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AIA Member Profiles: Lessons from Architecture

Julie Eizenberg, AIA: Elevating the Buildings of Everyday Life

Some budget and material savvy, as well as a keen understanding of program, can transform any architectural experience.

Author: Sara Fernández Cendón
Publish Date: 08/24/2012

Marc Kushner, AIA: Pop-Architecture for the Masses

HWKN’s founder has been at the helm of a building with its own theme song, and a website that established a foothold in the social media world for architecture.

Author: John Gendall
Publish Date: 08/10/2012

Suzanne Frasier, AIA: Infrastructure Needs and Third-World Know-How

India’s infrastructure headaches (and innovations) are ours, too.

Author: Layla Bellows
Publish Date: 07/13/2012

John Dickinson, AIA: Design for the Deaf and Blind

A hearing-impaired architect designs education facilities for people that experience the world as he does.

Author: Kim A. O’Connell
Publish Date: 06/22/2012

Jennifer Coleman, AIA: Designing the Memory of Place

For Coleman, that place is her native city of Cleveland, and the memories are of a stunning rise and a gradual decline.

Author: Angie Schmitt
Publish Date: 06/08/2012

Kelly Hayes McAlonie, AIA: Bringing Architecture to the Public

History, play, and preservation are just a few of the ways architects can create a meeting place for architecture and the public.

Author: Kim O'Connell
Publish Date: 05/11/2012

Mark Cavagnero, FAIA: Growing Big Ideas

Patience and deep community involvement are how architects make sure clients’ questions, concerns and anxieties eventually turn into architecture.

Author: Sara Fernandez Cendon
Publish Date: 04/13/2012