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Northeastern University launches fellowship to blend design research and teaching

2024-02-21T11:30:00-05:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Physical Design + Fabrication Internship at VolvoxLabs, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Design Research and Teaching Fellowship at Northeastern University.

The fellowship, which has an application deadline of March 1st, offers an “opportunity to develop a body of design research based on a specific area of interest while contributing to the vibrant intellectual culture of the school.” Applicants for the role must hold a terminal degree (PhD, Master’s, or equivalent) in their proposed area of research by the appointment start date, with a preference for prior studio teaching experience.

Related on Archinect: Northeastern University design research proposal wins AIA's $100,000 Latrobe Prize. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons user Edward Orde.

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PRAXIS 15, "Bad Architectures," Now Available

2019-10-14T07:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by Northeastern University

Issue 15 of the architectural journal PRAXIS has just been released. A grant from the Graham Foundation helped support the final issue of the award-winning publication.

At a time when the precarity of the present is too often met with ironically predictable responses, this last PRAXIS, “Bad Architectures,” instead magnifies the wrinkles, ripples, disturbances, disruptions, and glitches within the field, framing them as opportunities and alternative ways of working or thinking.

“Bad Architectures” is co-edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence, PhD, Associate Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University and Program Coordinator for the Master of Architecture program; Ashley Schafer, Professor of Architecture at The Ohio State University and Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Design; and Irina Verona, Principal at Verona Carpenter Architects, New York, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Barnard. PRAXIS was founded by Lawren...

"Future-Use Architecture", a project by faculty members at Northeastern, wins $100K Latrobe Prize

2017-04-24T13:03:00-04:00

Awarded every other year by the AIA College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize is a major award—$100,000—granted to a two-year project that leads “to significant advances in the architectural profession.” This year, the award, which is named after architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was given to a team of three faculty members of Northeastern University’s School of Architecture and Resilient Cities Laboratory.

Their project is titled “Future-Use Architecture”, and focuses on “the balance between flexible and fixed building systems to respond to unforeseeable contingencies while conserving the essential architectural design and performance.” In other words, the project seeks to study how to design for unknown futures, with a focus on adaptive reuse and regeneration. The researchers are examining the tectonic and performative attributes of a building within the purview of its future use in the long-term, acknowledging persistent change as fundamental. According to the press release, the jury ...

Architecture education in the (even more) automated (near) future

2016-12-13T12:29:00-05:00

In a robot-proof education, we have to focus on what humans do that robots cannot do: think creatively, work with others, think about ethics. For instance, suppose a scenario where a self-driving car can either hit three people and hurt the passengers, or save the passengers but hit 10 people. What is it going to do? Who’s going to program that? Who’s going to decide? You.

In a Q&A between Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun and George Thrush, founding director of the School of Architecture, the two educators touched on the implications of automation for architectural education, among other things. "Creative thinking and innovation, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, thinking in a divergent way, ethics—that’s the purview of the human being," Aoun states.