AIA Arizona 2024 State Conference

Join us at the AIA Arizona State Conference on Friday, October 18! We expect more than 400 architecture professionals to gather for an inspiring day!

Individual tickets are now on sale through this Eventbrite page, and early bird ticket prices are available now through October 2.

The conference is chaired by Rachel Green Rasmussen, AIA, principal at Architekton who is the 2024 president-elect of AIA Arizona. With the theme of Facets, the conference will inspire and empower attendees with engaging presentations and conversations on myriad facets of our profession, from sustainable design to equity to community engagement to our future in a desert environment.

General Timing for October 18:

7:00 a.m. Registration opens, with coffee and light breakfast

8:00 a.m. Program begins

5:30-6:30 p.m. Closing Reception

Speakers:

For the second consecutive year, the conference speaker lineup will include the most recent recipient of the AIA national’s highest honor for an architect, the Gold Medal: David Lake, FAIA, of renowned firm Lake|Flato Architects Architects in Texas. David Lake and Ted Flato are the 2024 AIA Gold Medal recipients known for innovations in sustainability.

Billie Tsien, AIA, the New York-based architect of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects + Partners. The firm has designed the Obama Presidential Center now under construction in Chicago.

Susannah C. Drake FAIA FASLA, of Sasaki, who is currently leading a comprehensive master plan for Taliesin West.

William Horgan, AIA, of Grimshaw, with expertise in sustainable architectural design incorporating regeneration, livability, and wellbeing.

Natasha Sandmeier, who teaches at UCLA with a focus on visual media and storytelling. She is the Executive Director of the A+D Museum in Los Angeles.

Michael Anderson, principal of the firm Anderson Barker, a purpose-driven design firm in Los Angeles focused on transforming challenging communities.

SPONSORS as of August 28

Title Sponsor Arcadia

Platinum Sponsor McCarthy / YKK AP

Conference Patron ADM Group / Archsol / Arizona Architecture Foundation / Concord General Contracting / DLR Group / DWL Architects + Planners Inc / Gensler / Leicht / Lender’s Quality Assurance (LQA) / Optima / PK Associates / Repp + McLain Design & Construction / Salt River Project / Smithgroup / Stuckey Insurance / Studio Ma / The Green Room Landscape Architecture / Weddle Gilmore / Willmeng / WORKSBUREAU

Allied Partner Airpark Signs / Arizona Masonry Council / Clark Hill Law / Coreslab Structures / DPR Construction / Illumination Systems / Meyer Borgman Johnson / Sundt Construction / TRUEFORM Landscape Architecture Studio

Coffee Cart Ayers Saint Gross / Caliente Construction / Chasse Building Group / Greenlight Communities / Shepley Bulfinch / US CAD

Video Support PHX Architecture

Luncheon 180 Degrees Design + Build / 1GPA / BWS Architects / Caruso Turley Scott / Dig Studio / DP Electric / Olsson / Orcutt | Winslow / Schneider Structural Engineers / Swaim Associates

Student Champion Richärd Kennedy Architects

Student Advocate DeBartolo Architects / IB Roof Systems / Michael Taylor Architects / Shepley Bulfinch

Tucson Bus University of Arizona CAPLA

Host or Publisher AIA Arizona Associates