The 2024 Fellowship Application period will begin in the next few months. Please join the AIA Oregon EVP/CEO Heather Wilson and members of AIAO’s Fellows Committee in our 5-part series of Fellowship preparation sessions that will help you with your application.
Any member interested in learning about Fellowship may attend, and those seeking feedback on their applications will be able to receive honest critique and assistance in preparing their application for presentation to the jury.
Upcoming Thursday Roundtable Path to Fellowship Sessions - Save the Dates! .
SCHEDULE
(subject to change once the AIA Fellowship Schedule has been announced)
April 24 - kickoff / Illuminating the Path to Fellowship
May 22 – Opening Statement / Object alignment
June 26 - How to find / be a good sponsor
(July is off)
August 28 - Refining and Aligning your application for submission
Sept 25 - Final "Preflight check in"
This presentation will be virtual and available by recording for those who are unable to attend on the live-viewing date. Attendees will learn about AIA Oregon’s Fellowship history and learn what you will need along the way to a successful application.
Are you eligible for Fellowship?
Fellows of the Institute are licensed AIA members who have maintained their membership for 10 consecutive years. If that describes you, then first, we would like to thank you for your continued membership. We’d also like to invite you to participate in our uniquely-tailored AIA Oregon Fellowship Prep Series, where AIAO supports the your process with feedback, refinement, and review from AIA Oregon Fellows familiar with the process before you make application. Fellowship is extended to those who meet the criteria for elevation in any one of these 6 object areas:
Object One: Design, urban design, or preservation - To promote the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession.
Object Two: Practice Management, or Practice Technical Advancement - To advance the science and art of planning and building by advancing the standards of practice.
Object Three: Led the Institute, or a related organization - To coordinate the building industry, and the profession of architecture.
Object Four: Public service, government, industry, or organization - To ensure the advancement of the living standards of people through their improved environment.
Object Five: Alternative career, volunteer work with organizations not directly connected with the built environment, or service to society - To make the profession of ever-increasing service to society.
Object Six: Education, Research, Literature - To advance the science and art of planning and building by advancing the standards of architectural education, and training.
Joining the AIA College of Fellows is a milestone professional achievement. AIA Fellows are recognized with AIA’s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Only 3% of AIA members have this distinction. Are you ready to join them?
Even if you aren’t considering Fellowship this year, but think you might be interested in the future, THIS IS FOR YOU. If you applied in the past, but are ready to reapply, this is also for you. We’re looking forward to getting to know you and helping you become a member of this exemplary AIA membership group.
Signed ,-
John Flynn, President
Kurt / Ben, Fellows Chairs