The Iowa Architectural Foundation is dedicated to fostering an appreciation of design excellence while working for the preservation of our cultural heritage. The IAF supports programs, projects and publications that share this vision. It solicits, receives and expends gifts, grants and legacies for education and preservation of architecture and its allied arts and sciences. It also provides guidance to those groups, individuals, and companies who endeavor to improve their communities.

Since its inception, the Iowa Architectural Foundation has undertaken numerous initiatives to increase the public awareness of architecture, contributing directly and through leveraged grants of more than $200,000 in project funding. The IAF has four main programs that help further its mission: Architecture in the Schools program, Community Design Program, the Community Design Excellence Awards, and Walking Tours.

The Iowa Architectural Foundation invites Iowa’s citizens, communities and business-leaders to invest in a vision that recognizes the role of architecture and community design in enhancing the quality of life in our state. Architecture is the most public of arts. It touches all of us every day.  Architecture needs better public understanding. Architects, public officials, businesses, and individuals must unite and encourage the creation of quality environments that serve public needs, strengthen communities, solve problems and enrich our lives.

Click here for a list of our 2008 Board of Trustees