The University of California, Davis Medical Center, California Tower
June 14, 2024
The award-winning design for The University of California, Davis Medical Center, California Tower in Sacramento, Calif. uses local geography and artists to…
Healthcare Design Award
VA Palo Alto Medical Center, Radiology Center
June 15, 2024
The award-winning design for VA Palo Alto Medical Center, Radiology Center in Palo Alto, Calif. prioritizes care for veterans who have experienced mental and…
Healthcare Design Award
Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown
June 15, 2024
The award-winning design for Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown in Atlanta personalizes the cancer treatment experience, providing top-notch care while…
Affordable housing
Politics and architecture: Advocacy through design
June 17, 2024
Christian Solorio Acuña, AIA, NOMA, combines his design skills and public service to tackle low-income housing. Jordan Kravitz, AIA, from the Young Architects...
Career and the profession
Getting to know the Young Architects Award recipients
June 17, 2024
What makes architecture's future stars tick? We spoke with some of AIA's recent Young Architects Award recipients about what fulfills them, their dream projects...
Design and health
How can architects transform the birth experience in America?
June 17, 2024
Maternal death rates are staggering in the U.S. Architects see an opportunity to improve birth environments and postpartum resources for women and their...
AIA to take messages of partnership, progress to U.S. Conference of Mayors
June 18, 2024
AIA’s CEO and president lead delegation and will speak to city leaders gathering for the 92nd annual meeting.
Design and health
Uniting home and landscape in the woods of the Northwest
June 20, 2024
When a young architect decided to strike out on his own, the first project he took on served dual purposes — to test out new ideas and to create a rural retreat...
2024 Future Forward Grant Awarded to “It Takes A Village” Initiative
June 21, 2024
The 2024 AIA Future Forward Grant was awarded to Silvia Colpani, Assoc. AIA, Alya Staber, and Elona Habipi of Jones Architecture. Their proposal, “It Takes a…
AIA EVP/CEO Lakisha Woods Presses Mayors to Appoint a Chief Architect and Place Architects on City Boards and Commissions
June 21, 2024
AIA works with its local chapters to address pressing issues for cities and the more than 98,000 individual members across the country are ready to offer their…
Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors
June 25, 2024
AIA’s EVP/CEO and president champion architects at the annual gathering of city leaders.
Architecture business conditions decline in May, AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index Reports
June 26, 2024
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score declined to 42.4 in May, as more firms reported a decrease in billings than the month prior. The ABI…
Business Intelligence
ABI May 2024: Business conditions at architecture firms continue to soften
June 26, 2024
Few architecture firms report recent work on construction megaprojects
Revisions to fee limitations for federal design and construction projects now final, AIA Commends DoD for Increase
June 28, 2024
Architects welcome the finalization of a revision to the fee limitations for architects working on construction projects within the purview of the Department of…
Art, history, and religion
Brutalism & the AIA headquarters
May 19, 2021
Learn about the brutalism architecture style that influenced The Architects Collaborative (TAC) design of AIA headquarters in the early 1970s.
Architects partner with AOC selection committee to congratulate Tom Austin on his appointment as the 13th Architect of the Capitol
July 1, 2024
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) hosted a welcome reception in the Speaker of the House’s office with Tom Austin, PE, CCM, PMP, who was selected as…
Firm Management
Getting paid
July 3, 2024
Contributed by David B. Richards, FAIA; Excerpted and adapted from The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, 15th edition
Chapter 15.02 Services and…
Design specialty
AIA celebrates Designing Together winner, finalists
July 9, 2024
Learn more about the ideas that took top prize from the AIA24 social media contest
Design specialty
Claire Dickey, AIA, on helping her clients age in place
July 9, 2024
“For me, it has always been about helping people.”
Firm Management
Starting a firm: Basic financial principles
July 12, 2024
Contributed by Peter Piven, FAIA, and Bradford Perkins, FAIA. Excerpted from Architect’s Essentials of Starting a Design Firm