since 1984, Steven has acted as president and lead designer of Kordalski Architects Inc., a boutique type architectural / interior firm specializing in quality design projects. The firm has received numerous AIA design awards, and in 2014 was awarded the AIA Ohio Gold Medal. In 2012, Steven received the prestigious Cleveland Arts Prize for Design. He has participated on numerous AIA Design Award program juries at the local, state and national levels.

Adam Yaracs, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP | IKM Architecture Adam is currently a Project Manager with IKM Architecture, as well as an Adjunct Faculty member and AIAS Faculty Advisor at Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design. His volunteer work with AIA Cleveland includes serving as the AIA Cleveland Director of Communications and CoChair for the Cleveland Design Awards Program. Previously, he has served as the AIA Cleveland Chapter President, Director of Development and Director of Camaraderie. In 2019, Adam was honored with the AIA National Young Architect Award. He received his education from Kent State University.

Committee Members Gwendolyn Frank, Assoc. AIA | Perspectus Architecture Gwendolyn is a graduate of Kent State University and an Associate with Perspectus Architecture. She is currently pursuing her licensure. When not studying she is likely enjoying all that Cleveland has to offer including things related to her passions: art, theater, and history.

Aaron Hill, AIA, LEED AP | Bialosky Cleveland Aaron Hill is Partner with Bialosky Cleveland, an AIA Ohio Gold Medal Firm.

Throughout his career, Aaron has directed and designed a range of high-profile institutional projects, which have been recognized with ten State and Local AIA Design Awards. At Bialosky, he leads project teams for government, higher education and public library work. Aaron currently serves on the AIA Ohio Board as Secretary, and recently as the AIA Cleveland President.

Patty Lampert, AIA | AIA Cleveland Patty is AIA Cleveland’s Executive Director, and a graduate of Cleveland State University. She enjoys working with all of our members, sponsors, vendors, community partners, designers, volunteers and the AIA Cleveland Board to fulfill the chapter’s mission and build a stronger architectural and design community. We welcome your participation, and are looking forward to another great year together.

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Melanie Lewis, AIA | Richard L. Bowen & Associates Melanie is a Principal and Director of Practice at Bowen + Associates. She is a graduate of Kent State University CAED and her architectural 15 minutes of fame (aside from the AIA Members Matter Profile of course!) is having a project appear in Architectural Record (Green City Growers, Cleveland OH – October 2012). When not in the office she dabbles in yoga, barre, crossfit, motherhood, speeding without getting caught, fine dining, and binging good (and some not good) television.

Committee Members David Maniet, AIA | Maniet Architects David is a graduate of Kent State University, an Architect with Maniet Architects, and a member of Lakewood’s Architectural Board of Review. For AIA Cleveland, he is the Director of Membership, reaching out to members and firms to promote the value of being a member of AIA. He is the recipient of the 2016 AIA Cleveland Emerging Professional Award. David enjoys traveling to experience architecture and urban environments around the globe.

Nick Slaughterbeck, AIA | ONYX Creative Nick is a graduate of Kent State University’s dual Master of Business/ Master of Architecture program and has been involved in the Cleveland Design Awards for the last five years. He currently works at Onyx Creative as a newly licensed architect and project manager. Nick is an active member of the AIA Cleveland community and in his free time can be found golfing, weight lifting, or playing videogames with his wife, Sarah and their dog Remington.

Christopher Toddy, AIA | Christopher @ Architects LLC Christopher is the 2019 AIA Cleveland Chapter President. He serves his regional clients as President of Christopher @ Architects LLC, Cleveland, and President of Chrysalis Environmental Development LLC. He Chairs the national AIA Small Firm Exchange member group and is the Ohio Valley Regional Representative on SFx, representing the needs of smaller architectural firms nationally. He participates on the national AIA Leadership Development Program Steering Committee, which is developing the national AIA Leadership Academy 3-year curriculum. Christopher also co-leads the AIA Ohio Payment Assurance Taskforce seeking lien rights for Ohio architects. He serves on the Board of the Cleveland 2030 District to support Cleveland’s work on the 2030 Challenge for Planning. He works for small-firm, advocacy, leadership, and sustainability issues locally and nationally on behalf of our professional community. Chris believes that teaming fosters a better world and that a vision sets a powerful direction. Chris is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Charles Moore Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Special Thanks Program Book Design:

Student Volunteers:

Sarah Morrison, Allied Professional

Jameel Conley Gwendolyn Darling Lucas Denmeade Ina Drummond Jessica Huzzard Megan Kinsey Alyssa Juarez Riehley Littlefield Talia Longberry Kathryn Loris Paulina Mudrey Feyza Mutlu Danielle Sistrunk Timothy Wagner Lucas Weaver

Event Photography: John Biliboaca Andrew Wells Properties Magazine

Videographer: Adam Kurtz | Media-77 LLC

Jazz Quartet: Scott McKee - Trumpet Aiden Plan – Bass Holbrook Riles – Drums Dr. David Thomas – Piano

After-Party Band “The Schematics”: Joe Forcht, Allied AIA Cary Mathews, Allied AIA Bill Eberhard, AIA Steve Varelmann, AIA Dennis Sankovic, P.E. Stacy Mileink Mike Secora, KSU Student

Event Planner: Helen Cherry

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