ARCC is delighted to announce the 2020 board of directors nominations. In response to ongoing COVID-19 concerns, the 2020 board elections will be held using electronic ballot, to be sent to member schools in early August. Nominees for Vice President/President Elect: Adil Sharag-Eldin, Kent State University. Adil is an associate professor of Architecture in the … Continue reading ARCC 2020 Board Nominations →

The dynamics between disease and quarantine states over a single time period for the compartmental simulation. Authors: PhD Students: J. Massey Cashore, Ning Duan, Alyf Janmohamed, Jiayue Wan, Yujia Zhang Faculty: Shane Henderson, David Shmoys, Peter Frazier* Cornell University announced its plan to bring students back to campus for the fall semester, citing a model … Continue reading Covid-19 Mathematical Modeling for Cornell’s Fall Semester →

2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 The ANFA International Conference, to be held for the first time online, will continue a tradition of exploring, fro a scientific basis, the range of human experiences that occur in context with elements of architecture, both interior and exterior. Communication, knowledge sharing, and integration will … Continue reading ANFA 2020: Sensing Spaces, Perceiving Place →

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. Research should be relevant and applicable to practicing architects. Upjohn research grant funding will be allocated to projects related to the priorities outlined in AIA’s Climate Action Plan. These include a drive … Continue reading Call for Submissions: 2020 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grants →

Interview with Mabel O. Wilson, ARTFORUM, Summer 2017 Changing the Subject: Race and Public Space Whether utopian or authoritarian, buildings—the places in which we live, work, die—have always reified systems of power. Today, when civic structures and urban spaces are increasingly at the center of political debates—witness the resurgence of marches, protests, and strikes in … Continue reading Race and Public Space: Revisiting an Interview with Mabel O. Wilson, Artforum, Summer 2017 →

The Humans, Disasters and the Built Environment (HDBE) program at NSF supports fundamental, multidisciplinary research on the interactions between humans and the built environment within and among communities exposed to natural, technological and other types of hazards and disasters. The program’s context is provided by ongoing and emerging changes in three interwoven elements of a … Continue reading Multidisciplinary Research Funding for Communities Exposed to Disasters →

The Estonian Association of Architect (EAA) has joined forces with the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA) and Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) to promote an international Open Call to select a curatorial team for Wood Works— a new exhibition programme taking place between Ireland and Estonia in 2020—2021. Wood Works is an Estonian and Irish collaboration that focuses … Continue reading International Open Call for Curatorial Teams →

The air in our nation is thick with a profound sense of grief and despair. Our collective air is so very thick that it’s literally hard to breathe. We struggle to grasp for air as we all navigate a global pandemic coupled with the deadly and pervasive virus called racism that has plagued America for … Continue reading NOMA Board Reshapes Mission →

Edited by Jeffrey S. Nesbit and  Guy  Trangoš New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the historical and contemporary consequence of our planetary relationship with space. It interprets this duality through the conceptual lens of “extraterrestrial,” which engages an entangled zone of expanding practices in geography, landscape, and architecture, stretching Earth to space, and conversely, space to Earth. This … Continue reading Expanding Practices in Geography, Landscape and Architecture →