AIA Housing Knowledge Community

03/24/2026

Join us Saturday, March 28 for our "Housing and Community Development on Chicago’s West Side Bus Tour," the 10th Annual The American Institute of Architects + Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Avenues of Exchange program. https://bit.ly/ACSA_AIA_2026

Exploring the roles that community development and well-designed, decommodified housing play in the lives of residents of Chicago’s West Side, our bus tour will feature guided visits of recently completed housing and community development projects. We will visit Canopy’s Encuentro Square, a 100% affordable mixed-use development by the Bloomington (606) Trail that is conceived as an anti-gentrification project, and LBBA Architects’ Foglia Residences, the first first LIHTC building in the country for the blind.

We will end the afternoon at The National Public Housing Museum, also designed by LBBA Architects, located in the Jane Addams Homes in Chicago’s Near West Side. The Museum serves to “preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to … a place to call home.” We will have a private tour of three recreated historic apartments, showcasing different families’ experiences at pivotal moments in public housing history between 1938 and 1975, as well as other museum exhibits.

This educational tour is organized by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community as part of the ongoing Avenues of Exchange, which seeks to connect practitioners and academics on pressing topics in housing and community development. The tour is co-produced by the AIA Right-to-Housing Working Group. We ask: “What does the right to housing mean in practice?” and “How can architects contribute?”

Cost: $75 (open to ACSA 114th Annual Meeting participants)
What: Chicago’s West Side Tour
When: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12:30pm-5:15pm
Where: Chicago’s West Side Tour
Included: Bus Transportation, Lunch, and 4 AIA/CES HSW
Tour Leaders: Christina Bollo, University of Oregon College of Design and Karen Kubey, University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Photos
L: National Public Housing Museum, LBBA Architects, Angie McMonigal Photography; R: Encuentro, Canopy, photo by Chris Barrett

02/20/2026

The Library of Virginia House to Highway exhibit closes at the end of February.
Catch the exhibit in person in Richmond or check out the digital resources online.

Join us this evening, Thursday, July 17 from 4 to 7:15 p.m. for an opening celebration and reception for our new exhibition! “House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History” explores the history of Jackson Ward, the district that was once the center of Richmond’s Black community, through the lens of the Skipwith-Roper family.

The event is free and open to the public with no registration required and features guided tours, information booths from community partners and a panel discussion with the exhibition team at 6:15 p.m. Learn more: https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/14803902

The exhibition, which runs until Feb. 28, 2026, is presented in partnership with The JXN Project, a historic preservation nonprofit organization dedicated to capturing the pivotal role of the ward in the Black American experience as one of the country’s first historically registered Black urban neighborhoods.

02/13/2026

Please join us Monday March 2 for an AIA HCD webinar to learn about Cooperative Housing models in the US.

Following the recent HCD webinar on innovative cooperative housing models in Zurich, this Part 2 session shifts the focus to emerging cooperative housing approaches in the United States. Led by moderator Susanne Schindler of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, the program features an in-depth presentation by Joshua Morrison, Founder of Frolic Community, on a pioneering model for delivering cooperative housing in the US.

Date: Mar. 2, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gDCXu6cY

Moderator/Speaker: Susanne Schindler, Research Fellow at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Speaker: Joshua Morrison, COO & Co-founder, Frolic Community
CEUs: 1 LU HSW

This is part of the AIA Housing and Community Development ongoing webinar series. To learn more about the Knowledge Community, the webinars, and other HCD programs, visit: https://lnkd.in/gBNGamDy.

11/20/2025

Please join us Monday Dec. 8 for an AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community webinar to learn about Zurich's Inspiring Cooperative Housing!

Date: Dec 8, 2025 | Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gjNhTbgP

Moderators: Kathleen Dorgan, Femi Olamijulo
Speaker: Susanne Schindler, Research Fellow at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
CEUs: 1 LU HSW

This is part of the Housing and Community Development ongoing webinar series. To learn more about the Knowledge Community, the webinars, and other HCD programs, visit: https://lnkd.in/gBNGamDy.

09/26/2025

Please join us next Monday Oct. 6 for an AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community webinar and lively discussion session: Learning from the World: Insights from the UN Habitat World Urban Forum 12 in Cairo, Egypt.

Date: Oct 6, 2025 | Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vCRW8tQ6SzmonGFg4a05UA #/registration
Moderators: Katherine Williams, Femi Olamijulo
Speakers: Angela D. Brooks, FAICP, Karen Kubey
CEUs: 1 LU HSW

This is part of the Housing and Community Development ongoing webinar series. To learn more about the Knowledge Community, the webinars, and other HCD programs, visit: https://lnkd.in/gBNGamDy.

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09/17/2025

Join us for a joint The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community / AIA Committee on the Environment discussion on recent affordable housing COTE Top Ten award-winning projects. This 60-minute webinar will dive into three case projects as the focus of a conversation about the intersection of community impact and climate action.

Learn about strategies for setting and achieving ambitious sustainability goals with clients, and how their projects advance climate performance and equity, despite operating within tight resource constraints.

Date: Sept 22, 2025 | Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gHtkwYtk
Moderator/Speaker: Katie Ackerly, AIA
Speakers: Anne Torney, FAIA, Patrick Tighe, FAIA, FAAR
CEUs: 1 LU HSW

This is part of the Housing and Community Development ongoing webinar series. To learn more about the Knowledge Community, the webinars, and other HCD programs, visit: https://communityhub.aia.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=3934f0d4-c0c1-4600-b8a2-844131ba8365

01/14/2025

The 1st episode of our podcast series with National Low Income Housing Coalition Opportunity Starts at Home drops today!

Featuring Casius Pealer ( Tulane University School of Architecture ) + Karen Kubey ( University of Toronto Daniels Faculty) -- in conversation with leading national housing policy advocates.

Listen to all 5 episodes of The American Institute of Architects + OSAH podcast series -- curated to explore pressing connections between housing design and policy.

https://bit.ly/4je1eo3

09/22/2024

YIMBY Action and Ezra Klein: Abundant Housing in Our Backyards
9/25 7p ET

Join YIMBY Action for an evening with The New York Times’s Ezra Klein to discuss how pro-housing laws can make communities across the country more affordable, abundant, and liveable – if they actually get implemented. Ezra will be in conversation with Sonja Trauss, co-founder of the YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) movement and the Executive Director of YIMBY Law.

Not in the DMV region? Virtual tickets are now available to view the livestream of this event the night of 9/25!

Join us for an evening with The New York Times’s Ezra Klein in conversation about pro-housing laws and abundant communities

07/26/2024

Call for Submissions!
ACSA seeks abstracts, case studies, session proposals, and reviewers for the 2025 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference: NEW HOUSING PARADIGMS in Austin, TX.
Jan 9-11, 2025

06/08/2024

If you are in DC for A24, stop by the Mall for the HUD Innovative Housing Showcase.

🏠 Visit ihs.huduser.gov to learn more about the educational programming, exhibitors, timing, locations, and more.

HUD User is exhibiting at the 2024 Innovative Housing Showcase, June 7–9 on the National Mall! Stop by the HUD User tent to check out some of the latest research from PD&R. Hope to see you there! https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ihs.html

03/04/2024

Join our free webinar series on architecture and the right to housing! 1LU/HSW each. Next episode, today, 12pm ET!

Explore with us: What does the right to housing mean in practice? How can architects contribute?

https://bit.ly/AIAHCD_Upcoming

09/11/2023

Housing as a Human Right:
Architects Respond to the Crisis

AIA Housing & Community Development Knowledge Community Virtual Forum

Monday, October 9, 2023
1:00-6:00 p.m. ET
Online | $0 | 4 CEUs
Register: https://bit.ly/AIAHCDForum2023

Join our one-day forum to learn about the AIA Right-to-Housing Working Group and how architects are working toward housing as a human right. In three multidisciplinary panels, explore local, national, and global strategies for more equitable policies and design excellence in affordable housing.

Speakers:
Annie Coombs, AIA, Siris Coombs Architecture; Melissa Daniel, Assoc. AIA, Architecture is Political Podcast; Simon Ha, AIA, Steinberg Hart; Karen Kubey, Assoc. AIA, University of Toronto; Susan Odell, AIA, Paul B. Bailey Architect; Josh Mings, AIA, Aggregate Studio; Alli J. Moran, YMCA of the Seven Council Fires; Alex Patricio Salazar, AIA, Salazar Architect; Adrianne Steichen, AIA, PYATOK architecture + urban design; Chantelle Wilkinson, National Low Income Housing Coalition; Katherine Williams, FAIA, Georgetown University