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
House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented … Continue reading House and Home – A Book by Thomas Barrie
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
The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations – the writer Thoreau lived in a self-built hut in the forest from 1845–1847. In 1952, Le Corbusier built a hut at the Côte d’Azur for himself and his wife. Inspired by this, Urs Peter Flückiger, built with his students, … Continue reading How Much House? A book by Urs Peter Flückiger
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
2018 ARCC-EAAE International Conference Architectural Research for a Global Community May 16-19, 2018 I Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The conference invites submissions of abstracts up to 500 words pertaining to any of the five topic areas: click here http://www.arcc-arch.org/2018-conference-topic-sessions/ Submissions may be made here: https://www.conftool.net/arcc2018 Selection of papers will be based on a two-stage double-blind peer review process. Selected abstracts will be … Continue reading Deadline Extension: Abstracts due November 7th
“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
May 16‐19, 2018; Philadelphia, PA Hosted by the Tyler School of Art and the Division of Architecture and Environmental Design, Temple University https://tyler.temple.edu/arcc-eaae-2018-international-conference-philadelphia Happiness: The Built Environment Shaping the Quality of Life Gross National Happiness (GNH) speaks to the measure of a nation’s collective well-being. Introduced by the King of Bhutan in the early 1970s … Continue reading ARCC – EAAE 2018 Conference: Architectural Research for a Global Community – 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
First Call Nominations for the 2018 ARCC Dissertation Award, the New Researcher Award, and the James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award are due October 1st, 2017. ARCC Dissertation Award The ARCC Dissertation Award is offered for the best dissertation by a doctoral student from a member school. The award is intended to honor significant new research … Continue reading 2017-2018 Awards Cycle
In February, Blank Space partnered with the City of New York to solicit actionable solutions for a driverless future in one of the most complex cities in the world. Last month, four finalists were announced; and this week, a winner was chosen. “Public Square,” the award-winning entry by FXFOWLE with Sam Schwartz Engineering, provides New … Continue reading “PUBLIC SQUARE” BY FXFOWLE & SAM SCHWARTZ ENGINEERING WINS THE DRIVERLESS FUTURE CHALLENGE
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