AIA Presidents
| Date | President | Business Location |
| 1857 - 1876 | Richard Upjohn, FAIA | 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 | R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA | Alexandria, VA |
| 1981 - 1982 | Robert Lawrence, FAIA | Oklahoma City, OK |
| 1982 - 1983 | Robert Broshar, FAIA | Waterloo, IA |
| 1983 - 1984 | George M. Notter, FAIA | Boston, MA |
| 1984 - 1985 | R. Bruce Patty, FAIA | Shawnee Mission, KS |
| 1985 - 1986 | John A. Busby Jr., FAIA | Atlanta, GA |
| 1986 - 1987 | Donald J. Hackl, FAIA | Chicago, IL |
| 1987 - 1988 | Ted P. Pappas, FAIA | Jacksonville, FL |
| 1988 - 1989 | Benjamin E. Brewer Jr., FAIA | Houston, TX |
| 1989 - 1990 | Sylvester Damianos, FAIA | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1990 - 1991 | Jim Lawler, FAIA | West Hartford, CT |
| 1991 - 1992 | W. Cecil Steward, FAIA | Lincoln, NE |
| 1992 - 1993 | Susan A. Maxman, FAIA | Philadelphia, PA |
| 1993 - 1994 | L. William Chapin, II, FAIA | Rochester, NY |
| 1994 - 1995 | Chester A. Widom, FAIA | Santa Monica, CA |
| 1995 - 1996 | Raymond Post Jr., FAIA | Baton Rouge, LA |
| 1996 - 1997 | Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA | Washington, DC |
| 1997 - 1998 | Ronald Arthur Altoon, FAIA | Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 - 1999 | Michael J. Stanton, FAIA | San Francisco, CA |
| 1999 - 2000 | Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA | Dallas, TX |
| 2000 - 2001 | John D. Anderson, FAIA | Denver, CO |
| 2001 - 2002 | Gordon H. Chong, FAIA | San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 - 2003 | Thompson E. Penney, FAIA | Charleston, SC |
| 2003 - 2004 | Eugene C. Hopkins, FAIA | Detroit, MI |
| 2004 - 2005 | Douglas L Steidl, FAIA | Akron, OH |
| 2005 - 2006 | Katherine Lee Schwennsen, FAIA | Ames, IA |
| 2006-2007 | RK Stewart, FAIA | San Francisco, CA |