Certificate and Content Series

Join members of the AIA Government Advocacy team and special guests for an overview of what is happening in the ever-changing public policy landscape. Sessions will focus on breaking news, executive actions, legislative measures, and other initiatives that impact architecture and professional practice.

COVID-19 has changed architecture, firms, work-life, and us. From massive realignments of our priorities, new challenges in balancing childcare with work, to uncertainty in our job landscapes, this has been a time for many of refiguring, rethinking, and finding new ways forward.

Join us for two new sessions which will focus specifically on the career options of mid-career women in architecture. Though these sessions can stand alone, together they will enrich your knowledge base and help you plan how to get ahead in a way that works for your specific situation and unique skills and interests. We have designed these two sessions in collaboration with Architecture Recruiter, Nancy Horne and Career Coach and Designer, Mia Scharphie.  

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce a partnership dedicated to the INTERSECTION of Education, Research and Practice. The conference is intended to strengthen the INTERSECTION between academia and design practice, especially when it comes to research and innovation, focused on climate action and carbon management strategies.

“Being less bad is not being good; it’s being bad by definition, just less so.” – William McDonough, FAIA

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the third annual joint AIA/ACSA INTERSECTIONS Research Conference dedicated to the INTERSECTION of Education, Research and Practice. This 2-day virtual conference includes dynamic presentations of current research and keynotes and sessions offering new ideas, models for practice, and challenging our profession in addressing the critical issue of climate and resilience. The conference builds on the eight-year partnership between AIA and ACSA toward these objectives. The focus of the INTERSECTIONS programs is intended to strengthen the INTERSECTION between academia and design practice, especially when it comes to research and innovation, focused on resilience strategies.

The 21st century is an era of ongoing and dramatic change, with communities facing multiple acute stresses at a time. While adapting to the negative consequences of climate change, many communities are simultaneously grappling with deep systemic inequities and difficult economic conditions. 

Throughout this live series, hosted by the AIA Center for Communities by Design (CxD), participants will gain real world insights into many of the challenges our communities are facing and the innovative approaches that have been applied across the country to address them. Speakers will highlight how architects, civic leaders, and other professionals can leverage tools and strategies to ease the burden of these transitions.

Licensed architects and affiliated design professionals have, in their professional practice, a positive duty to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare. As America’s healthcare expenses continue to rise and we rebuild post-pandemic, collaboration with public health professionals will be more critical than ever. Through this series of courses, you will learn from architects and public health experts as they guide you through the opportunities in rethinking the design process to create healthier buildings.

Sponsored by Sherwin Williams

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Emerge by AIAU provides emerging professionals on the path to licensure with experience hours in NCARB’s Architectural Experience Program (AXP). Courses in this series are free for Associate AIA members. You can gain extra experience hours that you might not get in a firm on your own time, on your own terms. Watch these videos to help you complete AXP and jump-start your career.

This series presents courses on research being conducting about the built environment and our interactions with it. Discover what the evidence-based findings tell us and learn how they can be applied to architectural practice.

As a small firm owner, you often must be the architect, the business leader, marketing professional, strategic planner, personal assistant, and account manager all rolled into one. Every day you wear many hats and start juggling competing priorities before most people have their morning coffee. The Small Firm Exchange selected the courses in this series to make the most of your time by providing you actionable tools, resources, and knowledge to grow your small firm into the prosperous business you envision.

Contemporary neuroscience using MRI imaging of people’s brains while they perform tasks has revealed a much more important role for memory in the creative process. The Iconic House Series will explore the ways our response to or experience of highly memorable houses may consciously or unconsciously influence our thought processes as residential designers. Each of the Iconic House and Iconic Room programs will ask three residential architects to present an Iconic House that has been personally important to them and to show one of their own design projects, explaining how their chosen Iconic example has influenced their thinking. The Durability and Details of Iconic Houses Program will explore how the details of iconic historic and modernist houses have contributed to their durability or lack thereof, and what we can learn from their successes and failures in detailing our own projects for durability.