Three Named To AIA's Board Of Directors
Washington, DC - Three new leaders have been elected to The American Institute
of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors, to serve terms beginning in 2021.
AIA delegates elected:
• Daniel Hart, FAIA, of AIA Austin/AIA Texas Society of
Architects as the 2021 first vice president/2022 president-elect
Hart is the executive vice president of Architecture
and serves on the board of Parkhill, a 450-person architectural/engineering
firm, with offices in Texas and New Mexico. He was an adjunct instructor of
architectural engineering at Texas Tech University where he is a distinguished
alumnus of the College of Architecture and where he served as the founding
president of the Design Leadership Alliance.
Hart was president of the Texas
Society of Architects in 2011. At AIA National, Hart served as 2016 moderator
of the AIA Strategic Council and has chaired the AIA Board Knowledge Committee,
the AIA Public Outreach Committee and is Co-Chairing the AIA COVID Business
Task Force.
“We architects know—and our social contract
stipulates—we are the stewards of the built environment related to health,
safety, and wellbeing,” said Hart. “As daunting as our nested crises seem, I
have faith we will prevail. We are architects, we have each other, we have
design, and we know how to bring it home.”
• William Turner Jr., AIA, LEED AP of AIA Colorado as the 2021–2022
secretary
Turner—a
principal at Path21Architecture Planning in Denver—will serve as the AIA’s secretary in
2021. He ran on a platform of providing leadership on climate change, a
commitment to diversity, and revising AIA’s leadership structure.
“In the coming years, the institute has
challenging work to do,” said Turner. “We must make prioritized decisions in
how the organization best serves the members while remaining focused on
strengthening the value of architecture while working with a diminished
budget.”
• Ryan Gann, Assoc. AIA, of AIA Chicago/AIA Illinois as the 2021-2023
at-large-director
Gann was elected 2021-23 At-large Director, a
position created in 2015 and first occupied in 2016 as part of the AIA Board of
Directors’ restructuring. Gann is a designer at Ross Barney Architects in Chicago and has
previously served in board leadership capacities for the American Institute of
Architecture Students and National Architectural Accrediting Board and AIA
National.
Gann joins the 2021-23 At-large Director Nate
Hudson, AIA, the 2019-21 At-large Directors Timothy Hawk, FAIA, and Jessica
Sheridan, AIA, as well as 2020-22 At-large Directors Mark Levine, FAIA, and
Britt Lindberg, AIA.
Complete leadership information can be found on AIA’s website.
About The American Institute Of Architects
For over 150 years, members of the American Institute of Architects have worked with each other and their communities to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and cityscapes. Members adhere to a code of ethics and professional conduct to ensure the highest standards in professional practice. Embracing their responsibility to serve society, AIA members engage civic and government leaders and the public in helping find needed solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation and world. For more information, visit www.aia.org.