Interested in serving your association on the AIA Illinois Board of Directors? We meet quarterly currently via Zoom as well as many of our members sit on a variety of different committees. if you'd like to help design the future of the profession and the association, please click the link below for more information. **Nominee must be an AIA Illinois member in good standing, and be able to attend all regularly scheduled meetings during the term of office.
Updated: Aug 21, 2020
A Town Hall took place August 13 at 3:00 p.m. via ZOOM which focused on the women who built and continue to build our state, as we recognize the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution on August 18, 1920: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Lisa DiChiera, Director of Advocacy for Landmarks Illinois, and Landmarks Illinois Skyline Council volunteer Erica Ruggiero, Assoc. AIA (McGuire Igleski Architects) presented the organization’s “Women Who Built Illinois” project a database of places designed, engineered, and built by women between 1879 and 1979. In 2017, after including Gertrude Kerbis’ Rotunda building on the Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois list, Landmarks Illinois launched the project to address the fact Chicago has yet to designate and protect a woman-designed building as a Chicago Landmark. The focus of the research has expanded statewide and will enable Landmarks Illinois to work with the public toward recognizing and protecting women-designed and built places throughout Illinois.
Following was a panel discussion with: Ingedia Sanchez, architect at SOM, President of Arquitectos
April Hughes, AIA, Firm Owner and AIA Chicago Board President
Laura Fisher, FAIA (IPM Consulting), past president of AIA Chicago, co-founder of Chicago Women in Architecture.
Moderator: Janeen Harrell, AIA, NOMA, and AIA IL Board President
Sponsored by: Landmarks Illinois, AIA Chicago, and AIA Illinois
***Have any leads? We encourage you to reach out to Lisa DiChiera if you know women in your community who designed and built places between 1879 and 1979.
Updated: Jul 14, 2020
AIA Illinois' annual student leadership training, which brings together architecture students from all over Illinois for a weekend of training, networking and professional development is currently accepting applications. This year AIASpire will be virtual and will occur September 11 & 12 and will be followed by the Virtual Emerging Professionals Summit on the 12 & 13.
If you're an architecture student, a recent graduate, or know someone who you think would be well-suited to AIASpire, please share this information with them. Watch a promotional video here.
Want to learn more? Click the invitation below.
Want to apply to attend? Click and complete the application below and email to the address linked on the form.
Questions? Contact Mary Young, Program Director at AIA Illinois myoung@aiail.org.
2019 AIASpire Students with Peter Exley, AIA, National President-elect and
Fred Brandstraeder, AIA Illinois Board of Directors