November 24th, 2020

In This Issue...

  • OFA's Annual Art Show Event Recap & Post-Event Survey
  • David Adjaye & Winter Park Library
  • Menello Museum
  • Inside Voices | Black Thoughts Forum
  • 32nd Annual Golf Tournament
  • AAO Design Conference
  • Membership Promotion
  • Welcome New Members
  • OFA's Architectural Guidebook 

OFA's Annual Art Show Recap & Post-Event Survey

The 2nd Annual OFA Art Show took place at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) November 3rd & 4th with great attendance and beautiful artwork. Nine pieces of artwork were sold with the majority of proceeds benefitting OFA’s programming such as 2021 Scholarships.

 

Our professional jury selected 1st. 2nd, and 3rd places as well as the Top Ten to be included with People’s Choice to be featured at OMA’s First Thursday event on November 5th. View the winners and Top Ten here.

Did you exhibit or attend our show online or in-person? We would love to hear from you! Below is the link to our 2nd Annual OFA Art Show Post-Event Survey. The survey takes 2 minutes to complete. Please take a moment to give us your feedback!

 

Didn't get a chance to attend our show online or in-person? The online artwork showcase is still available to view on our website.

 

Thank you again to everyone who participated and to our event sponsors Triangle Reprographics and TLC Engineering Solutions. Be sure to check out JEFRË's exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art: Points of Connection still available through January 3, 2020!

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Design Architect of Winter Park’s new Library and Events Center, Sir David Adjaye was named the 2021 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal

Design architect of Winter Park’s new Library and Events Center, Sir David Adjaye was recently named the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal recipient, making him the first Black architect to receive the honor. Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence "either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture".

Sir David Adjaye, over the course of 25 years, has achieved international recognition and attention with a series of international, groundbreaking interventions, ranging from private houses, exhibitions, and furniture design, to major cultural buildings and city masterplans. Adjaye is well-known for the highly celebrated Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, DC (2016).

Image Courtesy of ArchDaily.com

The new Winter Park Library and Events Center is under construction and the city celebrated the raising of the final roofbeam at a Topping Out ceremony on Friday, October 30.

The ceremony marked the completion of the skeleton of the new building and was attended digitally by design architect Sir David Adjaye.

 

The 50,000 SF library was approved in 2016 with a $42 million budget. The new Winter Park Library and Events Center is expected to open in the fall of 2021. Once completed, the new venue will host a grand ballroom for groups of up to 500 people, a rooftop terrace, an outdoor amphitheater, a covered porte cochere, and special event spaces available for rent. Read more about the project on the City of Winter Park’s website.

Image Courtesy of cityofwinterpark.org

Mennello Museum Fundraising for Dramatic Expansion

Image Courtesy of KMF Architects

You can stop by the Mennello Museum and see the engaging model of the architect’s vision. You can even recognize the sculptures that currently surround the museum out on the lawn, recreated in miniature in the model. This model, being of an art museum, is of sophisticated neutral tones with color highlights only for the warm wood accent walls at some window recesses. The model itself a work of art. 

The museum expansion is designed by Brooks + Scarpa, which has offices in Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles, and Orlando-based KMF Architects. The new design will envelop the current building.

 

Here is a link to a wonderful article by Matthew Palm in the Orlando Sentinel, talking with the museum’s Executive Director Shannon Fitzgerald. It has a video and more illustrations of the proposed design and details

Article and Model Images Courtesy of Gregory Stock

Inside Voices | Black Thoughts Forum Series Continues in December

BAM (Black Architects in the Making) Miami, in collaboration with BAM Orlando, a committee of OFA, is hosting the next "season" of the Inside Voices | Black Thoughts forum series on December 11th at 7pm.

 

Central and South Florida is known as a melting pot of people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Yet, identity is still an issue we tend to shy away from in our everyday conversations. Join us in a discussion about identity, its impact on the profession, and why it is essential to be “Down For The Count.”

 

Mark your calendars, registration will be available soon!

32nd Annual Golf Tournament

AIA Orlando, with The Orlando Foundation for Architecture, is hosting its 32nd Annual Golf Tournament on February 19, 2021 from 6:30am-1pm at the Rio Pinar Country Club.

 

Join Central Florida’s top architectural design professionals and allies and help raise money for architectural scholarships. This year, we are taking a trip “Around The World”. So dress up like someone from your favorite country, get ready for a fun journey to everywhere we couldn’t go in 2020, and help us raise funds for students of Central Florida's 2+2+2 Program.

 

Sponsorship opportunities are available now! Click here to learn more, register, or sponsor.

AAO Design Matters Conference: "Radical Transformation"

The Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO) presents the Design Matters Conference - the only annual gathering specifically for organizations devoted to inspiring public dialogue about architecture and urbanism - gives attendees an expanded set of ideas and professional contacts in order to better contextualize their work in this new world. The event takes place December 3rd & 4th.

During plenary sessions and interactive small group discussions, attendees will wrestle with the pressing questions, nascent ideas, and operational challenges that can be best appreciated and investigated by their immediate colleagues from peer architecture organizations.

Using the online conference platform, attendees will be able to customize their itineraries with relevant sessions as well as one-on-one and small group networking opportunities.

 

The Conference brings together not-for-profit professionals and volunteers charged with creating cultural programs about the built environment (e.g., exhibitions, tours, lectures, symposia, festivals, publications, research, youth outreach), providing ample time for networking and learning among this unique community of cultural practitioners.

 

Learn more or register here.

OFA Membership Promotion!

Now through the end of the year, OFA is offering a membership promotion: purchase your 2021 membership and receive the rest of 2020 included!

 

OFA Members receive discounted access to events and programming, a listing on our website, volunteer opportunities to benefit our local communities, and more.

 

Learn more about becoming a member here.

Welcome New OFA Members!

OFA Membership is growing and we want to recognize our newest members. 

New Members:

Lizbeth Garcia

 

A full list of our membership is available on our website. Not a member yet? Join today!

Pre-Order Your Copy of OFA's Architectural Guidebook

Pre-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 are printing a limited number so be sure to pre-order your copy today!

In light of the current pandemic, your support is critical 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!

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