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
Architecture of Complexity: design, systems, society and environment June 14-17, 2017 I Salt Lake City I University of Utah Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, Keith Diaz Moore, Wei Zhao Architecture is contextually contingent. Once the social, economic, and environmental networks and systems that presuppose architecture become a fundamental context for design, then the capability and culpabilities … Continue reading ARCC 2017 Conference
Nominations Due: October 22 The ARCC Dissertation Award is offered each year for the best dissertation by a doctoral student from a member school. The award is intended to honor significant new research in architecture and environmental design and to recognize the achievement of an emerging scholar. Dissertations filed during the previous academic year are … Continue reading ARCC Dissertation Award
UPDATE: aae2016 registration is open and discounted for all bookings by 1st of March, including student discounts. Register here: http://www.aae2016.org/?page_id=3278 The association of architectural educators (aae) in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture is hosting aae2016, an International Peer Reviewed Conference on “Research Based Education.” For more information, or to sign up for updates, … Continue reading aae2016: London
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
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
The world’s building sector is responsible for 40% of global energy use, 34% of GHG emissions, 60% of electricity, and 25% of global water. By 2050, 70% of the world population will live and work in urban areas, adding 2.1 billion people to urban centers. A growing number of glass high rise buildings will be built to accommodate this new … Continue reading Bio-Facade Research
For the third year in a row, the Aarhus School of Architecture announces a competition aimed at students of architecture all over the world: “Drawing of the Year 2015”. The competition is launched in cooperation with schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA and The Danish Arts Foundation. The competition, which pays homage to architecture’s oldest tool, … Continue reading Drawing of the Year 2015 Competition
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The Abstract submission deadline has been extended. Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 13 November 2015 Submission Website: http://eaae-arcc2016.fa.ulisboa.pt/openconf/openconf.php Good luck, authors!
The 10th International Conference of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) is pleased to announce A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Conference Theme Architectural Research addressing Societal Challenges Abstracts may be framed within the following five sub-themes: Sub-themes A Changing Society In Transit – Global Migration Renaturalization of the … Continue reading EAAE/ARCC 2016: Call for Abstracts
The Faculty of Architecture Research Unit (FARU) of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, has organized its eighth annual research conference, scheduled for the 11th and 12th of December, 2015. See the information below and their website for more information. Theme “Making built environments responsive” Venue Taj Samudra Hotel, Galle Face Center Rd, Colombo, Sri … Continue reading FARU International Research Conference 2015
Title “Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges” Venue University of Lisbon, Faculty of Architecture Finalized Schedule UPDATED 06 OCTOBER 2015 June 2015 — Call for Papers issued 13 November 2015 — Abstracts due 30 November 2015 — Preliminary Acceptance 15 February 2016 — Full Paper Due 01 March 2016 — Notification of Final Acceptance 01 April … Continue reading EAAE/ARCC 2016: Lisbon, Portugal
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 Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition is the first open, international architectural competition to be organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. This initiative reflects the Guggenheim’s long history of engagement with architecture and design and its belief that outstanding original design can speak across cultures, refreshing and enlivening the urban environment. For more info: http://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/en Click … Continue reading Six Finalists in Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition
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