A.I.A.

abbreviation for

1. American Institute of Architects.
2. American Insurance Association.

AIA

abbreviation for

1. Associate of the Institute of Actuaries

Example Sentences

Congress is reluctant to narrow the search to architects only, but the A.I.A. is nonetheless promoting the opening to its 96,000 members, and has sent a list of potential candidates to the hiring team.

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“We very much need innovative architects, and to use the thinking embodied in the A.I.A. statement to create facilities that will positively affect our communities and neighborhoods,” she wrote in an email to The New York Times.

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The petition asked the A.I.A. to censure architects who designed death chambers and solitary confinement facilities, which, as constituted and employed in countless American prisons, often function as instruments of psychological and physical torture.

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The A.I.A. rejected the petition.

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And if solitary confinement is a form of torture, the A.I.A. ethicists reasoned, that’s the fault of those who run the prison, not an architect’s problem: “Members could not be held responsible for torture policies and procedures put into place by their clients after they occupy a space, so long as the members were unaware as they were designing the space that it was intended to be used for torture.”

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