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CAW Architects completes Oakland urban farm project to deliver 30,000 school meals

2024-02-16T12:05:00-05:00

Palo Alto-based CAW Architects has completed a food-orientated educational project in Oakland, California. Named 'The Center,' the scheme comprises a central kitchen, culinary arts education center, and an urban farm, all designed to provide 30,000 fresh-cooked meals each day to 77 schools across Oakland.

Image credit: Bruce Damonte Photography

The project is anchored by a large outdoor court, shaded under an expansive wood trellis. Designed as a central hub to connect the kitchen, classrooms, and instructional garden, the courtyard is accessed from the classrooms by large glass roll-up doors, creating a natural circulation flow from the classrooms to the courtyard to the gardens and greenhouse.

Image credit: Bruce Damonte Photography

The classrooms include a full-service demonstration and teaching kitchen, in addition to a student education space, with intended users spanning early childhood to young adults...

Lina Ghotmeh's 2023 Serpentine Pavilion serves the community an invitation to 'dwell together'

2023-06-07T03:00:00-04:00

Lina Ghotmeh’s 2023 Serpentine Pavilion design makes its official debut this week in London. For the 22nd contribution to the summer pavilion series, the Lebanese-born and Paris-based architect showcases a design that highlights aspirations towards community gathering in a manner that speaks to the importance of building relationships while "inviting us to convene, sit down, think, share, and celebrate exchanges."

The design for À table (whose name in French means to call and invite those to sit together for conversation and a meal) is a lightweight, pleated canopy roof that references the structure of a palm leaf. The design of the space aims to "respond to the surrounding tree canopies," while the internal wooden beans are meant to "emerge as thin tree trunks" encompassing the pavilion. The detailed, plant-like cut-out patterns of the panels assist in providing natural light and ventilation in the pavilion as it surrounds a concentric series of tables that sit within the pavilion...

Goldman Sachs invests in affordable housing initiatives

2022-01-14T16:02:00-05:00

The Urban Investment Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced that it closed a $75 million investment with the National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT) to establish the Black Developers Initiative Affordable Housing Fund, which will finance high-quality affordable housing across the country sponsored by Black-led developers

Six organizations in San Francisco, Georgia, New York and Dallas received the capital grants for community and affordable housing projects. Two of the projects work to address housing disparities, while the rest touch on topics surrounding the issues at the core of the $130 billion financial institution’s initiative, which is aimed at improving the lives of one million Black women.

“A lot of people don’t know that Black women are a third more likely to live in unsafe housing,” Goldman Sachs Foundation president Asahi Pompey told theGrio. “You’ve got to, one, have a place to call home, and two, that’s got to be a safe environment for not only Black women, but Black girls that are growing up in those houses.”

Norwegian firm Helen & Hard present their experimental cohousing model at the 2021 Venice Biennale

2021-01-26T14:54:00-05:00

While the 2020 Venice Biennale was postponed, many look forward to what 2021 has to offer with the announcement of the event's opening date on May 22.

Carrying on with the theme "How will we live together," Hashim Sarkis, curator of the exhibition, shared, "the world is putting new challenges in front of architecture. I look forward to working with participating architects from around the world to imagine together how we are going to rise to these challenges."

"What We Share - a model for cohousing" Exhibition image render © Helen & Hard

With this in mind, exciting projects and exhibitions make way for their debut at the Biennale. Take the Nordic Pavilion, for example. They've announced the Pavilion's participation in an experimental cohousing project led by Norwegian firm Helen & Hard. The firm's expertise in wood use and experimental housing projects will come to life in their exhibition titled, "What We Share."

Vindmøllebakken co-living project by Helen & Hard. The project was b...

Students from Harbin Institute of Technology create a memorial design to pay homage to those impacted by Covid-19

2020-12-01T13:21:00-05:00

DesignClass created an open call for designers to create a local memorial that honors those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The competition brief explained, "This incredible loss is compounded for many families who were not able to say goodbye to their loved ones in person due to hospital safety measures or hold proper funerals because of the incredible scale of the situation."

According to DesignClass, the competition brief was inspired by Brazilian architect Leonardo Dias and his design entry that he later turned into a real life memorial for his town. Image courtesy of DesignClass

"In the face of these tragedies, how may a local community memorial honor those who have passed and bring solace to families [...] This is your challenge, design a local memorial that honors those who have been lost to Covid-19 and brings solace to your community."

The competition received 145 project entries worldwide, and through public voting, the top projects were nominated. To learn more about th...

Archinect Sessions #151 - Quarantine Check-In

2020-04-24T14:01:00-04:00

This episode of Archinect Sessions was intended to be a brief introduction to a number of conversations we've been recording with members of the architecture community from around the world, checking in to see how people are coping through the current COVID-19 crisis and related effects to the economy. Since it's been so long that the three of us recorded our last episode, we ended up spending a full hour catching up amongst ourselves, sharing stories and perspectives on what we're experiencing ourselves, and observing around us. Our conversations with the architects we've been talking to will follow in subsequent episodes, beginning next week. If you have stories to share, please reach out to us and tell us about it.

Listen to episode 151 of Archinect Sessions, “Quarantine Check-In”.

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Need a quick break of design inspiration? Here are five hiring firms worth checking out

2020-03-25T11:19:00-04:00

On a weekly basis, Archinect is highlighting a selection of firms just as one little way to showcase the variety of hard-working practices that shape this community. Need a starting point to look for your next architecture job? We encourage you to check out these firms' Archinect profiles to learn more about them and their current job opportunities.

From Oakland, California, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is an architecture and real estate development non-profit whose work is dedicated to ending mass incarceration. Led by architect Deanna Van Buren, the firm proposes human-centered spaces that aim for reconciliation, healing, and equality.

A restorative justice program in Restore Oakland, designed by Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. Photo: Emily Hagopian.

Founded in 2006, H Architecture is a global practice that uses “the versatility of architecture to reconcile and integrate urban grids, landscape, ground, buildings and interiors”. Along with their principal founding part...

Woods Bagot and NeueHouse help breathe new life into L.A.'s famed Bradbury Building

2020-02-28T20:35:00-05:00

With its stunning interiors and handsome brick facades, the Bradbury Building has remained one of Los Angeles' architectural treasures for nearly 120 years. The building was constructed in 1893 and showcases Victorian-style interiors complete with ornate cast-iron railings, polished woodwork, masonry, and a mesmerizing glass atrium. Architects Sumner Hunt and George H. Wyman are listed as the designers who helped bring the project to life. However, the building's "final architect," according to the LA Conservancy, is still up for debate. Yet, despite its intriguing historical past and the building’s immaculate detailing, what is perhaps most exciting about the complex is its potential for a revitalized future.

Standing as one of the oldest commercial buildings in the city of Los Angeles, its relatively recent fame grew in large part thanks to the building's ability to role-play as an ideal design backdrop for fictional film locations. Most famously, the building appears in the well...

All-woman team Counterspace to design 2020 Serpentine Pavilion

2020-02-10T14:32:00-05:00

Amina Kaskar, Sumayya Vally, and Sarah de Villiers, who form the Johannesburg-based architectural studio Counterspace, have been commissioned to design the 2020 Serpentine Pavilion. All born in 1990, the trio are the youngest architects to design the Serpentine Gallery's iconic pavilion in its 20-year history. Founded in 2015, Counterspace's work focuses on research and interdisciplinary arts-based projects, with an emphasis on architectural projects and community engagement.

Amina Kaskar, Sumayya Vally and Sarah de Villiers of Counterspace. Photographed by Justice Mukheli in Johannesburg, 2020. © Counterspace.

Counterspace's concept for the Serpentine reflects their focus on inclusivity. Combining traditional and innovative building techniques, their design is a poetic interpretation of the gathering, community-oriented spaces around London.

The shapes of the pavilion are “created from a process of addition, superimposition, subtraction, and splicing of architectural forms, direct...

“In the fractured 21st century, we can respond to a human yearning to come together”: Baha’i Temple of South America by Hariri Pontarini Architects wins 2019 RAIC International Prize

2019-10-25T22:00:00-04:00

Built at the foot of the Andes near Santiago, Chile, the Baha’i Temple of South America by Hariri Pontarini Architects has attracted over 1.4 million visitors since opening in 2016. Tonight during an awards ceremony in Toronto, the RAIC announced the temple as the winner of their 2019 International Prize.

Established in 2013 by notable Canadian architect Richard Moriyama, the biennial CAD$100,000 prize — formerly called the Moriyama RAIC International Prize — honors socially transformative architecture and is open to architects worldwide. The temple was one of three competitive shortlisted projects.

Photo credit: Andrés Silva.

The domed temple plays a significant role for the local community by providing a welcoming space to gather and sit in quiet contemplation. Perhaps the building's most distinctive feature is the nine gracefully torqued wings that form an oculus at the top. The wings are made of an outer layer of cast-glass panels and an interior layer of translucent marble from ...

Steven Holl Architects' Hunters Point Library is now open to the public

2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00

Opening day finally arrived for the Steven Holl Architects-designed Hunters Point Library, which took some 10 tumultuous years of obstacles and ultimately cost over $40 million to realize. Built on a 32,000-square-foot site facing the East River in Long Island City, Hunters Point is a sculptural, standalone building and public park.

Photo © Paul Warchol.

“It is an honor to imagine and realize this community library, a free open public building where people can interact across generations,” Steven Holl said in a statement. “We hope it is a gift to this great city and its future children.”

Photo © Steven Holl Architects.

A 22,000-square-foot, jigsaw-like concrete structure painted in aluminum that gives it a “subtle sparkle,” the library reveals a warm bamboo interior that creates an inviting social and reading space. Large windows on all sides of the building allow ample natural light and provide views of the river. Visitors can move up and along a serie...

Gensler to design Walmart's new 350-acre campus in Arkansas

2019-08-29T18:15:00-04:00

With abundant natural daylight, expanded food offerings, convenient parking, fitness options, and an on-site childcare facility, Walmart’s new 350-acre campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, has ample amenities to attract next-gen talent...It’s a connected and sustainable campus where associates are inspired to do their best work, a place that reflects the company’s culture, and a campus that seamlessly integrates into the fabric of the local community.

Gensler has been named the Design Architect for the office buildings that will populate the new campus. The firm will also act as the Executive Architect for the overall campus design, leading a "team of consultants to create a campus that honors Walmart's history and amplifies the company's potential to impact the local community."

Interboro Partners, H3 Studio among designers of 17-acre “Nature Playscape” for Forest Park, St. Louis

2019-07-16T19:34:00-04:00

“We want this to be an evolving place for people to come back again and again,” said [Lesley Hoffarth, president and executive director of Forest Park Forever]. It will change with the seasons and change as people decide how to use it, she said.

Having easier access to green urban spaces and thoughtfully sprucing up public parks would ideally be higher priorities for cities across the U.S. In Missouri, nonprofit conservancy Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis celebrated the groundbreaking yesterday of the upcoming 17-acre Nature Playscape in historic Forest Park, located in the western part of town.

Scheduled to open in 2020, Nature Playscape is being built to encourage local residents of all backgrounds to get outdoors and allow kids and their developing minds to engage with nature and reap the benefits of spending time outdoors. The project is the first of its kind at this scale in the region.

The Meadow at the Forest Park Nature Playscape. Image courtesy of Forest Park Forever.

A team of landscape architecture and play-space experts that included the Natural Learning Initiative, H3 Studio, Interboro Partners, and Rubus Landscape Architecture developed and designed the project in collaboration with Forest Park F...

Activists turned planners: How citizens of Berlin helped tackle affordable housing and a massive redevelopment project

2019-06-13T15:33:00-04:00

The Berlin activists who staged a protest at a vacant government building didn’t imagine they’d end up leading a €140 million redevelopment project.

During the 1960s, the Haus der Statistik was built for the national statistics office for East Germany. The massive complex spreads over eight blocks at half a million square feet, comprising three connected mid-rises and some smaller buildings. As years passed, the Haus der Statistik's history and political involvement soon became a thing of the past after it closed down in 2008. Laying dormant and abandoned, local Berlin artists and activists decided to intervene once word of the building was said to be torn down and replaced with private apartments and offices.

Haus der Statistik. Image © BIM GmbH

Banner drop at the Haus der Statistik, 2015. The one-story building later converted to a planning workshop is seen at the right edge of the frame. Image © Allianz bedrohter Berliner Atelierhäuser

Upset with the lack of affordable housing, these artists worked together to save the building and use its massive size and structural potential to transform it into something the community needs...

The 'Stonewall Forever' augmented reality monument celebrates 50 years of LGBTQ Pride history

2019-06-05T17:31:00-04:00

The Stonewall Riots in June 1969 set forth the fight for LGBTQ rights that continues today. To honor the last five decades of its lasting impact, the LGBT Community Center of NYC teamed up with the National Park Service, with support from Google, to create an interactive, augmented reality monument called “Stonewall Forever”, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and aims to preserve LGBTQ history and amplify voices from the community.

"We hope that this effort lifts up a broad array of voices and creates a connection to Stonewall's legacy for people everywhere,” the Stonewall Forever website states.

The rainbow “living monument” lets users scroll through scores of videos, a documentary film, historic photos, audio, and text that tell the ever-growing, multi-faceted story of the LGBTQ community. Also, anyone anywhere can add their own images and text to the monument.

In 2017, Google.org — the tech giant's philanthropic arm — granted $1 million to the LGBT Community Ce...

SOM designs the first public library in Chicago's West Loop

2019-01-22T15:55:00-05:00

Chicago's West Loop neighborhood celebrated the inauguration of its very first public library last Thursday. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the two-story library — which is the City of Chicago's 81st branch — was once part of the Harpo Studios campus and was donated to the city by Sterling Bay, as part of the West Loop's ongoing development.

Photo © Tom Harris.

Originally formed by two conjoined buildings, the 16,500 square-foot library preserves the building's industrial character with its weathered steel exterior and renovated interiors that reintroduce the building's original bow-truss ceilings and skylights to create a warm, loft-like space.

The library's entrance shows off a quote by 13th-century Persian poet Rumi that serves as the central narrative of the library's design: “Raise your words, not your voice; It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” The quote “serves as the inspiration for the words and stories that create a unified design for the library,” SOM des...

If you like their watches, you'll probably love their hotel: Shinola opens its first hotel in Detroit

2019-01-03T17:37:00-05:00

...the new property is not to sell products. Instead, Shinola aims for the hotel to be a place where Detroiters and out-of-town visitors can bond with each other, the city, and the brand in an organic way.

The Detroit-based watch company is a fundamental entity within the city. Founded in 2011, the humble watch company built its first factory by transforming 30,000 square feet of unused space inside Detroit's historic Argonaut Building. A brand built on quality, hard work, and the spirit of Detroit, the ambitious company sought out to create a space that would promote their community. Pushing beyond the retail space, the long-awaited Shinola Hotel opened its doors on January 2, 2019. In collaboration with Bedrock Detroit for their urban development and revitalization specialities, and Gachot Studios for their design expertise, the hotel pays homage to Detroit's rich downtown architecture.

Street Image of Woodward Ave in Detroit. Photo by Michelle & Chris Gerard

With Kraemer Design Group acting as the Architect of Record and Historical Consultant for the project, the hotel occupies five buildings along historic Woodward Ave. Two of the five buildings include the iconic Singer Buildi...

With help from the local community, Michael K. Chen Architecture designs new Children's Library for a Bronx homeless shelter

2018-12-07T15:29:00-05:00

Many of us fondly look back on childhood memories of going to the local library. The new Children's Library at the Concourse House — a Bronx-based shelter that serves women with young children who are transitioning out of homelessness — was created to bring that meaningful, formative experience to kids who may not have access to their own books.

Designed pro-bono by New York-based Michael K. Chen Architecture (MKCA), the Children's Library took over an underused mezzanine space in the shelter. Underneath a vaulted ceiling, it now offers a welcoming, playful learning environment that's flexibly designed for individual and group readings, story time, and other book-related programming.

Photo: Alan Tansey.

The space sure wouldn't feel like a library without the round, illuminated shelving unit, which is now filled with about 1,200 children's books donated by Sisters Uptown Bookstore. The shelving unit also serves as a permeable protective barrier be...

Peek inside All Square's new grilled cheese restaurant in Minneapolis, designed by Syracuse-based Architecture Office

2018-09-21T20:34:00-04:00

Since Archinect spoke with All Square founder Emily Hunt Turner in 2017, the nonprofit civil rights social enterprise now has its first brick-and-mortar gourmet grilled cheese restaurant that opened in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Located along Minnehaha Mile, All Square's mission — which aims to prevent recidivism and employ and empower formerly incarcerated individuals — now has a physical presence. The project symbolizes “the importance of a clean slate and community support while sending a message that those who have paid their debts to society are ‘all square’ with society and should be afforded the right to live, unhindered, into their future,” Turner told Archinect in 2016.

Photo: Caylon Hackwith.

Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh of Syracuse-based Architecture Office were in charge of converting a 900 square-foot space into a welcoming, community-oriented casual dining spot. The resulting project features a simple interior of white and gray tones ...

Henning Larsen Architects designs stunning 750m2 town hall in the Faroe Islands

2018-08-03T20:19:00-04:00

Built over a river in the Faroese village of Norðragøta is the new Eysturkommuna Town Hall. Designed by Henning Larsen Architects Partner Ósbjørn Jacobsen, who is Faroese, the 750m2 green-roofed town hall exhibits a contemporary approach to one major characteristic of traditional Faroese architecture: blurring the line between nature and building.

The town hall is one of the first new buildings aiming to bring public life back to the center of Norðragøta. The community used to gather at a local beach for special occasions before a major fishing factory moved into town.

Photo: Nic Lehoux.

To create a welcoming atmosphere, the building features public terraces and a green roof where people can have picnics or swim in the river, while the interior can accommodate exhibitions, talks, concerts, and other events. Artist Jens Ladekarl Thomsen also created an exterior light and sound installation that draws sounds from its surrounding environment.

Photo: Nic Lehoux.

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Fougeron Architecture transforms 1920s office building in Oakland into the Kapor Center's new HQ

2017-11-27T18:57:00-05:00

Fougeron Architecture, who recently completed the 400 Grove mixed-use in Hayes Valley, has left their mark again in the Bay Area in designing the new Kapor Center for Social Impact headquarters in downtown Oakland. The Kapor Center needed a new collaborative workspace to carry out their mission, which is to improve access to opportunity and stronger influence for historically underrepresented communities through investing in information technology and partnerships with like-minded nonprofits.

Photo: Bruce Damonte.

Fougeron transformed the existing 1920s office building into a new workspace for the Center and its partner organizations. “The new headquarters had to be an architectural manifestation of the Kapor Center’s core values: connectivity, openness, and democracy,” the architects describe. Based on those values, the new Center's design is modern and harmonious, featuring open, flexible workspaces that are fit for collaboration.

Photo: Bruce Damonte.

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Thirty-three projects win $5 million prize in 2017 Knight Cities Challenge

2017-06-12T13:04:00-04:00

The Knight Foundation held another successful Knight Cities Challenge for the third consecutive year...Starting with a staggering 4,500 design ideas in the open call, the jury narrowed down the competition pool to 144 finalists. Now, the 33 winners have been revealed and will share the $5 million cash prize that will help implement their projects in 19 Knight-invested communities.

The winning ideas range from an urban beach along Detroit's Atwater Street to a new public space in Columbia, South Carolina that connects two isolated neighborhoods. See all the winning projects on Bustler.

WW+P-Designed School Opens in Cambodia

2017-06-02T01:03:00-04:00

A new school in rural Cambodia, designed and built pro-bono by Weston Williamson + Partners officially opens on June 1, International Children’s Day.

WW+P worked with Engenuiti, Integration and Building Trust International to design a building which was flexible and adaptable to meet current and future needs. It comprises three additional classrooms, a library and a covered external classroom with a sunken play area, which doubles as a small amphitheatre.

Until now the school in Khyaung village, 40km north east of Phnom Penh City, has catered for 359 pupils aged 3-17 in two old buildings. The lack of accommodation has meant that children travelling from six surrounding villages to this, the area’s only school catering for children up to secondary age, had to attend in shifts, part-time.

From February to April this year, a team of designers from WW+P’s London studio led by architect Abul Mahdi, assisted the local farming community with the construction on a two-week rotation. The tea...

AIA launches 2017 “I Look Up” Film Challenge

2017-06-01T20:44:00-04:00

The American Institute of Architects just launched their third annual I Look Up Film Challenge with the theme “Blueprint for Better”. The competition invites U.S.-based architects to team up with filmmakers to tell the stories of projects that are making a positive impact on their communities. The theme serves as a reminder of the social impact that architects can create through their designs.

Registration is open now until Monday, June 26. All film entries submitted by the August 13 deadline will be reviewed by a jury panel, including architects Rosa Sheng and Michael Ford, AIA President Thomas Vonier, film producer John Montague (associate producer of “Moonlight”), and Benjamin Moore Design Director Priscilla Ghaznavi.

From August 21-October 6, the public will get a chance to vote for their favorite entries. The winners will get to have their films screened at the Architecture and Design Film Festival in early November, and will also be rewarded with cash and distribution prizes.

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June honorees for 2017 Curry Stone Social Design Circle are announced

2017-06-01T15:04:00-04:00

The Curry Stone Design Prize just announced the latest group of designers to join the Social Design Circle. For June, the theme was “Can Design Reclaim Public Space?”.

Here are a few of the June Social Design Circle honorees:

Asiye eTafuleni

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Ecosistema Urbano

Ecoboulevard in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Emilio P. Doiztua

Interboro

LentSpace, New York, 2009. Photograph by Michael Falco.

Raumlabor Berlin

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Studio Basar

Tei Community Center, Bucharest, 2016. Photo credit: studioBASAR, Bucharest, 2016.

Find the rest of the honorees on Bustler, or check out previous announcements below.

Nine honorees join Curry Stone Social Design Circle for May 2017

2017-05-03T12:46:00-04:00

Another month has begun, so that means a new set of honorees for the Curry Stone Social Design Circle have been announced!...For May, nine new members — including Rural Studio, bcWORKSHOP, and Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation — were selected for the theme “Can We Design Community Engagement?”.

Here's a glimpse of the May honorees:

buildingcommunityWORKSHOP

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Fallen Fruit

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Farm Cultural Park

Photo Credit: Giuseppe Guarneri.

Institute of Play

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Project Row Houses

Photo: Peter Molick.

Public Works

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Rebuild Foundation

Photo via currystonedesignprize.com.

Rural Studio

Photo: Timothy Hursley.

Sergio Palleroni

Photo courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.

Learn more on Bustler, and check out honorees from previous months below.

Michael Ford on why teaching Hip Hop Architecture is crucial

2017-04-27T14:56:00-04:00

Ford thinks that hip-hop culture, from rapping to break-dancing, is the ultimate critique of midcentury modern vertical slums, and one that could be translated positively into new buildings and city plans [...] By promoting what he calls "Hip Hop Architecture," Ford is advocating an attitude and an approach more than a style.

After architect Michael Ford was inspired to enter the profession by Professor Dan Pitera, “a self-described ‘political and social activist masquerading as an architect’”, he is working on bringing Hip Hop Architecture nationwide to schoolkids everywhere.

“Through his writing, teaching and national speaking, Ford aims to dissolve barriers that have discouraged black children from becoming architects, city planners and urban designers.”

2017 Curry Stone Design Prize announces Social Design Circle members for April

2017-04-05T20:22:00-04:00

April is already here, and the Curry Stone Design Prize just announced seven new members for the Social Design Circle. Instead of announcing only one winner for the 2017 Curry Stone Design Prize, the Social Design Circle was created to honor a total of 100 individual designers and practices across the globe whose work is dedicated to addressing an array of social issues in their local communities and cities.

Based on the Social Design Circle monthly question “Can Design Prevent Disaster?”, the seven designers who were selected to join the Circle include Denver-based Build Change, the Mississippi State University's Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, and Yasmeen Lari's Heritage Foundation of Pakistan.

See the rest of this month's honorees on Bustler. In case you missed them, you can find March and February's members linked below.

Center for Urban Pedagogy accepting applications for inaugural Change in Design Fellowship

2017-03-30T20:18:00-04:00

As many recent surveys have noted, the design world has been slow to incorporate people from historically under-represented communities into its ranks, particularly in leadership positions. While a variety of causes lead to this, and greater efforts are required to address it, we are committed to using our resources to contribute to and catalyze that change in design.

At a time when inclusion is as crucial as ever in the architecture community and beyond, the non-profit Center for Urban Pedagogy in Brooklyn is encouraging designers from historically under-represented communities in the design profession to apply to their inaugural Change in Design Fellowship, a yearlong career training and mentorship program.

The call for applications is open to anyone who identifies as a member of an under-represented community (including but not limited to people of color, people from low-income, immigrant, or LGBTQ communities, formerly incarcerated people, and others), with a strong interest in CUP's work.

The fellowship is probably the best fit for recent design graduates, but applicants aren't required to have a degree. However, applicants will need to submit a portfolio and any evidence that demonstrates their design abilities and proficiency in design software. The fellowship is also a full-time position that includes a monthly stipend and benefits.

The Fel...

AIA picks 2017 Thomas Jefferson Award and 2017 Collaborative Achievement Award recipients

2017-01-31T15:48:00-05:00

The AIA announced last Friday that Philadelphia architect Alan Greenberger will receive the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Award for architectural advocacy and achievement. On the same day, the AIA selected the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship and Lawrence Scarpa for the 2017 Collaborative Achievement Award, which recognizes “distinguished collaborative achievements between allied professionals, clients, organizations, and knowledge communities that have positively impacted and advanced the profession”.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts, one of Alan Greenberger's notable projects in Philadelphia.

Formerly a principal at MGA Partners, Greenberger served as both Philadelphia Deputy Mayor and chairman of the City Planning Commission. He spearheaded the Philadelphia2035 initiative to rewrite the city’s antiquated zoning code, and also completed and approved plans to redevelop the city's 37-mile waterfront. Greenberger is now a Fellow of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and a Dist...