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2013 Berkeley Prize Winners Announced

2013-04-24T16:38:00-04:00

Winners of the 15th annual BERKELEY PRIZE competition have been announced. The 2013 prize program focuses on the topic: 'The Architect and the Accessible City.' 152 architecture students from 26 countries responded to this year’s question: "Provide us with an overview of what is being done in your city to make it accessible to people who have physical disabilities. In your opinion as an architect, what more can be done?"

IE Master in Architectural Management and Design program bridges the gap between design and business

2013-04-22T18:03:00-04:00

IE Master in Architectural Management and Design is a 13 month program aimed to bridge the gap that exists between advanced design and the business in the architectural field. The innovative and pioneering content of this master course lies in the combination of IE's well known entrepreneurial spirit and business expertise in conjunction with the design approach of IE School of Architecture.

Its blended format (a combination between online sessions with on-site periods ) allows students to meet their professional obligations while studying.

The Architect's Backstage lecture series will enrich the students experience through direct contact with leaders of top architecture practices, some of whom Pritzker Prize Laureates, will explain key insights to achieve excellence in design.

David Chipperfield Architects. Andrew Phillips
Foster and Partners. Richard Mateu
GENSLER. Duncan Swinhoe
ShoP Architects. Gregg Pasquarelli
Perkins Eastman. Bradford Perkins
...

Britain's Architecture postgraduate and master's courses in 2013

2013-02-26T14:59:00-05:00

University performance: Architecture in our sortable table .

The Guardian has put together a handy sortable table with the UK's architecture postgraduate and master's courses in 2013. Compare tuition fees, student numbers, completion rates, and more.

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Student Work" Pinterest Board

2013-02-22T14:11:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Bulge (Comteporary Hotel and Theatre Design) by Danny Ye Li & Haoyang Yu

↑ Almere Pampus Transferium - MetaStable Prototype by Mariusz Polski & collaborators

↑ future city research lab by Christopher Riley

↑ Architecture + Fashion by Madelynn Ringo & Sara Jane Estes

↑ Continuous Surface/ Tectonic by Leen Katrib

↑ Fortresses, Bridges, Islands by Mona Ghandi & Sofia Avramopoulou

↑ Floating Bhavacakra by Risha Na

↑ Unitarian Universalist Sanctuary by Roy Peer

↑ DETROIT: from motor city to rural town by Sofia Bonvicini

(Cover pic: A Gothic Thing (Schindler House), West Hollywood,CA by Ehab Ghali & Xiaofeng Mei)

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Results of tur(i)ntogreen International Student Design Competition

2013-02-12T14:09:00-05:00

The winners of the tur(i)ntogreen international design competition were recently announced in Turin, Italy. Organized by the Research and Documentation Center in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries at the Politecnico di Torino, the competition had invited university students [...] to develop new multidisciplinary solutions for a sustainable and inclusive city reflecting on new forms of urban management and regeneration through agro - housing and urban - farming models.

The Possible Mediums Conference will explore mediums tangential to architecture

2013-01-18T18:18:00-05:00

The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Kentucky College of Design, and University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, are hosting the Possible Mediums conference in Columbus, Ohio February 7th - 10th.

The Possible Mediums conference is composed of a series of workshops and panel discussions revolving around four “possible mediums.” Challenging the boundaries of architectural convention, the invited workshop leaders employ exploratory processes rooted in mediums external to the discipline (such as film or comics) or developed from atypical applications of more conventional mediums (such as drawings or models). The technical sophistication and inventive applications of their work reflect two major developments within speculative architecture of the past decade: a broad diffusion of technological expertise and a shift from critical to projective theory. Preservin...

Winners of IIT’s Innovation Center Parametric Design Competition

2013-01-10T15:12:00-05:00

Three winning entries [...] have recently emerged from the IIT Innovation Center Parametric Student Design Competition, held at Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture under the guidance of professors Alphonso Peluso & John Manaves. The brief was based on the school's recently announced plan to build a new ‘Innovation Center,’ a proposed hub for interdisciplinary education and an incubator for idea exchange between faculty, students, business and industry.

Dean Robert Greenstreet awared Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

2012-12-18T18:13:00-05:00

It is with pleasure that we announce that Dean Robert Greenstreet, PhD, RIBA, Int’l Assoc AIA, who has served as the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Dean for over 20 years, has been awarded the 2013 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.

Dean Greenstreet has consistently encouraged students at the School, tirelessly working to support and guide them during their tenure at SARUP, and promoting and encouraging them once they graduate. Over his teaching career, he has had an influence on and has mentored thousands of students, several of whom have gone on to serve in leadership positions in world-renowned architectural firms, city governments and social organizations.

The Topaz Medallion is awarded jointly by the AIA and the ACSA once a year. Previous recipients include Michael Graves, Kenneth Frampton, Vincent Scully and Marcel Breuer.

For the complete announcement on the 2013 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion ...

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Student Work" Pinterest Board

2012-12-14T14:16:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station, Vienna by Shahira Hammad

↑ Around the Wormhole by Al Ataide in collaboration with Mehrzad Raffei, Somayye Ramezani, Peter Vikar

↑ Work samples by Carmen Garcia Santiago

↑ Fiberglass Rope Chair by Joseph Piorkowski

↑ Field Conditions 2030 | Tall Urban Density by Razvan Ghilic Micu

↑ A Political Party House by Dhara Patel

↑ 40 Rector Tower Library by LaSalle Tippens in collaboration with Anastasija Gridneva

↑ Re:Source Albany by Stephen Scribner

↑ Harbour Bath(e) by Grant Bates

(Cover pic: superNODE by Tyler Hopf in collaboration with Alex Dorn)

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Winners of the 2012 RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards

2012-12-06T16:36:00-05:00

The winners of the 2012 RIBA President’s Medals were announced this week at a special ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Dating back to 1836, the prestigious RIBA President's Medals reward talent and excellence in the study of architecture.

Winners of 2012 ISARCH Awards

2012-11-29T16:54:00-05:00

The very first edition of the international ISARCH Awards for architecture students and young architects has announced its winners. [...] The jury was composed of Ivan Harbour (Rogers, Stirk Harbour + Partners), Benedetta Tagliabue, Tomislav Dushanov (Associate at Herzog & de Meuron), Koji Tsutsui, and Fernando Marquez Cecilia.

UCLA launches new IDEAS Platform with Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn and Thom Mayne headlining

2012-11-19T14:55:00-05:00

UCLA A.UD today launched the new IDEAS platform to encourage research collaboration between school and industry. Following is the official announcement:

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) today announced the launch of IDEAS, a new platform for cross-disciplinary research collaborations among students, faculty, industry and other partners that will radically question, challenge and expand the current parameters of architecture practice. As part of this initiative, the department has added a new Los Angeles satellite location and significantly expanded its master's of architecture program, which will now feature studio courses taught by several of the biggest luminaries in the field — Thom Mayne, Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry, with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies.

The revamped, self-supported Master of Architecture II program, which will continue to be known as SUPRASTUDIO, has been expanded threefold, from 15 to 45 students, for the 2013–14 academic year. During these ...

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Student Work" Pinterest Board

2012-08-24T14:02:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Savannah Extended Hotel by Hoa Vu in collaboration with Alex Benoit

↑ Icebergs trading post in a melting Greenland by Alexandre Braleret

↑ The Thunderbox by Justin Darrow with Rhys Williams and Kyle Noren

↑ 20k [Leagues] Under the Sea by Kyle Reckling

↑ Fashion Schau by Adam Welker

↑ Apoidea Lamp Design and Prototype by Kimberly Hylton

↑ Museum of Vanishing Commodities by Brittney Dillon

↑ School project by Matthieu Provoost

↑ The Bank Of Providence by Mehruss Jon Ahi

(Cover pic: Luthier House by Emma Campbell)

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Dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, Alan Balfour, stepping down in June

2012-08-09T18:29:00-04:00

Alan Balfour, dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture since 2008, has announced his intention not to seek reappointment to that position. Balfour will return to the Georgia Tech faculty as a professor in the School of Architecture upon concluding his tenure as dean, effective June 30, 2013.

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Student Work" Pinterest Board

2012-06-22T14:11:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ RETROFITTING THE AMERICAN DREAM by Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

↑ LiveWork by Eric Laine & Suzanne Steelman

↑ Immerse(D) by Matthew Noe & John Risi

↑ New Chinese Museum by Paula Banda

↑ Modulating Sukkah by David Eskenazi

↑ Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston by Lesley Ann Malapit

↑ Undergraduate Thesis - Inhabiting Porosity by Allie Jarett

↑ AAC Digital Futures Computation Seminar by Anirudh Dhawan

↑ Lepidoptera Deck by Anthony Wilson

(Cover pic: Digital/Physical Surface Deformation by Perry Wold)

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Number of hours students study

2012-05-22T12:24:00-04:00

The survey, first published in 2000, queries freshmen and seniors. It reveals that study time can vary widely by college and by major. Architecture majors, for example, study 24 hours a week, while marketing majors put in only 12.

Architecture majors do study more than other majors.

USC Blue Tape Spring 2012

2012-05-11T11:09:00-04:00

USC School of Architecture's BLUE TAPE, the two day event that brings best of L.A's architectural community together, critiques hundreds of student projects in one big space and gives students a chance to see rest of the classmates' work. In its third year, Blue Tape presentations with spirited review sessions were engaging and most of the discourse was high quality. While my snapshots of rapid curating after a long day of jury duty are not the perfect representation of the work done in the school, they might give you a chance to peek into cross section of this years projects.

Slides

Related:
Blue Tape 2010

Blue Tape 2011

Pinup 2012 Announces Student Competition Finalists

2012-05-07T18:31:00-04:00

Sixteen finalists have been announced in the Pinup 2012: Student Competition. The international contest was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia.

Why Cooper Union Matters

2011-12-13T13:29:00-05:00

The philosophy that courses through the institution is that education is a higher good, one that enriches the individual and, in so doing, enriches the human community. In this framework, education has its own value—and this is what makes Cooper Union radical and worth saving, perhaps even worth imitating: It is operating on a fundamentally different idea of what education is, and what it can be.

What is architecture? What ever it is, it's not this.

2011-04-13T16:54:31-04:00

"Architecture is inherently a political act, be it in the public or private sector. As a process it begins long before actual design work, and it is difficult to do by oneself. Art can be political, but the work of art only has to be itself and can be done by oneself. Architecture is not Art."

The new issue of Art Lies is out on shelves. And its primary focus this issue is a proverbial bitch slap– "architecture is not art."

"The positions maintained in and by this issue upend the seemingly quaint flaccidity of Picasso’s moral argument that “Art is not truth,” and that “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” and shifts to Nietzsche’s enigmatic statement from The Gay Science that “we need art, and the other kind of art, an art for artists.” While I have always appreciated Art Lies, I have never agreed with its name." –Mary Ellen Carroll and Peter Noever

Mary Ellen Carroll, a conceptual artist, is known for her previous works involving architecture. A recent project, Prototype 180, involved rotating a house 180 degrees and then reconfiguring the lot based on the change envisioning the structure and its surroundings as an intertwined system. In this issue, she takes the reigns as guest editorial contributor.

Other points in the issue? Tehran's Azadi Tower framed by a ...