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Architect and educator Blaine Brownell has been named as the new director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture. Brownell is currently a professor and interim head of the University of... View full entry
Architect, urbanist, and New Urbanism proponent Stefanos Polyzoides has been chosen to lead the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. According to an announcement from on the University of Notre Dame website, Polyzoides was selected as the new dean of the school due to his... View full entry
The University of Oregon (UO) College of Design in Eugene, Oregon is currently searching for a new dean. According to a job listing hosted by the Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the 1,800-student college is home to 1,300 undergraduates and 500 graduate students and... View full entry
Professor of art education and African American studies and interim director of Penn State's School of Visual Arts B. Stephen Carpenter II has been named as the new dean for the university's College of Arts and Architecture. The announcement follows the retirement of former dean Barbara... View full entry
A historic home designed by the first dean of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (SAPLA) has been restored for use by students and professors. The home, a Dutch Colonial Revival-style residence listed on the National Register of Historic Places... View full entry
Architecture professor and light specialist Jeff Schnabel has been tapped to direct the School of Architecture at Portland State University. Schnabel is currently a professor at PSU and has engaged with various initiatives at the university for over a decade, including the creation of the... View full entry
The University of California, Berkeley has named Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) founder Vishaan Chakrabarti as the new dean for the university's College of Environmental Design (CED). Chakrabarti comes to UC Berkeley after teaching at the Columbia University Graduate... View full entry
With over 30 years of experience as a leader and educator in architectural academia, the former dean of architecture at Tulane University School of Architecture will be joining Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture. During his career, Kroloff has also stood as the director of... View full entry
Dan Pitera, the director of the non-profit, community-centric Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) for the past 20 years, was appointed as the new dean of the University of Detroit Mercy's School of Architecture and will begin his new position on August 1. Described as “a political and... View full entry
New York's Pratt Institute has announced Dr. Harriet Harriss as the new School of Architecture Dean. Dr. Harriss currently leads the Post-Graduate Research Program in Architecture and Interior Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Before working at the Royal College, Dr. Harriss led the... View full entry
UK-trained, Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic, and best-selling novelist Lesley Lokko has been named as the dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (SSA) at The City College of New York (CCNY). Lokko comes to CCNY with over a quarter-century of academic experience... View full entry
Sarah Whiting, a leading scholar, educator, and architect widely respected for her commitment to integrating design theory and practice, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow announced today. — The Harvard Gazette
After 11 years of service, Mohsen Mostafavi will be succeeded by Sarah Whiting, the current dean of Rice University in Houston, Texas, as the dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design. Whiting has an illustrious past as a scholar and practitioner, with degrees from Yale, Princeton and... View full entry
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Branko Kolarevic as their new dean of the College of Architecture and Design, effective July 1st, 2019. Dr. Kolareivc, who is regarded as an expert on the use of digital technologies in design and production, received a Diploma... View full entry
American architect J. Meejin Yoon, founding principal of the Boston-based firm Höweler + Yoon (with partner Eric Höweler) and currently head of the architecture department at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed as the next Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and... View full entry
A highly respected faculty member and administrator in Mississippi State’s Department of Art has been named the new dean of the university’s College of Architecture, Art and Design [...].
Effective July 1, Professor Angi Elsea Bourgeois will lead CAAD after serving nearly two years as the head of its Department of Art, home to the Magnolia State’s largest undergraduate studio art program. She succeeds the college’s founding dean Jim West [...].
— Mississippi State University
"An MSU faculty member since 2002, Bourgeois has taught a variety of art history courses and climbed the academic ranks with a promotion to professor coinciding with her appointment as art department head," reads MSU's announcement. "She was re-elected to a two-year term in January as secretary... View full entry
