AIA updates the Framework for Design Excellence

New updates to AIA’s premier design resource aims to create a built environment that is healthy, resilient, equitable, and zero carbon.

This represents the “highest principles of architecture,” according to Allison Anderson, FAIA, 2022, chair, Framework for Design Excellence task group on the Committee on Climate Action and Design Excellence.  The Framework acts as a set of questions architects can ask of themselves or their clients to result in better buildings.