Letter from the OFA Chair Architecture on Tap +1 Timeless Vision: The Renaissance Ideals of Rollins College and Winter Park 2024 OFA Scholarship Awards & Architecture Showcase OFA Movie Night at Casa Feliz. Orlando Park Beneath I4 "The Canopy" It's Time to Renew Your OFA Membership Purchase Your Copy of OFA's Architectural Guidebook
|
|
|
Letter from the OFA Chair |
|
|
Greetings and Happy Spring! It is the season of growth and renewal, a time many of us literally and symbolically “plant the seeds” for abundant harvest in the year ahead. In March we celebrate Women’s History Month, established in 1987 by the Federal Government to observe and reflect on women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. Seeds planted by brave women over a century ago have yielded positive change toward equality for women in the modern workplace, government, and society. The theme of 2024 established by the National Women’s History Alliance is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion,” recognizing women who work to eliminate bias and discrimination from workplace, institutions, and everyday life. During my 30 years as a practicing architect, I have studied, witnessed, and experienced first-hand the hard work, talent, dedication, and contribution of women in the profession, and am grateful for the continued advancements being made toward diversity and equity in today’s architecture practice. The 2023 AIA Membership |
|
|
Demographics Reports (aia-demographics-report-12-14-23_0.pdf) states: · Women make up more than 50% of enrolled architecture students and graduates from NAAB- accredited architecture programs · Women make up more than 41% of those completing the Architect’s licensing exam · The overall percentage of women AIA members has grown to over 26.2% Other studies completed in 2022 and 2023 indicate nearly 50% of NCARB record holders are women (NBTN 2022 Demographics | NCARB - National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) and Dezeen’s latest survey (Women make up just one in five top positions at biggest architecture firms (dezeen.com) shows the number of women in architecture leadership roles has doubled to more than 21% of the highest ranking jobs at the 100 largest architecture firms around the globe. Additionally, there has been a 56% increase in women in senior architect roles. Of the more than 3200 members of the AIA College of Fellows, 18% are Women, including two of our very own AIA Past-Presidents and current OFA leaders, Jacki Hale, FAIA and Debra Lupton, FAIA! It is exciting to be a part of a positive trajectory in this noble profession! Several of the stories that follow feature libraries, the evolution and design of which represent seeds planted by visionaries and architects toward a redefinition of centers for knowledge, education, and culture. (Did you know women comprise 81% of enrollment in graduate library science programs and 82.8% of all librarians?) Perhaps a little-known secret in Orlando – at least it was for me – is the Melrose Center on the 2nd floor of the downtown Orlando Public Library. The Center was built in honor of the late Dorothy Lumley Melrose, a visionary in her own right who had a background in Math and Science as well as a strong interest in emerging technologies. The 26,000 sf Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation and Creativity expands the role of the library as a provider of informal learning, technology education and exploration. In its 10th year of operation, the Center offers hands-on instruction, equipment, software, labs, studios, and an array of resources to inspire and support creativity and innovation, allowing citizens in our community to be both contributors to and consumers of emerging technologies. Stop in or schedule an appointment to visit the Melrose Center with your friends, coworkers and families and be a part of the creative and technological growth in Central Florida. (Melrose Center - Orange County Library System (ocls.info). I am grateful to the strong and inspiring women in my life, and those that preceded me in paving the way for success and fulfillment, and I thank the men that support and partner with all of us on our professional and personal journeys. "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." - Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), U.S. Congresswoman. From the Heart, |
|
|
Debra Lemons, AIA, IIDA, WELL+AP OFA Chair |
|
|
Architecture on Tap +1 Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 TOMORROW NIGHT! 6:00PM - 8:00PM Redlight Redlight Brewing 2810 Corrine Dr. Orlando, FL 32803 Join OFA at Redlight Redlight Brewing for a casual evening of conversation about Why Design Matters in Central Florida. Come out and connect with OFA members, students and other design professionals as we discuss plans for the Orlando Center for Architecture and Design (OCAD). OFA Committee Chairs will also be attending and can answer questions about how you can get involved with Committee volunteer opportunities. |
|
|
Timeless Vision: The Renaissance Ideals of Rollins College and Winter Park Thursday, April 11th, 2024 7:00PM – 8:30PM Crummer Auditorium, Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789 Victor Dover and Bruce Stephenson will examine the Renaissance ideals that define the historic plans for Winter Park and Rollins College. Drawn during the American Renaissance, the plans for Winter Park and Rollins College represent that last full flourish of the Renaissance that begun in Italy in the 15th Century. The speakers will illustrate how these works drew on the works of Frederick Law Olmsted and John Nolen and have informed the redesign of campus and community. The evening will conclude with a discussion of how Renaissance ideals inform Dover-Kohl's current effort to plan Lake Wales as "an Olmsted City." 's current project. 1 AIA CEU AVAILABLE! |
|
|
2024 OFA Scholarship Awards & Architecture Showcase Wednesday, April 3, 2024 5:30PM - 8:30PM Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: DeVos Family Room 445 S Magnolia Ave. Orlando, FL 32801 The Orlando Foundation for Architecture is hosting its annual awards event in collaboration with UCF, the University of Florida, and Valencia College. The evening will feature student presentations, scholarship awards, and a presentation by David Goldberg, FAIA, President of AIA's 2023 Firm of the Year, Mithun Architects. As Mithun’s president, Dave has served on the firm’s board of directors since 2003, and has been instrumental in helping grow the practice to national prominence. Under his leadership, Mithun has been recognized with the 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award and his projects have received diverse industry and peer design recognition, including two AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Awards. He lectures nationally on integrated design process and sustainability. Dave has served on the boards of Woodland Park Zoo and IslandWood, where he currently serves as board chair. SPONSORSHIPS AND TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!! |
|
|
OFA Movie Night at Casa Feliz Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 6:00PM - 7:30PM Casa Feliz 656 N. Park Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789 Join us for OFA's second movie night at Casa Feliz! A double feature showing: "Jewel of Parramore" A UCF Student Film about prominent early black physician Dr. Wells and the Wells'Built Hotel, now the Wells'Built Museum of African American History & Culture. "Rosenwald" A documentary chronicling the remarkable story of a Jewish partnership with African American communities. Courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham MA. |
|
|
The Striking Library in Winter Park By Gregory Stock |
|
|
Designed by David Adjaye Associates the architect for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Winter Park Public Library evolved amid public debate over costs, and necessity similar to last weeks ballot initiative for a new library in Maitland. The Winter Park Public Library boasts the same outwardly canting walls as the Smithsonian commission. It is a significant building within our metro area because of it design and its architect. It rest elegantly on the shore of Lake Mendsen in Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The library located on Morse Avenue is unusual in that it is a 501c3 non-profit started in 1885 by 9 civic minded Winter Park women, and continues its mission today. It also houses a copy of the James Gamble Rogers II archives, a noted Winter Park architect. They operate through memberships and donations. Continue reading about the striking library in Winter Park HERE. |
|
|
It's Time To Renew Your OFA Membership |
|
|
Thank you for being a valued member of The Orlando Foundation for Architecture, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to public education that inspires people to discover WHY DESIGN MATTERS. With your loyalty and support, OFA is able to continuously provide our members with valuable benefits and programming through educational programs, tours, exhibits, and events. Your investment also allows us to provide college scholarships to students that participate in the 2+2+2 program at Valencia College, UCF and UF CityLab Orlando. |
|
|
Purchase Your Copy of OFA's Architectural Guidebook |
|
|
Order your copy of The Architectural Guide to Central Florida- the first available guide to offer visitors and natives alike an overview of outstanding buildings spanning nearly a century and a half of growth in Central Florida. With dramatic color photography, the guidebook introduces the major cities from Daytona to Lake Wales, and architects who have shaped the communities, including Murry S. King, James Gamble Rogers II, Nils M. Schweizer and Gene Leedy, with essays by ten knowledgeable experts. It showcases historic buildings from the early twentieth century, mid-century modern, to the |
|
|
present, as well as the only campus designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and a new spectacular Polytechnic University by Santiago Calatrava. A bevy of buildings at Walt Disney World and Celebration Florida by Leading National and International architects Robert Stern, Arata Isozaki, Phillip Johnson, Aldo Rossi, Michael Graves, Venturi Scott Brown, Graham Gund, Welton Becket, Walt Disney Imagineering, and Architectonica round out the collection. We printed a limited number so be sure to purchase your copy today! |
|
|
Thank You to Our New OFA Members & Supporters! |
|
|
Join us in welcoming our new members and supporters to the Orlando Foundation for Architecture, we look forward to working with you within this great organization! |
|
|
Jeffrey Gormley Pamela Lindon Becky Bell, AIA Scott Malenock, AIA Gregory Stock, AIA Henry Wolf, AIA Emeritus |
|
|
Your support is essential to the continuing success of the Orlando Foundation for Architecture and its community-centered programming. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to OFA or join as a member! |
|
|
OFA would like to recognize our Company Members that support our organization and programs. Thank you to OFA's Gold Members BBM Structural, Casa Feliz, and Grace Arts Center, Silver Members L2 Studios and ELEVEN18 Architecture, Bronze Members TLC Engineering Solutions, Brasfield & Gorrie, HKS Architects, Aleskovsky Architecture + Interiors, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, BTS Engineering Consultants, American Interiors, Stantec and RLF Architecture & Engineering |
|
|
|
|
