Kiara Gilmore, AIA is an Associate Architect as well as the Director of Emerging Professionals at modus studio in Fayetteville, AR. In addition to her passion for architecture, Kiara is eager to help the newest architects and emerging designers so she holds positions both locally and nationally with AIA AR, NWA committee and is currently the Knowledge Director for the Young Architects Forum.

Kiara graduated from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design and began working at Modus Studio. She has used her energy and talent to continue to transform the built world; a world where her goal is that every individual consciously and unconsciously experiences a design at its highest, most innovative form.

In her free time, Kiara is an avid runner and has completed over 20 marathons in more than a dozen states. She loves to travel and photograph architecture locally and around the world. She also enjoys hiking to the many waterfalls Arkansas has to offer with her husband and two rescue dogs. Lastly, you will always find Kiara calling the Hogs on Saturdays during football season.