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Join us in welcoming the newest members of AIA Pennsylvania! Julia Cauller, Assoc. AIA Jeffrey Foreman, AIA Darius Hopkins, Assoc. AIA Smita Jantre, Assoc. AIA Lauren Jester, Assoc. AIA Marat Kanafin, Assoc. AIA Eric Linn, Assoc. AIA Chao Liu, Assoc. AIA Vera Neumann-Sachs , AIA Diana Nguyen, Assoc. AIA Michael Penzel, Assoc. AIA Nicholas Rebeck,…

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Effective June 15, 2018, the Professional and Occupational Affairs Bureau at the Pennsylvania Department of State will no longer be accepting paper initial applications for an architects’ license. Additionally, they have removed questions related to criminal history and will instead be using the Pennsylvania State Police’s Access to Criminal History (PATCH) system.  However, there is a…

AIA Pennsylvania members Elysia Mikkelsen, Assoc. AIA, Kelsey Leed, AIA, and Stephanie Dando, Assoc. AIA all of Crabtree Rohrbaugh & Associates Architects represented AIA Pennsylvania at the Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania STEM Expo at Millersville University last past Saturday, May 19th. Equipped with the guidance of the Justine Tarrant, Assoc. AIA, co-founder of AIS: Architecture…

On Friday April 27, the Construction Legislative Council of Western Pennsylvania had the opportunity to host State legislators on a bus tour of the Pittsburgh region.  The Moving PA Forward Infrastructure Bus Tour was a full-day bus tour created to highlight current prominent projects in Southwestern Pennsylvania and to show the need for robust public-private…

On February 23, 1909, a small band of politically minded architects convened the first meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of the American Institute of Architects in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the agenda that day were discussions about what position the fledgling organization should take on a proposal requiring all architects to be licensed by the state…

American culture has promoted and encouraged an appreciation of design in the past few decades. From PBS’s “This Old House” and TLC’s “Trading Spaces” to the popular “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” on ABC and the recent “Fixer Upper” on HGTV, the American public is more aware of the benefits of design. Leading many to DIY…

As a member service, AIA Pennsylvania tracks all legislation at the state level and advocates for architects here in Harrisburg. One of the issues that we have been intimately involved with is the code adoption process and the re-review of the 2015 ICC Codes. AIA PA has three AIA architects that sit on the UCC…

Join us in congratulating the following AIA Pennsylvania members who through their extensive education, experience, and a series of rigorous exams earned their architecture license in 2018! Ms. Meghan M. Brennan, AIA Mr. Adam Castelli, AIA Miss Alexandria Chinikaylo, AIA Mr. Jordan G. Clark, AIA Mrs. Kristy M. Costanzo, AIA Daniel N. Dillow, AIA Mr. Robert A….

The Pennsylvania Department of General Services Capital Project Funding Guide (Version 1.2 – January 3, 2018) provides a brief background and then describes how funding will be re-adjusted on existing projects and allocated on new projects. Public Works personnel, Client Agencies, and outside design professionals should refer to this memo as needed to continuously monitor project…