Sustainability Action Plans: How four firms are setting goals and taking action
August 8, 2025
Creating an SAP pushes firms to do better while holding them accountable.
Interior Architecture Award
River Ranch
February 7, 2023
The award-winning interior architecture for River Ranch in Blanco, Texas is an exploration of materials and the benefits they can provide occupants in…
Resource Center
Explore AIA resources to help you succeed in every aspect of architecture and design, including climate action, equity, firm management, business acumen, and...
What you should know about LEED version 5
September 19, 2025
Three LEED experts catch you up on the sustainability framework’s latest update.
Firm Management
How do your firm’s benefits and pay stack up?
September 29, 2025
Read on for key takeaways from AIA’s 2025 Compensation & Benefits Report.
Best Practices
Sharper, safer, smarter: Picking the right laser distance meter
September 29, 2025
AIA partner MILESEEY Tools offers four key criteria for architects selecting a new laser distance meter.
Government Shutdown: What does it mean for architects?
Business Intelligence
Calculating the architect’s fee: Is there a better way?
November 29, 2023
How does an architect calculate fees based on costs that are still unknown? AIA’s B101-2017 agreement can help bring clarity to the murky world of percentage…
AIA Compensation & Benefits Report 2025 now available
September 30, 2025
AIA collects and analyzes data from hundreds of architecture firms to create the industry’s most comprehensive and reliable report on salary and benefits.
NOMA AIA membership offer
You shouldn’t have to choose between two organizations with the same goal: A more diverse and equitable profession. NOMA members save 50% when you join or…
Social impact
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?
A responsive family home provides a tranquil refuge
October 2, 2025
Mahya Salehi, AIA, overcame site constraints and daylighting challenges to design a family home that ticks all the boxes. AIA partner Andersen Windows & Doors...
Building science and technology
AI in specifications: Research insights
October 7, 2025
AIA partner Deltek explores recent research and commentary on how artificial intelligence is shaping the future for architecture firms.
Wedge will serve as the next EVP/CEO of The American Institute of Architects.
Career and the profession
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.
Social impact
Rania Qawasma’s story of displacement and design
April 29, 2024
She discusses how she transformed her passion into a nonprofit to support other displaced and unhoused people in the U.S.
Materials
Beyond value engineering: What Pancratia Hall teaches about designing for longevity
October 9, 2025
A repurposed 100-year-old dormitory illustrates how buildings designed for durability can adapt to radically different uses across generations. AIA partner...
Designing a restorative housing community
October 13, 2025
Veridian at County Farm is a new mixed-income eco-community that models the transition to clean energy.
Materials
Setting the bar for a new neighborhood
October 8, 2025
In a St. Paul, Minn., community growing from a historic industrial site, inspiring architecture feels right at home. AIA partner Marvin provides a look.
Guidelines for using the AIA member logo
November 19, 2024
Explore guidelines on how and when AIA Architect members and their firms can to use the AIA member logo on business materials.
