Nick Proffitt
2020-21

Lauren Della Bella, LEED AP
2018-19

• Redefining Trustee responsibilities.

• Creating a more sustainable financial model for the AFC.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2018: Otto M. Budig, Jr.

Robert Grace
2016-17

• Created the first walking tour app, ArchiTour Cincinnati.

• Initiated the first Doors Open event in Over the Rhine and developed the Doors Open OTR app.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2016: James T. Fitzgerald, FAIA

Jay Schuermann
2014-15

• Hired an Education Director to run the Design LAB program and a new Executive Director.

• Increased the number of Great House tours.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2014: 3CDC

  • 2015: Willie F. Carden, Jr.

Michael Kelley, IIDA
2012-13

• Created the first public Great House Tour of the Hanna Residence.

• Assumed responsibility for the Architecture By Children program from AIA Cincinnati and renamed it Design LAB: Learn And Build.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2012: Pete Strange

  • 2013: Tom Humes

David Arends, AIA
2010-11 

• Redefined the role of the Executive Director and recruited a new candidate to serve in that role.

• Relocated the AFC office to a storefront at 811 Race St. and created the AFC Gallery.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2010: The School for Creative and Performing Arts team

    • The Corbett Foundation

    • Tom Klinedinst

    • Norma Peterson

    • Erich Kunzel

  • 2011: John Barrett

Christine Schoonover
2008-09

• Established the first AFC office at 127 W. Ninth St.

• Published the Biographical Dictionary of Cincinnati Architects, 1788-1940.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2008: Arn Bortz

  • 2009: Manny and Rhoda Mayerson

Michael Moose, AIA
2006-07

• Organized and participated in two Over the Rhine design charrettes to help develop a vision for the future.

• Initiated the Hammer Award to recognize the efforts of a practitioner.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2006: Stan Kaplan

  • 2007: Tom Schiff

Jay Chatterjee
2004-05

• Brought the Apple Award back to AFC, created a Gala event to present the award in a celebratory fashion, and created a financial resource to support the foundation’s activities.

• Published Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City by the Ohio University Press.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2004: Dale McGirr

  • 2005: Buck Niehoff

Richard Mellott, AIA
2002-03

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2002: Robert Richardson

  • 2003: David Niland

David S. Ross, AIA
2000-01

• Initiated research for Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City

• Increased AFC programming by holding monthly lunch events to discuss important architectural topics in the area.

• Created the current AFC brand identity.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 2000: Jack Rouse

  • 2001: Alice and Harris Weston

John Rogers, FAIA
1998-99

• Published a pamphlet, Architecture Cincinnati: A Guide to Significant Buildings in conjunction with Cincinnatus. The guide documented seventeen significant historic and contemporary projects in Cincinnati, using photographs by environmental artist Alice Weston and text by Walter E. Langsam.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 1998: Neil Bortz

  • 1999: Dick and Lois Rosenthal

Michael Schuster, AIA
1996-97

• Adopted the Architecture By Children program as part of the AFC.

• Joined the Cincinnati Design Awards program to present the Apple Award.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 1996: the Aronoff Center for Design team:

    • Jay Chatterjee

    • Peter Eisenman

    • Senator Stanley J. Aronoff

    • Lorenz & Williams

  • 1997: the Hamilton County Library

John Bentley, ASLA
1994-95

• Provided grant to support the Architecture By Children program developed by Michael Schuster Associates.

• Developed a fundraising program to create financial resources to allow AFC to carry out its mission.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 1994: George and Joan Rieveschl

  • 1995:

    • The University of Cincinnati

    • The Belvedere Corporation

    • Michael Graves, FAIA

    • The local AIA Fellows

Jack Hodell, AIA
1992-93

• Created the initial Apple Award program to recognize the contributions of individuals or entities in improving the built environment of the Cincinnati area.

• Apple Award Honorees:

  • 1993:

    • Carl A. Strauss, FAIA

    • Frederick A. Hauck

    • James C. Perin

    • Hope Taft

    • John Smale

    • Fred Lazarus III

    • Nell Surber

Donald Junker, AIA
1990-91 

• Grew the AFC to 160 members including individuals, businesses and family entities.

Gary Herfel, Esq.
1988-89

• Curated an architectural exhibit at the Westin atrium with the Cincinnati Bicentennial Celebration.

• Sponsored a film with WCET-TV entitled Bricks and Mortar: People and Dreams, the stories of local construction projects and the individuals who built them.

Tom Tilsley, AIA
1987

• Published its first book, Architecture and Construction in Cincinnati: A Guide to Buildings, Designers and Builders in conjunction with Cincinnati’s Bicentennial celebration.

Loren Poff, AIC
1986

Robert Gramann, FAIA
1985

• Established an architectural bookstore in conjunction with AIA Cincinnati located on the skywalk in the 580 Building.

Robert Robertson
1984               

Robert Dorsey, FAIA
1982-83

Led the effort to create the AFC with fellow collaborators Woodie Garber, Gavin Gray, Gary Herfel, Loren Poff, Bob Robertson, Tom Tilsley, and Robert Williams and became the first President of the Board of Trustees.

• Created a collection of architectural drawings by distinguished local architects and contributed them to the Cincinnati Historical Society Library, which cataloged and preserved the collection.