Two AIA New Jersey Success Stories Recommend Resources for our Members Small business owners Mary Rene Clawson, AIA, LEED AP, CID, and Verity L. Frizzell, FAIA, LEED AP, have years of experience thriving through national and natural disasters. Today, they share their advice on modifying practice to cope with the recent limitations imposed in response Read More
In The AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Spotlight: MJ Sagan, AIA, Strives to Achieve Simple, Clean, Thoughtful Design MJ Sagan is the president of MJ Sagan Architecture, an award-winning architecture firm in Princeton, New Jersey. Established in 2006, the office specializes in custom designs for a wide range of national & international commercial, retail Read More
AIA New Jersey’s Suzanne Sowinski, AIA, Addresses the Largest Sustainability Challenge in the Architectural Profession I am the president of a fifty-plus person architecture/engineering (big A/little E) firm based in New Jersey, with two offices in Pennsylvania. Over the years, I’ve overcome many challenges, a significant one being a female in a Read More
Presenting Assistant Director of the NJ Housing and Finance Agency, Pamela De Los Santos, AIA, in the AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Spotlight I did not initially go to school for architecture. My professional journey began with work in the fields of finance and advertising to make use of my education in English and Read More
The AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Showcase Features Runda Ali, Associate AIA. She Has Struggled, But Never Quit! Today, women and men start their careers as ambitious architects but are there still barriers preventing women from succeeding in this field, a field where men usually set the rules? Nowadays, the presence and influence Read More
Carla Bonacci, AIA, PP, in Today’s AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Spotlight Assistant Director, WTC Infrastructure and Project Development The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT MIX The classic adage is that architecture is both an art and a science. My professional style has been the Read More
In the AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Spotlight: Delly D. Yaker, AIA, Persevered to Become an Architect Twice, and Proud of What She’s Accomplished My name is Delly Yaker, I’m the founder and principal of Delly D. Yaker Architecture and Interior Design. I was born and raised in Caracas Venezuela, moving to the United Read More
Donna Terzano, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP an architect on a traditional path in the AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Spotlight My interest in architecture began while in elementary school, where I was constantly drawing, setting up Richard Scarry’s Puzzle Town, and paging through building plan magazines (mentally noting how I would do things Read More
AIA New Jersey’s Featured Woman In Architecture, Nancy Dougherty, AIA, Lives By Her Credo, “Great Design For All” Nancy Dougherty, AIA, is a LEED accredited, licensed Architect with over 25 years of experience in a wide range of practice areas. In 2018, she celebrated 10 years at Studio 1200, an Architecture and Design firm Read More
Introducing Cathy Knight, AIA of the AIA New Jersey Women In Architecture Showcase I grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. I spent a semester at the Architectural Association in London, which was really fun. I began my career at ADD Inc in Cambridge, MA working Read More
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