In the weeks leading up to the 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture, Frances Halsband, FAIA, of Kliment Halsband Architects in New York, has been building support for a formal action to address discrimination, harassment, and abuse within the profession. Memorial Day weekend, the architect sent a statement called Fellowship Is Leadership to some 60 contacts in the College of Fellows. More than 350 Fellows—including Denise Scott Brown, Julie Snow and César Pelli—affirmed their support of that document, with several sharing stories of how discrimination in the industry had affected them or loved ones.
To formalize that support, the petition has been formatted according to AIA bylaws into what Halsband intends to be an “actionable, legal, and accurate” resolution to update the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. As of Wednesday, more than 200 AIA members have already signed the document, either electronically or at last night’s annual meeting of the New York chapter of the AIA—surpassing the 50 signatures necessary for the resolution to be heard on the floor of the Business Meeting at the 2018 national conference, taking place next week in New York.
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