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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!

Here are the current frontrunners for our Fall '19 lecture poster vote!

2020-01-30T21:06:00-05:00

Haven't voted for your favorite Fall '19 architecture school lecture posters yet? Take another look at the posters Archinect featured in our ongoing Get Lectured series.

So which four posters are currently in the lead? From the responses we've gathered so far, Princeton is quite far ahead in first place, while Cornell is coming in second place. University of Houston is in third, closely followed by the University of Toronto in fourth.

Vote now! The poll is open until Monday, February 3 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!

The most popular Spring '19 architecture school lecture poster is...

2019-05-20T18:37:00-04:00

The final results are in for your favorite Spring '19 architecture school lecture poster that were previously featured in Archinect's Get Lectured series. Which four posters racked up the most votes?

Out of 1,121 responses, first place went to the Bond University Abedian School of Architecture, Ohio State University placed in second, third place went to the California College of the Arts, and fourth place went to Princeton University. Here's another look at the top four posters:

1. Abedian School of Architecture

Artwork: Joshua Bowkett, Master of Architecture Student. Courtesy Abedian School of Architecture.

2. Ohio State University

Poster via knowlton.osu.edu

3. California College of the Arts

Poster design: Manual. Photo: Hans Braxmeier.

4. Princeton University

Courtesy of Princeton Architecture.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the vote!

Revisit all the previously Get Lectured posters here or on the Get Lectured Pinterest board. Want ...

The current Spring '19 lecture poster vote frontrunners are...

2019-05-10T13:57:00-04:00

If you haven't already, you can vote for your favorite Spring '19 architecture school lecture posters that Archinect featured in our ongoing Get Lectured series.

Which four posters are currently in the lead? From the responses we've gathered so far, Ohio State University is overwhelmingly in first place. University of Virginia is second, third place is a three-way tie between USC, Princeton, and Georgia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon is coming in fourth.

Vote now! The poll is open until Friday, May 17 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on Monday, May 20. Have fun!

It's time to vote for your favorite Spring '19 architecture school lecture poster!

2019-05-07T16:56:00-04:00

And just like that, the Spring '19 school term will soon be coming to a close. Let's look back at the lecture posters we featured in Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series for Spring '19. Which poster will win the top spot this time? In our previous poll, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee won first place.

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

Voting closes on Friday, May 17 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on Monday, May 20. Have fun!

The current Fall '18 lecture poster vote frontrunners are...

2019-01-16T18:50:00-05:00

In case you missed it, Archinectors can vote for their favorite Fall '18 architecture school lecture posters that we featured in our ongoing Get Lectured series.

Which four posters currently have the most votes? Out of 521 responses so far, University of Toronto currently leads in first place with 85 votes; University of Michigan comes in second with 76 votes; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is third with 61 votes; and USC is fourth with 52 votes. Other close contenders include Ryerson University with 48 votes, while the University of Texas at Austin isn't trailing too far behind with 43 votes.

You can vote for your favorite posters here now until this Friday, January 18, 6 p.m. Pacific Time. Have fun!

Want to share your school's lecture poster for the Spring '19 term? Send us the poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

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...

The votes are in — the top architecture lecture series posters for Fall 2017

2017-12-20T11:15:00-05:00

Archinectors got to be the judge in voting for their favorite architecture lecture series posters from the Fall 2017 term, as previously featured in our ongoing series Get Lectured. The results are now in! The IE School of Architecture and Design won by a landslide with 255 votes. Coming in second place was the University of Virginia with 108 votes, the New York Institute of Technology got third with 61 votes, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign placed in fourth with 50 votes.

1. IE School of Architecture and Design

Poster design by Jeffrey Ludlow, Principal and Creative Director of 2x4 Madrid. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design.

2. University of Virginia

Poster courtesy of University of Virginia, School of Architecture.

3. New York Institute of Technology

Image: LACMA, facade detail. Photo: Naomi Frangos.

4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Poster designed by Marco Nieto, in collaboration with Kevin Erickson and Aaron Brakke.

Comments from voters ...

Storefront is looking for NYC's next iconic image

2017-12-04T18:57:00-05:00

What model best represents new visions and values of New York City? Cast your vote today for the new icons of New York and influence which souvenirs will represent the city next. The top three winners will be presented to the Mayor Bill de Blasio as New York City's newest icons.

Midnight Commercial by KIT BKLYN

Icons will be selected from The Storefront for Art and Architecture's exhibition Souvenirs: New New York Icons, open through December 9th. This is the second iteration of Storefront’s model show and includes commissions of 59+ objects that redefine New York's iconic imagery. Drawing inspiration from each of the city's Community Districts, over 59 architects, artists, and designers have reimagined the referential images forming the global perception of the city and have proposed new understandings of the urban experience.

Vote for your top three icons here.

How the stressful voting-poll experience can be redesigned

2016-11-08T19:06:00-05:00

From longer-than-expected lines to technological fumbles, voting polls in urban cities are typically a gnarly mess on Election Day — sometimes causing some voters to end up discouraged and skip out. In response to this still-too-common situation, the Van Alen Institute launched the “Open Poll” flash competition, wherein interdisciplinary teams were invited to submit design proposals that create a more accessible, engaging voting experience for all.

The three finalist teams presented their proposals to the judges and the public got to watch and vote for their favorite entry. By the end of the one-day charrette, the winning team was announced. Have a look at the finalist entries below.

Winner: “Voting at Your Fingertips: A National Celebration of the Democratic Process”
Team: Racha Daher, Alexandra Gonzalez, and Elena Kapompasopoulou

Project description: “The current voting process is inefficient, strenuous, wasteful, non-inclusive, and prone to human error. This proposal aims to change ...

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.

Another chance at re-envisioning Philip Johnson's “Tent of Tomorrow”

2016-07-06T14:59:00-04:00

The question still holds: What does the future entail for Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion? Following the 1964-65 World's Fair, the elliptical “Tent of Tomorrow” lived shortly as a concert venue and a roller-skating rink before it eventually slipped into abandonment. But, the aging landmark has another chance at finding a shiny new purpose in the New York State Pavilion Ideas Competition.

Among recent efforts to preserve the landmark, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the People for the Pavilion co-launched the competition asking architects (and non-architects) how the pavilion can be revived into a contemporary public space. Before the winning ideas are revealed in August, the public can vote now for the Fan Favorite until July 15.

As these open idea competitions tend to show all too exhaustingly often, the possibilities are seemingly endless. The 250 submissions include a brewery, a Metro station, a Glass House reference, drone arenas, botanical gardens, and...

Photographing public art and architecture in the EU may soon cost you

2015-06-22T18:39:00-04:00

A report proposing major changes to copyright laws in the EU has been adopted by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee (JURI) [...] [An] amendment was adopted that stated "commercial use of recordings of works in public spaces should require express permission from the rightsholders." [German Pirate Party rapporteur Julia] Reda said this "could threaten the work of documentary filmmakers and the legality of commercial photo-sharing platforms."

The EU may soon require stricter permissions be met for any visual representation of public art and architecture. So-called "Freedom of Panorama" refers to a set of provisions in copyright law, that allows someone to create and publish images of a piece of art or architecture that's permanently located in the public space, regardless of its existing copyright provisions. The provisions are adopted to varying degrees in different countries – in the US, only buildings are protected under FOP, and in the EU, FOP provisions depend on whether the image is for commercial use or not, as well as the kind of object being photographed.

But soon, the EU may decide to effectively abolish FOP. On July 9, European Parliament will vote on an amended version of its copyright provisions, that states any/all copyright permissions for a piece of public art or architecture must be met when someone publishes an image of it with any potential commercial use. Learn more about the basis and future of FOP pr...