Recapping Our December 2023 Conference in Tampa
The historic ballroom at the Hotel Flor in Tampa, FL was the setting for the Traditional Building Conference on December 5-6, 2023. This was the third and final in-person event in the 2023 Series which is augmented by six “Materials and Methods” web seminars.
For Immediate Release
December 12, 2023
Contact: Judy Hayward, Director of Education
jhayward@aimmedia.com
The historic ballroom at the Hotel Flor in Tampa, FL was the setting for the Traditional Building Conference on December 5-6, 2023. This was the third and final in-person event in the 2023 Series which is augmented by six “Materials and Methods” web seminars.
During lunch on the first day of the conference, the inaugural Raphael Awards Ceremony honored seven winners for their architectural art. The Raphael Awards were created to encourage excellence in hand-drawing, sketching, and rendering. As part of the ceremony, Mark Hewitt, FAIA, presented: “Thinking with Your Hands by Drawing with a Stylus” which reiterated the importance of “seeing by drawing…by hand.”
Rick Gonzalez, AIA, President of REG Architects delivered two lectures on courthouse restoration and adaptive reuse projects in Florida. Kyle Sword, director of research and development, Pilkington North America, NSG presented a session about glazing technology and embodied carbon. Chris Tidwell of Aeratis lectured on the appropriate use of composite materials in historic restoration/renovation. Russ Oliveri, Oliveri Millworks presented useful data about hurricane codes and installation techniques for mitigating weather damage to windows and doors.
Architectural tours each afternoon included Plant Hall, a Moorish revival, historic hotel adapted as the student center on the University of Tampa campus; Ybor City, the 1920s cigar making capital of the world and the Chapel of the Holy Cross at the Jesuit High School, a 2019 Palladio Award-winning project which appeared in TRADITIONAL BUILDING magazine.
Attendees could earn 8.5 AIA HSW Learning Units and 3 AIA elective Learning Units over two days of seminars and architectural tours.
Ricardo Lopez, AIA, and Nina Caruso, director of historic preservation for R.J. Heisenbottle Architects explained the benefits of using the Historic American Buildings Survey for preservation projects. Angela Hendershot, AIA, LEED AP and John Hadley, AIA, Rick Rowe Architects discussed substitute materials which meet the Secretary of the Interiors Standards.
Technical representatives from traditional building supplier firms were on hand to add to the Materials and Methods education including windows, doors, glass, ornamental metals, wood flooring, PVC flooring and shutters, decorative stone and tile, timber framing, storm windows, clay tile roofing, and decorative hardware.
Platinum sponsors who help underwrite the education program for architects, builders, restoration/renovation contractors, developers, building owners and facilities managers were Aeratis; Allied Window; Cambek; Historical Arts and Casting; Ludowici; Marvin.; Oliveri Millworks; Pilkington North America, NSG; and Wilmette Hardware.
Bronze Sponsors included The Goodwin Company; Hearth Stone; and Hartstone.
The Traditional Building Conference Series 2024 moves on to Charlottesville, VA. at the University of Virginia, March 26-27 and Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College, June 11 and 12.
For more information contact:
Carolyn Walsh, registration; cwalsh@aimmedia.com
Judy Hayward, education; jhayward@aimmedia.com
Jennifer Baldwin, sponsorships jenbaldwin1@msn.com
Gina Martin, marketing partnerships gmartin@aimmedia.com
