Architects see building performance standards as a business opportunity
March 5, 2025
Firms are leveraging their sustainability expertise to deliver results for clients.
Looking for a job in architecture? Here are tips from hiring managers
March 13, 2025
Leverage these tips to best position yourself to land your next role.
Firm Management
Is your firm hiring? Three things to consider
April 29, 2025
Key insights to help your firm hire now or in the future.
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.
Building science and technology
5 HVAC trends influencing architecture and design
May 9, 2025
From smart systems to climate readiness, here are the product and design shifts AIA partner Midea is seeing in the HVAC industry.
Business Intelligence
Top priorities for AIA's Spring Into Action campaign
May 12, 2025
AIA's spring 2025 campaign is activating members to flood Capitol Hill on issues like taxes, resiliency, equity and housing.
Career and the profession
Building philanthropy into your firm's plan for growth
May 12, 2025
Cushing Terrell principal Shannon Christensen, FAIA, tells us about her firm's strategy of doing well by doing good.
Career and the profession
Architects can strengthen their communities through strategic volunteering
May 12, 2025
Architects are uniquely equipped to support and lead community volunteerism, writes Rex Cabaniss, AIA.
Business Intelligence
Architects are navigating tariff pressures in an uncertain market
May 19, 2025
The uncertainty caused by tariffs, as much as the increased costs, may spur significant redesigns for architects.
Building science and technology
5 tactics for sustainable architectural lighting
May 19, 2025
How architects can thoughtfully integrate lighting to enhance a project’s beauty and functionality while also reducing carbon footprint.
Best Practices
How to run a values-driven firm
April 29, 2024
New paradigms for practice that support social and environmental responsibility.
Business Intelligence
Post-occupancy services can improve your future design offerings. Here's how.
May 1, 2024
Three firms share how circling back on projects after handoff has benefited their design services.
Sustainability
Four decades of green design
May 3, 2024
How a once-nascent conversation about sustainability evolved into a full-scale priority for the profession.
Building science and technology
Is AI a tool or a taskmaster?
May 3, 2024
Designers are confronting changes in practice and purpose wrought by sweeping technological shifts.
Materials
These sustainable homes embrace local materials
May 13, 2024
These four houses by Washington, D.C.-based firm BLDUS prioritize materials that are sometimes taken from right outside the front door.
Design specialty
Case study: The Professional Kitchen by Henrybuilt
May 22, 2024
From its roasted walnut timbers to its human-centered functionality, this experiential space prioritizes practical sophistication, design refinement, and craft quality.
Social impact
How architects are impacting rebuilding efforts in Hawaii
May 27, 2024
Architects have been instrumental in the efforts to rebuild in Maui following 2023 wildfires that caused immense damage on the island.
Design and health
Using the porch to connect people to place
May 29, 2024
Porches can also have health and wellness benefits.
D.C.'s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a local symbol in a national city
June 6, 2024
Planners and designers aimed to make the bridge a model for innovative infrastructure.
Career and the profession
AIA Conference on Architecture & Design® returns to Washington, D.C.
June 6, 2024
View AIA’s Photo Diary as AIA24 begins, uniting more than 10,000 members of the greater AEC industry to network, learn, and celebrate architecture.
