2019 P/A Awards
The Winners of the 66th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards
The jury selected 10 winners that showcase how thoughtful design risks can yield progressive and unexpected environments. Read more
Multifamily Project
DL 1310 Apartments, by Young & Ayata with Michan Architecture
The team animated the 10,300-square-foot, five-story multifamily building with sculptural, punched windows. Read more
Books
Modernism and the Making of Dystopia
Witold Rybczynski on architectural PTSD and what James Stevens Curl gets wrong (and right) in his controversial new book. Read more
Best Practices
Supporting an Aging Workforce
Architecture and human resources professionals offer strategies for empowering older employees. Read more
Detail
Dowel-Laminated Timber Roof At MFAH's Conservation Center Is a First for North America
Designed by Lake|Flato Architects, the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, features a wood deck that requires no adhesives or nails. Read more
Next Progressives
CODA
This New York practices uses unconventional materials for its "responsive forms." Read more
Opinion
Carole Wedge: Speak Up!
Real leaders identify and address biased, uninformed, or simply "idiotic" actions and comments, says the CEO of Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch. Read more
Design Trends
Six Bold Ideas for the Modern Multipurpose Kitchen
Smart, eclectic, and multifunctional kitchens are permeating residential design this year. Read more
Lighting
Architectural Lighting: The Case for More Research
At their essence, recent developments in lighting design have fundamental and applied research to thank, but more funding is needed to sustain this critical foundation. Read more
AIA Voices
Balancing Data and Intuition
As data evolves to information and then knowledge, so will architecture. Read more
AIA Now
Seventy-One Percent of All Architecture Firm Billings Come From Repeat Clients
According to the 2018 AIA Firm Survey Report, it's all about relationships. Read more
AIA Feature
Will the Advent of Artificial Intelligence Affect Small Firms?
It's not a matter of if the architecture profession will feel the impacts of artificial intelligence—it's a matter of when. Read more
AIA Practice
Restrooms of the Future
Cross-disciplinary project Stalled!, the winner of a 2018 AIA Innovation Award, envisions the non-gendered bathrooms we may all be using one day. Read more
AIA Design
Deere & Company Administrative Center Exemplifies "A Quiet Revolution"
Eero Saarinen’s modernist headquarters for renowned tractor manufacturer John Deere won AIA’s Twenty-Five Year Award in 1993. Here, writer William Morgan reflects on its legacy. Read more
AIA Perspective
Solving the Unsolvable
Success lies in combining centuries-old principles with new technology. Read more
Paternalism
The New Company Town
Titans of industry used to build communities for their workers. Today, they can just co-opt existing ones. Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
The Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery Wins the 2019 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
The extension to the London museum was designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and opened in 1991. Read more
Press Release
Hashim Sarkis Named Curator of 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from May 23 until Nov. 29, 2020, according to the same press release. Read more
