本月初，美国建筑师学院宣布，金伯利·道戴尔（Kimberly Dowdell）选举为AIA的2024年总统。她将成为该组织165年历史上首位担任总裁的黑人妇女。

在她的选举运动中，道德提出了一个“字母平台”，该平台包括对实践，归属，气候行动和设计未来的建筑师的倡导。

“我认为AIA提倡建筑师的繁荣和实现很重要，”she told Architectural Record, ENR’s sister magazine. “By increasing our relevance and opening our world up a bit more to the public, we can attract more young people to want to pursue architecture and have more informed clients.”

第一位女性AIA总统是1992年

苏珊·麦克斯曼（Susan A. Maxman）是1992 - 93年AIA的第一位女总统。Marshall E. Purnell是2007 - 08年的第一位Black AIA总统。威廉·J·贝茨（William J. Bates）是2018 - 2019年第二位。

Dowdell served as the 2019-2020 president of the 50-year-old National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). During her tenure, she built up the staff to three from zero and membership is up from 500 to more than 3,000 in three years.

“Kim, as my predecessor at NOMA, I was amazed at your leadership, even though you were blindsided by the pandemic," said Jason Pugh, a principal at Gensler and the current NOMA president, at the A’22, the AIA’s conference on architecture in Chicago, June 22-25.

Tiffany Brown, NOMA's executive director, is "over the moon" about Dowdell's AIA win. "NOMA will support Kim," in her AIA role, she said, at the NOMA leadership panel, which also included Pascale Sablan, a senior associate with Adjaye Associates and the incoming NOMA president, beginning next year.

这gathering-the firstsince the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020-吸引了12,000多名注册人，低于2019年的16,000名。

道德尔（Dowdell）于2006年毕业于康奈尔大学（Cornell University），并于2006年获得建筑学士学位，并于2015年获得了哈佛大学的公共管理硕士学位。她目前是HOK Architects的营销校长。

A member of the AIA since 2007, Dowdell served on AIA’s equity and the future of architecture committee from 2019-20 and the new urban agenda task force from 2019-21.

对设计服务的需求增加

In a release June 22 at the conference, AIA indicated architecture firms reported increasing demand for design services in May.

这Architecture Billings Index上个月的得分为53.5，比四月的得分为56.5。但是AIA表示，该分数仍然表明“总体上非常强大”，因为任何超过50的分数都表明比上个月的账单增加。同样在5月，新的项目查询和设计合同指数都扩大了，分别发布了63.9和56.9。