March 12, 2025 5:30 pm - 6:30 am ET
Lecture Series
Jeff Day

Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA

Professor, College of Architecture, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Founder & Partner, Actual Architecture Company

Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA is Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska and founding partner of Actual Architecture Company. In the College of Architecture, Day teaches design studios, seminars, and workshops that explore the intersection of design conceptualization and physical construction – the meeting place of theory and practice. Day directs FACT, an interdisciplinary, designbuild studio that engages nonprofits and communities in collaborations that span design and construction.

Day has garnered numerous awards including a 2022 Residential Architect Design Award, The Plan Award 2021, a 2019 Progressive Architecture Award, the Architectural League of New York’s 2016 Emerging Voices, Architectural Record’s 2009 Design Vanguard, the 2007 AIA California Council’s Emerging Talent award, New Practices San Francisco 2009, Residential Architect’s 2010 Rising Star, Architectural Record’s 2003 archrecord2, over 100 national, regional, and state AIA design awards, 11 ACSA design awards, 3 IDEC creative scholarship awards, 4 university teaching awards, and more. In 2019 Day was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects, the highest membership honor in the AIA bestowed on only 3% of member architects.

Day’s work has been exhibited at the Nebraska History Museum, Museum of Design Atlanta, Sheldon Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (4 shows), Kaneko (2 shows), little gallery (Omaha) Luggage Store (San Francisco), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing), Ide@s Gallery (Shanghai), AIA San Francisco Gallery, Smart Museum (Chicago), Center For Architecture (New York), Harvard University Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, and numerous other university galleries.

Day is President of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).