Taking Mentorship and Passion for Architecture to a Whole New Level

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – DIGroup Architecture, one of the area’s largest minority-owned architectural firms, is proud to announce LoriAnne Jones is the recipient of AIA New Jersey’s Young Architect of the Year Service Award. This award acknowledges her exceptional leadership and significant contributions in the field of architecture.

LoriAnne is a project manager with 14 years of experience working with clients in Academic and Healthcare with a specialized focus on Community Health Center design. With her affinity for design technology, she has helped strengthen the firm’s capabilities in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Information Technology in the spirit of growing the firm’s competitive advantage.

She mentors underserved high school students through the Architect Construction & Engineering (ACE) program and serves as a member on the NJ ACE Board of Directors. Her leadership and contributions have positively impacted many minority students and have given them exposure and an opportunity to explore a profession they may not have otherwise considered. She has risen above her own challenges as a black woman to embrace and help others learn about the profession she loves. 

LoriAnne currently serves as President for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Central New Jersey Chapter, a featured panelist in AIA New Jersey’s six‐part Diversity in Architecture Series and a reader in AIA New Jersey’s Storytime for children to introduce them to architecture and architects. 

Her innate spirit of diversity, community, collaboration, as well as commitment to the profession is reinforced by her genealogy. Her grandmother who started as draftswoman, owned and operated an architecture firm in Georgetown, Guyana, and today, LoriAnne works alongside her father’s management consultancy firm on community‐based design projects. 

LoriAnne is a graduate of Rutgers University, MBA, Rutgers Business School and achieved her Bachelor of Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a mother of two, raising a 5‐year‐old and 5‐month‐old with her husband in Somerset, NJ.

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LoriAnne Jones, AIA; Named American Institute of Architects New Jersey Young Architect of the Year