Members of the AIA College of Fellows are recognized with the AIA’s highest honor for their exceptional work and significant contributions to architecture and society. In California, we’re proud of the over 500 members who have achieved this level of distinction. We know there are many others who deserve this recognition and are here to connect you with resources and navigate this rigorous process.
Demystifying Fellowship
Each year, AIA California provides insight, support, and access to best practices to help its members on this journey, sharing insights into the jury process, statistics, eligibility, and much more. While the program is aimed at those nominated for Fellowship, it is open to all members and is a great primer on how to create and maintain your portfolio and professional resume. To view, click here.
AIA California College of Fellows Representatives
California has four representatives to the College of Fellows that work to simplify the fellowship process and serve as a link to the many programs and initiatives underway within the College of Fellows They can also assist with questions and provide connection to resources.
Northern California
Joyce Polhamus, FAIA
Aaron Hyland, FAIA
Southern California
2024 AIA California Fellows
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
Thank you to our Donors!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our 2024 New Fellows Reception!
Ronald Altoon, FAIA Member Emeritus of ALTOON STRAGETIC, LLC
Robert Bracamonte, FAIA
“My sincerest CONGRATULATIONS to the new Fellows! Have one on me.“
Thomas Braham, FAIA
Gordon Carrier, FAIA
Donald Caskey, FAIA Member Emeritus
Gordon Chong, FAIA Member Emeritus
Christos Chrysiliou, FAIA
“Congratulations to our New Fellows! Very well deserved.”
Amy Chu, FAIA
Robert Culvahouse, FAIA
David Darling, FAIA
Arthur Dyson, FAIA
Brian Dougherty, FAIA
Betsey Dougherty, FAIA
Michael Enomoto, FAIA of GRUEN ASSOCIATES
J. Handel Evans, FAIA Member Emeritus
Jonathan Feldman, FAIA
John Friedman, FAIA
Mary Follenweider, FAIA Member Emeritus
Debra Gerod, FAIA of GRUEN ASSOCIATES
Craig Hamilton, FAIA
Richard Heinz, FAIA Member Emeritus
“Congratulations to all new California AIA Fellows!”
Charles Higueras, FAIA
“I heartily congratulate all the newly minted Fellows! Huzzah!!”
Michael Hricak, FAIA
Roberta Jorgensen, FAIA
Nerin Kadribegovic, FAIA
Alice Kimm, FAIA
Sylvia Kwan, FAIA
Marc L’Italien, FAIA
Ellen Lou, FAIA
“Honor the 2024 CA New Fellows from Ellen Lou, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill”
Michael Malinowski, FAIA of Streamline Institute
Clarence Mamuyac, FAIA
William Melby, FAIA Member Emeritus
Paul Neel, FAIA Member Emeritus
Jon Niemuth, FAIA
“Congrats Hao Ko + Anthony Brower!”
Edward Niles, FAIA Member Emeritus
Christopher Noll, FAIA
Sam Nunes, FAIA of WRNS Studio
Joyce Polhamus, FAIA
Lynn Pomeroy, FAIA Member Emeritus
Mark Quattrocchi, FAIA
Wendy Rogers, FAIA
“Enjoy the New Fellows Reception”
Michael Roush, FAIA
Rona Rothenberg, FAIA
“Sorry I can’t join you…ENJOY!”
Lee Salin, FAIA
Bryan Shiles, FAIA of WRNS Studio
Lynn Simon, FAIA
“Congratulations on achieving Fellow!”
Michael Smith, FAIA
Steven Sobel, FAIA
Pauline Souza, FAIA of WRNS Studio
Richard Stacy, FAIA
Michael Stanton, FAIA
Robert Steinberg, FAIA
“Congratulations to a most well deserving group of Fellows!”
Michael Strogoff, FAIA of Strogoff Consulting
Janet Tam, FAIA
H. Ruth Todd, FAIA
Joel Tomei, FAIA Member Emeritus
“Congratulations New Fellows! I wish that I could attend your reception, but know that it will be one of your most memorable life experiences.”
William Valentine, FAIA Member Emeritus
Christopher Wasney, FAIA
Alison Whitelaw, FAIA Member Emeritus
Allison Williams, FAIA
“Congratulations to the AIA Fellowship Class of 2024! Allison Grace Williams FAIA AGWms_studio”
Michael Willis, FAIA Member Emeritus
Steven Winkel, FAIA
Takashi Yanai, FAIA
