In 2024, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture worked with AK Cultural Planning to identify strategic goals, objectives, and tactics to ensure the success and growth of the two organizations over the next five years. Moving into 2025, we are excited to share the results of this planning process as we continue to build on our current initiatives and embark on new ones. While the last few years have included disruption and constant adaptation for our organizations, members, and audiences, they have also brought several important milestones—a reorganization that established a new relationship and supports between AIA New York and the Center for Architecture, the 20th anniversary of the Center for Architecture, and a leadership transition.
This strategic plan marks another important milestone. AIA New York and the Center for Architecture have a purposeful and thoughtful path toward our shared future. Through this process, we have explored our value as two organizations that are stronger together, and we have considered how to lean into the possibilities that our unique reciprocal relationship holds when we advance shared goals. With this new shared strategy, we will advance the value and practice of architecture to promote just and sustainable communities.
Moving forward, we will reimagine how we work. Pivoting from a notion that we seek to educate the public about the value of architecture and design, we will embrace a future more focused on listening and learning. While our knowledge and expertise will continue to flow outwards through programs—insights, aspirations, and ideas will also flow inward from the communities and audiences with whom we collaborate, cultivating an environment of mutual learning and exchange. This means deepening partnerships, leaning into our integrated model, and continuously evolving to meet the aspirations of our dynamic, ever-changing professional community, all while engaging more meaningfully with a broad public.
Thank you for joining us as we imagine new futures! Learn more in the plan’s Executive Summary.