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Bob Harris, FAIA, LEED Fellow is among 30 of an elite group of recipients of the dual Fellowship Architects Award by having obtained both AIA Fellows and LEED Fellow status. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellowship (FAIA) program elevates those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. For The United States Green Building Council (USGBC®), the honor of LEED® Fellow designates the most exceptional professionals in the green building industry, and is the most prestigious designation awarded by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI®) — the premier organization that independently recognizes excellence in green performance and practice. LEED Fellows are LEED Accredited Professionals who have acquired significant technical knowledge and skills. They have been recognized for their outstanding work as LEED professionals and for the significance of their impact on the green building community at large. Learn more about this newly recognized elite designation, here.

Indian Springs School, founded near Birmingham, AL, was honored with a 2016 Education Facility Design Award by the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education. Juror comments noted that Indian Springs School “is a different type of campus planning, where the buildings and landscape define each other. It is a beautifully sited, culturally and architecturally sensitive addition to the campus.” Watch a video about the school, here.

Fast Company reports that trends in school design are representing a new construction ideology that uses architecture to keep schools safe yet physically open to their surroundings, rather than mundane and monotonous institutions symptomatic of only perceived safety. Indian Spring School is commended as one of such schools. Its design makes the most of 350 acres of woodland that surround the campus . Explore more innovations in school design.

As architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason, Lake|Flato advocates for action on Climate Change. We are excited to announce our participation in Architects Advocate, an online initiative and public outreach campaign that gives voice towards action on climate change – an important issue that affects healthy and liveable communities and cities. As leaders in sustainable design, we recognize that climate change has yielded dramatic, potentially irreversible changes to our communities. The core of the Architects Advocate effort is the belief that a healthy environment is a civil right and that as architects and designers, we need to publically advocate for action on climate change by sharing our knowledge and designing livable communities. For more information and to join Architects Advocate for Action on Climate Change, read here.