Robert Ivy

Robert Ivy (FAIA) is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2011.[1]

Biography

Robert Ivy holds a Master's of Architecture from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in English from Sewanee: The University of the South.

In 1996, Ivy became the Editor in Chief of Architectural Record. He became Vice President and Editorial Director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, which included GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design, SNAP, Architectural Record: China, HQ Magazine, ENR, Constructor, and Sweets.[2] From 1981 until 1996, he was a principal at Dean/Dale, Dean & Ivy[2] and a critic for many national publications.

Ivy was a juror on the panel that selected architect Frank Gehry to design the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.[3]

In December 2010, Robert Ivy was named CEO of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), effective February 2011.[2]

In November 2016, he released an apology video after the publication of widely-criticized statement where he expressed his strong support for the newly-elect President Donald Trump (lauding the president's campaign promise to commit at least $500 billion to infrastructure spending over five years[4]), a feeling that was not shared among the community of architects in the USA.[5] Compared to the previous letters sent by the AIA to newly-elect Presidents in 2008 and 2012, Ivy's letter was different because 1. It was personally signed by him, 2. It ignored some of Trump's key policies antithetical to the profession, and 3. His expressed pledge to work with the president was too broad.[6]

In November 2019, he joined the AIA's call on Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.[7]

Other roles
  • Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council[8]

Awards

Publications

Notes
  1. "About - AIA". www.aia.org. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  2. "American Institute of Architects names Robert Ivy CEO". www.bizjournals.com. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  3. Zongker, Brett (15 March 2013). "Architects oppose bill to alter DC memorial to Ike". Associated Press.
  4. "AIA pledges to work with Donald Trump, membership recoils". Archpaper.com. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  5. "Watch: Robert Ivy issues second apology for tone-deaf post-election memo". Archpaper.com. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  6. "Compared to AIA letters issued during Obama's election, CEO Robert Ivy's statement on Trump is far from "business as usual"". Archinect. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  7. "AIA denounces Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement". Dezeen. 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  8. Design Futures Council Senior Fellows "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-06. Retrieved 2007-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Robert Ivy to receive Lifetime Achievement Award". Archinect. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  10. "Alpha Rho Chi Architecture Fraternity Names Robert Adams Ivy, FAIA, "Master Architect"".
  11. Ivy, Robert (1992). Fay Jones.
  12. "Beverly Willis Archive – Just another WordPress site". Retrieved 2020-03-20.
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