by: Jessica Sheridan Assoc. AIA LEED AP
A new online forum has been developed to imagine a collective vision of the future of the built environment. The project/online exhibition, Vision 2020, collects perspectives from architects, critics, students, leaders, and the public with the intention to provide a clear and holistic picture of what an architect needs to be, think, act, and do to be relevant in the future. Vision 2020 was developed by Andrew Caruso, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, and Tony Vanky, Assoc. AIA, who both served as president and vice president of the American Institute of Architecture Students in 2007-2008. They grew frustrated with the lack of long-range visioning of the architecture discipline and envisioned the project as a means to create a holistic understanding of the problems and opportunities facing humanity because of the built environment.