Quick filters
FeaturedAffordable housingSustainabilityEDIEnergy
Topic
A podcaster
EDI
How storytelling builds resilience: Informing EDI frameworks with AIA’s Guides for Equitable Practice
November 8, 2025

Brittany Hodge, AIA, shares examples of storytelling’s power and ways to incorporate it in your firm’s EDI efforts.

six attendees at NOMA event
EDI
How NOMA supported my professional journey
October 10, 2025

The president of AIA New Jersey credits the National Organization of Minority Architects for his career success. 

BAC students
EDI
Redesigning the rules of early practice
July 21, 2025

How embedding equity frameworks upstream is helping to rewire architectural education. 

baratunde thruston aia leadership summit 2025
EDI
Baratunde Thurston teaches AIA leaders “How to citizen"
February 28, 2025

At AIA’s annual Leadership Summit, podcaster and TV host Baratunde Thurston shared a vision for collective action. 

Kimberly Dowdell and Sumayya Vally in conversation at Women's Leadership Summit 2024
EDI
Five high-impact quotes from WLS 2024
October 14, 2024

Over 800 women gathered in Chicago last week for AIA's 15th Women's Leadership Summit. 

Curtain House in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico
EDI
Nine Hispanic and Latinx architects you should know
September 26, 2024

To mark this year's Hispanic Heritage Month, we're honoring the work and contributions of nine Hispanic and Latinx architects. 

Women networking at Women's Leadership Summit
EDI
Why should women in the AEC industry attend WLS?
September 23, 2024

A construction manager tells us why she's attending this year's Women's Leadership Summit for the first time. 

students display certificated earned after completing a She Built session.
Career and the profession
Join AIA, She Built Foundation to share architecture and design with K-12 students
April 8, 2024

AIA Architecture Week 2024 is April 14-20. Learn how a popular children’s book could be the tool you need to inspire K-12 students to learn about architecture...

HBCU architecture students gather in Washington, DC
EDI
Three key ways HBCUs impact the profession
April 2, 2024

By Kathy Denise Dixon, FAIA, NOMAC

Kathy Denise Dixon, FAIA, NOMAC, principal, K. Dixon Architecture in Maryland, outlines the valuable role historically Black…

Nine Arab American architects you should know
EDI
Nine Arab American architects you should know
April 1, 2024

For Arab American Heritage Month we highlight the extraordinary work and careers of nine architects, designers, and academics whose paths from disparate parts…

New from AIA
headshot of indigenous architect tammy eagle bull faia
Designing for tribal communities with Tammy Eagle Bull, FAIA
October 20, 2025

Eagle Bull advocates for tribal communities to have agency in their built environment.

congressman mike quigley of illinois addresses aia housing summit
AIA Housing Summit seeks solutions to the U.S. housing crisis
October 27, 2025

AIA convened industry leaders last week to address one of the nation’s most challenging problems.  

The Rise, a sleek-looking affordable housing development
Designing affordable housing with compassion and resilience
October 28, 2025

Learn how three organizations use regulatory expertise and creative problem-solving to make affordable housing happen.

Hands working on an architectural model
Thinking of returning to school? Four designers share their journeys
October 20, 2025

Reentering higher education is a big decision. Learn about the unpredictable, rewarding paths of designers who did it.

four mile bench project SITELAB illustration
The new purpose of design contests
October 6, 2025

Can ideas contests for cities have concrete value for architects trying to break through and not go broke?

Children decorate a mural
How Architecture Week empowers the next generation of designers
October 7, 2025

Architecture Week 2025 reached thousands of students. Momentum is already building toward next year’s event—and you can be part of it.

Oct 2025 ABI
Business Intelligence
ABI September 2025: Weakness persists at architecture firms
October 22, 2025

Nearly all firms report working on reconstruction projects over the last year.
 

six attendees at NOMA event
EDI
How NOMA supported my professional journey
October 10, 2025

The president of AIA New Jersey credits the National Organization of Minority Architects for his career success. 

Hearing device in a man's ear
Design and health
Deaf education design in the spotlight at AIA25
June 5, 2025

The chairman of World Deaf Architecture explores questions about inclusive and equitable design at AIA's 2025 Conference on Architecture & Design. 

populus hotel studio gang
Materials
Low-carbon concrete solutions are showing high potential
May 5, 2025

Concrete, one of the most-used resources on the planet, is in the process of becoming more sustainable. 

ai architects journey to specification
Building science and technology
Architects are excited about the potential of AI, but concerns abound
March 3, 2025

A new AIA research study reveals that architects are evenly split in their enthusiasm and wariness about the new technology. 

data center
Building science and technology
Data centers continue to drive growth for architects
April 7, 2025

AI and cloud computing are increasing demand for data centers—and the architects who design them. 

4 individuals walking even while 1 stands out above the rest
The competitive edge of creating firm workplaces for neurodivergent thinkers
March 24, 2025

Embracing neuroinclusion isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s a strategic necessity.

Legin Apartments at Portland Community College’s Southeast Campus, Bora Architecture & Interiors.
Resilience
Home is where the resiliency is
August 3, 2024

Empowering communities to thrive in a warming world. 

Many of the cross members in the suspended ceiling grid system were replaced with JLC Tech T-Bar Flex lights specifically designed to integrate with the Armstrong ceilings.
Join the AIA community

Join AIA as a new member and save 25% with prorated dues for 2025.

Join now
Abstract architectural illustration.
Explore our awards

Our awards, covering almost 30 categories, celebrate exceptional achievements and exemplary design.

Learn more