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The Columbus native who now is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record magazine will be featured speaker May 4 at Mississippi State University.
Robert A. Ivy Jr. will address a School of Architecture recognition ceremony for members of its 20th graduating class. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is a cum laude English graduate of the University of the South and an architecture graduate of Tulane University.
The public program begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Bettersworth Auditorium of Giles Hall, the architecture school's home at the intersection of B.S. Hood Road and Barr Avenue.
Ivy, 49, assumed editorial leadership of the New York-based monthly publication earlier this year. He still maintains a Lowndes County residence.
Architectural Record, which is owned by McGraw-Hill Co., had a worldwide circulation of more than 65,000 before becoming the official publication of the American Institute of Architects in January. Circulation is expected to increase as a result of the association.
Previously, Ivy was an editor of Architecture Mississippi and Architecture/South magazines, as well as a contributing editor for Architecture magazine. He also is the author of a biography on award-winning Arkansas architect Fay Jones, the Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice who designed the Thorncrown pilgrimage chapel in the Ozarks and the Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arboretum near Picayune.
While a practicing architect in Columbus, Ivy was an adjunct member of the Mississippi State faculty. He is a past president of the state AIA chapter.
For more information on the program, telephone (601) 325-2202.