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American Institute of Architects

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Corporate name headingAmerican Institute of Architects
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Variant(s)AIA (American Institute of Architects)
A.I.A. (American Institute of Architects)
Instituto Americano de Arquitectos
See alsoWestern Association of Architects (U.S.)
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American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects
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Special noteThe following subdivision has not been used as heading: Gulf States Region. AACR 1 form: American Institute of Architects.
Found inNUCMC data from New Jersey Historical Soc. for Kramer, G. W. George W. and Harriet Estelle Blackman Kramer papers, 1849-1931 (Western Association of Architects, later merged with American Institute of Architects)
Encyc. of Assoc. (American Institute of Architects absorbed Western Association of Architects, 1889)
Méndez Mercado, P. Pedro Méndez Mercado en su tiempo ... between 1990 and 1992: t.p. (Instituto Americano de Arquitectos) p. 5 (AIA)
American Society of Civil Engineers, via Wikipedia, viewed May 21, 2013 (founded in New York City on November 5, 1852, when twelve engineers--Julius W. Adams, J. W. Ayres, Alfred W. Craven, Thomas A. Emmet, Edward Gardiner, Robert B. Gorsuch, G. S. Greene, James Laurie, W. H. Morell, S. S. Post, W. H. Talcott, and W. H. Sidell--met at the offices of the Croton Aqueduct and formed the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects; in 1869 the "Architects" was dropped from the name, as the architects formed their own society, the American Institute of Architects, in 1857)