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The Young Architects Forum (YAF), a program of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the College of Fellows (COF), is organized to address issues of particular importance to recently licensed architects.

FAQ: What is a young architect and what is an emerging professional? Young architects are architects licensed up to ten years of initial licensure, and the name does not have any relationship to age. Emerging professionals are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Although young architects are now defined as distinct from emerging professionals, many components refer to these groups similarly. For example, a local YAF group may include emerging professionals and a local Emerging Professionals Committee may include young architects.

Design the Future podcast: Katie Ackerly, AIA

  • 1.  Design the Future podcast: Katie Ackerly, AIA

    Posted 09-23-2021 02:25 PM
    There are people who ask big questions about how we deliver meaningful impact for client, community, and society ... and there are people who translate those into daily action. Katie Ackerly, a principal at David Baker Architects and the firm's sustainable design lead, does both. (I think this is a superpower!)
    She is committed to elevating the critical importance of high-performance, equitable housing as the essential core of a successful, resilient future. Lindsay Baker and I dug into both the big questions and the daily actions with Katie for the #DesigntheFuture podcast.

    "What is the value of housing to society?" she asks. "And why is it so expensive to build? If we can tackle the construction market, that would go a long way toward increasing the performance and resilience of homes for people and communities." In addition to the many things that are usually associated with climate-responsive housing, she says, such as energy, water, materials, waste, and ecological impact, she says, "we should also be talking about many layers of human experience. What about home improves the ability for people have a stable, thriving life? What allows them to be safe and well?"

    We explored the challenges that go along with sustainable design being a silo, or a subculture, and efforts to deconstruct those. One pathway, she suggests, is to develop a common literacy about sustainability and housing.
    Listen on our site -- www.designthefuturepodcast.com/katie-ackerly -- or on your favorite podcast platform. Thank you to our producer, Amber Artrip!
    #climateaction #housing #sustainability


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    Kira Gould
    Principal
    Kira Gould CONNECT
    Oakland CA
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