Longtime Air Force planner Paula Loomis is given the 2024 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture

The American Institute of Architects has honored architect and decorated civil servant Paula Loomis with this year's AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture. The honor follows a long career in service to the United States military and other federal agencies that has advanced strategies imperative to improving resilient design, sustainability, and design for mental health approaches today.  The retired officer and woman responsible for maintaining and improving a total of 36 U.S. Air Force installations is credited with authoring over 50 facility standards guidelines. Loomis, who is currently working as a principal at The Urban Collaborative, is also an adjunct lecturer at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Her work has garnered major specialty awards and recognition from the American Planning Association and other professional bodies in a thirty-year span, working closely throughout with the General Services Administration and other key public entities.Read the full post on Bustler

Longtime Air Force planner Paula Loomis is given the 2024 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture

The American Institute of Architects has honored architect and decorated civil servant Paula Loomis with this year's AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture. The honor follows a long career in service to the United States military and other federal agencies that has advanced strategies imperative to improving resilient design, sustainability, and design for mental health approaches today. 

The retired officer and woman responsible for maintaining and improving a total of 36 U.S. Air Force installations is credited with authoring over 50 facility standards guidelines. Loomis, who is currently working as a principal at The Urban Collaborative, is also an adjunct lecturer at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. 

Her work has garnered major specialty awards and recognition from the American Planning Association and other professional bodies in a thirty-year span, working closely throughout with the General Services Administration and other key public entities.Read the full post on Bustler