Architect Magazine June 2022 - Associate Awards

The AIA Associates Award is given to individual Associate AIA members to recognize outstanding leaders and creative thinkers for significant contributions to their communities and the architecture profession. Jennifer is 1 of 3 winners recognized in 2022.

“How must architecture adapt and reinvent itself to tackle the big challenges of today?”

Architecture is an evolving profession. Each younger generation that becomes architects is increasingly diverse, cross-disciplinary. and aware of the systemic issues to which architecture can play a role to continue or choose to change for the better. For me, it’s critical that as a profession, we capitalize on the voices and perspectives shared by emerging professionals. The energy and ambition to work on solutions for issues such as climate change, affordable housing and discriminatory zoning exist within architecture.  

To often, however, architects have been left out, or excluded themselves, from these cross-disciplinary conversations. That’s where I believe we have the most need to adapt and reinvent our profession. Architects need to step forward, speak up, and be leaders in solving today’s challenges. Architects need to ground our work in advocacy.