Robert Ivy


Robert Ivy is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects since 2011.

Biography

Robert Ivy holds a Master's of Architecture from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from.
In 1996, Ivy became the Editor in Chief of Architectural Record. He became Vice President and Editorial Director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, which included GreenSource: The Magazine of Sustainable Design, SNAP, Architectural Record: China, HQ Magazine, ENR, Constructor, and Sweets. From 1981 until 1996, he was a principal at Dean/Dale, Dean & Ivy and a critic for many national publications.
Ivy was a juror on the panel that selected architect Frank Gehry to design the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
In December 2010, Robert Ivy was named CEO of the American Institute of Architects, effective February 2011.
In November 2016, he released an apology video after the publication of widely-criticized statement where he expressed his strong support for the newly-elect President Donald Trump, a feeling that was not shared among the community of architects in the USA. Compared to the previous letters sent by the AIA to newly-elect Presidents in 2008 and 2012, Ivy's letter was different because 1. It was personally signed by him, 2. It ignored some of Trump's key policies antithetical to the profession, and 3. His expressed pledge to work with the president was too broad.
In November 2019, he joined the AIA's call on Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

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