Our Year as the 2024 AIA Architecture Firm Award Winner

Last December, the American Institute of Architects honored Quinn Evans with the 2024 AIA Architecture Firm Award, and it’s been an extraordinary journey since then. We’ve celebrated milestones, reflected on our work, and been humbled by the positive impact we’ve made in communities across the country—from preserving and reimagining spaces to prioritizing sustainability and inclusivity. Here’s to many more years of making a positive impact in cities and communities around the country!

Featuring: Senior Associate Beth Roach, AIA, LEED AP BD+C; Senior Associate Charles Sparkman, AIA, CDT, LEED AP BD+C; Marketing Coordinator Alexandra Jones; Staff Designer Joshua Powell; Principal Brenda Williams, FASLA, PLA; Architect Imman Suleiman, AIA, LEED Green Associate, Fitwel Amb.; Associate Marisa Allen, AIA, LEED AP ID+C, Fitwel Amb.; and Principal Jeffrey Luker, AIA, LEED AP.

Reflections & Gratitude: The 2024 AIA Architecture Firm Award

Video Transcript

BETH ROACH

The AIA Firm Award is the Oscars of architecture.

It's the way that the architecture community bestows upon a firm that they are of the moment and doing the highest quality of work possible. It's the highest honor that a firm can have in the United States.

CHARLES SPARKMAN

I think Quinn Evans was chosen for the AIA Firm Award because we are a firm that's at the leading edge of both preservation of existing places, reimagining of existing places, sustainability, equitability.

ALEXANDRA JONES

Quinn Evans is a firm of people that love what they do. I love being surrounded by people who love to design and love inclusive design and adaptive reuse.

JOSHUA POWELL

Both the culture and kind of the heritage that Quinn Evans holds, in both its projects and in just the work environment, is what makes it such a special place.

BRENDA WILLIAMS

Quinn Evans has amazing depth of skill and experience and knowledge, but also deep compassion.

IMMAN SULEIMAN

We aim to make sure that the voices that are not heard are being amplified through the work that we do.

MARISA ALLEN

There are a million wonderful things about Quinn Evans. I think being woman owned is pretty fantastic. In the architecture world, I think it's not typical to have this kind of diversity and balance in a firm.

JEFFREY LUKER

I think for me, it's really humbling. It's really a great honor and a tribute to the work that we've had the great opportunity to be part of. So, it's a happy, humbling time. Thank you.