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AIA 2023 Young Architect Award Recipients

In this lively 75-minute panel discussion, AIA Young Architect Award recipients provide insights into their leadership journeys, designing for social equity and keeping pace with changes in the industry, and offer advice for those entering the profession.

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AIA 2022 Young Architect Award Recipients

Award recipients weigh in on leadership, encouraging people to enter the profession, the pandemic, and social equity in this lively 75-minute panel discussion.

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AIA 2021 Young Architect Award Recipients

Our next generation of leaders weigh in on leadership, social equity, climate action and how the pandemic will shape our profession.

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Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, and Ati Blackwell, AIA, ASID, LEED AP

Marlon and Meriyati (Ati) discuss how they met, their career journeys, what shaped their design careers, views on younger professionals and the elusive search for work | life balance.

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Odile Decq

One of Europe's most experimental architects talks about her unique highrise designs and the challenges of a male-dominated profession.

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Helmut Jahn, FAIA

International "archigeer" Helmut Jahn on solving problems in a new way and why some designs fail the test of time. Filmed in 2014.

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Carol Ross Barney, FAIA

Chicago's beloved Ross Barney discusses design, teaching, her education as one of few female students, and her noncomformist firm.

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Thom Mayne, FAIA

A 220-volt personality reflects on his life and tranformations.

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Chuck Davis, FAIA

Chuck Davis, partner at EHDD, discusses memorable clients and projects, including David Packard on the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Filmed in 2013.

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Larry Scarpa, FAIA

Los Angeles architect and educator describes himself as full of contraditions: demanding, easy, driven, playful.

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Beverly Willis, FAIA

Beverly discusses her background as an artist and unconventional path to licensure, her innovative use of technology, and her view of a profession dominated by men.

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Steven Ehrlich, FAIA

AIA 2016 Firm of the Year founder discusses his trademarked "Multi-Cultural Modernism" and his highly collaborative design approach.

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Paul Welch, Jr., Hon. AIACC

AIACC's guiding force discusses architects? benevolence and how they can get more involved in public service.

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Jack MacAllister, FAIA

Life lessons from an architect who ran a major project for Louis Kahn when he was just 23 years old. Filmed in 2014.

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Gwynne Pugh, FAIA, ASCE

From his early exposure to civil engineering and love for the environment, Gwynn discusses how he subconsciously integrated form and function.

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Robert Ivy, FAIA, CEO

Architect, design critic, writer and CEO of the AIA gives his views on place, space and the profession.

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Peter Dodge, FAIA

The first "D" in EHDD discusses his circuitous path into architecture, being in Bolivia and Burning Man. Filmed in 2014.

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Richard Bliss Nelson, AIA

An oral history of Richard Bliss Nelson, AIA, one of AIA Santa Barbara's most memorable and adored architects. (By Robert L. Ooley, FAIA)

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George Homsey, FAIA

Often referred to as a "task master," George reflects on his decades at EHDD, Sea Ranch and working under Joseph Esherick. Filmed in 2013.

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