Aletheia Ida is an architect, designer, philosopher, and socio-environmental technologist. She has over twenty-five years of experience in professional architecture practice and academia and is fluent with building performance analytics. Aletheia holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Architectural Sciences from the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In her practice activities, Dr. Ida conducts design research for emerging environmental building technologies and alternative building methods to achieve symbiosis between human experience and nature. Her newest venture is founding AIDA, LLC , a unique practice that provides affordable access to design knowledge and guidance for healthy, beautiful, and energy efficient homes and workspaces. Aletheia is also the co-Founder of Analemma, a creative partnership for innovative art, experiences, and design. She has served as an associate professor of architecture at the University of Arizona, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, as a guest lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and Howard University, and as a guest critic at the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, and others.

The context of her work explores a terrain at the obfuscated boundaries between medium and matter. As in the carving of sandy littoral inlets by ocean tides or the temporal sublimation of icebergs shaped by forces of wind and sun, it is the interrelationship of phenomenological medium and a material ethic that provide for determinant formalization of content in this work. Stemming from a philosophical position that medium, matter, form, and process constitute the four causes in the nature of making, this work seeks a territory that eliminates delimitations of medium and matter through corresponding morphological and environmentally compatible relationships. The choreography of medium-flows through material conditions provides for contingent form. Whether it is the scale of the phonon emanating through matter in lattice vibrations, or the spatiotemporal scale of the solar path imparting depths of shadows through structures, form becomes situated amidst a frozen process integrating this simultaneity like a cross-section through space and time. The rational basis for the construction of objects need not reside solely within tehcne or disegno, but rather amongst a poetic complexity of sentient response to social and environmental phenomena through material organization.