The 2023 winner of the Ragdale Ring competition has been revealed as DRAWINGS, a three-year-old studio founded by Harvard GSD alums Daniel Garcia and William Smith.Their winning entry for the competition’s 11th overall edition titled Garden Room Table Room proposed a sculptural dining room table... View full entry
If you're looking for architecture jobs in Chicago, take a peek at this week's curated employment highlight from Archinect Jobs with a selection of exciting openings in the Windy City (plus one in the Clarendon Hills suburb). To look up specific job titles from the architectural profession... View full entry
Shigeru Ban Architects has released photos of the architect’s response to the humanitarian crisis plaguing Turkey following the 7.8 earthquake that destroyed over 160,000 structures while claiming the lives of more than 50,000 people there and in Syria on February 6th. The firm had previously... View full entry
Archinect's Lexicon focuses on newly invented (or adopted) vocabulary within the architectural community. For this installment, we're featuring a term that has risen to prominence with the advent of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. A "Prompt Engineer" is a professional who... View full entry
The United States Pavilion for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale has been completed ahead of the event’s May 20th public opening. Organized by the Cleveland-based alternative art organization SPACES, and titled Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition seeks to explore “one of the most... View full entry
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has selected a team comprising RS&H, Populous, and Zia Engineering & Environmental Consultants to spearhead the Spaceport America Master Plan Project. Located adjacent to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, Spaceport... View full entry
AIA New York has awarded $7,500 to help six aspiring BIPOC architects pay off their student loans. The money is to be drawn from the organization's 2030 Fund, which seeks to “help build a more diverse and representative profession.” The 2030 Fund was developed by AIANY in collaboration with... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Pratt Institute, an Archinect School Partner This summer, Pratt Institute's Immersion Studio welcomes students and professionals to explore a career in architecture! This architectural fundamentals course is taught by the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban... View full entry
Archinect is excited to introduce the esteemed panel of jurors for our Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge. The competition prompts participants to envision a future combining text and images, exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and architecture. We... View full entry
The Graham Foundation has announced 64 projects as part of its 2023 grants for individuals cohort in recognition of each’s capacity to challenge and expand the fields of architecture and design. This year's total grant value awarded equaled $559,100. Overall, a total of 14 exhibitions... View full entry
I started the blog McMansion Hell to document—and deride—the endless cosmetic variations of this uniquely American form of architectural blight. [...] I worry that I’ve actually reinforced the idea that McMansions are a relic of the recent past. In fact, there remains a certain allure to these seemingly soulless suburban developments [...] the McMansion is alive and well. Far from being a boom time fad, it has become a durable emblem of our American way of life. — The Baffler
Wagner says that, without noticing, the media’s focus on gentrification and the affordability of cities has meant that the rise of “modern farmhouses” and other forms of McMansions following the end of the great recession has gone largely unscrutinized. She claims these and other designs... View full entry
The CTBUH has unveiled the winning entries for the 2022 International Student Tall Building Design Competition, which saw five winners chosen from 59 entries. The competition called for entries that depicted multi-story buildings sited within the United States that “maximize the use and... View full entry
A statement from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has called into question the recent slate of educational overhauls proposed by the UK’s Architects Registration Board (ARB) in February in the interests of removing barriers for entry into the field. In our February... View full entry
As architecture schools everywhere prepare for end-of-year reviews, final exhibitions, and commencement ceremonies, below is a selection of upcoming events from a few of our Archinect Partner Schools. Pratt Institute School of Architecture hosts... Image courtesy of A Rising Tide. Celebrating... View full entry
Katherine Guimapang provided an overview of the projects at Exhibit Columbus’ University Design Research Fellows showcase. Steven Ward chimed in "All excellent presentations and projects, and each remarkably (strangely?) appropriate to what I know about the schools from which their... View full entry