This page contains links to external resources like professional organizations and funding sources.
These websites contain information about sustainable architecture:
EPA: Sustainability
Information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about sustainability
Green Building
Informatioin from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about using healthier and more resource-efficient models of building construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and demolition
Inhabitat: Green Architecture
Weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future
Sustainable Architecture
Documents from University of Michigan's Sustainable Architecture Compendium
U.S. Green Building Council
Contains information on the council, its LEED rating system, and many other green building resources
Whole Building Design Guide
A collaborative effort among federal agencies, private sector companies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions
American Institute of Architects
The leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857.
American Architectural Foundation
AAF assembles design teams of diverse expertise; connects them with government officials, educators, business leaders, and others whose daily decisions help determine the design of our cities; and engages them all in a collaborative design process that responds to some of the most critical challenges facing our nation.
American Society of Landscape Architects
The society's mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.
National Organization of Minority Architects
NOMA's mission is to champion diversity within the design professions by promoting the excellence, community engagement, and professional development of its members.
Society of Architectural Historians
This society's mission is to advance the knowledge and understanding of the history of architecture, design, landscape, and urbanism among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning), and the interested general public.
Founded in 1871, the Baltimore Chapter of The American Institute of Architects is the third oldest in the country.
Mission is "to improve the practice of architecture in Maryland through legislative and governmental action." Our perspective is mostly at the State level, although we maintain close ties with both state and local legislators. We promote architects and architecture through political activism, legislative activities and grassroots efforts and we guard the interests of architects with regard to regulations and law.
The Foundation today focuses its attention and energies on helping to promote an understanding of and an appreciation for Baltimore's built environment -- it does this through walking tours, lectures, public programs, and an architecture-in-the-schools program.
Mission is the advancement of the merit shop construction philosophy, which encourages open competition and a free-enterprise approach that awards contracts based solely on merit, regardless of labor affiliation.
The mission of ACCE is to be a global advocate for programs of post-secondary construction higher education.
The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture is composed of virtually all the programs of higher learning in landscape architecture in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) works to protect the public’s health, safety and welfare by establishing and promoting professional licensure standards.
The USGBC is a diverse group of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofits, teachers and students, lawmakers and citizens that share the same vision of a sustainable built environment for all within the next generation.
LEED stands for green building leadership. LEED is transforming the way we think about how buildings and communities are designed, constructed, maintained and operated across the globe.
The AIA/AAF Minority Disadvantaged Scholarship provides assistance to high school graduates, college freshmen, and community college students from a minority and/or financially disadvantaged background who intend to pursue a NAAB-accredited professional degree (5-year BA or BA + MA) in Architecture.
As part of its mission to promote the study and interpretation of the built environment, the Society of Architectural Historians offers Annual Conference fellowships and grants, fellowships for research and travel, and membership grants.
Heritage Documentation Programs administers the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Federal Government's oldest preservation program, and its companion programs: the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). Documentation produced through the programs constitutes the nation's largest archive of historic architectural, engineering, and landscape documentation.
