News and Information

(left to right: Chastain, Mancusi, Meador, Ashworth, McDonough, McKnight, Morehead)

JW Blanchard, Assoc. AIA, Immediate Past President and Election Chair, announced on January 1, 2010 the winners of the campaigns for the 2010-2011 AIAS Board of Directors. The candidates for the various offices campaigned in Minneapolis, Minnesota at FORUM 2009, the annual convention of the AIAS. The candidates were elected by the delegates to the Council of Presidents. The Board will take office in mid-July, 2010 at the Grassroots Leadership Conference.

President
Tyler Ashworth, LEED AP
Spring 2010 graduate of the University of Idaho

Vice President
Danielle McDonough
Spring 2010 graduate of Northeastern University

Director, Midwest Quad
Michelle Morehead
University of Nebraska

Director, Northeast Quad
Jared McKnight
Pennsylvania State University

Director, South Quad
Laura Meador
Louisiana State University

Director, West Quad
Nick Mancusi
Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

The 2010-2011 Board of Directors will also include the 2009-2010 President Je'Nen M. Chastain, Assoc. AIA, Ed Zeigler, AIA (serving as the AIA Liaison), the 2001-2012 ACSA Liaison (TBD) and the Executive Director (TBD).

The Council of Presidents also selected the AIAS chapters at Arizona State University and Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Phoenix, Arizona to serve as the host of FORUM 2011 in December of that year.

About the AIAS: Headquartered in Washington, DC, the American Institute of Architecture Students was established in 1956 and is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, student-run organization. The mission of the AIAS is to promote excellence in architecture education, training and practice; foster an appreciation of architecture and related disciplines; enrich communities in a spirit of collaboration; and organize students to combine their efforts to advance the art and science of architecture. With almost 7,000 subscribing members on more than 150 college and high school campuses in North America and several other countries, the AIAS represents the interests of and connects the 30,000-plus students studying architecture.