AIA New Jersey is Celebrating our Female Fellows: Anne E. Weber, FAIA

March 31, 2021

AIA New Jersey is Celebrating our Female Fellows: Anne E. Weber, FAIA

Anne E. Weber, FAIA, is a Senior Associate at Preservation Desing Partnership in Philadelphia, PA.  She has previously been a partner at Mills + Schnoering, LLC and Senior Associate at Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects. 

Anne E. Weber, FAIA, specializes in the preservation of important, large-scale, historic and cultural properties. Her projects include rehabilitation of the Pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and a fire protection study for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. She has worked on historic structures at Sandy Hook in New Jersey, and Meridian Hill Park, an important Italian Renaissance-style landscape in Washington, DC. 

Ms. Weber has managed the restoration of the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, N.J.; the Princeton University Chapel in Princeton, N.J.; and Newark, N.J., City Hall. She also works on planning documents, such as the preservation plan for renowned architect Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House in Trenton, N.J.; an assessment of the buildings and landscape at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. (a National Historic Landmark); and a code and conditions study for Nassau Hall at Princeton University.

Weber has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Preservation Technology International since 2003, co-chairing the Publications Committee. She is also a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Historical Society of Princeton and the Princeton Battlefield Society.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and applied science from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and master’s degrees in architecture and historic preservation from Columbia University in New York, N.Y. She holds an NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) certificate, which allows her architectural registration in any state, and is a licensed architect in New York. Weber attended the Attingham Summer School in Great Britain, which offers a unique education in art for museum curators, architectural historians, conservators, and teachers. She was the first recipient of the Charles Peterson Prize from the Historic American Buildings Survey and AIA in 1983. She has previously worked for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Va., and at private architectural firms in Virginia and Mississippi.

“Anne Weber, FAIA, has played major roles in the preservation of important structures not only in New Jersey but around the country,” said Stacey Ruhle Kliesch AIA, president of AIA-NJ at the time of Anne’s elevation in 2009. “The New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects is proud that the College is recognizing her enormous contributions to the preservation of buildings that are the landmarks of our civic, academic and historic landscape.”

Architects are creative professionals, educated, trained, and experienced in the art and science of building design, and licensed to practice architecture. Their designs respond to client needs, wants and vision, protect public safety, provide economic value, are innovative, inspire and contribute positively to the community and the environment. Founded in 1857, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) consistently works to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through a dynamic network of more than 250 chapters and more than 95,000 member architects and design professionals, the AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public wellbeing. Members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct to ensure the highest professional standards. The AIA provides members with tools and resources to assist them in their careers and business as well as engaging civic and government leaders and the public to find solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation, and world. The organization’s local chapter, AIA New Jersey, has served as the voice of the architectural profession in the Garden State since 1900. Based in Trenton, AIA New Jersey has over 2,000 members across six sections. For more information, please visit http://www.aia-nj.org

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