AIA Los Angeles Congratulates
Our New Fellows for 2025

AIA Los Angeles is pleased and proud to announce that six of our Chapter members have been elevated to Fellowship (signified by the initials FAIA.)

Please scroll down to learn more about all of our Los Angeles honorees.

Discover all the new Fellows who were honored nationwide here.

New Fellows will be honored at an Investiture ceremony as part of AIA25, the AIA National Conference on Architecture & Design, which takes place in Boston this June.


Farooq Ameen, FAIA

CITY DESIGN STUDIO LLC

Farooq Ameen transforms contemporary urban place-form through incremental urban interventions that celebrate culture and advance social equity. He elevates the architect’s role as the orchestrator of inclusive community revitalization on a global scale.
Stephanie M Kingsnorth, FAIA

Perkins Eastman | Pfeiffer

Stephanie Kingsnorth has re-imagined the role of preservation and adaptive reuse in re-vitalizing diverse campus and urban communities through embracing the imperatives of climate change, cultural equity, and pride of place.
Jenna Knudsen, FAIA

CO Architects

A recognized industry trailblazer, Jenna Knudsen embraces an inclusive leadership ethos. Engaging diverse perspectives across collaborative platforms in both management and design, she consistently challenges her peers to pursue an integrated and transformative practice paradigm.

Praful Kulkarni, FAIA

CannonDesign

Praful Kulkarni revolutionized public sector procurement of design-build services, elevating the Architect as the process orchestrator, ameliorating owner/builder disconnects and benefitting taxpayers, users and the profession through higher quality, cost-effective project outcomes.
Heath May, FAIA

HKS

Heath May draws way outside the lines of traditional Architect roles, evolving technology in practice to elevate project design and delivery. His work has created a groundswell of influence now breaking across the AEC industry.

Photo courtesy of HKS
Brian Wickersham, FAIA

AUX Architecture

Brian Wickersham designs architecture rich in duality, deftly balancing minimalism with expressiveness, reclamation with transformation, and interior connections to outdoor spaces. He translates this duality to advance nonprofits by balancing need with artistry and inventiveness.


One of the highest honors that AIA awards, Fellowship celebrates practitioners with at least ten years of Architect membership, who have made significant contributions to the profession and to society, who exemplify architectural excellence, and whose work has had a profound influence or ripple effect.

Fellowship may be bestowed in one of several categories:
1) Design, Urban Design, or Preservation; 2) Education, Research, Literature, or Practice (with the option of a subcategory of Management or Technical Advancement); 3) Led the Institute or a Related Organization; 4) Public Service, Government, Industry, or Organization; or 5) Alternative Career, Volunteer Work with Organizations Not Directly Connected with the Built Environment, or Service to Society.

The new Fellows will receive their Fellowship medal during the Investiture at the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design 2025 (A25) in Boston. Our Los Angeles Fellows will also be honored locally this summer at a private reception.

AIA|LA thanks our 2024-25 Fellows Nominating & Mentoring Committee, chaired by Krista Becker, FAIA and John Mutlow, FAIA, and everyone who supported our nominees as sponsors, reference letter writers and mentors. Their experience, advice and encouragement are crucial to a successful nomination, and are extremely appreciated.

This year, 93 AIA members were elevated to this honor, out of 205 applicants. To view a list of all our new Fellows nationwide, please visit AIA National’s website.


CONTACT

For more information on Fellowship and the nomination and submission process, please contact
Steve Tanner, Hon. AIALA
Membership Director
at steve@aialosangeles.org