AIA Los Angeles Congratulates Our New Fellows for 2024

AIA Los Angeles is pleased and proud to announce that seven of our Chapter members have been elevated to Fellowship (signified by the initials FAIA.)

Please scroll down to learn more about all of our Los Angeles honorees.

Discover all the new Fellows who were honored nationwide here.


Anthony Brower, FAIA

Gensler

A catalyst for innovation, Anthony Brower generates research-driven climate design paradigms that cross building typologies and scales as he educates and motivates the profession to strive for higher levels of environmental consciousness and responsibility.
Jeffrey Allsbrook, FAIA

Standard Architecture | Design

Engaging material, context and purpose while practicing at the confluence of domestic and retail architecture, Jeffrey Allsbrook’s sensitivity to local environments, material quality, and culture manifests in modern, memorable design that inspires a worldwide audience.
Julia E Hawkinson, FAIA

Los Angeles Unified School District

Julia Hawkinson’s work transforms the learning environments for the students of the nation’s second largest public school district. Every day, she guides architects, planners, and those around her to think of students first.

Michael T. Pinto, FAIA

NAC Architecture

Michael Pinto integrates contemporary design practice with social activism. His mission-driven model of practice expands the leadership role of architects and architecture in a broader civic discourse.
Paul Murdoch, FAIA

Paul Murdoch Architects

Paul Murdoch is an architect of healing who designs public sanctuaries of memory that restore emotional health, community centers that foster social well-being, and regenerative environments that promote resilience and climate justice.
Silvia Kuhle, FAIA

Standard Architecture | Design

Silvia Kuhle employs context and light to elevate our experience of space. Her designs become land art, evoking calm, connecting us to nature and inspiring future talent and clients to advance simple, ecological architecture.

Todd A. Erlandson, FAIA

March Studio

Todd Erlandson empowers nonprofit and community-based clients to improve people’s everyday lives through authentic, purpose-oriented architecture. He openly shares his mission-focused model for architects by teaching a new generation of talent about service-centered design.

One of the highest honors that AIA awards, Fellowship celebrates practitioners with at least ten years of Architect membership, who have made significant contributions to the profession and to society, who exemplify architectural excellence, and whose work has had a profound influence or ripple effect.

Fellowship may be bestowed in one of several categories:
1) Design, Urban Design, or Preservation; 2) Education, Research, Literature, or Practice (with the option of a subcategory of Management or Technical Advancement); 3) Led the Institute or a Related Organization; 4) Public Service, Government, Industry, or Organization; or 5) Alternative Career, Volunteer Work with Organizations Not Directly Connected with the Built Environment, or Service to Society.

The new Fellows will receive their Fellowship medal during the Investiture at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2024 (A24) in Washington, D.C. Our Los Angeles Fellows will also be honored locally this summer at a private reception.

AIA|LA thanks our 2023-24 Fellows Nominating & Mentoring Committee, and everyone who supported our nominees as sponsors, reference letter writers and mentors. Their experience, advice and encouragement are crucial to a successful nomination, and are extremely appreciated.

This year, 96 AIA members were elevated to this honor. To view a list of all the new Fellows nationwide, please visit https://www.aia.org/college-of-fellows.


CONTACT

For more information on Fellowship and the nomination and submission process, please contact
Steve Tanner, Hon. AIALA
Membership Director
at steve@aialosangeles.org