Assistant professor at Northeastern University, urban planner, and activist Lily Song has followed a nonlinear path to professional growth, finding purpose in community-driven planning and design.

Like to work at 4 am? Need to take a break at 3 pm to pick up your kids at school? Want to collaborate with team members who are traveling—jump on Zoom or Teams and sketch it out. These are among the practices that Saam Architecture is encouraging to accommodate people’s work lives and styles—and build a culture of collaboration and success.

A summit that brings together a diverse community of women professionals in architecture, design, and the allied building industries at various stages of their careers to share ideas, network, mentor, and inspire is coming home to Boston this September. Don’t miss it.

During the 2017-2018 school year, when the BSA first participated in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) kindergarten construction unit, no one envisioned that a pandemic would hit and transform learning—both during and after the epidemic. Six years later, the BSA's early childhood architecture curriculum has not only expanded across Boston, but also serves as a model for young children to learn collaboratively and to reimagine the world around them.

Lara Pfadt AIA credits her childhood art teacher, parents, and summers learning to build at her parents’ construction company with helping her develop her interest in architecture and see beauty in the “small details” of daily life.

More than 50 percent of the more than 32.5 million refugees worldwide are children, many of whom have experienced trauma and are spending five or more years in encampments. Helping to heal trauma in refugee children through portable play structures is the focus of the joint BSA- Boston Society for Landscape Architects (BSLA) Knowledge Community, the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community (GDIRC). Recently, the GDIRC co-hosted a design charrette with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design to explore how they can more deeply consider the psychological and emotional needs of refugee children in designs for portable play structures they are building for asylum seekers.

Less than one percent of real estate developers in the U.S. are Black or Latino. The BSA is working to change that.

Want to see Boston through a whole new lens? Experience the Charles Riverboat Company’s architecture cruise, and learn about Boston’s architectural history while getting a view of the city you can’t get anywhere else.