AIA Minnesota

👷♀️Join AIA Northern Minnesota for a hard hat tour of Lake Superior College Manufacturing expansion project in Duluth on Thursday, October 24, at 3:30 pm!👷♂️ Lake Superior College is relocating their manufacturing programs from their existing downtown campus back to main campus. The project scope is a 8,300sf addition and a 20,000sf renovation of the existing “T Building”. The programs in the manufacturing department include welding, machine tool, and robotics. The college is within the Minnesota State College system and the project is required to follow the B3/SB2030 guidelines due to the state bonding funding source. Architecture Advantage, LLC and Kraus-Anderson will present the project scope, processes, and challenges faced during the project followed by a tour of the spaces. The project is under construction and is currently scheduled to be completed in January 2025. AIA continuing education credits have been applied for. Pending approval this tour will provide 1.0 HSW LU for AIA membership requirements. Read more details & register to attend: https://lnkd.in/gvrP8QxB

Dunwoody College of Technology’s Women in Technical Careers Scholarship program is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024-2025 mentorship program! This program is designed to connect our WITC scholars with a woman who is working in the industry they are studying. 12 women are seeking mentors from the architecture community. Mentorship matches can expect to spend between 1 and 3 hours each month connecting with one another. The time commitment is based on availability and desire of the mentor match. Communication can happen in person, on the phone, video call, as well as texting and email, based on comfort level. The program will run October 2024-May 2025 (or beyond, if you choose!). Learn more and sign up: https://lnkd.in/gb3p_ZBB

Join ENTER at Room & Board in Edina for a design conversation on sustainable workspaces and furnishings on Thursday, October 10. Editor Chris Hudson will moderate a discussion with Room & Board sustainability director Emily McGarvey and three leading workplace architects and designers: Snow Kreilich Architects senior associate Katie Blaisdell, AIA, Perkins&Will Minneapolis design director Tony Layne, AIA, and MSR Design interior design lead Veronica McCracken Karr. Enjoy complimentary light bites and beverages and enter for a chance to win a $250 Room & Board gift card. Register today for this free event: https://lnkd.in/gcfBYcD5 Space is limited.

A huge thank you to everyone who made this year’s Homes by Architects Tour a great success — the homeowners, architecture firms, volunteers, sponsors, and tour goers! 💻 You can still explore our two virtual tour homes, designed by PAF Architecture and Grayspace Architecture, until October 13. You can find the password for the exclusive virtual tour content on page 5 of your tour guide book, and in your original Eventbrite confirmation email if you purchased a ticket online. (Case-sensitive, only two Ts.) Virtual-only tickets are still available as well at homesbyarchitects.org.

Don’t miss the #A24MN Tuesday keynote, Ozayr Saloojee! ➡️ Register for the Minnesota Conference of Architecture now: https://lnkd.in/dBmsPqF Ozayr Saloojee is professor of architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he is also cross-appointed at the Institute for African Studies and as affiliate faculty at Carleton’s Center for the Study of Islam. He co-directs Carleton’s Urban Research Lab, currently serves as associate editor of design for the Journal of Architectural Education, and holds external appointments in landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota and at Royal Roads University’s College of Interdisciplinary Sciences. His teaching, research, and creative practice are preoccupied with finding an architecture enacted otherwise, and of architecture as a practice of tender, epistemic dreaming. His research interests focus on anti-colonial and politically contested landscapes, geo-imaginaries, and questions of tradition and modernity in Islamic art and architecture. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed his B.Arch and Post-professional M.Arch II (Theory and Culture) from Carleton University and his doctoral research at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Saloojee will be presenting on “Form Follows Pipelines: The (Continued) Weaponization of Architecture” — A colleague once rolled his eyes when someone said, in a faculty meeting, that architecture is in crisis. “It’s ALWAYS in crisis,” he drawled, and then continued, with a sigh, “Let’s get on with the meeting and back to scheduling.” What follows is a serious question (seriously): Can we just get on with the meeting, anymore? What’s changed, with the advent of black squares and EDI politics, of land acknowledgements without land-back? With demands for reparations, for (more-than-only) recognition? In the face of ongoing genocide and urbicide? This keynote title riffs on V. Mitch McEwen’s 2021 Archinect essay, “Form Follows Fascism Redux,” and is a meditation on the weaponization of architecture, as an entangled system of disciplinary and professional practice in a not-so-brat world.

Our thoughts are with all those affected by Hurricane Helene. Together, we can contribute to the rebuilding and resilience efforts that will be critical in the coming weeks and months. For resources on resilient design and recovery or ways to support the communities impacted, visit https://bit.ly/4dtZHpR. #HurricaneHelene #DisasterRecovery #ResilientDesign

TOMORROW, Oct. 2 — Join the AIA Minnesota Equity in the Built Environment (EBE) Committee and MG2 for Wednesday, October 2, for a continuing education course on “The Ethics of Inclusive & Accessible Design,” presented by Sarah St. Louis, Assoc. AIA, ADAC. Have you ever wondered how we got our Accessibility Code? Does it really help the disability community? In this program we will dive into these questions and talk about how we currently think about and practice inclusive/accessible design and how we should reconsider those mindsets and design behaviors to actually meet the needs of the disability community beyond the Accessibility Code. Additionally, we will look at the new Minnesota State law concerning adult-sized changing tables and how they came to be, how we differ from the ICC 2024 version and how to make the business case for inclusive/accessible design. Registration: $30 in-person (limited space) or virtual with CE credit | free virtual without CE credit Read more and register: https://lnkd.in/gRNcjCxU

Join us for a construction tour of Frasier Hall THIS TUESDAY! AIA Minnesota EPC group will be hosting a construction tour in collaboration with the UMN AIAS. Both BWBR and VJAA Inc. will be there to talk about the project. Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gT-9BfqX

Work one-on-one with a University of Minnesota College of Design undergrad or grad student in architecture to help them grow professionally through career exploration, networking, project and portfolio reviews, skill-building, and more. Applications are preferred by September 30. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eWKGuEA3

Join us Wednesday, October 2nd at our MG2 Minneapolis office for a great program on The Ethics of Inclusive & Accessible Design. We will discuss why it is important, is the accessibility code really accessible, the new MN law for adult-sized changing tables and the business case for inclusive & accessible spaces. This program will provide 1 Ethics & 1 HSW credit for paid in person & online attendance. Or you can join online for no credits for free but you must register. MG2 will be providing food & beverages for the in person registrants.