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Kansas State University has announced architect Michael McClure as the new dean of its College of Architecture, Planning & Design. The emerymcclure architecture co-founder and current University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor was appointed following a national search and will step into the... View full entry
In October 2022, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee released details of its strategic 2030 Action Plan. This initiative outlined plans for several UWM schools and colleges to be realigned. During this process, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP), which originally operated... View full entry
PepsiCo and Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design, the first and only Historically Black College or University (HBCU) dedicated to design, are marking the first step in their three-year partnership to develop Black designers and increase representation in the design industry with a program... View full entry
A new three-year partnership between the Royal College of Art (RCA), nonprofit Community Jameel, and the London-based former Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections has been announced by the institution in the hopes of using architecture as a tool to advance our knowledge of agriculture-related... View full entry
A new grant meant to encourage Indigenous students’ participation in the architectural field has been announced by the University of Calgary. The $120,000 CAD ($88,600 USD) grant is being funded by the Alberta Real Estate Foundation (AREF) and will help the university’s School of Architecture... View full entry
Former AIA President Peter Exley has been announced as the new Dean of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Exley, who is currently an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will replace... View full entry
With the Spring term slowly coming to an end, new opportunities to apply for open faculty positions are here. For our latest weekly employment roundup, Archinect highlights featured academic jobs across nine architecture schools. Help shape the future of academia and explore these twelve... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for an Engagement Coordinator at The New York Review of Architecture, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for the Architecture Program Chair at the University of Michigan. Based in... View full entry
The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Catherine Seavitt Nordenson will be taking over as the next chair of its Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1st. The current Spitzer School of Architecture professor and director of CCNY's Master... View full entry
Florida International University (FIU) has been awarded a grant to develop games that can train individuals for roles in architecture, engineering, and construction. The funding, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will support FIU’s exploration into how institutions can train... View full entry
The Syracuse University School of Architecture has announced the reappointment of Dean Michael A. Speaks to another five-year term. Speaks, at the helm since 2013, has been instrumental in establishing numerous academic and faculty-focused programs, including the Harry der Boghosian Endowed... View full entry
SCI-Arc recently announced a new $1 million scholarship fund dedicated to the school’s efforts to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion interests in the architectural field. Former trustee Tim Disney established the fund in order to augment the school’s growing Equity +... View full entry
Today, Archinect is continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the events taking place this semester on the campus of the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University in Columbus. The spring has already seen appearances from Charles Renfro, Craig Dykers, Elissa Iturbe... View full entry
During the construction of the university’s new engineering building, Cabeza-Lainez found that calculating the area of a roof with straight lines resting on a semicircle was impossible just by using pi. After 30 years of research, [he] published a paper about his discovery in ScienceDirect [...] Both articles present his proposal of a number psi (Ψ), with a value of 3.140923, close to pi but which can be applied to a versatile geometric form that he calls an antisphere. — El Pais
According to El Pais, mathematician and architect Dr. Cabeza-Lainez had to develop his own proprietary calculation software in order to prove the equation. He has also published a book on solar light transfer and says the application of psi in various forms can lower costs associated with... View full entry
A new prototype multilayered fluid window system devised by researchers at the University of Toronto may have the potential to be an effective tool in the push toward greater sustainability in the building industry, according to their research published in the national academy of sciences journal... View full entry