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Murray Construction
"Murray has chosen to support AIA Birmingham as a platinum partner each of the last four years because we highly value collaboration with the architectural design community. AIA Birmingham is composed of wonderful member companies and strives for engagement through creative events, training, and education. Our partnership allows us to develop deeper relationships that translate to greater success on our projects and for our clients."
We thank Murray Construction for their support of AIA Birmingham!
To learn more about Murray Construction, visit their website
www.murray.construction!
Thank you to everyone who joined us at yesterday’s Chapter Meeting!
We always love seeing historic projects get turned into something new! Thank you Birchfield Penuel & Associates & Orchestra Partners for allowing us to tour the space.
We can’t wait to see the finished product!
According to AIA’s Chief Economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, the concern bigger than oil is still rising inflation and rising interest rates. “That’s going to have a much bigger impact on the supply chain in the long run,” he says, “just as it was before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
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Gulf State Park Learning Campus by ArchitectureWorks
A hub for park visitors, K-12 students, rotating researchers, and park staff, the Gulf State Park Learning Campus rounds out the park’s offerings through its classrooms, laboratories, flexible meeting spaces and lodging options. Built on a previously developed area in an evergreen forest, the Campus demonstrates sustainable building practices and cultivates stewardship through interactive environmental programming.
Site design of the Campus encourages visitors to park the car and use a pedestrian core, creating various experiences amid native longleaf pines and live oaks. Connected by boardwalks and characterized by screened porches nestled under the trees, the classrooms provide learning opportunities everywhere.
Learn more here: bit.ly/LearningCampus_
Few structures are as elegant and ingenious as greenhouses. Largely built with simple and straightforward designs, these minimalist shelters create airy and light-filled spaces that shape indoor climate.
Meet our speaker!
Cheryl Morgan, FAIA
Cheryl is a licensed architect and Emerita Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University. In thirty years of teaching she worked with architectural programs at Georgia Institute of Technology, Oklahoma State and California College of Arts and Crafts. For the last 12 years of her teaching career she was the Director of Auburn’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama. Under Cheryl’s leadership, the Urban Studio’s Small-Town Design Initiative Program worked with over 75 small towns and neighborhoods in Alabama.
Morgan practiced architecture and urban design in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked with a number of firms including Environmental Planning and Research, Gensler, and the Gruzen Partnership. Before coming to Auburn in 1992 she was an associate with the Berkeley firm of ELS/Elbasani and Logan. Morgan’s professional practice now focuses on urban design, community revitalization and graphic design. She is also an experienced facilitator.
In 2011 she was presented with the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award recognizing her as a “Friend of Planning.“ In 2012 she received one of Auburn University’s highest awards for Achievement in Outreach and in 2017 the Alabama State Council on the Arts named Cheryl one of the recipients of their bi-annual Governor’s Award.
Cheryl is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham and was honored in 2016 with their Spain Hickman Service Award. In 2018 she gave a TEDx talk at TEDx Birmingham titled “Place Matters.”
Join us tomorrow for a special presentation from Cheryl Morgan with Tip's & Tricks for a winning Design Awards Project!
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Only one week left to enter your 2022 Design Awards Entry Forms!
Once you enter, you get access to Cheryl Morgan's Tip's & Tricks for a Winning Design Awards Project - happening Tuesday 4/5!
For more information on Design Awards, visit our website aiabham.org. Please reach out to
[email protected] with any questions or concerns.
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Jane Hollock Brock Hall by Davis Architects
The Georgian Architecture of the Jane Hollock Brock Hall project is a response to the Samford University campus environment in general and the adjacent Wright Fine Arts Center in particular. The building’s form responds similarly to the campus by creating new and enhancing existing exterior spaces through its attentive massing. Likewise, the form is balanced with a level of detail to be simultaneously a part of and apart from the much larger Center.
Brock Hall is composed of three components: the Recital Hall with its support spaces, a band practice facility and numerous studios. Again, careful massing of the building’s form was used as a tool, in this case, to assist with the critical acoustical isolation of the three components. The centerpiece of Brock is the 333-seat Recital Hall, designed to host a variety of repertories from operative solos to full orchestra performances. Acoustical flexibility is necessary to achieve such diversity.
Learn more here: bit.ly/JHBRH_DA
Don't miss our April Chapter Meeting at the Powell Avenue Steam Plant!
Birchfield Penuel & Associates' Allison Vosicky, AIA, NCARB & Orchestra Partners' Hailey Oliff will give us a tour & presentation of the history, work that has been done to date, and future plans for the Steam Plant!
1 HSW (Pending) | $15 Members | $30 Non-Members | Register here: bit.ly/AIABham
Next month, The American Institute of Architects will host a Lobby Day. One priority during this Lobby Day is support for affordable housing policy.
This is great to see as a 'next step' from the work that has done related to Housing and Homelessness!
