X-Nico

32 unusual facts about American Institute of Architects


Arbor View High School

The design for this school received a 2005 AIA Nevada Excellence in Design Award merit award for a completed structure.

Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex

The Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center was designed by Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, the winner of what was, at the time, the largest open architectural competition ever organized by the American Institute of Architects.

Bishop's Palace, Galveston

The American Institute of Architects has listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States, and the Library of Congress has classified it as one of the fourteen most representative Victorian structures in the nation.

Calvert Vaux

In 1857, he became one of the founding members of the American Institute of Architects.

Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center

The building was designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates, and has received awards for design excellence (American Institute of Architects, Architectural Record, and Business Week.)

Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform

The project received the 'Excellence in Design' award from the American Institute of Architects.

Darwin William Tate

1936: Tate sponsored a measure that would have repealed the city's ordinance providing for setback lines in the construction of buildings, a measure that was opposed by the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

David Ascalon

David has been the recipient of major international design commissions and awards, including from the American Institute of Architects' Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture.

Francisco Guevara

In 2007 & 2008 the project Guevara curated Campo Expandido VIII with Raymundo Sesma was awarded the AIA New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award.

Frederick Charles Merry

Frederick Charles Merry, AIA, (d. 1900, New York City) was an American architect active in late-nineteenth-century New York City.

Golden Gate

In 2007, it was ranked fifth on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.

Henry Gurdon Marquand

He was the first honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and president (1889–1902) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which he made valuable presents and loans from his collection of paintings.

J. Irwin Miller

"Mr. Miller had the whole town as a monument." The American Institute of Architects in 1991 declared Columbus America's sixth most important city in terms of architecture.

James Crawford Neilson

Nielson was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at its charter in 1870.

James W. McLaughlin

In 1870 he helped organize the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in the same year he was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects serving on its board.

Jan Yoors

1966 - 1967: Yoors travels throughout South America, Asia, the Middle East and Russia photographing postwar religious architecture, commissioned by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the 1967 “International Congress on Religion, Architecture and the Visual Arts”.

Manitoba Hydro Place

2010 American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE), Top Ten Green Buildings.

Miller Hull

In addition to numerous publications, they are the recipients of the 2003 American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award, the AIA's highest honor.

Mother Joseph Pariseau

While it is not true (as has been widely reported) that the American Institute of Architects declared Mother Joseph "The First Architect of the Pacific Northwest," she did plan and build some of the region's first permanent institutions of learning and medical care.

Museo Picasso Málaga

Gluckman's firm received a 2005 Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for the project.

NBBJ

American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, 2012

Old Faithful Inn

In 2007 the American Institute of Architects conducted a survey to determine the 150 favorite buildings in America; the Old Faithful Inn ranked 36.

Olson Kundig Architects

The firm was awarded the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects) from the American Institute of Architects.

The firm has won more than 70 regional and national AIA (American Institute of Architects) awards, as well as awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Portrait of Leslie W. Miller

He was an honorary member of Philadelphia's T-Square Club, and of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Saint Louise de Marillac High School

The former campus of Marillac High School, designed by Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, received an award from the American Institute of Architects.

Sparkill, New York

Christ Church was designed by the Rev. Charles Babcock, one of the preeminent architects in America at that time, and a founder of the American Institute of Architects provided the plans for the church at no charge.

Stuyvesant Hotel

The restored Stuyvesant Hotel won awards from the First Honor Award from American Institute of Architects Westchester/Mid-Hudson Chapter, the Architecture for design excellence award from New York State Association of Architects, and the 1993 Affordable Housing Award.

Sunnyside Gardens, Queens

One project converting a two-family house into a single-family residence was awarded an award by the New York State chapter of the AIA.

Superkilen

The project was rewarded with a 2013 AIA Honor Award in the Regional & Urban Design category by the American Institute of Architects.

The Pace Collection

Holl received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) award for best architectural design in New York in 1986 for the new Pace Collection showroom.

Tucker, Utah

This rest area, which is designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot and roundhouse, was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.


Armand Phillip Bartos

About the structure—cited as the best of 1965 by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)—Bartos offered: "The scrolls are not visual as a Rembrandt is visual. Only scholars can actually decipher them. It was up to us Kiesler and me to say something about them. Thus we built up an air of mystery" (Time magazine, April 30, 1965).

Champaign Public Library

American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter, Design Excellence Awards, Honor Award (highest distinction) for Interior Architecture, awarded to Ross Barney Architects (2009)

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

Another group, namely the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, went even further by trying to equate the elevated structure as one with the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

He was the son of Lazelle Warner and influential New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, one of the founders of the American Institute of Architects.

Ferdinand Gottlieb

He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".

Fraternité Notre-Dame

In 2000, The movement opened its Mother House for North America in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in the former Gammon United Methodist Church, a structure built by noted Cleveland architect Sidney Badgley and featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004).

Frederick Gutheim

The pinnacle of his career may have been the photographic exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. that he created of American architecture to celebrate 100th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects.

Harry W. Wachter

He was made a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, was the first president of Toledo's Sylvania Golf Club and one of the founders of Ottawa Park Golf Club, and was a Mason.

James H. Garrott

In 1946, Garrott was the second African-American admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Los Angeles, after Paul R. Williams.

James Howard Kunstler

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA, the APA, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Jose V. Toledo Federal Building and United States Courthouse

In 2002 the project received two awards: the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman's Award for outstanding federal preservation achievement, and the American Institute of Architects New England Charter's Honor Award.

Jun Mitsui

Jun Mitsui is a member of AIA (American Institute of Architects), JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) and Japan Architects Academy, and is a licensed architect in both Japan and the United States.

Michael Haverland

Michael Haverland Architect, PC has been recognized with numerous design awards from the American Institute of Architects (New York and Connecticut chapters), the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the Brick Industry Association.

Mustapha Khalid Palash

Palash is a member of Institute of Architects Bangladesh, International Associate Member of AIA and a member of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

National CAD Standard

The National CAD Standard (NCS) is a collaborative effort in the United States between the National Institute of Building Sciences, the American Institute of Architects, and the Construction Specifications Institute, to create a unified approach to the creation and collaboration of building design data by means of building information modeling and integrated into CAD software such as MicroStation and AutoCAD.

Patkau Architects

Both Patricia Patkau and John Patkau are Fellows of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and of the Royal Institute of British Architects, members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, and Members of the Order of Canada.

Rialto Square Theatre

Designed in the Neo-Baroque style, it is considered one of "150 great places in Illinois" by the American Institute of Architects.

Robert Ivy

His interviews include an architectural who’s who, from the Aga Khan to Pritzker Prize winners and AIA gold medalists.

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

Williams and Tsien are the recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Chrysler Design Award (1998).