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RPI’s Lighting Research Center Investigating Impact on Quarantining Indoors

More Daytime Light = Better Sleep and Mood The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is investigating the impacts of working from home or quarantining indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic on individual daily light exposures, and how this may be affecting sleep quality and psychological health. In May 2020, the LRC invited … Continue reading RPI’s Lighting Research Center Investigating Impact on Quarantining Indoors

Covid-19 Mathematical Modeling for Cornell’s Fall Semester

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

Architects Propose the Future of Sustainable Architecture in Prometheus Issue 4

The College of Architecture, IIT is pleased to announce that the fourth issue of Prometheus: Journal of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture is now available in print and electronic formats. The issue, edited by Mehdi Ashayeri (Ph.D. ’20) and Ezgi Bay (Ph.D. ’20), is centered on the research of high-performance and energy-efficient buildings and urban … Continue reading Architects Propose the Future of Sustainable Architecture in Prometheus Issue 4

ARCC 2021 Call for Submissions

2021 ARCC Conference PERFORMATIVE ENVIRONMENTS University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 7-10, 2021 ARCC is happy to announce the call for submissions for the 2021 ARCC Conference, Performative Environments. Hosted by the University of Arizona, the conference will be held in Tucson, AZ on April 7-10, 2021. Performative environments encompass a range of topics and … Continue reading ARCC 2021 Call for Submissions

ANFA 2020: Sensing Spaces, Perceiving Place

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

Learning Algorithms, Design and Computed Space_ARCC Journal Enquiry Vol. 16, Issue 2

Learning Algorithms, Design and Computed Space Author: Roberto Bottazzi, The Bartlett, UCL ENQUIRY_Special Issue: Urban Data Assemblage (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Abstract The paper analyses and speculates on what opportunities and challenges will arise from the introduction of learning algorithms (machine learning, neural networks, etc.) in architectural and urban design. The penetration of such class … Continue reading Learning Algorithms, Design and Computed Space_ARCC Journal Enquiry Vol. 16, Issue 2

Call for Submissions: 2020 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. 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

EAAE ARCC 2020 Going Virtual

Dear ARCC members, In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the EAAE-ARCC 2020 International Conference has been postponed from its original dates of June 10-13, 2020 to November 11-14, 2020. Taking into consideration the available information about the progress of the pandemic, the expected time frame for developing a vaccine, the travel restrictions and funding limitations … Continue reading EAAE ARCC 2020 Going Virtual

Request for ARCC Board Membership Nominations

The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) is soliciting nominations for the organization’s Board of Directors. Available positions include: Vice President/President Elect, and two at-large directors.  All ARCC board members serve for a term of two years.  All terms start on October 1 through September 30 of the following year.  Board members must be an active … Continue reading Request for ARCC Board Membership Nominations

TallWood Design Institute, School of Architecture & Environment at Oregon

District Office, Portland, OR Hacker Architects with Anderson Construction TallWood Design Institute Iain Macdonald, Director, College of Forestry, Oregon State University Judith Sheine, Director of Design, School of Architecture & Environment, University of Oregon TallWood Design Institute (TDI) is an industry-academic collaboration that unites practitioners with faculty from top U.S. engineering, sustainable architectural design and wood science programs … Continue reading TallWood Design Institute, School of Architecture & Environment at Oregon

Race and Public Space: Revisiting an Interview with Mabel O. Wilson, Artforum, Summer 2017

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

Grant Opportunities from the Graham Foundation

Architecture and related spatial practices engage a wide range of cultural, social, political, technological, environmental, and aesthetic issues. The Graham Foundation is interested in projects that investigate the contemporary condition, expand historical perspectives, or explore the future of architecture and the designed environment. They support innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; … Continue reading Grant Opportunities from the Graham Foundation

Multidisciplinary Research Funding for Communities Exposed to Disasters

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

International Open Call for Curatorial Teams

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

Department Head – Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture

Penn State’s Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture is undergoing a period of forward-looking change based on our mission: “Inspired work grounded in environmental and social good.” We seek a department head who enthusiastically aligns with our mission and will help us achieve our next level of excellence. Penn State … Continue reading Department Head – Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture

Call for Entries: 2020 World Architecture Festival

World Architecture Festival, now in its thirteenth year, is the world’s largest festival and live awards competition dedicated to celebrating and sharing architectural excellence from across the globe. It is where the architecture community meets to share expertise and learn from each other and is the only global architecture festival that combines awards, seminars and … Continue reading Call for Entries: 2020 World Architecture Festival

NSF Funds $225K Microalgae Building Enclosure Research

Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I (STTR) Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF) PI: Dr. Kyounghee-Kim, Co-PI: Dr. Chengde Wu, School of Architecture, UNC Charlotte The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is in the sustainable and economic retrofitting of low-performing older buildings toward improved economic, social and ecological impacts … Continue reading NSF Funds $225K Microalgae Building Enclosure Research

Expanding Practices in Geography, Landscape and Architecture

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