Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the first edition of AIA Idaho’s new magazine, Idaho Architecture. I am honored to have the opportunity to help launch this exciting new media platform.

Since I took over my position in January 2018, it has been my goal to expand and modernize our member services, create recognition for our members and advocate for our chapter’s mission. Our new publication reflects many of the positive changes that AIA Idaho has achieved since then: significant growth in architect and professional affiliate membership, new partnerships across the building industry, a new advocacy program, a growing disaster preparedness network, a licensure study group and a dynamic board of volunteers committed to the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the State of Idaho.

I hope our newly redesigned publication and the member directory will serve as a valuable resource to the public, policymakers, individuals and the organizations associated with architecture across Idaho. In the future, I hope to continue to fill this publication with great content from our members and partners, sharing enriching articles and showcasing the dynamic happenings in Idaho architecture.

I encourage you to call an architect in your area to learn more about building and energy codes, urban development and community policies, city and county disaster preparedness, historic preservation, construction and safe school design. Architects are trained to be the experts on many topics that help communities be stronger, smarter and more resilient. Whether you are proposing new legislation, updating planning and zoning regulations, developing land or commercial projects or have a general question, call a local architect about the new design standards and practices we adhere to.

While the world is working together to stop the spread of COVID-19, the members of the American Institute of Architects are best equipped as the leaders of the knowledge community for this very important job: to reimagine and redesign our post-pandemic society so that our communities will become permanently safer, more efficient and someday closer together again. AIA members adhere to the highest standards in the practice of architecture and will ensure that your communities have safe, appealing places to work, study, exercise and play. AIA Idaho members are your resource for a better Idaho!

With my sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed to this first edition, I am thrilled to share this new momentum in Idaho architecture. 

Sincerely,

Anna Foster
Executive Director
The American Institute of Architects — Idaho Chapter