Being elected to AIA’s College of Fellows represents the highest individual honor bestowed by the Institute upon its members, second only to the Institute’s Gold Medal. Fellowship elevation signifies recognition for an exemplary career with a broad impact on the architectural profession. Colorado has been fortunate since 1886 to witness 108 of our members elevated to Fellowship, including one new fellow named last year.
Are you interested in pursuing Fellowship? If so, our College of Fellows Nominating Committee would love to hear from you! Learn more here and contact Phil Gerou, FAIA, Chair of the Fellows Nominating Committee, by Feb 20th.
Share your One Good Idea
Scott Rodwin, AIA, 2025 AIA Colorado President, invites AIA members to embrace the theme of his presidency: making every member’s professional life 5% easier. While it may sound like a small, incremental change, achieving it will be neither easy nor insignificant. He is asking each of you to share one good idea that can benefit other members. It can relate to any aspect of the profession, and your level of experience doesn’t matter. We’re going to crowdsource ideas from the most qualified group we know: you.
As you’ve likely heard by now, the ByDesign tv show is filming projects by Colorado architects for upcoming episodes. This week, Mike Chapman, host and Executive Producer of ByDesign, was on set at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station with Dan Craig, AIA, of SAR+, filming for an upcoming episode!
This class reviews the changes from the 2021 edition to the 2024 edition of the International Building Code. The background behind many of the changes will be discussed to provide the participant with an understanding of the intent of the changes and how to apply it to their everyday work. This full-day program includes lunch. Approved for 7.0 AIA CES HSW.
Regular priced registration ends Jan 31st. Save money before late registration begins Feb 1st. Register here.
Join the Denver Local Advisors Thursday, February 20th for a tour of a very unique property! Located within a large existing building on the Denver Federal Center campus, the GSA-National Science Foundation (NSF) Ice Core Facility supports the storage and climate-change research of some 30,000 ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic. The design team from OZ Architecture will lead a tour of both the existing aging facility and the construction progress of its replacement. Submitted for 1 LU|HSW. More information and RSVP here.
Wednesday, February 26th, 5 – 6:30pm, join AIA Colorado members in the North for a time of fun and conversation at Social. So that we can look forward to seeing you, please RSVP here.
Thursday, March 6th, OZ Architecture will lead a presentation and discussion of the firm’s work over the past decade supporting climate change research in Antarctica, the world’s coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent. The session will include the Director of University of Colorado’s design-build program, the Colorado Building Workshop, and general contractor Bespoke Project Solutions. The program will address topics of Project Acquisition, Teaming Strategies, Design for Equity and Wellness, Off-grid High-performance Design, Prefabrication and Design for Logistics optimization. Submitted for 1 LU|HSW. More information and RSVP here.
Thursday, March 13th, join AIA members for a day on the slopes of Snowmass, informally touring a variety of projects located mountainside and in Snowmass Village, followed by après happy hour at the base of the mountain. More information and RSVP here.
Recorded live at the 2024 Practice + Design Conference, Julie Snow, FAIA, and Principal and architect at Snow Kreilich Architects joins Adam Wagoner, AIA, for a compelling discussion about the intricacies of architectural practice. She is an acclaimed voice for modern architecture and her work has earned her firm national recognition including the 2018 AIA National Firm Award. Julie has held teaching positions in architecture at Harvard, the University of Southern California, and the University of Minnesota. She emphasizes the importance of small ideas and process of refinement, sharing insights from her extensive experience, which includes projects like City Park Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. She reflects on her career journey, including early influences, pivotal projects like an urban soccer stadium, working with visionary clients across the globe and offers a thoughtful look at how architecture can transform everyday experiences and environments.
Recorded live at the 2024 Practice + Design Conference, Evelyn Lee, FAIA, 2024 National AIA President and founder of the Practice of Architecture, joins host Adam Wagoner to discuss redefining architectural practice through the intersection of design, business, and technology. Evelyn shares her unique career journey from architecture to business school and tech companies like Slack, before establishing Practice of Architecture. She explores the concept of portfolio careers, pro bono work, and her innovative strategies for the future of architectural practice.
Joseph Altshuler, Assoc. AIA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor, Could Be Design, Principal and Co-Founder
Monday, February 10, 12:15pm
Maria Novotná, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, PhD StudentCU Denver CAP, Visiting Scholar
Monday, February 17, 2025
Liz Babcock, City and County of Denver, Executive Director, Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency (CASR)
Monday, February 24, 12:15pm
Lectures are held at the Second Floor Gallery, CU Denver. More info and RSVP here.
Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) Rocky Mountain Region upcoming event
Taking place February 20th, from 4 – 6pm, in Denver, join DBIA for “Putting Design Back into Design-Build: Successful Tactics for the Design Team”. Dive into how “Design” can be elevated in the Design-Build delivery method. Registration is free for AIA members. More information and registration here.
Denver’s Single Stair Housing Challenge Awards Event
Thursday, March 6, at 4:30pm, join for an evening celebrating the incredible designs submitted to this year’s challenge. These projects push the limits of mid-rise housing in Colorado, rethinking building codes to create more vibrant, walkable urban neighborhoods.
The event will showcase innovative housing designs and include the announcement of competition awards, testimonials from select jurors, and a keynote address by Darrell Watson, offering valuable insights into the future of housing policy and urban design. Join us for this inspiring celebration of creativity and progress! RSVP here.
Decoding Design: Activating Health & Wellbeing through Architecture & Interiors
Tuesday, March 11, at 4:30pm, join Denver Architecture Foundation and AIA Colorado members to hear from two thought leaders in the emerging field of neuroaesthetics who will each explain their research and findings, and describe the interactions of our “ancient” brain wiring, our neurotransmitters, our nervous systems, and the universal appeal of achieving homeostasis in our public and private spaces. Learn more and RSVP here.
The Jeff Harner Awards are open for submissions
The Jeff Harner Awards program was created by Garrett Thornburg in 2007 to honor the memory of Jeff Harnar and help continue his groundbreaking work in the area of contemporary design in the Southwest. In 2018, the award program was expanded to include Unbuilt Work and Landscape Architecture. In 2020, the program was further expanded to include: Contemporary Architecture in the Southwest, Unbuilt Architecture, Unbuilt Landscape Architecture, Student Architecture Award, and Student Landscape Architecture Award. Four of the six Jeff Harner Awards are open to submissions for work designed for the Four Corners states (AZ, CO, NM, UT). The student awards for 2025 expand on the Four Corners states to include work in the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion of West Texas, and the Sonoran and Mojave Desert ecoregions of Southern California and Southern Nevada. Submission deadline: March 24, 2025. Learn more and submit here.
Career Corner
The AIA Colorado Job Board is updated daily. Job hunting? Take a peek to discover new opportunities. Hiring? Post your single job for 30 days. Connect with qualified candidates. Here are a few featured job openings:
The newly released 2023 report of The Architect’s Journey to Specification details key findings on how architects learn about materials, interact with product manufacturers, and make informed material selections. It’s the only report that reveals the specification habits, needs, and preferences of decision-makers in architecture firms. View at AIA.
Download the Architect’s Guide to Business Continuity
Will you be able to provide clients with the assurance that work on their project will continue despite a disruption? The Architect’s Guide to Business Continuity helps firms become more resilient with a step-by-step process and accompanying worksheets for assessing and reducing risks associated with disruption. The guide shares lessons learned from previously impacted firms, builds on and adapts business continuity best practices specifically for the building industry, and helps firms remain open in the face of disruption. In addition to a business continuity planning process, the guide includes a preparedness checklist and emergency response checklist to manage disruptions when they do occur. While designed with the architect in mind, this Guide would also benefit other design firms and professional service providers. Download at AIA.
‘There’s going to be more work than anybody can handle’: How architects are banding together to help rebuild L.A.
350 L.A. area designers have found themselves members of “Rebuild LA Architecture,” a workspace in the online communication platform Slack where architects, interior designers, and contractors are sharing resources and information about what it takes to design and build in the aftermath of fire. Read the story at FastCompany.
Demand for smaller, simpler homes in walkable neighborhoods expands
The Home Design Trends Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024, focusing on community and neighborhood design trends, is now available. Read at AIA.
Premier Partner Spotlight
With a history that dates back over 100 years, IMEG Corp. grew from several firms coming together under one uniting vision: people-centered engineering. As a national engineering and design consulting company IMEG intentionally localized a focus to serve carefully chosen regions and markets, allowing them to put relationships and communities first, without sacrificing expertise.
IMEG’s specialties are high-performing building systems, infrastructure, program management and construction-related services, but the secret to the success is found in a deep bench of 1,600 team members. For IMEG, people-centered engineering is about more than the people served — it’s representative of the engaged employee culture they’ve worked hard to create. IMEG believes in investing in their people and their professional futures through continuous training, community involvement and the ability to develop a niche specialty.
Allied Members are better known as trusted industry colleagues and members of AIA Colorado—they’re the interior designers, the kitchen specialists, the engineering partners, and more who make up our AEC community in Colorado. View AIA Colorado’s Allied Member Directory.
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