Terrance Brown, FAIA, Brown’s work in disaster training and assistance spans over 35 years and reaches from the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia, to Guatemala, Central America and to the USA and Sri Lanka. He was the spokesperson for the eight person team of architects and engineers to tour the 2004 tsunami devastation in Sri Lanka. Terry just completed a three year term as Chair of the AIA Disaster Assistance Committee and is serving a second term as Special Advisor to the AIA Disaster Assistance Task Group.

Brown has lectured and trained hundreds of architects on how to set up Disaster Assistance Programs in their States/Countries. He is a Senior Architect with WHPacific Inc., the largest Native American owned A/E firm in the USA. His life long work is with Native Americans in the western part of the USA and Latin America.

He recently completed a six year term as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) national liaison to the Pan American Federation of Architect Associations, which represents all architect organizations in the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean.

Terry is a former AIA National Vice President and is the recipient of the 2004 Whitney Young Jr. Award, AIA’s highest honor in recognition of his work with disadvantaged people of the world. Terry is a former Vice President of the AIA and is the recipient of the AIA Western Mountain Region Silver Medal, the Texas Tech University Distinguished Alumnus Award and is an AIA Richard Upjohn Fellow. Terry has chaired numerous design award and honor award juries to include the National AIA Honorary Fellow’s Jury.