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Cooper Union to charge UG tuition beginning next year

2013-04-23T20:23:00-04:00

Officials at New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced today that the school, famously free to students, will begin charging undergraduate tuition next year.

Via thinkgreen in the forum.

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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Four teams unveil concepts in competition to design $40 million architecture school at KSU

2013-01-18T17:10:00-05:00

From simple and functional to splendidly provocative, four proposals vying to become reality as Kent State University's new College of Architecture and Environmental Design were presented to the public Thursday. The university hosted the four partnerships competing to design the $40 million building by providing a forum so the architects could pitch their ideas for "solving the problem," as one presenter put it.

The four teams and their proposals are:

Bialosky + Partners Architects, with offices in Cleveland and New York, in association with Architecture Research Office of New York, proposed a building with a skin of light brown precast concrete panels rising from a one-story base of tan brick. The building emphasized a sculptural look and featured vertical windows. Architect Stephen Cassell of ARO said the building would qualify for a platinum rating – the highest available – under the LEED system of the U.S. Green Building Council, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, but ran out of time before he could explain the details.

Richard L. Bowen + Associates Inc. of Cleveland in association with Weiss/Manfredi of New York, proposed a glassy structure they called “Design Loft.” The project emphasized flexible interior spaces organized around a skeletal structural system and interior ramps and staircases that knitted the interior to...

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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DI releases Design School Rankings for 2013

2012-11-01T20:45:00-04:00

This year’s rankings by deans, administrators, students and practitioners show that there is considerable quality in design schools but also reveals an unrelenting and increasingly dynamic restlessness for renewed strength and fresh relevance. Any drifting away from quality expectations is most certainly the enemy to the design professions of the future.

Architecture, Graduate

1 Harvard University
2 Columbia University
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Cornell University

Architecture, Undergraduate

1 Cornell University
2 Southern California Institute of Architecture
3 Rice University
3 Syracuse University
5 California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo

Landscape Architecture, Graduate

1 Harvard University
2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3 Cornell University
3 Louisiana State University
5 University of Virginia

Landscape Architecture, Undergraduate

1 Louisiana State University
2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3 Pennsylvania State University
4 Kansas State University
5 Texas A&M University

Interior Design, Graduate

1 Savannah College of Art and Design
2 Rhode Island School of Design
3 Pratt Institute
4 Cornell University
4 Parsons The New School of Design

Interior Design, Undergraduate

1 Savannah College of Art and De...

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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Yale Assembly Pavilion

2012-07-10T19:04:00-04:00

A team of students from Yale's School of Architecture has shared with us their pavilion project which acted as the ticket and information booth at the New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas this June. The pavilion was designed, built, and fund-raised this spring and summer in the 'Assembly' seminar led by faculty member Brennan Buck. The seminar sought to explore the relationship between digital design and fabrication on the one hand and public engagement and visual dynamism on the other.

Here's the project description we've received from the students:

A pavilion for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas opened on Friday, June 15 on the New Haven Green as the product of the ‘Assembly’ seminar led by faculty member Brennan Buck. Thirteen students and teaching assistant Teoman Ayas completed the design work during the spring semester, with fabrication and assembly following in the early weeks of summer.

All fabrication work was completed in the scho...

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.

Architecture school confidential

2012-02-06T13:34:00-05:00

A heartbreaking tale of sleepless nights, severed fingers, and a shitload of hard work

Lebbeus Woods on "Architecture School"

2009-03-25T13:21:00-04:00

In the latest installment of his "Architecture School" series, Lebbeus Woods discusses fundamental shortcomings of the traditional design studio model, and proposes an alternative that nurtures individuality while operating on the basis of collaboration. Architecture School 301 | Make sure to check out the previous installments [101, 102, 201, 202]