Dr. Kyle Konis, AIA Dr. Kyle Konis, AIA is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. His courses focus on techniques and measurable methods for integrating sustainable design principles into architectural practice and urban design. Kyle’s research interests are centered on improving the feedback loop between design and the performance outcomes … Continue reading 2017 New Researcher Award
Girmay Kifle Berhie, Texas Tech University Dr. Girmay Berhie received his PhD from Texas Tech University, College of Architecture on August 13th 2016. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture and Town Planning from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Master of Science in GIS from the International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Science (ITC) in … Continue reading 2017 Dissertation Award
Ukwatte L. Indika U. Perera Ukwatte L. Indika U. Perera holds a Ph.D. in architectural sciences with a concentration in lighting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2015; an M.S. in lighting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2013; and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 2010. Dr. Perera earned his B.S. in engineering … Continue reading 2017 Dissertation Award Honorable Mentions
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
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
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This link or the QR code should access an Excel spreadsheet of (arguably) the top periodicals and conferences in architecture, interior architecture, and industrial design. The University of Houston College of Architecture faculty put together a list to annually evaluate their college’s three degree programs. Leonard Bachman, a professor at UHCoA wrote: “The list started … Continue reading Top 200 Periodicals in the Scholarship of Architecture
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a keynote address at the American Institute of Architects’ annual national convention. The 42nd president of the United States—who after introductions bounced spryly onto the stage—addressed a crowd of approximately 7,000 architecture professionals in the Georgia World Expo Center in downtown Atlanta, touching on a number of daunting global issues … Continue reading Clinton Addresses Architects
The Philharmonic Hall of Szczecin in Szczecin, Poland by Barozzi/Veiga is the 2015 winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award by European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Initiated in 1987 by The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the biennial €60,000 prize is one of the highest-ranking prizes in European architecture. It recognizes projects … Continue reading Mies van der Rohe Prize Announcement
Here is a message from Routledge Taylor & Francis Group: If you’ll be at this year’s Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) conference, from April 6-9, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois, we hope you’ll stop by our booth. We will be showcasing our latest and key titles from Routledge Architecture and will also be offering a discount … Continue reading Routledge Special Conference Offer
2015 Edition of Enquiry/the ARCC Journal of Architectural Research Vol 12, No 1 (2015) November/December Submission deadline: July 1, 2015 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 2015 edition of the journal. Enquiry is indexed by … Continue reading Enquiry 2015 Call for Articles
ARCC is proud to feature three new awardees for 2014: Edward Steinfeld for the James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in Architectural Research, Choi Joon-Ho for the New Researcher Award, and Stephen Weeks for the Mary Kihl Distinguished Service Award. To read more about the awardees and their accomplishments, follow any of the links above, … Continue reading Announcing Award Recipients for 2014
