AIA CKC Annual Retreat
Join Us in June...2026
at the AIA/CKC Annual Retreat in Maysville, KY.
June 5-6, 2026
Retreat Hotel: French Quarter Inn, 25 E Mcdonald Pkwy, Maysville, KY
Conference Location: Cox Building, 2 E Third St, Maysville, KY
This year's architecture retreat will feature the history and architecture from a Kentucky river town, Maysville. Now in our 13th year, the annual retreat offers community, learning, and travel at an affordable price.
The accommodations will be at the French Quarter Inn. Description of hotel may be found at: https://frenchquarterinnmaysville.xyz/. A block of hotel rooms have been reserved $95/night (plus tax) and may be reserved at any time by calling 606-564-8000.
The annual retreat is a two-day, two-night excursion for members, friends, and partners to enjoy cultural and practical investigations into architecture practice, theory and history. Members will earn about 6-7 LU/HSWs, and the exact number TBD.
Our conference will be held in the Cox Building, a Richardson Romanesque style building with unique features including gargoyles along the roofline, exquisite murals and stained glass windows.
Tentative Conference Schedule:
Friday, June 5
6:00 pm - Dinner at Hippie Burger.
7:00-10:00pm - Downtown Summer Sounds Concert
Saturday June 6
8:30 am - Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am - Building Diagnostics: Research Strategies for Architects
10:00 am - Historic Preservation: Protecting History and Incentivizing Rehabilitation
11:00 am - The Design of the Gardens at St Patrick’s
12:00 pm - Lunch Presentation by Alpolic.
1:00 - 4:30 pm - Trolley Tour of downtown Maysville, Old Washington and the Gardens at St Patrick’s.
6:30 pm - Dinner at Caproni's
Click Here to Register
Sponsorship inquiries should be addressed to committee chair Steve Goldstein
Email: [email protected] Phone: 502-451-3498.
We thank our sponsors (so far) for this event:
at the AIA/CKC Annual Retreat in Maysville, KY.
June 5-6, 2026
Retreat Hotel: French Quarter Inn, 25 E Mcdonald Pkwy, Maysville, KY
Conference Location: Cox Building, 2 E Third St, Maysville, KY
This year's architecture retreat will feature the history and architecture from a Kentucky river town, Maysville. Now in our 13th year, the annual retreat offers community, learning, and travel at an affordable price.
The accommodations will be at the French Quarter Inn. Description of hotel may be found at: https://frenchquarterinnmaysville.xyz/. A block of hotel rooms have been reserved $95/night (plus tax) and may be reserved at any time by calling 606-564-8000.
The annual retreat is a two-day, two-night excursion for members, friends, and partners to enjoy cultural and practical investigations into architecture practice, theory and history. Members will earn about 6-7 LU/HSWs, and the exact number TBD.
Our conference will be held in the Cox Building, a Richardson Romanesque style building with unique features including gargoyles along the roofline, exquisite murals and stained glass windows.
Tentative Conference Schedule:
Friday, June 5
6:00 pm - Dinner at Hippie Burger.
7:00-10:00pm - Downtown Summer Sounds Concert
Saturday June 6
8:30 am - Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am - Building Diagnostics: Research Strategies for Architects
10:00 am - Historic Preservation: Protecting History and Incentivizing Rehabilitation
11:00 am - The Design of the Gardens at St Patrick’s
12:00 pm - Lunch Presentation by Alpolic.
1:00 - 4:30 pm - Trolley Tour of downtown Maysville, Old Washington and the Gardens at St Patrick’s.
6:30 pm - Dinner at Caproni's
Click Here to Register
Sponsorship inquiries should be addressed to committee chair Steve Goldstein
Email: [email protected] Phone: 502-451-3498.
We thank our sponsors (so far) for this event:
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Program Details:
9:00 am - Building Diagnostics: Research Strategies for Architects
10:00 am - Historic Preservation: Protecting History and Incentivizing Rehabilitation
11:00 am - The Design of the Gardens at St Patrick’s
1:00 - 4:30 pm - Trolley Tour of downtown Maysville, Old Washington and the Gardens at St Patrick’s.
Participants will explore a diverse collection of 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century structures, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Victorian architecture. The tour examines how river commerce, early settlement patterns, and industrial growth influenced building design, scale, and placement within the urban core.
Key highlights include:
9:00 am - Building Diagnostics: Research Strategies for Architects
- Learning Credit Units: AIA 1.0 HSW
- This presentation will illuminate the values of various in-depth research methodologies for aiding architects in building assessments, diagnostics, and planning for preservation and restoration projects when working with historic buildings and will discuss strategies for creating effective and engaging research phases.
- Discuss the methods for assessing existing buildings using multiple sources.
- Cultural Context defining the original design and construction
- History of Change and maintenance over time
- Current Building Assessment and the documentation and identification of found conditions
- Discuss the various sources for material to better understand the cultural and material context of a building, and how to determine each source’s value to the design project.
- Discuss the role that evidence-based diagnostics plays in the repair, maintenance, and long-term preservation of historic buildings.
- Identifying materials and their limitations
- Identifying causes of found conditions through non-destructive and destructive methods
- The Architect as both investigator and storyteller
- Discuss the role that material preservation plays in the NPS Standards for the Rehabilitation of Historic Building.
- Ship of Theseus and how far is too far to go in replacing building materials.
- Balance rigor with curiosity. Allow initial investigations to be broader and more open-ended, shifting to a more narrow and specific approach at a given point.
- Logan Smith, Kerry Brown, and Afif Alahmad, with Champlain/EOP Architects will present the above.
- Dr. Cheryl French, Mayslick Community Development will give a brief history of the Rosenwald School.
10:00 am - Historic Preservation: Protecting History and Incentivizing Rehabilitation
- Learning Credit Units: AIA 1.0 HSW (Submitted)
- Description:
Join Mike Radeke and Zach Osborne for a presentation that provides a quick overview of the Kentucky Heritage Council before diving into an in depth analysis of two building designs to learn how complicated programmatic requirements and existing building restrictions can work within Historic Preservation tax credit funding.
HSW Justification:
The course will help provide architects with the necessary understanding, tools, and strategies to design and create solutions for their clients to meet the requirements for state and federal historic preservation tax credits, a vital funding source to restore and maintain historic buildings.
Learning Objective 1: The profile
Quick overview of the Kentucky Heritage Council, state and federal tax credits and preservation easements.
Learning Objective 2: The skin
Identify the 10 Standards in The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.
Learning Objective 3: The bones
Understand the framework for how the Kentucky Heritage Council staff (at the State level) and the National Park Service staff (at the Federal level) evaluate historic buildings to determine the importance and priority of maintaining existing historic fabric and spaces, from most important to least important. This will include dealing with “Fragile part 1” findings.
Learning Objective 4: The meat
In depth analysis of two tax credit applications showing both the original submitted drawings and revised drawings to illustrate the balance between challenging programmatic requirements and the need to meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.
11:00 am - The Design of the Gardens at St Patrick’s
- Learning Credit Units: AIA 1.0 HSW
- Presentation and Gardens Tour Summary
The presentation introduces the client and overall vision for the project, outlining the site context and master plan strategy. It explains the project’s objectives, symbolic planning concepts, program development, and collaboration with key contributors, including the sculptor. The architectural approach highlights the central design metaphor, the building’s plinth condition, and the evolution of the program within a hybrid design-build framework.
The implementation section reviews team roles, delivery methods, and how the AEC team adapted to significant scope and program changes during construction, including ongoing owner engagement throughout design. The presentation concludes with construction outcomes and the resulting impact on the site, the building, and the overall patron and visitor experience. - Presenters and Tour Facilitators
John L. Carman, FASLA, CARMAN
Matthew Brooks, AIA, NOMI
- Learning Credit Units: AIA 1.0 HSW-SD
- This presentation will cover a wide range of timely topics important to the Architect, Designer, and Specifier of contemporary interior and exterior metal panels. It will provide an overview of aluminum and metal composite materials (ACM and MCM), address the attributes, basic design guidelines, attachment systems, specifications, and core considerations.
- Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
1. Comprehend the defining characteristics and properties of ACM/MCM.
2. Identify and discuss the sustainable qualities of ACM/MCM that can support LEED certification and result in greater building durability and healthier occupants.
3. Differentiate PE from FR Core and describe the testing protocols for ACM/MCM wall assemblies.
4. Illustrate the comprehensive range of design capabilities ACM/MCM offers.
5. Interpret standards and product specifications regarding ACM/MCM.
6. Determine and specify the appropriate components for ACM/MCM attachment system. - Presenter: Jordan Flinchum, Alpolic
- Bio: Criss-crossing the eastern half of North America, Jordan Flinchum’s role as category sales manager for ALPOLIC satisfies his wanderlust. Born in Alaska, raised in Kentucky, and now based outside of Cincinnati, he has always loved travel and has explored every inhabited continent. Pairing heartland values and boundless curiosity, Jordan brought new insight and a different perspective with him when he joined the ALPOLIC sales team in 2020. Then in 2023 he took over the role of the Mid-Atlantic regional sales manager. Focusing on large scale architectural projects to round out his sales experience in the MCM industry. From interior signage to skyscrapers Jordan is your go to guy for metal composite materials.
1:00 - 4:30 pm - Trolley Tour of downtown Maysville, Old Washington and the Gardens at St Patrick’s.
- Learning Credit Units: AIA 3.0 HSW
Participants will explore a diverse collection of 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century structures, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Victorian architecture. The tour examines how river commerce, early settlement patterns, and industrial growth influenced building design, scale, and placement within the urban core.
Key highlights include:
- Historic downtown corridors featuring preserved commercial blocks with original façades and adaptive reuse projects
- Landmark civic and cultural structures such as the Washington Opera House, showcasing late 19th-century design and ongoing preservation efforts
- Residential districts illustrating craftsmanship, material usage, and architectural detailing across periods
- The iconic floodwall murals, interpreted not only as public art but as part of the city’s relationship with infrastructure and environmental design along the Ohio River
- Insights into preservation strategies, regulatory considerations, and the challenges of maintaining historic integrity while supporting modern use