AIA Membership
We welcome US registered architects, foreign registered architects, architectural interns/assistant architects, students of architecture, and members of allied professions. Membership dues are calculated on a calendar year, January to December. New member dues are pro-rated quarterly.
All membership categories are listed here on the AIA website.
TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP
Architect
- Eligibility: Registered architect in the US
- Dues: AIA National dues + AIA ME Chapter dues ($85 per year)
- Benefits: AIA National Benefits + ME Chapter Benefits
Associate
- Eligibility: US educated architectural interns/assistant architects
- Dues: AIA National dues + AIA ME Chapter dues ($60 per year)
- Benefits: AIA National Benefits + ME Chapter Benefits
International Associate
- Eligibility: Registered architect in another non-USA jurisdiction
- Dues: AIA National dues + AIA ME Chapter dues ($85 per year)
- Benefits: AIA National Benefits + ME Chapter Benefits
Professional Affiliates
- Eligibility: Professionals who are affiliated with the profession of architecture or a related design profession
- Dues: AIA ME Chapter dues ($110 per year). Membership in AIA National is optional
- Benefits: ME Chapter Benefits
Students
- Eligibility: Student of architecture or a related design profession
- Dues: FREE
- Benefits: ME Chapter Benefits
AIA CHAPTER ASSIGNMENT BYLAWS:
- When a person becomes an Architect, Associate, or International Associate member, s/he is ordinarily assigned to the chapter in whose territory s/he either resides or works.
- When a member moves his/her residence or principal place of business to another chapter’s territory, s/he may either retain assignment to the original chapter or transfer assignment to the new chapter.
- In special cases, upon receiving written application from a member, the Institute’s Secretary may assign a member to a chapter that is neither the legal residence nor principal place of business of the member.
- Architect and Associate members who are not assigned to a component under other provisions of the Bylaws are members only of the Institute. This typically applies to new members who live and work outside the United States and beyond the territories of the AIA’s overseas chapters. Architect and Associate members who are not assigned and who establish residence or a principal place of business in the territory of a component will be assigned membership in the component
