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
Celebrating IDEC Institutional Merit Award with Students and Faculty A second, home-turf celebration for the Institutional Merit Award was with students and faculty. It took place in the renovated Cynthia Adams Collaboration Lab where synchronous resident and online teaching and learning occurs. Chair Ruth Tofle thanked faculty, students, alumni, and Mizzou Online for their contributions … Continue reading Awards at the University of Missouri
Steven Hurtt Prof. Steven Hurtt, University of Maryland; Professor James Tice, University of Oregon; Antonio Latini, Architect, Rome, Doctoral student, University of Oregon are co-editing a book of essays tentatively titled “The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe” intended for publication in 2019 by ORO editions. Jana Kristina Vandergoot Book publication : Architecture and … Continue reading Research at the University of Maryland
EDRA’s Certificate of Research Excellence (CORE) program offers professional certification for exceptional, rigorous, and impactful practice-based environmental design research studies. If you have conducted rigorous environmental design research that has value to the design industry and/or project stakeholders, submit your study for CORE certification! Applications will be accepted December 1, 2017 through January 15, 2018. … Continue reading 2018 EDRA CORE program
May 22-25, 2018 | Coral Gables, Florida On May 22-25, 2018, the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) will host a symposium, “Displacement and Architecture,” in partnership with the School of Architecture, University of Miami; the Coral Gables Museum; AIA Miami; and The Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The symposium aims for a broad discussion among practitioners and … Continue reading Displacement and Architecture Symposium 2018
Join ERDA June 6-9, 2018, for the 2018 EDRA49 Annual Conference in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma! Walk along the streets of Oklahoma City, home to an attractive variety of historic buildings: eye-catching religious buildings, and magnificent structures of great architectural and historic significance. What is Social Equity? What is social equity? And how do EDRA members promote social equity … Continue reading EDRA49 Oklahoma City: June 6-9, 2018
“GLOBAL DWELLING: Intertwining Community, Sustainability and Technology” School of Technology and Architecture – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), February 15-16, 2018 Following the success of the first OIKONET Postgraduate Seminar in Valencia in June 2017, the second edition hosted by ISCTE-IUL, will take place in Lisbon in February 2018. The seminar is structured in three … Continue reading Second OIKONET Postgraduate Seminar – Call for abstracts
September 14 & 15, 2018 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Landscape Architecture The FRESH WATER design symposium invites designers and researchers, across academia and practice, to convene, debate, and discuss the inland water territories of North America. Inland cities, communities, and territories contain hydrographic stories related to industrialization, urbanization, agriculture, and commerce, where … Continue reading FRESH WATER: Design Thinking for Inland Water Territories
Scope Daylight in architecture is an ever-relevant topic. Daylight has been used for centuries as the primary source of light for the interior and architects have always been interested in and fascinated by daylight; yet daylighting can be a difficult discipline to approach, understand and master. Daylighting describes the controlled use of natural light in … Continue reading International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture 2018
An exhibition of 60 collaborative designs from throughout the United States and across borders, By the People challenges the country’s persistent social and economic inequality. Curator of Socially Responsible Design Cynthia E. Smith conducted over two years of field research—traveling to shrinking post-industrial cities, sprawling metro regions, struggling rural towns, areas impacted by natural and man-made disasters, … Continue reading By the People: Designing a Better America exhibition
Dutch Complex Housing explores a special form of multi-family dwelling developed as socially accountable policy in response to the Netherlands’ dense population and situation below sea-level. The exhibition profiles eight visually rich structures, responsive to their sites , designed to incorporate non-housing functions, a variety of housing types and income levels that support diverse communities. … Continue reading Complexity: Dutch & American Housing
ArchiDOCT is a peer-reviewed e-journal aiming at fostering, enhancing and promoting doctoral research in architecture. It is supported by the European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture (ENHSA) an EU funded Network in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program, and fueled by the ENHSA Observatory. ArchiDOCT only accepts manuscripts from PhD students in … Continue reading ArchiDOCT – “RISK” – Call for Submissions
ARCC is a proud partner of the BRIK Research Portal: What is BRIK? The Building Research Information Knowledgebase (BRIK) is an interactive portal offering online access to professionally reviewed research projects and case studies in all facets of the built environment, from predesign, design, and construction through occupancy and reuse. Who is developing BRIK? BRIK … Continue reading BRIK Research Portal
Charrette, the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), first published in 2013, is now well established as a pioneering journal for academics, practitioners, and theorists engaged in design teaching practices and theoretical debates. For this issue (Volume 6, Issue 1), Charrette invites papers and essays that foreground the experiences and perspectives of architecture … Continue reading Charrette: Call for Contributions
At the conference, the ARCC representatives discussed updates to the bylaws. These changes clarify the inclusive and non commercial nature of ARCC membership, as well as update some of the communications language for the 21st century. Take a look at them here: ARCC By-Laws-Approved_June2017
Ewan Branda, Professor, Woodbury University School of Architecture The Forms of Bureaucracy at Centre Beaubourg Dr. Branda is an architect and architectural historian at the Woodbury University School of Architecture. He teaches thesis studios, foundations studios, and seminars examining contemporary practices of digital humanities and scholarly communications using techniques borrowed from digital gaming and electronic … Continue reading 2017 Conference Best Paper Award
Call for Submissions The AIA Upjohn Research Initiative supports applied research projects that enhance the value of design and professional practice knowledge. This AIA program funds up to six research grants of $15,000–$30,000 annually for projects completed in a 6- to 18-month period. The funds must be fully matched with hard dollars, with a maximum … Continue reading New AIA Upjohn grants cycle open
For the first time in human history, 194 nations signed into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change. ARCC is thus disappointed to learn of the US administrations’ recent decision to withdraw from the historic Paris Agreement. The central aim of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to … Continue reading The Paris Agreement
The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles has procured the early archives of Frank O. Gehry. To date, Gehry has executed approximately 160 projects. He has been featured in four major museum retrospectives and countless smaller exhibitions, and he is the subject of considerable scholarly attention and innumerable publications. Acquired directly from Gehry’s studio in … Continue reading Gehry Archive Goes to Getty
The notion of craftmanship is evolving. Increasingly, the age-old knowledge of woodcarvers, masons, and other craftspeople is embedded in an intelligent design process using geometric computer models and machine fabrication to develop new crafts and architectural métiers. Today, craft is computational. And yet, as Brandon Clifford of Matter Design argues, “we have more in common … Continue reading Craftsmanship in the Digital Age
Architecture2030 is a non-profit think tank transforming climate change problems into solutions through the design of the built environment. The urban environment is responsible for most of the world’s fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The solution is a carbon-neutral future. The programs and initiatives at Architecture2030 include design platforms, strategies and tools, benchmarks, targets and policies, and professional education and high performance … Continue reading Architecture2030
