After a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the country’s largest architecture convention returned with a whirlwind of tours, sessions, and awards.

Although the pace of new architectural billings continued to slow, the AIA reported increased demand for design services in May.

Dowdell, who will be the first Black woman to serve in the role, spoke to RECORD about her aspirations for the organization and the importance of advocating for architects.

Last week, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture gathered policymakers, academics, and community activists to discuss the causes of and solutions to New York City's escalating housing crisis. 

A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.

The conference, held on May 13 and streamed online, will tackle the heightening crises of housing unaffordability and homelessness in New York City.

A team led by San Francisco's EHDD is making use of carbon offsets and new sustainability modeling software in renovating the institute's brutalist headquarters.

This year's honorees range from a public works building in Iowa City to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans to a new school and library complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The EHDD-designed project will make the AIA's 1973 Washington, D.C. building operationally carbon-free and add a glazed brise-soleil to its exterior.