I AM AIA
Miguel del Rio, AIA introduced the Premiere of the “I am AIA” video For over 150 years, members of the American Institute of Architects have worked with each other and their communities to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and cityscapes. By using sustainable design practices, materials, and techniques, AIA architects are uniquely poised to provide the leadership and guidance needed to provide solutions to address climate change. AIA architects walk the walk on sustainable design. Visit http://www.aia.org/. As one of the 2012 Chairs of the Diversity & Inclusion Council, I was struck by the importance of diversity and inclusion, but more importantly I made an observation that while, perhaps not as diverse as we would like, the AIA is diverse in many ways. We have diversity of people, practice, ideas and geography. Thus, I was pleased to be able to champion the creation of the I AM AIA video. I felt that it was important to showcase the diversity of the institute while we continue to foster an environment to bring more architects to the table. This summit is the national launch of the video which will be used to promote the diversity initiative and also as a membership retention and recruitment tool at AIA local chapters. You probably are familiar with a couple of the photogenic actors and actresses in the video and hopefully we can engage more members from you component on a follow up video. PLEASE SHARE with other component leaders, members, staff, AIAS Chapters, professors, students, high school counselors, friends, family and ALL ARCHITECTURE FANS so that it can be posted to chapter websites, Facebook pages or run on a loop during meeting/convention or in any other way deemed appropriate. It was filmed at National Convention in DC. The video is set in an informal atmosphere with the intention to show a broad spectrum of architects and help promote membership retention and recruitment as well as general interest about what we do. I’m optimistic about our profession and its future leaders! Thanks and hope you enjoy it! Miguel Del Rio, AIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZW4-ypKB68&feature=youtu.be 23 | P a g e