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1857 – 2007
Biographies of the first 83 AIA Presidents were published in A Legacy of Leadership: The Presidents of the American Institute of Architects 1857-2007 (PDF, 7 MB) by R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA (The American Institute of Architects, 2008).
Read newly released updates to their biographies on this page or by clicking on a link in the list below.
2008 – Present
A new companion edition continues to document the achievements of AIA presidents who served in the years after 2007. Download A Legacy of Leadership: The Presidents of the American Institute of Architects 2008–Present (PDF, 3 MB).
Date |
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President |
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Business Location |
1857 - 1876 |
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Richard Upjohn, FAIA |
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New York, NY |
1877 - 1887 |
Thomas U. Walter, FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1888 - 1891 |
Richard M. Hunt, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1892 - 1893 |
Edward H. Kendall, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1894 - 1895 |
Daniel H. Burnham, FAIA |
Chicago, IL | ||
1896 - 1898 |
George B. Post, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1899 - 1900 |
Henry Van Brunt, FAIA |
Kansas City, MO | ||
1900 - 1901 |
Robert S. Peabody, FAIA |
Boston MA | ||
1902 - 1903 |
Charles F. McKim, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1904 - 1905 |
William S. Eames, FAIA |
St. Louis, MO | ||
1906 - 1907 |
Frank Miles Day, FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1908 - 1909 |
Cass Gilbert, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1910 - 1911 |
Irving K. Pond, FAIA |
Chicago, IL | ||
1912 - 1913 |
Walter Cook, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1913 - 1915 |
R. Clipston Sturgis, FAIA |
Boston, MA | ||
1915 - 1918 |
John Lawrence Mauran, FAIA |
St. Louis, MO | ||
1918 - 1920 |
Thomas R. Kimball, FAIA |
Omaha, NE | ||
1920 - 1922 |
Henry H. Kendall, FAIA |
Boston, MA | ||
1922 - 1924 |
William B. Faville, FAIA |
San Francisco, CA | ||
1924 - 1926 |
Dan. Everett Waid, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1926 - 1928 |
Milton B. Medary, FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1928 - 1930 |
C. Herrick Hammond, FAIA |
Chicago, IL | ||
1930 - 1932 |
Robert D. Kohn, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1932 - 1935 |
Ernest John Russell, FAIA |
St. Louis, MO | ||
1935 - 1937 |
Stephen F. Voorhees, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1937 - 1939 |
Charles D. Maginnis, FAIA |
Boston, MA | ||
1939 - 1941 |
Edwin Bergstrom, FAIA |
Los Angeles, CA | ||
1941 - 1943 |
R. H. Shreve, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1943 - 1945 |
Raymond J. Ashton, FAIA |
Salt Lake City, UT | ||
1945 - 1947 |
James R. Edmunds Jr., FAIA |
Baltimore, MD | ||
1947 - 1949 |
Douglas William Orr, FAIA |
New Haven, CT | ||
1949 - 1951 |
Ralph Walker, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1951 - 1953 |
A. Glenn Stanton, FAIA |
Portland, OR | ||
1953 - 1955 |
Clair W. Ditchy, FAIA |
Detroit, MI | ||
1955 - 1956 |
George Bain Cummings, FAIA |
Binghampton, NY | ||
1956 - 1958 |
Leon Chatelain Jr., FAIA |
Washington, DC | ||
1958 - 1960 |
John Noble Richards, FAIA |
Toledo, OH | ||
1960 - 1962 |
Philip Will Jr., FAIA |
Chicago, IL | ||
1962 - 1963 |
Henry Lyman Wright, FAIA |
Los Angeles, CA | ||
1963 - 1964 |
J. Roy Carroll Jr., FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1964 - 1965 |
Arthur Gould Odell Jr., FAIA |
Charlotte, NC | ||
1965 - 1966 |
Morris Ketchum Jr., FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1966 - 1967 |
Charles M. Ness Jr., FAIA |
Baltimore, MD | ||
1967 - 1968 |
Robert L. Durham, FAIA |
Seattle, WA | ||
1968 - 1969 |
George E. Kassabaum, FAIA |
St. Louis, MO | ||
1969 - 1970 |
Rex Whitaker Allen, FAIA |
San Francisco, CA | ||
1970 - 1971 |
Robert F. Hastings, FAIA |
Detroit, MI | ||
1971 - 1972 |
Maximilian O. Urbahn, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
1972 - 1973 |
S. Scott Ferebee Jr., FAIA |
Charlotte, NC | ||
1973 - 1974 |
Archibald C. Rogers, FAIA |
Baltimore, MD | ||
1974 - 1975 |
William Marshall Jr., FAIA |
Norfolk, VA | ||
1975 - 1976 |
Louis de Moll, FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1976 - 1977 |
John McGinty, FAIA |
Houston, TX | ||
1977 - 1978 |
Elmer Botsai, FAIA |
Honolulu, HI | ||
1978 - 1979 |
Ehrman B. Mitchell Jr., FAIA |
Philadelphia, PA | ||
1979 - 1980 |
Charles E. Schwing, FAIA |
Baton Rouge, LA | ||
1980 - 1981 |
Alexandria, VA | |||
1981 - 1982 |
Oklahoma City, OK | |||
1982 - 1983 |
Waterloo, IA | |||
1983 - 1984 |
George M. Notter, FAIA |
Boston, MA | ||
1984 - 1985 |
R. Bruce Patty, FAIA |
Shawnee Mission, KS | ||
1985 - 1986 |
Atlanta, GA | |||
1986 - 1987 |
Chicago, IL | |||
1987 - 1988 |
Jacksonville, FL | |||
1988 - 1989 |
Benjamin E. Brewer Jr., FAIA |
Houston, TX | ||
1989 - 1990 |
Pittsburgh, PA | |||
1990 - 1991 |
West Hartford, CT | |||
1991 - 1992 |
W. Cecil Steward, FAIA |
Lincoln, NE | ||
1992 - 1993 |
Philadelphia, PA | |||
1993 - 1994 |
L. William Chapin, II, FAIA |
Rochester, NY | ||
1994 - 1995 |
Santa Monica, CA | |||
1995 - 1996 |
Raymond Post Jr., FAIA |
Baton Rouge, LA | ||
1996 - 1997 |
Washington, DC | |||
1997 - 1998 |
Los Angeles, CA | |||
1998 - 1999 |
San Francisco, CA | |||
1999 - 2000 |
Dallas, TX | |||
2000 - 2001 |
Denver, CO | |||
2001 - 2002 |
San Francisco, CA | |||
2002 - 2003 |
Charleston, SC | |||
2003 - 2004 |
Detroit, MI | |||
2004 - 2005 |
Douglas L. Steidl, FAIA |
Akron, OH | ||
2005 - 2006 |
Ames, IA | |||
2006 - 2007 |
San Francisco, CA | |||
2007 - 2008 |
Marshall E. Purnell, FAIA |
Washington, DC | ||
2008 - 2009 |
Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA |
Raleigh, NC | ||
2009 - 2010 |
George H. Miller, FAIA |
New York, NY | ||
2010 - 2011 |
Clark D. Manus, FAIA |
San Francisco, CA | ||
2011 - 2012 |
Jeff Potter, FAIA |
Dallas, TX | ||
2012 – 2013 |
Mickey Jacob, FAIA |
Tampa, FL |
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