The latest Dodge Momentum Index report from the Dodge Construction Network shows a slight drop of 1.2% from July’s revised record peak of 174.0, driven by declines in the institutional sector that were spurred on primarily by a decrease in healthcare projects when compared to last month... View full entry
The nation’s capital is mourning the loss of one of its preeminent architectural minds after reports that Arthur Cotton Moore passed away at his home on September 4th at the age of 87. Moore is most often credited with the development of Washington Harbour and meticulous renovation of the... View full entry
Each week the Archinect team highlights new job opportunities for emerging, mid-level, and senior-level architects and design professionals. This week we highlight 12 Brooklyn-based architecture firms that are looking to hire project architects, design heads, junior designers, construction... View full entry
Maya Lin has been announced by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery as the next subject of its ongoing 'One Life' series, offering followers of the famed architect and sculptor the chance to examine her life and work through the lens of a major biographical exhibition for the first... View full entry
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, now in its 23rd edition. The program was established in 2000 as part of the White House Millennium Council and honors the best of the best American designers making impacts in the public... View full entry
A professor of architecture from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been awarded a $1 million grant for the development of windows that incorporate screens of microalgae. Professor Kyoung Hee Kim, who has spent decades researching the topic, believes her “biochromic windows”... View full entry
By any count, Presidio Tunnel Tops had an unusual number of women in construction and project leadership. They say there are good reasons for that. — Landscape Architecture Magazine
Led by Kerry Huang of James Corner Field Operations, the recently-opened new addition to San Francisco’s public parks portfolio was in the works for the better part of 30 years before being completed in July. As Landscape Architecture Magazine highlights, the number of women employed in... View full entry
As we enter the month of September, architecture schools continue to unveil their Fall 2022 lecture series and public events. Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured Series, we highlight the University of Texas at Austin's Fall lecture lineup. Mauricio Rocha of Taller de Arquitectura will be... View full entry
The extraordinary work of late artist Alexander Calder will soon be displayed in his hometown of Philadelphia thanks to a dedicated new sculpture garden designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The Calder Foundation has shared renderings of the forthcoming Calder Gardens project ahead of its anticipated... View full entry
Noted Yale University professor emerita and urban historian Dolores Hayden has just been announced as the 2022 Vincent Scully Prize recipient by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.The author of seminal titles such as Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth (2004), The Power... View full entry
Lesley Stahl: Do you think that COVID will change architecture for everybody?
Michael Murphy: Everyone around the world is going through a shift in their understanding of the buildings around us. That they may make us sicker, that they could make us healthier if they were better designed.
— CBS News
MASS founding principal and executive director Michael Murphy discussed the curative father-son restoration project that led to his enrollment at Harvard and subsequent experience with the firm’s award-winning early Butaro District Hospital project in Rwanda, which helped cement... View full entry
Ingenhoven Architects’ founder Christoph Ingenhoven has been selected as this year’s laureate of the European Prize for Architecture, the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced jointly.The Düsseldorf-based firm has earned a reputation... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an open opportunity for an Architectural & Campus Planner at Payette, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore a role for an Intermediate Designer for the National Medal of Honor Museum at Rafael Viñoly Architects. The... View full entry
Academic ranking systems, and their methodology, in particular, are once again at the center of a nationwide conversation that has brought together the deans of sixteen prominent architecture schools. In a recently-published joint letter, the signees voice their concern over what they call "lack... View full entry
NASA has announced that it is awarding $19.4 million in grants to three companies to advance work on deployable solar array systems on the Moon. The systems will help power NASA's human and robotic exploration of the Moon under its Artemis missions. Through Artemis, the... View full entry