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Highlighting Local Talent
January 10, 2006

Join us for our January monthly program highlighting our 2005 AIABaltimore Excellence in Design award winners.

5:30 reception, 6 program
AIABaltimore Gallery

$10 members; $5 associates and students; $20 public. Space is limited. Please send clearly marked payment in advance to AIABaltimore, 11 ½ West Chase Street in Baltimore, MD 21201.

1.5 AIA/CES (HSW) credit with registration.

Alexander Design Studio is an award winning practice founded on the principle that good design is the marriage of intellectual ideas and rigorous functional problem solving. Charles Alexander, AIA, attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his graduate degree from the Yale School of Architecture. Alexander Design Studio, founded in 1993, has projects located throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. The firm has received design excellence awards from both state and local chapters of the AIA, and recently founded the Believe in Our Schools program, through which local architects provided pro-bono design services for Baltimore City Public School libraries.

Richard Burns, AIA, is recognized for his creative solutions to urban environmental challenges. He is a partner at Design Collective, and his unique problem-solving, design, and planning approach has been successfully applied to urban projects that range from transforming industrial properties into lofts to master planning waterfront redevelopment, large mixed-use neighborhoods, new towns and central city cores. Burns’ design concepts have been recognized by the Urban Land Institute, the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architecture, and the National Association of Home Builders.

Gabriel Kroiz, AIA, founder and principle of Kroiz Architecture, earned his B.F.A and B. Arch. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and M. Arch. from the University of Maryland. An award winning designer and preservationist, Kroiz has over 15 years of experience as an architect, builder and educator, and has received design and historic preservation awards from both AIABaltimore and Baltimore Heritage. In addition to practice, Kroiz is Director of the MICA Summer Studies Abroad Program in South Korea, a Visiting Professor at Seoul's Duksung University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Kroiz Architecture has projects in the US and Asia.

Mike Murphy, AIA, along with Frank Dittenhafer, AIA, both received their M. Arch. degrees from University of Pennsylvania. They met at a Baltimore firm and joined forces to open Murphy & Dittenhafer in 1985. They have offices in both Baltimore and York, PA. The firm has won numerous awards from state and local AIA chapters in both Maryland and Pennsylvania, as well as the Maryland Historic Trust, Baltimore Heritage, and Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commissions. The firm’s areas of interest include historic preservation/adaptive reuse, higher education, religious, non-profit, library and community planning projects.

Riley & Rohrer is a woman owned architecture and interiors firm in downtown Baltimore. Paul Riley, AIA, and Dianne Rohrer, CID met while working at a Baltimore firm. Riley has his M. Arch. degree from the University of Florida, and Rohrer has a B.F.A. in Interior Design from Maryland Institute College of Art. Rohrer and Riley work very closely together and believe in the strong integration of interior and exterior spatial experiences. They have won numerous awards from AIA and ASID, at both the state and local levels. In 2002, they received the international Will Ching Prize.

Rebecca Swanston, AIA, is a principal in the Baltimore firm of Swanston & Associates and has been involved in designing and studying architecture for the last 27 years. She studied architecture in Scotland, Afghanistan, and received her B. Arch. degree from the University of Maryland. Swanston has won several national, state, and local design awards for her work. The portfolio of her office ranges from residential and commercial renovations to new housing, shelters for women and children, and museums. In 1997, the Daily Record recognized Rebecca as one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women.”

Thanks to our event sponsor Manekin Construction, LLC.

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