Robert Ivy, FAIA, On His Decade of Leadership

摘要

At the end of 2021, Robert Ivy, faia, will say goodbye to the American Institute of Architects. After a more than a decade of leadership, Ivy will retire as AIA's executive vice president and chief executive officer. The organization he's leaving behind is markedly different than the one he was called on to lead in February 2011: While the Great Recession and a global pandemic altered the world's economic and cultural landscape, the members of an increasingly diverse profession came of age and found their voices on social issues big and small. The organization itself has changed: It is slimmer at the board level, as well as nimbler and more responsive to the critiques and concerns leveled by dues-paying architects. Some of these changes were timely and circumstantial, with AIA adapting to firm and member needs, but many of them were the work of Robert Ivy.