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Farooq Ameen transforms contemporary urban place-form through incremental urban interventions that celebrate culture and advance social equity. He elevates the architect’s role as the orchestrator of inclusive community revitalization on a global scale.
Farooq Ameen, FAIA
With an enthusiastic passion for architecture, Laura DuCharme Conboy creates partnerships uniting non-profit organizations with built environment professionals by creating engaging and interactive K-12 programs, inspiring youth to envision a better world through design.
Laura D. Conboy, FAIA
For over 25 years, William Duff has developed a much admired people-based practice where creativity is democratized, business management is transparent, and employee growth and well-being are championed.
William S. Duff, Jr., FAIA
Carolyn Kiernat reimagines historic buildings through rehabilitation and adaptive reuse, extending their role as cultural assets and positioning them as drivers for sustainability and economic growth. Her vision enriches communities and her leadership inspires generations.
Carolyn Kiernat, FAIA
Stephanie Kingsnorth has re-imagined the role of preservation and adaptive reuse in re-vitalizing diverse campus and urban communities through embracing the imperatives of climate change, cultural equity, and pride of place.
Stephanie M. Kingsnorth, FAIA
A recognized industry trailblazer, Jenna Knudsen embraces an inclusive leadership ethos. Engaging diverse perspectives across collaborative platforms in both management and design, she consistently challenges her peers to pursue an integrated and transformative practice paradigm.
Jennifer T. Knudsen, FAIA
Heath May draws way outside the lines of traditional Architect roles, evolving technology in practice to elevate project design and delivery. His work has created a groundswell of influence now breaking across the AEC industry.
Heath May, FAIA
Praful Kulkarni revolutionized public sector procurement of design-build services, elevating the Architect as the process orchestrator, ameliorating owner/builder disconnects and benefitting taxpayers, users and the profession through higher quality, cost-effective project outcomes.
Praful Kulkarni, FAIA
Paul Menard’s leadership, tenacity, and collaborative skills, honed as a design-build entrepreneur, unite diverse people and perspectives in government, leading to the creation of comprehensive, nationally recognized design standards for judicial and healthcare facilities.
Paul R. Menard, FAIA
Erick Mikiten’s leadership in Universal Design, code development, and built projects have shaped the national discourse on inclusive design. His lived experience, teaching, and design tools encourage others to achieve new levels of global equity.
Erick D. Mikiten, FAIA
Matthew Porreca elevates design by integrating performance, wellness, community and experience to create innovative work which is human-centered, inspiring environments which celebrates passive design as the path to achieve high performance results.
Matthew Porreca, FAIA
Pierluigi Serraino’s writings reassess the modernist tradition of the 20th century and its impact on present-day practice, extracting lessons of continuing relevance for contemporary architecture.
Pierluigi Serraino, FAIA
Adrianne Steichen, AIA, a lifelong organizer, leader, and active contributor to mission-driven causes, champions the needs and desires of under-served city dwellers, deftly blending inventive design and diplomacy to ennoble lives and enrich neighborhoods.
Adrianne Steichen, FAIA
Both architect and landscape architect, Gary Strang brings lyricism, nature and ecology to architectural design and intellectual rigor and architectural discipline to landscape design through his richly diverse, award-winning interdisciplinary practice.
Gary L. Strang, FAIA
Anne Torney has advanced the design of affordable housing, demonstrating the potential of high-performance affordable housing as multi-benefit urban infrastructure to advance equity and combat climate change.
Anne Torney, FAIA
Brian Wickersham designs architecture rich in duality, deftly balancing minimalism with expressiveness, reclamation with transformation, and interior connections to outdoor spaces. He translates this duality to advance nonprofits by balancing need with artistry and inventiveness.
Brian Wickersham, FAIA
Jim leads one of the most influential architect led DesignBuild firms in the country. His practice, integrating award winning design, construction and craft, informs and inspires clients, architects and builders nationwide.
James W. Zack, FAIA
A catalyst for innovation, Anthony Brower generates research-driven climate design paradigms that cross building typologies and scales as he educates and motivates the profession to strive for higher levels of environmental consciousness and responsibility.
Anthony Brower, FAIA
Cary Bernstein's transformative architecture connects people, place, and time with expressive economy, rigorous detail, and the essential presence of nature. As architect, advocate, and educator she elevates the profession with ardent personal agency and intention.
Cary S. Bernstein, FAIA
Francesca Razzano Oliveira, AIA advances technical design through research and realization of architecture that achieves decarbonization holistically with integrated systems and materials, and she broadly disseminates these resilient processes with peers and emerging professionals.
Francesca Razzano Oliveira, FAIA
Researcher/educator/architect, through his pioneering leadership, Frederick Marks has championed a fresh way of translating, sharing, and applying scientific research that advances design knowledge for improving building occupancy health and our collective environmental stewardship.
Frederick Marks, FAIA
Greg Faulkner creates highly crafted, haptic built environments in intimate conversation with their surroundings, appropriate to site, climate, and culture. His work’s intellectual rigor fosters a responsible, experiential relationship between habitation and nature.
Greg Faulkner, FAIA
Hao Ko advances benchmarks for high-performance buildings with innovation, craft, and resilience. He challenges the possibilities, pushing the boundaries of design to create beautiful and iconic places that impact people and planet for the better.
Hao Ko, FAIA
As California's first woman State Architect, Ida A. Clair, has leveraged her authority to enhance sustainability, accessibility, and equity in the state, strengthening California's influence in a challenged world.
Ida A. Clair, FAIA
Engaging material, context and purpose while practicing at the confluence of domestic and retail architecture, Jeffrey Allsbrook’s sensitivity to local environments, material quality, and culture manifests in modern, memorable design that inspires a worldwide audience.
Jeffrey Allsbrook, FAIA
Jill Bergman has built a career in service to advancing and elevating healthcare architecture and architects. Through sustained leadership in professional organizations locally and nationally, Jill inspires generations with advocacy, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.
Jill Bergman, FAIA
Julia Hawkinson’s work transforms the learning environments for the students of the nation’s second largest public school district. Every day, she guides architects, planners, and those around her to think of students first.
Julia E Hawkinson, FAIA
Julia Laue fosters a culture of excellence in civic architecture. Through pioneering delivery methods, she assembles design teams that produce inspiring, award-winning projects, transforming the way citizens experience government services that benefit the community.
Julia Laue, FAIA
Michael Pinto integrates contemporary design practice with social activism. His mission-driven model of practice expands the leadership role of architects and architecture in a broader civic discourse.
Michael T. Pinto, FAIA
Moses Vaughan conducts focused tectonic research to clarify and elevate architectural intent. Collaborating with creative trade partners, he explores latent opportunities of technology and materials to deliver highest levels of design expression and user satisfaction.
Moses Vaughan, FAIA
Paul Murdoch is an architect of healing who designs public sanctuaries of memory that restore emotional health, community centers that foster social well-being, and regenerative environments that promote resilience and climate justice.
Paul Murdoch, FAIA
With a passion for cultivating human-nature connections, Paul Woolford transforms complex design challenges into clear, sustainable solutions that promote environmental stewardship, human health, and community well-being on a global scale.
Paul Woolford, FAIA
Sanford Smith, AIA, devoted his career to creating and promoting sustainable developments changing conventional thinking on scale and affordability. His leadership demonstrated the value proposition for higher performing projects, transforming corporate America’s approach to building.
Sanford L. Smith, FAIA
Silvia Kuhle employs context and light to elevate our experience of space. Her designs become land art, evoking calm, connecting us to nature and inspiring future talent and clients to advance simple, ecological architecture.
Silvia Kuhle, FAIA
With a profound capacity to capture the essence of a site and a project’s unique use, Taal’s designs fuse nature and structure with the goal of cultivating community and enriching people’s lives.
Taal Safdie, FAIA
Taesun Hong’s distinguished oeuvre employs an abstract aesthetic, spanning scales and typologies and resonant with musical themes. He seeks to create timeless places that enhance community identity and cultural awareness through simple yet contextual designs.
Taesun Hong, FAIA
Todd Erlandson empowers nonprofit and community-based clients to improve people’s everyday lives through authentic, purpose-oriented architecture. He openly shares his mission-focused model for architects by teaching a new generation of talent about service-centered design.
Todd A. Erlandson, FAIA
