2025 Program

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Eligible For 6.5 AIA LU/HSW

AIA


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8:30AM
Registration Opens

9:00AM - 9:45AM
Sponsored CEU Session

Healthy Interiors: Using the WELL Building Standard to Design Commercial Spaces of the Future

Damien Wilmer, Senior Business Development Manager – East Coast, Excel Dryer, Inc
Eligible for 1 AIA LU/HSW
Excel
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Sponsored CEU Session

Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection

Sheri Kirby-Hochgesang, LEED AP, BPI Building Analyst, Territory Sales Manager, Bison Innovative Products
Eligible for 1 AIA LU/HSW
Bison
10:45AM - 11:15AM

Networking in Expo Hall


11:20AM - 11:25AM
Welcome from Record Editor in Chief Josephine Minutillo
11:25AM - 12:15PM

The Measure of Architecture

Amin Taha, Chairperson, Groupwork amin
Eligible for 1 AIA LU/HSW
12:15PM - 1:05PM

Mixing Materiality: Fake, Structural & Ordinary

Jennifer Bonner, Founder, MALL bonner
Eligible for 1 AIA LU/HSW
1:05PM - 2:20PM

Networking and Lunch in the Expo Hall


2:20PM - 3:10PM

Productive Frictions

Anda and Jenny French, Partners, French 2D French
Eligible for 1 AIA LU/HSW
3:10PM - 3:40PM

Origins

Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto, Founding Partners
Alvisi Kirimoto
alvisi
Eligible for .5 AIA LU/HSW
3:40PM - 4:10PM

Concept to Construction

Michael Brotherton, Partner, SITU Fabrication brother
Eligible for .5 AIA LU/HSW
4:10PM - 4:40PM

Honoring Inaugural Architect of RECORD

Thomas Phifer, Founder, Thomas Phifer and Partners alvisi
Eligible for .5 AIA LU/HSW
4:40PM
Closing Remarks

4:45PM - 6:30PM
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Cocktails and Awards Ceremony

Program Details

Included with Innovation Conference. Separate registration required to attend only Awards Ceremony.

VITRO Kingspan

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Honoring Architect of RECORD

Recognizing a lifetime of achievement in the profession and exceptional work published in the pages of Architectural Record.


The Architectural Record Awards Reception

Debuting at this year’s Innovation Conference, the Architectural Record Awards will recognize the year’s best built and unbuilt projects as well as honor leading and emerging voices in the field. The awards extend Architectural Record’s longstanding tradition of honoring impactful exceptional architecture. Winners will be recognized at a cocktail reception at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, immediately following the Innovation Conference.

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FREE for Innovation conference attendees.
Reception-only tickets available for $75 for those not attending the conference.

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Continuing Education Sponsors

Kingspan saftifirst

Tabletop Sponsors

alpolic kawneer nucor NTMA

Supporting Partners

American Institute of Architects  New York AIA New York State American Institute of Architects St. Louis AIA philly ACSA American Institute of Architecture Students Archtober