A Conversation With the 2025 AIA Firm Award Winner

The Architecture Firm Award winner is honored in a variety of ways at our national conference. For many years, the AIA Committee on Design has hosted a long-form conversation as a way to shed light on the winning firm''s approach to practice. This session will feature the AIA Firm Award winner as the primary focus, blending a presentation of work, personal reflection, moderated discussion, and audience participation and Q&A. Moderators will include Jonathan Moody (Moody Nolan Firm Award 2021), Alyson Steele (Quinn Evans Firm Award 2021), and Noah Marble (EskewDumezRipple Firm Award 2014).

Learning Objectives

  1. Be inspired by projects that are a vehicle for connectivity and equity in communities and urban environments.
  2. Learn approaches to the technical challenges of cost, constructability, and sustainability for sustainable models of design excellence.
  3. Examine how architecture can improve health and well-being through built works in the public realm.
  4. Explore the approach the moderators take to educating, mentoring, and instilling values in the next generation of architects.