2024-11-21T14:06:38-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150187211/acsa-and-temple-buell-center-announce-50-000-in-prize-money-to-support-climate-change-coursework Antonio Pacheco 2020-02-28T18:50:00-05:00 >2020-03-03T17:34:13-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/eb/ebd5643e49a0e568331dd8c0ccc15e9e.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (<a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/49082200/association-of-collegiate-schools-of-architecture" target="_blank">ACSA</a>) and the <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/149943915/the-temple-hoyne-buell-center-for-the-study-of-american-architecture-columbia-university" target="_blank">Temple Hoyne Buell Center</a> for the Study of American Architecture at <a href="https://archinect.com/columbiagsapp" target="_blank">Columbia University</a> have announced the <a href="https://www.acsa-arch.org/resources/faculty-resources/course-development-prize/course-development-prize-winners/" target="_blank">winning entries</a> of the&nbsp;<em>2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.</em>&nbsp;</p> <p>The competition, launched in <a href="https://www.acsa-arch.org/resources/faculty-resources/course-development-prize/" target="_blank">2019</a>, 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."&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.acsa-arch.org/2020/02/20/winners-announced-for-the-2020-course-development-prize/" target="_blank">According to the organizers</a>, 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...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/127638530/asca-launches-imadethat-campaign-for-architectural-students-and-schools Julia Ingalls 2015-05-20T13:32:00-04:00 >2015-05-20T13:32:21-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4g/4g7mr3l3qw2u1hy6.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As part of a larger communications outreach campaign, <a href="http://archinect.com/ACSA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture</a> has launched a new online sharing portal called <a href="http://www.imadethat.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IMadeThat.com</a>. A kind of HootSuite for architectural students and faculty, the portal collects all Vine, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter posts tagged #imadethat about academic architectural projects into one place.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/10/10m786nj1oxr7l46.jpg"></p><p>The campaign hopes to form connections between existing and potential students, as well as provide a more detailed understanding of what, exactly, constitutes the study of architecture. Like the vast majority of social media undertakings, the scope of the project would not have been feasible or at least easily accomplished without the aid of technology. The real-time, public postings will enable commentary on sketches, works-in-progress, and completed thesis projects from a much larger community than an in-room crit panel or roving professor. While still in its formative stages, the site also has launched a blog secti...</p>