Taubman College is consistently named among the best design schools in the country. Named for businessman and entrepreneur, A. Alfred Taubman as the result of his transformative gift to the college, Taubman College’s mission is to improve the human condition through thoughtful design and planning for the built environment. Its academic programs prepare graduates for … Continue reading Taubman Teaching Fellowships
The School of Architecture (SoA) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a tenure-track position in Advanced Design Computation at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The SoA is advancing a new Master of Science in Architecture degree program and expanding a two-year dual degree program in Design Computation (descomp.uncc.edu). The SoA … Continue reading Advanced Design Computation
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture Atlanta, Georgia Description The Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position beginning Fall 2017. Title Assistant or Associate Professor of Architecture Responsibilities The School of Architecture (SoA) seeks candidates with the capacity for leadership in architectural design, specifically in the areas … Continue reading Assistant or Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture Atlanta, Georgia Description The Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture invites applications for the NEXT Generation Visiting Fellowship position for the 2017-18 academic year. This is a two-year, full-time appointment beginning Fall 2017, with a review and evaluation after the first year. Title NEXT Generation Visiting Fellow … Continue reading NEXT Generation Teaching Fellowship
The Center for Health Design’s New Investigator Research Award applications are now being accepted. Submissions Due: September 19, 2016 Award Recipient Announced: November 14, 2016 The New Investigator Research Award is designed to encourage more up-and-coming researchers to turn their attention to studying how the built environment impacts outcomes in healthcare. Created and funded by The … Continue reading New Investigator Research Award
AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition recognizes ten exceptional studio projects that seamlessly integrate innovative, regenerative strategies within their broader design concepts. The program challenged students to submit projects that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide architectural solutions that protect and enhance the environment. For more info, go to: http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/competitions/2015-2016-cote-top-ten-for-students/2015-2016-cote-top-ten-for-students-winners
Architectural research has a long and varied history at the AIA. Most recently, the AIA has embarked on a number of activities to understand the needs of the profession around research and the AIA’s role to help meet such needs, in order to help advance the profession toward a more research-supported discipline. For more info, … Continue reading AIA Practice Relevant Research
Call for Submissions: 2016 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize The Latrobe Prize is a biennial $100,000 award from the AIA College of Fellows to support a two-year program of research selected by jury review. The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is awarded for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession. … Continue reading AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize
Call for Submissions: 2016 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grants The Upjohn program funds up to six research grants of $15,000–$30,000 per recipient annually for projects completed in a 6 to 18 month period. Proposals should address the value of design, practice issues, or novel materials and methods of construction. The research should relate to architectural … Continue reading AIA Upjohn Research Initiative
Architecture of Complexity: design, systems, society and environment June 14-17, 2017 I Salt Lake City I University of Utah Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, Keith Diaz Moore, Wei Zhao [btnsx id=”1294″] Architecture is contextually contingent. Once the social, economic, and environmental networks and systems that presuppose architecture become a fundamental context for design, then the capability … Continue reading ARCC 2017 Conference
Nominations Due: October 22 The ARCC Dissertation Award is offered each year for the best dissertation by a doctoral student from a member school. The award is intended to honor significant new research in architecture and environmental design and to recognize the achievement of an emerging scholar. Dissertations filed during the previous academic year are … Continue reading ARCC Dissertation Award
UPDATE: aae2016 registration is open and discounted for all bookings by 1st of March, including student discounts. Register here: http://www.aae2016.org/?page_id=3278 The association of architectural educators (aae) in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture is hosting aae2016, an International Peer Reviewed Conference on “Research Based Education.” For more information, or to sign up for updates, … Continue reading aae2016: London
Vol 13, No 1 (2016) Submission deadline July 3, 2016 Submission process Online (authors must register with journal website) Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research would like to extend a Call for Articles for the 2016 edition of the journal. Enquiry is indexed by the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Worldcat, OAIster, and Google … Continue reading Enquiry 2016 Edition: Call for Articles
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium is pleased to announce the seventeenth annual: ARCC | King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), this award will be given to one student per ARCC member … Continue reading ARCC King Student Medal Program 2015-2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineering students won the first round of the design and build category at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Weekend at Texas A&M that took place January 29 – 30, 2016. Over 100 teams participated in the design weekend. The event was co-sponsored by Hyperloop Technologies and SpaceX. The MIT team … Continue reading MIT Team Wins Hyperloop Pod Design Competition
Maristella Casciato, former associate director of research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and expert on 20th century European architecture, has been named the Getty Research Institute’s new Senior Curator of Architectural Collections. “Maristella Casciato is an exceptionally accomplished scholar. Her wide-ranging interests such as recent in-depth research into architecture of postcolonial India and non-Western contributions to city planning will … Continue reading Casciato Named Getty Research Institute’s New Architecture Curator
Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. He becomes the 41st laureate of the Pritzker Prize, the first Pritzker Laureate from Chile, and the fourth from Latin America, after Luis Barragán (1980), Oscar Niemeyer (1988), and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006). The 48-year-old Aravena is an architect based … Continue reading Alejandro Aravena Awarded Pritzker Prize
Enquiry is pleased to present its 2015 edition of the journal. Readers can find articles focused on topics of architectural research by Dalia Hafiz, Lubomir Savov Popov, Gary David, Brandon Richard Ro, Julio Bermudez, Ute Christa Besenecker, Ted Krueger, and Sara Khorshidifard. You can find the new edition of Enquiry here: http://arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/issue/current A new call … Continue reading 2015 Edition of Enquiry Released
Larry Degelman, P.E., Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Texas A&M University Larry Degelman has a BAE and an M.S. in Architectural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (1961, 1966). He is president of the Degelman Engineering Group, Inc., an ASHRAE Life Member with energy design and modeling certifications, and a fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). … Continue reading 2015-2016 Haecker Award
Traci Rose Rider, North Carolina State University Dr. Traci Rose Rider is the Coordinator for the Design Initiative for Sustainability and Health, Research Associate, and Research Assistant Professor in Architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design. Dr. Rider’s research has focused on the relationship between the design culture and the notion of sustainability, … Continue reading 2015-2016 New Researcher Award
The world’s building sector is responsible for 40% of global energy use, 34% of GHG emissions, 60% of electricity, and 25% of global water. By 2050, 70% of the world population will live and work in urban areas, adding 2.1 billion people to urban centers. A growing number of glass high rise buildings will be built to accommodate this new … Continue reading Bio-Facade Research
