2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Gold Medal: Richard Rogers, Hon. FAIA
"We have a constitution." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture: James McCullar, FAIA
"An acknowledgment of a career in making our communities and cities more equitable and better places to live." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award: Karen Braitmayer, FAIA
"Accessible design is just good design–design that supports all users of all abilities, ages, and cognitive and sense acuity." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Topaz Medallion: Toshiko Mori, FAIA
"Teaching is invisible; one cannot measure the impacts." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Architecture Firm Award: Payette
"We are not a practice driven by personalities; we are a practice driven by the strength of the collective." Read more
2019 Honor Awards
2019 Collaborative Achievement Award: Jan Gehl, Hon. FAIA
"I hope to be remembered as one of the architects who brought back concern for people to our profession, after the many year of technocratic modernism." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Collaborative Achievement Award: Michael Sorkin
"Honor. Joy. Vegas." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Collaborative Achievement Award: Anne Taylor, Hon. AIA
"I would redesign the American classroom as a studio to give more power to students to do some of their own creative work." Read more
2019 AIA Honor Awards
2019 Twenty-Five Year Award: The Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery
"Charles Holland called it 'a love letter to London.' We would add, 'a mannerist love letter.' " Read more
2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards
Restoration of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia
John G. Waite Associates Read more
2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond, SmithGroup Read more
2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards
Shelby Farms Park
James Corner Field Operations, Marlon Blackwell Architects Read more
2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
HDR, Gensler, Clive Wilkinson Architects, EGG Office Read more
History Revisited
The Untold Story of Aline Louchheim Saarinen
How the wife of the celebrated architect shaped his legacy—and helped give rise to the modern architectural publicist. Read more
Letter from Florida
A Big Architect for a Little Museum
Witold Rybczynski on how Foster + Partners reimagined the Norton Museum of Art. Read more
Letter from New York
TEN Arquitectos Designs a Beacon for the Resistance
The new home for Make the Road New York, a leading immigrant rights group, aspires to be a transparent gathering place in an age of walls. Read more
Best Practices
How to Expand Your Firm Into New Markets
Designers from several small firms offer tips for those looking to grow their body of work. Read more
Next Progressives
After Architecture
This Virginia duo aims to "elevate the everyday and call attention to the ordinary." Read more
Products
AIA 2019 Show Preview and More
ARCHITECT selected 24 stand-out products from our spring 2019 Product Call, which garnered 155 submissions. Many of the products shown will be exhibited at the 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture. Read more
Opinion
Deanna Van Buren: We Must Plan for a Decarceration Nation
In under-resourced communities, the disproportionate investment in infrastructure for our punitive justice system illustrates how the built environment embodies many of our society’s gross inequities—but architects can help change this paradigm. Read more
Detail
Xiqu Centre's Facade Ripples with 13,000 Fins
In Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, Revery Architecture and Ronald Lu & Partners creates a multidimensional effect for a milestone project. Read more
Diversity in Architecture
Increasing Diversity in Architecture: Barriers to Entry
The first of a three-part series on how to make the profession more representative and inclusive focuses on obstacles that minorities and other underserved populations face in identifying architecture as a plausible career. Read more
Diversity in architecture
Increasing Diversity in Architecture: Designer-Led Solutions
The second of a three-part series on improving representation in the profession focuses on programs and entry points offered by industry organizations, nonprofit organizations, and intrepid designers across the country. Read more
Diversity in architecture
Increasing Diversity in Architecture: Firm Initiatives
The last of a three-part series on improving representation in the building profession describes programs organized by several architecture and engineering firms to diversify their talent pool and future leadership. Read more
The Near Future
Here Come Big Tech and the Venture Capitalists
Entrepreneurs and investors are flocking to the building industry, determined to disrupt the status quo—and make a fortune in the process. Read more
AIA Voices
One Architect, Many Hats
Denise Scott Brown, Hon. FAIA, reflects on the intersections of her life. Read more
AIA Now
Uncommon Vegas
New photographs capture three decades of midcentury Las Vegas architecture. Read more
AIA Feature
The Rise of Adaptive Reuse in Las Vegas
Las Vegas has a reputation as a city that loves the wrecking ball. Increasingly, it's embracing adaptive reuse. Read more
AIA Design
An Urban Park for All
This award-winning penal-farm-turned-park has already reinvigorated the east side of Memphis. Read more
AIA Collaboration
In Its 10th Year, the Architecture & Design Film Festival Emphasizes Social Justice
At the Blueprint for Better film series A’19 in Las Vegas, films from this year’s ADFF highlight how designers can remedy pressing social concerns. Read more
AIA Perspective
Beyond Our Comfort Zones
The A’19 Conference gives architects countless opportunities to learn and connect. Read more
History
Victor Hugo Was Wrong
The author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame believed that the book killed the building as a repository of human thought. Read more
Technology
This Week in Tech: An Architectural Ride for Adrenaline Junkies in Chicago
Plus, the DOE invests $130 million in solar research, an online library of free imagery for architects, Sasaki's low-tech solution to increase drawing legibility, and more. Read more
Awards
Six Projects Win 2019 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
This year's program was open to any public library project completed in or after 2014 worldwide. Read more
Exhibitions
See Mario Botta's Religious Experience at the Ringturm Exhibition Centre in Vienna
The Swiss architect's "Sacral Spaces" exhibition explores his body of religious buildings. Read more
Technology
This Week in Tech: UNStudio Aims to Create World's Smartest Neighborhood, in the Netherlands
Plus, a solar-powered system that creates clean energy, the world's first digitally planned and executed house, and more design-tech news from this week. Read more
Museum Opening
New Bauhaus-Museum Weimar To Open in Germany
The new museum designed by Berlin-based firm Heike Hanada will open this spring in Weimar, Germany, in honor of the school's centenary. Read more
Beyond Buildings
The Move: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Produce a Movable Spectacle at a Gigantic Scale
Aaron Betsky visits the Shed, designed with the Rockwell Group serving as collaborating architect and now under construction at New York City’s Hudson Yards, and finds one of the best architectural “moves” he’s seen in a while. Read more
