A Conversation with 2025 AIA Firm Award Winner: LPA

1.5 LU

Join AIA Central Valley for a night of world-changing ideas with the 2025 AIA Architecture Firm Award winner. Hosted in LPA’s downtown Sacramento studio, the panel will explore how LPA’s integrated teams are cutting carbon and advancing equity on every project, at every scale and budget. Through the lens of recent civic, education and healthcare work in the region, firm leaders will share what it takes to eliminate carbon emissions from buildings — and why an interdisciplinary, no-excuses approach is central to their practice. From net-zero buildings and carbon-sequestering landscapes to meeting the health challenges of underserved communities, LPA is helping shape what’s next in Northern California. Come meet the people behind the work — and be part of the conversation.

LPA Panelists:

Keith Hempel, President, Chief Design Officer

Bryan Seamer, Dir. of Structural Engineering

Lindsay Votel, Project Designer

Kari Kikuta, Dir. of Landscape Architect

Julian Watt, Sacramento Studio Director

Moderator:

Ida Clair, California State Architect

5 - 6:00 PM Reception | 6 - 7:00 PM Panel Discussion