AIA Potomac Valley President Antonio Rebelo, AIA (Grimm + Parker Architects) and AIA Potomac Valley President-Elect Jennifer Verbeke, AIA (McD Studio) congratulate Professor Brian Kelly, AIA (University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) on receiving the 2018 Paul H. Kea Award for Service to the Profession. 

Guest speaker and AIA National President Carl Elefante, FAIA (Quinn Evans Architects) and fellow AIA Potomac Valley member and Awards Chair Scott Knudson (Knu Design) enjoy the post-awards dessert reception.

2002 Kea Medal winner and long-time AIA Potomac Valley and AIA Maryland board member John Corkill, AIA chats with musicians from the University of Maryland during the pre-awards reception.

2014 Kea Award Winner Melanie Hennigan, AIA, (President, Grimm + Parker Architects); Treasurer of the AIA Potomac Valley and Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation Boards Tom Nyein, AIA (Tom Nyein, Architect) ; 2018 Paul H. Kea Award Winner Professor Brian Kelly, AIA, (University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); President of the Potomac Valley Architecture Foundation Bo Green, AIA (E.B. Green, Architect)

Prince George's County Director of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement Dr. Haitham Hijazi and Montgomery County Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson.

2018 Design Awards Jury Chair Kevin Kudo-King, AIA (Olson Kundig) presents one of the evening's design awards to Mark McInturff, FAIA (McInturff Architects) along with his design team of Colleen Gove Healey, AIA and (next to her) Peter Noonan, AIA, and their clients.

AIA Potomac Valley President-Elect Jennifer Verbeke, AIA (McD Studio) and President Antonio Rebelo, AIA (Grimm + Parker) congratulate Melissa Daniel, Associate AIA (WDG Architecture) on receiving the Chapter's inaugural Emerging Leader Award.

Michael Drerup, PE and Helen Wilkes, AIA (Helen Crettier Wilkes Architects) discuss the winners (of which Helen was one!) of the Napkin Sketch Contest, responding to the challenge "How does architecture address immigration?"

Lucian Romano (far left) and Leonard Romano (far right) of Nardi Construction, Bar sponsors of the 2018 Design + Leadership Gala; with Marale Rebelo, AIA Potomac Valley Awards Chair Scott Knudson, AIA (Knu Design), and AIA Potomac Valley President Antonio Rebelo, AIA (Grimm + Parker Architects)

The elegant dinner setting for the 2018 Design + Leadership Gala at The Hotel at the University of Maryland.