The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) solicits applications for its new Research Incentive Award. The award aims to support and promote high‐quality architectural research and scholarship activities in ARCC member schools. The program provides faculty in ARCC member schools with the resources needed to support and enhance their research and creative activities and to develop … Continue reading ARCC Research Incentive Award
The 2018 biannual joint conference between the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) and the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) was highly successful and praised by attendees. Read the full report here.
ARCC is pleased to announce the ARCC 2019 Conference will be hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto, May 29-June 1, 2019. The conference theme will focus on applications of research and the bridge between theory and practice. Ryerson is a public research university located in the heart of Toronto. The Department of Architecture is housed … Continue reading ARCC 2019 Toronto Conference
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. The research should relate to architectural knowledge that can be applied within the discipline. One grant will be dedicated to design and health principles. Read more on the flyer or at their … Continue reading Call for Submissions: 2018 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grants
The nominations for the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Board of Directors are in. Available positions include: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and four at large directors. All ARCC board members serve for a term of one year except for the President and Vice President who each have a two-year term of office. All terms … Continue reading ARCC Board 2018-19 Nominations
Article submission is open at any time of the year. However, we have editorial cut-off dates in order to potentially be published in the current edition. The submission deadline for the next upcoming issue is April 22 Submission process: Potential authors need to register at the Journal’s website in order to submit an article for consideration : … Continue reading Submission Deadline for Enquiry Approaching April 22
Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, is the director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota and he is also the Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design at the university’s School of Architecture. In a 2017 essay for ACSA’s Journal of Technology | Architecture + Design, entitled “Research and Architecture’s Knowledge Loop,” Fisher, a regular contributor to ARCHITECT, … Continue reading Tom Fisher in “AIA Voices” section of ARCHITECT
ANFA has created a Fellowship in the name of John Paul Eberhard, the organization’s founding president (and former director of AIA’s Research Corporation). This fellowship is established to encourage Masters & PhD students and Post Docs, of either Neuroscience or Architecture programs to undertake, in their projects, theses or dissertations, the research required to develop new knowledge at … Continue reading ANFA John Paul Eberhard Fellowship
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) is soliciting nominations for the organization’s Board of Directors. Available positions include: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and four at large directors. All ARCC board members serve for a term of one year except for the President and Vice President who each have a two-year term of office. All … Continue reading ARCC Election Nominations
September 20-22, 2018 ANFA 2018: SHARED BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES Call for Presenters: Building on the tradition established at the ANFA 2012, 2014 and 2016 Conferences, ANFA 2018 will again provide a forum for architects, designers, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists to focus on empirical research that enhances our understanding of human responses to the built environment. The … Continue reading ANFA 2018 Call for Presenters
The deadline for submissions to the plenary session and PhD workshop is approaching. Be sure to have your work submitted by February 1st on the conference submission website: https://www.conftool.net/arcc2018/ Doctoral Student Workshop Applications from doctoral candidates working on their dissertations are solicited for participation in the second ARCC Doctoral Student Workshop. This workshop is designed to … Continue reading ARCC-EAAE International Conference 2018 deadlines approaching
Several positions are open at ARCC member schools: see below for more information about these opportunities, and keep an eye on the careers tab to be the first to know about position openings. ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM DIRECTOR – KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY POSITION AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN SUSTAINABLE URBANISM – LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR … Continue reading Recent Career Opportunities
The 10th Annual ACSF Symposium | DISPLACEMENT & ARCHITECTURE Call for Paper Submissions extended to February 12, 2018 The Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum’s 10th Annual Symposium will feature innovative and expansive discussions among scholars and practitioners on the spiritual and physical displacements of the 21st century, and the creation and transformation of the relationships … Continue reading Deadline Extension for ACSF Symposium “Displacement and Architecture.”
The February 1st deadline is fast approaching for paper submissions to TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) for the issue: MEASURED. TAD is the Taylor & Francis journal. Past issues can be accessed via T&F portal: www.tandfonline.com/toc/utad20/current CALL FOR PAPERS: Measurement is fundamental to the discipline of architecture. Through measurement, one gains a more complete understanding of what is intended to be … Continue reading TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) Journal Submissions due February 1st
Tenure-Track Position in Innovative Design Practices/Building Technology The School of Architecture (SoA) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Innovative Design Practices at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. As digital technologies transform the building industry, from the techniques used to design and execute buildings to the technologies … Continue reading Tenure-Track Position in Innovative Design Practices/Building Technology
In his new book, professor Edgar Stach unlocks the relationship between space and construction by analyzing key works from famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s extensive oeuvre, spanning from Europe in the 1920s to the United States in the late 1960s. The just-released “Mies van der Rohe: Space – Material – Detail” (Birkhäuser) features original … Continue reading New Book analyzes Mies van der Rohe
Ahmed K. Ali Ahmed is currently an assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M University. He has been teaching and practicing architecture in the United States, Italy, Turkey and Egypt since 1998. Dr. Ali earned his Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Architecture and Design Research from the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design, a … Continue reading 2018 New Researcher Award
Frederick Steiner, FASLA, FAAR, RAAR, SITES AP Dean and Paley Professor; Co-Director, Ian L. McHarg Center Frederick Steiner is dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign) and co-director of its Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. Most recently, he served for 15 years as dean of the … Continue reading 2018 JAMES HAECKER DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AWARD
Iowa State University’s Department of Architecture has been productively pursuing funding and receiving awards. Take a look at some of their recent progress: Ulrike Passe, director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, received the 2017 Educator Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes significant contributions to … Continue reading Research at Iowa State
Enquiry is pleased to present its 2017 Edition of the journal. Readers can find articles focused on topics of architectural research that includes: the use of Space Syntax to examine if the locations of retails and commercial areas affects the choices of residential locations and commuting mode (Girmay Kifle Berhie and Saif Haq); the examination … Continue reading Enquiry 2017
Penn State team places second in NASA 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge An interdisciplinary Penn State team led by Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture faculty members Shadi Nazarian and José Duarte earned second place and a $150,000 prize in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a Centennial Challenge competition established to develop the technology necessary to create … Continue reading Contemporary Projects at Penn State
