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Robert Ivy
Vice-President & Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill Construction
Editor in Chief of Architectural Record
In 1996, Robert Ivy took on the fulltime editorial leadership of Architectural Record, the world’s most widely read architectural journal. During his tenure, the 114-year-old magazine and its Website have grown in scope and prestige, winning readers and annual awards. In 2003 alone Record received magazine publishing’s highest honor, the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, as well as three Jesse Neal Awards for business writing, McGraw-Hill’s Corporate Achievement Award, and the platinum Ozzie.
Mr. Ivy is a frequent speaker and awards jury chairman. He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, appeared on national television, and conducted interviews with leading figures in the architectural world, including the Aga Khan, AIA Gold Medalists and Pritzker Prize winners, as well as moderated panels at US and international events such as World Trade Center Conference at the Library of Congress, the National Building Museum, New York’s Rockefeller Center, and at the American Institute of Architects’ national conference; New York’s Guggenheim Museum; Chicago’s Art Institute; the 92nd St. “Y”; and California’s Monterey Design Conference. In 2002, 2004, and 2006, Ivy served as the Commissioner of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for architecture, which Architectural Record curated for the latter two events.
In his role as editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, Ivy oversees the editorial quality of 15 publications, in print and in digital form, including Architectural Record’s new quarterly publication in China. In addition, he oversaw the development of McGraw-Hill Construction’s new award winning publication for sustainable design, GreenSource, which launched in May 2006, in print and on the Web.
Ivy came to McGraw-Hill from a dual career: previously he had been a principal in a successful architectural practice and a critic for national publications. His book on the late architect Fay Jones remains the standard reference on the subject, cited by the Art Library of North America for “highest standards of scholarship, design and production.” Prior to becoming an architect, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. He is a former board member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation, the Center for Southern Culture, and a civic activist in his former hometown. He currently serves on the advisory boards of three architecture schools, including those at Tulane University, Mississippi State University, and Auburn University’s Rural Studio.
Ivy and his wife Holly have three children—Virginia, Adam, and Ben—and regularly return to his home state of Mississippi. Mr. Ivy, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, holds a Masters in Architecture from Tulane University, and a BA (cum laude) in English from the University of the South (TN). He is a member of CICA, the International Circle of Architecture Critics.
