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AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall 2024
December 6 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
Free
AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall: Connecting Architects & Designers with Civic Leadership
This year, with the exception of a few meetings, we will be meeting in person with our civic leaders at City Hall, which will help strengthen our connection to the policymakers shaping the built environment. We will also have several virtual meetings on Zoom, as well.
Shape the Future of LA’s Built Environment: Join AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall!
Calling all Architects & Designers!
Make your voice heard and be a part of shaping Los Angeles’ future. AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall is your chance to connect directly with civic leaders and advocate for the issues that matter most to our profession.
Why Participate?
- Elevate Design Leadership: Be part of a movement ensuring architects and designers have a seat at the decision-making table.
- Shape Policy, Impact Communities: Your expertise is crucial for planning, land use, zoning, and building codes.
- Build a Better LA: Advocate for housing equity, complete communities, and sustainable development.
- Network & Make a Difference: Connect with fellow professionals and make a real impact on the built environment.
Limited Spots Available: In-person & Virtual Options!
This year’s AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall takes place on Friday, December 6th in person at LA City Hall.
Don’t miss this opportunity! RSVP Today!
Contact Will Wright at Will[@]aialosangeles.org to secure your spot and learn more about this exciting event.
Together, let’s build a thriving Los Angeles for everyone!
AIA|LA Legislative Day(s) at City Hall
Our annual Legislative Day(s) at City Hall is scheduled over the course of several days from December 4 to December 13, and will be an in-person event at LA City Hall (except for a few that will be on zoom as noted below).
Monday, December 2
(4:00pm – 5:00pm) *On Zoom
The 2024 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform & Legislative Day at City Hall Orientation (*mandatory & helpful)
Join this meeting to learn more about The 2024 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform and what to expect during our upcoming meetings for our annual meetings at Los Angeles City Hall.
Wednesday, December 4
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)
Office of Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky – Council District #5, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#5
(12:00 pm – 1:00 pm) *
Quarterly Meeting w/ LADWP Leadership
Virtual on WebEx – CANCELLED. New date in January 2025 to be confirmed.
(4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Office of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez – Council District #1, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#1
Thursday, December 5
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)
Ted Allen, P.E. – City Engineer, Bureau of Engineering, City of Los Angeles & Deborah Weintraub, AIA, LEED AP – Chief Deputy City Engineer, Bureau of Engineering, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #BOE
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)
Office of Councilmember Monica Rodriquez – Council District #7, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#7
(11:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Kevin Keller – Deputy Mayor of Housing, City of Los Angeles & Elizabeth Ben-Ishai, & Nene Ogbechia
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #DMKeller
(12:00 pm – 12:30 pm)
Rachel E. Freeman – Deputy Mayor of Business & Economic Development, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #DMFreeman
(3:30 pm – 4:30pm)
Councilmember Nithya Raman – Council District #4, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#4
Friday, December 6 – * IN PERSON at LA City Hall, unless otherwise noted
(9:00 am – 9:45 am)
Councilmember John Lee – Council District 12, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#12
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)
Randall Winston – Deputy Mayor of Infrastructure, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #DMWinston
(12:30 pm – 1:00 pm)
Councilmember Tim McOsker – Council District #15, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#15
(1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
Office of Councilmember Hugo Soto Martinez – Council District #13, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#13
(1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
Office of Councilmember Heather Hutt – Council District #10, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#10
(2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield – Council District #3, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#3
(2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)
Councilmember Tracy Park – Council District #11, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference CD#11
(3:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
Matt Szabo – City Administrative Officer, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #CAO
Monday, December 9
(1:00pm – 2:00pm) – *Virtual Meeting on Zoom
Osama Younan, P.E. – General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety
Tuesday, December 10
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)*
Vincent P. Bertoni, AICP – Director of Planning, Los Angeles City Planning
Thursday, December 12
(9:00 am – 10:00 am)
Nancy Sutley – Deputy Mayor for Energy & Sustainability, City of Los Angeles
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org and reference #DMSutley
STILL WAITING TO CONFIRM
Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson – Council District #8, City of Los Angeles
Councilmember Imelda Padilla – Council District #6, City of Los Angeles
and more meetings are to be announced…
If you’d like to get more involved in helping to shape our biggest advocacy event of the year, then please reach out to me at will@aialosangeles.org.
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The 2024 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2023 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2022 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2021 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2020 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2019 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
The 2018 AIA|LA Advocacy Platform
Strategic objectives include:
- To change the nature of the architecture profession and inspire architects to become more civically engaged, i.e., to be a designer and a citizen are one and the same.
- To change the culture of our City and our civic leadership: architects and system-wide design-thinking need to become a more integral aspect of their mental landscape.
We aim to achieve this by creating:
- An open and inclusive initiative that is strategically programmed with relevant and progressive action items and policy platforms, which will further connect the shared values of a multi-disciplinary group of architects, urban designers, city planners, and policymakers to help make a healthier, more beautiful and more highly functional Los Angeles region.
- A committed group of task-force member volunteers (Political Outreach Committee) comprised of architects that establish an annual slate of issue briefs and policy recommendations.
- Targeted meetings with council members, deputy mayors, general managers, and commissioners. We aim to schedule the critical mass of these meetings on one day (December 3, 2020) at Los Angeles City Hall. However, additional meetings will be coordinated throughout the year with more public agencies throughout the region, such as METRO, Los Angeles County, LAUSD, and the cities of Culver City, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Inglewood, Beverly Hills, etc.
Will you join us?
To be successful, AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall will rely on a committed group of AIA members to serve as a critical leadership resource. If you’re interested in getting more involved, please RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org to receive more details.
To prepare for December 6th, we will organize a virtual de-briefing roundtable discussion in advance to share our annual advocacy platform and bring everyone up to speed on how to best prepare for our annual Legislative Day at City Hall.
To discover which City Council District you live in, check online HERE.
Please note: this is an exclusive opportunity for AIA members, AIA Associates, and AIA Allied Affiliated Members. If you’d like to join the AIA, then please CLICK HERE for more details.
The Leadership of the AIA|LA Government Outreach (GO!) Committee:
- 2024 Co-Chair: John Arnold, AIA – Partner, KFA Architecture
- 2024 Co-Chair: Carlos Augusto Garcia, AIA, NCARB, WELL AP – Associate Principal, Brooks + Scarpa
- 2023 Co-Chair: Chava Danielson, AIA – Principal, DSH // architecture
- 2023 Co-Chair: Rick Corsini, AIA – Principal, Corsini Stark Architects
- Past Co-Chair: Casey Shenton Hughes, AIA –Principal, Casey Hughes Architects (CHA)
- Past Co-Chair: Tracy Stone, AIA, LEED AP BD+C – Principal Architect, Tracy A. Stone Architect
John Arnold, AIA – Partner, KFA Architecture
With an interest in housing, landscape, and urban design, John has contributed to much of KFA’s multi-family portfolio, starting in 1999, seeking to join great living spaces with their sites and the city as a whole. He has specialized in high-density urban projects and affordable/special needs buildings throughout Los Angeles. Concurrently, John heads up KFA’s adaptive reuse work and has completed over a dozen projects in existing buildings with historic designation. John enjoys community outreach and participates in many of KFA’s public presentations. He is actively involved in his South LA neighborhood of Jefferson Park with planning and zoning issues, being a long-time board member of the United Neighborhoods NC. John is currently serving on AIA|LA’s Board of Directors as AIA CA Representative and serves on the board of Abode Communities Housing. In 2023, John started the restoration of the historic Paul Williams residence in West Adams.
Carlos Augusto Garcia, AIA, NCARB, WELL AP – Associate Principal, BROOKS + SCARPA
Carlos Augusto Garcia is a designer, artist, and Associate Principal at Brooks + Scarpa where he is responsible for managing and hiring staff, managing projects and developing office operations and procedures. He has 15 years of industry expertise, specializing in strategic planning, design research, sustainability, wellness, and carbon reduction. His global outlook manifests through work with UIA World Congress of Architects, New Buildings Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and Los Angeles City Planning’s Urban Design Studio. Carlos serves on AIA National COTE Leadership Group, ICC, NCARB, and ASHRAE committees, influencing climate action, greenhouse gas standards, and inclusivity in the industry of architecture. His passion was ignited by his start in emergency management and disaster recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans, where he completed B.Arch and M.Arch degrees from Tulane University. He is committed to pursuing dignity in practice, promoting equity in both membership and leadership.
Rick Corsini, AIA – Principal, Corsini Stark Architects
Rick Corsini, AIA was born in Los Angeles and received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to over 25 years of professional practice, Rick has held faculty appointments at schools of architecture including Cal Poly Pomona, Woodbury University, and the University of Southern California.
Chava Danielson, AIA – Principal, DSH // architecture
Chava Danielson, AIA, is the Principal of DSH // architecture with specialties in design, project advocacy, and serving non-profit organizations. She focuses on imparting beauty and sensitive programming to recharge underserved neighborhoods through educational, therapeutic, and residential projects for non-profits committed to the community.
Danielson leads DSH’s civic and child-centered work, including early education centers in which alternatives to conventional practices are employed to spark curiosity and wonder in the minds of young children. Larchmont Charter High School at Lafayette Park, inventive adaptive reuse of the former New York Life Insurance headquarters, catalyzed the neighborhood’s revitalization and continues DSH’s forward-looking approach to historic preservation.
Danielson is an Adjunct Professor at Otis College of Art + Design where she teaches design studio and courses in urban history and theory. She served as chair of the Political Outreach Committee of the AIA Los Angeles, as Director for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and as a founding board member of Larchmont Charter School. She holds a M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Tracy Stone, AIA, LEED AP BD+C – Principal Architect, Tracy A. Stone Architect
Tracy received a BA from Cornell University in New York and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. She spent five years working for award-winning architects Raymond and Finn Kappe before receiving her architectural license in 1989 and subsequently started her own firm, Tracy A. Stone Architect, in 1991.
Tracy is an AIA member, a LEED Accredited Professional, and an approved Historical Consultant through the City of Los Angeles. When not at work, Tracy can be found reliving her Hawaiian roots by hula dancing at the local luau or bouncing down rough desert roads on the way to a secluded campsite.
Casey Shenton Hughes, AIA – Principal, Casey Hughes Architects (CHA)
Casey Hughes is the Principal of Casey Hughes Architects (CHA). He has worked on a wide range of architectural projects including design, construction management, and documentation of single and multi-family residences, retail and restaurant spaces, as well as educational and cultural facilities. CHA’s work has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Henry Adams Medal for Excellence in Architecture and an AIA Merit Award for Residential Architecture.
Hughes received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), graduating valedictorian. He holds a Masters of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the work of CHA work was selected to appear in has been featured in various books and periodicals such as Dwell Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.
Hughes is a committee member of the Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Committee, reviewing planning projects in Mt. Washington, Montecito Heights, Monterey Hills, and Sycamore Grove. He was also appointed to the SCI-Arc Alumni Council, where he is spearheading a publication that celebrates Alumni achievements for SCI-Arc’s 50th anniversary.
For more information, please contact:
Will Wright, Hon. AIA|LA
Director, Government & Public Affairs
American Institute of Architects | Los Angeles Chapter
(213) 639-0764
will@aialosangeles.org
