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Peter Exley

2021 AIA President-Elect

Peter Exley has established an internationally recognized practice of award-winning architecture for children, families, and communities, elevating the standards of design for learning and play environments. He is the co-founder of Architecture Is Fun, a Chicago-based architecture, design, and consulting firm. Dedicated to helping the next generation of architects, Peter has also been a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for more than 25 years. He will serve as the 97th President of the American Institute of Architects in 2021.

Kick-Off - Design Is Disruption

Peter Exley
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Prof. Balkrishna Doshi

Pritzker Laureate Balkrishna Doshi is a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architect and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects. After initial study at the J J School of Architecture, Bombay, he worked for four years with Le Corbusier as Senior Designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India to supervise his projects in Ahmedabad. His office Vastu Shilpa (Environmental design) was established in 1955.

Honorary Fellows Keynote Lecture - Balkrishna Doshi

Prof. Balkrishna Doshi
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Sandra Barclay & Jean Pierre Crousse

Co-founders, Barclay & Crousse Architecture

Sandra Barclay received the 2018 Woman in Architecture Award from the Architectural Review. She is a foreign member of the French Académie d’Architecture and Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Jean Pierre Crousse is Director of the Master Program in Architecture at the PUCP, Peru. Design Critic at Harvard GSD (2015). Member of the jury for the Mies Crown Hall Architecture Prize, Chicago, 2016.

Sandra and Jean Pierre were co-curators of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale, 2016, which obtained the Special Mention of the Jury.

Honorary Fellows Keynote Lecture: Working with What is Available

Sandra Barclay & Jean Pierre Crousse
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Robert Ivy

AIA Executive Vice President and CEO

Robert A. Ivy, FAIA, has been Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2011. Under Ivy’s leadership, AIA’s membership achieved a record high of more than 94,000 in 2019.

Closing Keynote by Robert Ivy

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