Alan Ricks, AIA, Int. FRIBA

DATE / TIME
Thursday, January 16, 2020 5.30 pm: Sign-in, Networking 6.00 pm: Discussion, Q+A

LOCATION
21C Museum Hotel
609 Walnut St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202 COST

FEE/CREDITS
Free & open to the public
CES CREDIT
1.0 HSW/LU hours

REGISTRATION
Register online at:
www.aiacincinnati.org

KEYNOTE
MASS has grown into a dynamic collaborative of architects, planners, engineers, filmmakers, researchers, and public health professionals working in more than a dozen countries in the fields of design, research, policy, education, and strategic planning. Alan’s talk, Justice is Beauty, highlights MASS’s first decade advocating for an architecture of justice and human dignity. With more than thirty projects built or under construction and some 200,000 people served, MASS has pioneered an immersive approach in the practice of architecture that provides the infrastructure, buildings, and physical systems necessary for growth, dignity, and well-being, while always engaging local communities with attention to the specifics of cultural context and social needs.

SPEAKER
Alan is a Founding Principal and the Chief Design Officer of MASS Design Group. He leads strategy and design of the 120-person firm, which has projects in over 20 countries that range from design to research to policy and continues to expand the role of design in advancing a more just world.

Alan is a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders with the World Economic Forum, a community of over 800 men and women under the age of 40, who operate as a force for good to overcome barriers that elsewhere stand in the way of progress.

Chris Anderson, chief curator of TED, described his TED talk as “a different language about what architecture can aspire to be.”

VISION is the “Architect’s Leadership Forum” of AIA Cincinnati, dedicated to professional advancement, firm development, and community outreach.