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Vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster from 2020

2021-01-19T09:00:00-05:00

2020 was an unforgettable year. While schools adjusted to hosting online events and lectures, people worldwide could tune in and listen to thought-provoking discussions and presentations from leaders in architecture, design, and other complementary disciplines.

As we look back at last year's virtual lecture series, it's time to vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster!

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lectured series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters. Which lecture poster will win the top spot? In our last poll for 2019, the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design won first place.

Check out the posters we presented throughout the 2020 school year, and vote for your favorites here.

Voting closes on Monday, February 1 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on February 4. Have fun!

Vote now for your favorite Fall '19 architecture school lecture poster!

2020-01-24T19:49:00-05:00

It's time to vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster! Let's look back at the posters we featured in Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series for Fall '19. Which one will win the top spot this time? In our last poll, the Abedian School of Architecture won first place.

Check out the posters we presented throughout the Fall '19 term, and vote for your favorites here.

Voting closes on Monday, February 3 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on February 4. Have fun!

Mexico City International Airport project's future now relies on public vote

2018-08-22T14:28:00-04:00

Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he would let voters decide whether to continue construction of Mexico City’s new airport, throwing into doubt the country’s biggest public-works project and billions in investment and debt. The airpot, designed in part by U.K. architect Norman Foster, is about one-third complete. About $5.2 billion has been spent on the infrastructure project, the biggest of the administration of current President Enrique Peña Nieto.

After softening his original stance on cancelling the new Mexico City International Airport, president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has now opened up the project's fate to the public. The partially built infrastructure project by Foster + Partners and FR-EE now hangs in the balance of public voters.

A Texas McMansion Hell bracket approaches, check out the 8 contenders

2018-07-03T17:38:00-04:00

I’ve been poisoning my brain the last couple of weeks narrowing down 2000 prospective McMansions to 16. Please give me a round of applause for this immense personal sacrifice. Instead of ranking them myself like I usually do, I will be doing a bracket at the end of the next post where you can vote for the Most Terrible in Texas! (After all, everything’s bigger in Texas!)

McMansion Hell, a bi-weekly blog delighting in architectural education through ridicule, now brings us a Texas bracket. The top 8 worst McMansions of Texas suburbia have been chosen and properly mocked. Now it's your turn to choose which belongs at the innermost circle of hell.

Here are a few of the contenders:

Montgomery County (House 3) (AKA Cascading Nope)

Denton County (House 5) (AKA Mt Nub)

Collin County (House 7) (AKA The Triple Can)

Check out the full lineup at McMansion Hell and get ready to cast your vote!

Want to learn more about McMansion Hell? Check our our conversation with McMansion Hell's author Kate Wagner, from a previous episode of Archinect Sessions...

Vote for your favorite Get Lectured Fall '17 lecture posters!

2017-12-11T15:33:00-05:00

As the end of the year quickly approaches, many architecture schools from coast to coast are wrapping up their Fall 2017 lecture events. As you may have seen from Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series, the graphic design of these posters are as diverse as the institutions they represent. The lecture posters serve as an experimental tool for schools to test their own visual marketing creativity, while publicizing their pedagogical identities and current academic interests. Now, you get to vote for your favorite Fall '17 posters!

Check out the 31 posters we presented throughout the term, and vote for your favorites here.

Voting closes this Friday, December 15 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on Monday, December 18. Have fun!

Swedish train gets officially named "Trainy McTrainface"

2017-10-19T17:11:00-04:00

It’s happened again. A public vote to name four trains running between the Swedish cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg has resulted in one of the four being called Trainy McTrainface in an echo of the name chosen by the British public for the new polar research vessel.

Last year, the British public voted to name its new polar research vessel "Boaty McBoatface"—a decision that the British government quickly overturned in favor of the less comical name "RRS Sir David Attenborough."

Hopefully, Boaty McBoatface's legacy will live on in Sweden, where the public voted to name one of its trains, running between Stockholm and Gothenburg, "Trainy McTrainface"

"We saw pretty quickly that Trainy McTrainface was in the lead in the popular option. There was a bit of international attention on the vote, and I imagine that some people were quite delighted to get some revenge for the Boaty McBoatface thing," said Swedish rail company MTR marketing chief Peter Nasfi.

Proving to have a better sense of British humor than the UK government, neither the train company, nor the Swedish government, repealed the popular vote.

Vote now for the AIA 2016 I Look Up People's Choice Award film

2016-09-09T18:41:00-04:00

Architects and filmmakers team up in the AIA's yearly I Look Up Film Challenge to create a short film responding to the open-ended prompt of “demonstrating architecture as a solution”...the second edition made its return with double the number of submissions. While the competition jury will decide which submissions will win the top prizes (expected to be announced this month), the public can take part in the People's Choice Award.

Voting is open now until October 3. Find more details on Bustler.

Vote now for your favorite AZ Awards 2015 finalists

2015-04-14T18:51:00-04:00

Canadian contemporary design magazine AZURE is hosting their fifth AZ Awards, which invites architects, designers, students, clients, and manufacturers to submit the best of their completed works for a shot at fame -- or just that extra dose of public recognition.

Out of a grand total of 720 entries, the jury chose 66 finalists in a multitude of categories and subcategories in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Concepts, Interiors, and the A+ Award student category. Azure introduced the Social Good Award and Environmental Leadership Award for 2015.

You can participate in this year's awards by casting your vote for the People's Choice now until May 8 at midnight, Eastern Time -- you just have to register.

The 2015 jury features:

architect Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics
architect Brendan MacFarlane of Jakob + MacFarlane
designer Anwar Mekhayech of the Design Agency
landscape architect Janet Rosenberg of Janet Rosenberg & Studio
designer Philippe Malouin

Winners will be announced...

Audi Urban Future Award 2014 participant to be determined by Speed Pitch Voting

2014-01-02T15:37:00-05:00

Three expert candidates who hope to participate in the Audi Urban Future Award 2014 have presented three different ideas that explore this year's theme: how far data can be used as a planning tool for urban mobility in the future. As part of the Audi Urban Future Initiative, the biennial award searches for visionary ideas in urban mobility.

The public will pick their favorite idea by Speed Pitch Voting online before the winner is announced on Jan. 6 by Audi CEO Professor Rupert Stadler -- right before the opening of the International CES in Las Vegas from Jan. 7-10.

You can check out this year's Award trailer and each candidate's Speed Pitch videos below.