Former AIA chief Robert Ivy is announced this year's winner of the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award

Former AIA executive vice president and CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA, has been given the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Institute of Building Science in recognition of the architect’s “lifetime of dedication to mission and goals of the organization” which focuses on the ensuring community health and safety through promoting technical advancements in building science.  Ivy has been instrumental in his decade-long tenure as the head of the largest professional organization of architects in the US, overseeing, amongst some missteps, its transition into the digital age as well as the restructuring of its board of directors and expansion to a record number of 95,000 members. Ivy has also served as Editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Architectural Record and was a practicing architect for many years in his hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, where he still maintains a home. “Robert’s work over the course of his career has elevated the entire profession of architecture...

Former AIA chief Robert Ivy is announced this year's winner of the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award

Former AIA executive vice president and CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA, has been given the Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Institute of Building Science in recognition of the architect’s “lifetime of dedication to mission and goals of the organization” which focuses on the ensuring community health and safety through promoting technical advancements in building science. 

Ivy has been instrumental in his decade-long tenure as the head of the largest professional organization of architects in the US, overseeing, amongst some missteps, its transition into the digital age as well as the restructuring of its board of directors and expansion to a record number of 95,000 members.

Ivy has also served as Editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Architectural Record and was a practicing architect for many years in his hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, where he still maintains a home.

“Robert’s work over the course of his career has elevated the entire profession of architecture...