THE BALTIMORE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION KICKS OFF ITS FREE SPRING FORUM SERIES 2008
April 2-May 7

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation launches its 2008 Spring Forum. Wednesdays at noon, the public is invited to bring their lunches to the Berman Auditorium of /the Johns Hopkins Downtown Center, Charles and Fayette Streets, for lectures about Baltimore’s built environment. All Forum sessions are FREE. For more information, please call Adam Blumenthal at 410.539.7772.

April 2 Aris Melisseratos, senior advisor to the president of The Johns Hopkins University for enterprise development.

April 9 Anna Custer, executive director of Live Baltimore, on Baltimore’s real estate market and her organization’s effort to attract new residents

April 16 Eliza Smith Steinmeier, Baltimore Harbor waterkeeper, and Halle Van der Gaag, from the Jones Falls Watershed Association, on the health of the harbor

April 23 Otis Rolley, III, president of Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, on this new organization’s plans to improve travel efficiency within central Maryland

April 30 Jim Kraft, Baltimore City councilman, on “green” legislation in Baltimore City

May 7 TBD

The Baltimore Architecture Foundation’s Spring Forum 2008 is supported by The Johns Hopkins University.

Launched in 1987 by AIABaltimore, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation is a non-profit, educational, public-oriented outreach organization. The Foundation is a member-based organization with a 26-member board of directors drawn from the architectural, business, and cultural communities. The Foundation today focuses its attention and energies on helping to promote an understanding of and an appreciation for Baltimore’s built environment – it does this through walking tours, lectures, public programs, and an architecture-in-the-schools program. The Foundation is also actively engaged in researching the early architectural firms and practitioners of architecture in Baltimore.

www.baltimorearchitecture.org

Because AIABaltimore recognizes and appreciates the public educational outreach of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, each year it contributes $5 of each licensed architect’s individual AIA membership dues to help support BAF programs. Several AIABaltimore members helped found the BAF in 1987 and, along with other architects, have been valuable leaders. They and other people from many professions contribute to helping more of the public understand and appreciate our rich build environment. We hope you, as members of the architecture and construction community will also give generously to the Foundation.

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