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The Architectural League of New York appoints Jacob R. Moore as its new Executive Director

2023-06-15T11:49:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has named Jacob R. Moore as its next Executive Director, following a thorough national search. Moore succeeds Rosalie Genevro, who announced her decision to step down last year after leading the organization for nearly 40 years.

“Jacob brings tremendous passion and a deep knowledge of the most important forces and issues impacting the built environment today,” said Mario Gooden, President of The League’s board of directors. “His vision for the future of The League and his commitment to equity, spatial justice, and the environment make him the ideal person to shape our next chapter.”

Moore will assume the position after most recently serving as the Associate Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. While at the Buell Center, he led the design, development, and execution of a range of public programs with a focus on the built environment, climate change, and social justice. S...

Winners of the ACSA and Buell Center 2022 Course Development Prize include CCA, CU Denver, & Rice

2022-01-18T20:31:00-05:00

An annual award with a growing reputation as one of architectural academia’s most dynamic new prize competitions is making headlines again today after Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) announced the winners of this year’s 2022 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

The fourth edition of the award featured a variety of different seminars and studios that incorporate heavily interdisciplinary methods to tackle a range of topics within architecture and urban planning subspecialties. Courses will be taught at their respective universities within the next two years and will receive a cash award to help facilitate their instruction. Winning proposals will be presented at the ACSA’s annual meeting when it begins in Los Angeles on March 17th.

Scroll down to view the full list of winners and honorable mentions.

2022 Winners

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Winners of the ACSA and Buell Center 2021 Course Development Prize include University of Houston, UH Manoa, & Woodbury University

2021-01-25T13:22:00-05:00

Now in its third edition, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University announce the winners of this year's 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

The jury selected five courses "that seek the kind of realism that redefines problems and leaves room for imagination. The courses will reach out to neighbors to cultivate skills fostering a more resilient society." $50,000 in prize money will be split amongst each winner. In addition to funding, each course will receive support to lead their course at their host institution within the next two years.

ACSA and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University have announced the winning entries of the 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. Image courtesy of Buell Center / ASCA.

2021 winners are:

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ACSA and Temple Buell Center announce $50,000 in prize money to support climate change coursework

2020-02-28T18:50:00-05:00

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University have announced the winning entries of the 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.

The competition, launched in 2019, aims to bring $50,000 in funding to five university teams that are each tackling a different facet of the climate crisis through cross-disciplinary research that proposes "methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting" while also "asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it grapples with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change."

According to the organizers, the prizes seek to find a middle ground between the expansive creative capabilities of design education and the more focused, practical realities of professional practice that sometimes complicate the application of design i...

UPenn and The Architecture Lobby to livestream "Designing a Green New Deal" symposium

2019-09-12T07:00:00-04:00

This Friday, the University of Pennsylvania will hold Designing a Green New Deal, a day-long symposium aimed at articulating a design perspective for "a still-abstract set of proposals for decarbonizing the economy, eliminating poverty, creating green, working-class jobs, and retrofitting communities for the coming effects of climate change."

The day-long event features a series of panel discussions made up of some of the leading voices in the climate, sustainability, labor, and design communities, including Peggy Deamer of The Architecture Lobby, landscape architect Kate Orff of SCAPE, and Billy Fleming, director of UPenn's Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism + Ecology.

A description for the event, which will be livestreamed below, says, "Domestically, a Green New Deal would constitute a generational investment in planning and design, reshaping the social and physical landscape of the U.S. in ways matched only by the Industrial Revolution, New Deal, and postwar suburban boom. But th...

Koolhaas' missing Fundamental is alive and kicking in "House Housing" exhibition

2014-08-11T11:08:00-04:00

While most attention falls on the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, the city itself hosts an uncertain number of simultaneous, satellite events, operating somewhat under the public's radar but still orbiting around the Biennale's curatorial center. There are the Biennale-recognized roster of exhibitions, called "Collateral Events", and then there are the outer planets of the Biennale's solar system; the unsolicited riffs taking place at smaller, less conventional spaces throughout the city. The Biennale's five-month run gives ample time for dissent and complication within the city, offering alternate interpretations to this year's sanctioned theme: "Fundamentals", from Rem Koolhaas.

Criticism of Koolhaas' biennale has been well-trodden. Creating a catalogue of architecture's supposedly "fundamental" elements has been called depressing, inappropriate, cynical, or pejoratively part of Koolhaas' cult of personality. Reporters griping and academics critiquing is a fundamental pa...