About

Our Mission

The AIA Santa Fe supports the recommended mission of its national organization, “to serve architects and their clients by promoting ethical, educational, and practical standards for the profession and by advocating excellence in design, defined but not restricted to aesthetics, functionality, constructability, and cost-effectiveness.”

In recent years, the AIA Santa Fe has pursued this mission through participation in many local planning issues. Such participation recently included a significant role in shaping a vital redevelopment plan for the Santa Fe Railyard area.

Scholarships

AIA Santa Fe has created and continues to support the AIA Santa Fe Sustainable Endowment, as well as the Bradley P. Kidder endowed Memorial Scholarship in conjunction with the University of New Mexico School of Architecture.

News and Events

AIA Santa Fe alerts our members to news and events in the community.

Continuing Education

AIA Santa Fe provides as well as sponsors opportunities for continuing education for our members and others in the architecture community.  In addition to other sponsored classes, each monthly continuing education lunch offers 1 hour of continuing education credit for architects.

Lecture Series

The AIA Santa Fe Lecture Series brings visiting architects to New Mexico to share their work and process from design to construction with the goal of bringing diverse groups together to discuss archiectural issues such as the pragmatic and technical elements of their work, and how it applies to contemporary society, from the regional to the global.

The events are open to the public, with continuing education credits provided to architects. We also provide architectural workshops in parallel with the lectures. These are half-day to full-day events that further the implementation and discussion of the topics presented in the visitor’s lectures.

Projector and Screen Rental

AIA has a projector and screen available to our members for rental.

Non-Profit Status

The Santa Fe Chapter received unincorporated status on October 8, 1964 and was established as a 501C non-profit corporation on June 8, 1987. Chapter By-laws govern the activity of the chapter and the jurisdiction includes eight other northern New Mexico counties in addition to Santa Fe.