2021 King Medal Award, Ashkan Radnia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2021 KING MEDAL  Recipients Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), this award is given to one student per ARCC member college, school, institute, or unit. Selection of recipients is at … Continue reading Announcement of the 2021 King Medal Award Recipients →

1111 Lincoln Road, Miami, Herzog & de Meuron (photo credit: Hufton + Crow) An important part of the mission of ARCC is to support the production and dissemination of graduate student research. ARCC is pleased to offer a limited number of graduate student scholarships to attend ARCC-EAAE 2022. For more information, click here.

Intisar Ameen Tyne, Post-Doc, University of Kansas The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded its 2020-21 International Fellowship to Intisar Ameen Tyne of Bangladesh. Tyne is a graduate student in mental health care architecture at the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. “The AAUW fellowship will help to understand the vast gap between the available psychiatric resources in Bangladesh and the actual need of patients that requires immediate attention,” Tyne … Continue reading Post-Doc at the University of Kansas Awarded AAUW International Fellowship →

Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arijit Sen, an associate professor of architecture at UWM, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Architecture for the 2020-2021 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Sen will lecture at the Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology … Continue reading UW-M Faculty Awarded Fulbright to introduce fieldwork methods in Calicut, India →

Distinguished Professor Bruce Haglund of the University of Idaho has been awarded the 2020 American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Leadership in Solar Architecture and Design Award. On behalf of the ARCC, our sincerest congratulations to Professor Haglund! For more info, click here. 

Community Garden, Des Moines, IA Dense urban areas use up more energy, water and food resources than they can produce themselves, forcing them to rely on external sources. But a team of researchers is imagining bold new ways to make Midwestern cities more self-reliant. The Sustainable Cities Research Team at Iowa State University recently received … Continue reading Sustainable Cities Research Team at Iowa State Awarded $2.5 Million Grant →

Image: P Mansell Professor Donghyun Rim, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was recently awarded a $500,000, five-year Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prof. Rim will study modeling and experimental validation of airborne nanoparticles in indoor environments. “Nanoparticles are invisible but there are … Continue reading Professor Rim of Penn State Awarded $500,000 NSF Career Grant →

Nine mid-career innovators spending the year engaging in research and discussion on topics such as art, architecture, and public policy. Each year, the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard invites mid-career practitioners to engage in a year of research on its campus in Cambridge, Mass., where the fellows consider how their work might advance … Continue reading 2020 LOEB Fellows: Accomplished Practitioners Shaping the Built and Natural Environment →

The Six, Skid Row Housing Trust, Brooks + Scarpa, Los Angeles, CA The 2020 COTE Top Ten program highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment’s rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons. For more info … Continue reading 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards Announced →

  The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), have selected the recipients of the 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition. The competition recognizes ten exceptional studio projects that demonstrate designs moving towards carbon-neutral operation through creative and innovative … Continue reading 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Awards Announced →