Annual Meeting & Lecture

Thank you to everyone who attended this year's AIA Orlando Annual Meeting & Lecture. We would like to congratulate our newly elected 2025 AIA Orlando Board Members.

Lindsey Perez, AIA, LEED Fellow, GGP, Fitwell Amb.

Vice President/ President Elect

Seth Bout, Assoc. AIA

Secretary

Timothy L. Johnson I, AIA/NOMA

State Director

Michael Richardson, AIA

Director at Large

Margaret Logas

Director at Large

Wade Martin, Assoc. AIA

Allied Director

READ ABOUT THE ELECTED CANDIDATES

Thank you to our guest speaker, Kathryn Slattery, AIA, principal at AIA 2024 Firm of the Year, Quinn Evans. We are excited to see you again in April at the 2025 OFA Scholarship Awards!

Kathryn Slattery, AIA

Principal at AIA National 2024 Firm of the Year Award Recipient, Quinn Evans

Kathryn Slattery, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, is a principal at Quinn Evans and operational director of the firm’s Washington, DC, office. With deep experience in visitor-focused projects for museum, zoo, and park clients including the National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and Mount Vernon, Katie embodies Quinn Evans’ commitment to the regeneration of existing places and the communities they serve.

Katie holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Catholic University of America and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. She is a registered architect in four states and the District of Columbia. She most recently presented on Quinn Evans’ LEED Gold-certified renovation of the National Zoo’s historic Bird House at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ annual meeting

Quinn Evans

AIA National 2024 Architecture Firm Award Recipient

Quinn Evans’ reputation for preservation, design excellence, and expertise in the revitalization of significant places quickly swelled, leading to work on national icons such as the Michigan State Capitol and Washington, DC’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Among the firm’s more recent work is the award-winning renovation of The National Academy of Sciences, also in DC, which included the restoration of its great hall and 56-foot-high, painted Guastavino dome. On the other side of the National Mall, the firm is shaping a high-performance environment for the celebrated National Air and Space Museum, Gyo Obata’s 1976 masterpiece that welcomes millions of visitors each year.

Quinn Evans has long been attuned to the environmental benefits of reuse. The firm has been guided by the mantra “the greenest building is one that is already built” for nearly 40 years, and it deftly synergizes preservation and sustainable design to imbue existing buildings with new purposes and brighter futures. The firm’s study of pre-fossil-fuel-era building traditions has helped dispel an array of misconceptions about the performance limitations of historic buildings, unveiling their relevance in creating a more sustainable future.