Graciela Carrillo, FAIA, NOMA, is vice president, treasurer, and a cofounder of the Immigrant Architects Coalition (IAC). She is also a huge fan of the Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS), an event ...

As AIA prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a summit focused on accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement, I’m reminded that climate action is not about the destination—it’s about the ...

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives have undergone intense backlash and rollbacks stemming from a January 2025 executive order mandating the elimination of federal EDI efforts.

The pace of publishing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports has slowed among large U.S. companies. But architecture firms have good reasons to ...

The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score of 43.3 for the month is the softest reading since April and represents an increase in the share of firms reporting a decrease from August. In ...

What if a residential community could function as a forest, meaning every system that provides energy, shelter, food, and other resources continually restores the larger ecosystem? This is a tall ...

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) started in 1998 as a one-size-fits-all checklist before evolving into the world’s preeminent green building rating system. LEED is now in use ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future trend—it is already woven into the fabric of our lives. From Netflix recommendations and Spotify playlists to traffic management, smart homes, banking, ...

The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for the month was below 50 for 31 out of the last 34 months, with a score of 46.2, as a majority of firms are still seeing declining billings.

AIA has issued a formal recommendation to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House regarding the proposed $200 million East Ballroom addition to the iconic structure. WASHINGTON – August ...

Nonresidential building spending to remain sluggish through 2026, with no turnaround in sight. There is some good news and some bad news in the latest outlook for nonresidential construction spending ...