With the recent economic recovery, the AIA is feeling hopeful about future construction spending and architect opportunities.
Read MoreNew Industry Data Reveals Post-Pandemic Growth Opportunities
After dealing with COVID-19 for over a year, major architect organizations gathered data that reveals future post-pandemic growth opportunities.
Read MoreHere’s a Summary of the AIA’s New K-12 Student Career Guide
The AIA recently released a new “career guide” for K-12 students. To help increase awareness, we made a simplified version of it that’s easy to share.
Read MoreNew AIA Course Program Aims to Diversify Industry Leadership
This week, the American Institute of Architects announced the launch of a new initiative called Next to Lead that aims to bring more “ethnically diverse women into AIA leadership positions.” Read on to learn more about this program’s eligibility, and why the AIA found it necessary to create it in the first place.
Read MoreControversial “Beautiful Building” Executive Order Overturned
Last week, President Biden revoked the “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” executive order. Here’s what was in the order, and why it was it overturned.
Read MoreWhy We Need to Reuse More Existing Buildings
This week, we’re looking at the increasing calls by architects worldwide to “renovate, retrofit, and reuse” existing buildings in order to meet carbon reduction goals.
Read MoreAn Architect’s Guide to Creating Safe Polling Places
Despite the popularity of mail-in voting in the US this year, millions of people will still be voting in-person at the polls in less than a week. According to the CDC, people who vote in-person on a single day are at higher risk for COVID-19 because of the larger crowds and longer wait times. With that in mind, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is hoping that election administrators take advantage of their recently released “safe polling place” resource guide.
Read MoreHere’s How Architects Are Pushing for Safer Design Policies
In the wake of the pandemic, designers and architects are inventing new solutions for nearly every sector of design. Here are three main examples.
Read MoreAIA Criticizes New Fair Housing Ruling
HUD’s decision to end the 2015’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule has drawn criticism from many groups, including the AIA.
Read MoreAIA’s Tips for Career Resilience
Despite the economic uncertainty facing the world right now, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) wants to help all architecture professionals keep their careers going strong. They recently hosted a webinar where they spoke to four panelists who lived and worked through the last Great Recession. Here are the highlights from their advice on how to have career resilience during difficult times.
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