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For Immediate ReleaseMedia contact: David Chase, dchase@aiachicago.org, (312) 376-2745 October 23, 2024; CHICAGO, IL – The AIA Chicago Foundation, which invests in Chicago’s next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition, is pleased to announce the winners of the Chicago Award in Architecture Student Awards. This prestigious competition recognizes exceptional student projects from local architecture schools. This year’s...

In early May of 2024, Danielle Tillman, AIA, NOMA, the Vice President of the AIA Chicago Foundation and a Diversity Scholarship Mentor, sat down with 2023 Diversity Scholarship Recipients Jocelyn Hernandez and Jamia Smith, both students at the University of Illinois Chicago. ...

Cynthia Weese, FAIA, AIA Chicago’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, meets with Emily Ray, AIA, AIA Chicago Foundation’s 2024 Dubin Family Young Architect Award recipient, and they tour two projects that have defined their careers....

AIA Chicago member, Walter Street III, AIA, NOMA, AICAE, grew up in the south end of Baltimore and move to Chicago in 1969 to study architecture. As the owner of his own firm, Walter Street Architecture, he is an experienced professional who continues to serve the Institute in a number of ways....

The AIA Chicago Foundation, the charitable not-for-profit organization which invests in Chicago’s next generation of architectural change-makers through scholarships, grants, and recognition, announces Emily Ray, AIA, Project Architect at Wheeler Kearns Architects is the recipient of the 2024 AIA Chicago Dubin Family Young Architect Award....

Winners were announced and Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on September 28 at Designight 2023....