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Latest residential firm trends

The AIA's Home Design Trends survey is a recognized source of emerging trends in residential design and business conditions at residential firms. The latest release shows contemporary homes styles grew in popularity. Business conditions also remained strong at residential firms. For more trends or to participate >

COTE® Top Ten 2022 call for submissions are now open

Celebrating its 26th year, the Committee on the Environment (COTE®) Top Ten Awards is the industry's best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Awarded projects will demonstrate a holistic vision of architecture, exemplified across the ten measures of AIA's Framework for Design Excellence.
Deadline: Thursday, January 13, 2022, 5pm EST. Learn more >

Nominations are open for the 2022 elections

Architect members in good standing may declare candidacy for AIA elected national office (2023 First Vice President or 2023-2024 Secretary). Individuals eligible for selection as a 2023-2025 At-large Director, per the Bylaws, may also declare candidacy. Deadline: Monday, February 14, 2022, 5pm EST Learn more >

Tuition and ARE Scholarships closes January 14

Applications are open for tuition scholarships and additional ARE grants. Scholarships are available for students attending NAAB-accredited architecture programs and aspiring African American architects studying for the Architect Registration Examination. Apply today >

AIA Announces 2022 Architecture Firm Award

Since its founding in 2008, MASS Design Group has worked tirelessly to ignite systemic change in the built environment through its mission-driven process. As a nonprofit interdisciplinary collective comprising more than 200 architects, engineers, researchers, and even filmmakers, MASS has provided design services worth millions of dollars for projects around the world. Always committed to ensuring its architecture addresses the world’s most pressing social issues, MASS continually demonstrates that a healthy built environment is crucial for supporting communities as they confront history, heal, and explore new possibilities for the future.

Dan Hart, FAIA, inaugurated AIA 2022 President

WASHINGTON – Dec. 13, 2021 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) inaugurated Dan Hart, FAIA, as its 98th president on Friday, Dec. 10.

“I’m spectacularly optimistic,” said Hart. “As I consider this moment in AIA’s deep history and the complexity that all of us together represent, I see beauty on the other side. I believe we are at a pivotal moment. As we move from aspiration to agency on our core dual strategies of addressing climate and justice through the built environment … we stand together and are prepared to take action.”

Hart has held a number of AIA leadership positions. He was the moderator of the AIA Strategic Council in 2016 and served on the AIA National Board of Directors. While on the board, he chaired the AIA Board Knowledge Committee and AIA Public Outreach Committee as well as co-chaired the AIA COVID-19 Business Task Force. He also served as president of the Texas Society of Architects in 2011.

After more than three decades as a practicing architect and engineer, Hart is a principal and executive vice president of architecture at Parkhill—a 450-person architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Texas—and serves on the firm’s board of directors. He has experience designing religious and educational buildings and has master-planned a variety of campuses.

Hart was also adjunct instructor for four years for senior-level architecture students at Texas Tech University, where he was the distinguished alumnus of the College of Architecture in 2017 and was the founding president of the college’s Design Leadership Alliance. Additionally, he was a trustee on the board of Schreiner University.

Hart earned a Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University. In 2014, he was elevated to AIA fellowship.

AIA elects its presidents on an annual basis. Hart will serve as the Institute’s president until Dec. 9, 2022. Complete details of AIA’s leadership are available online.