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Our Get Lectured series continues with a look at what’s happening on campus at the University of Colorado at Denver's College of Architecture and Planning this fall semester. Events kick off on Thursday, September 14 with a lecture from AYL Founder and Director Alex Yueyan Li. The Cooper... View full entry
Researchers at MIT have developed a lightweight architected material inspired by the cellular structures found in natural materials such as honeycombs and bones. Produced with techniques borrowed from the Japanese kirigami paper-cutting technique, the strong metal lattices are lighter than... View full entry
Professor Walter Hood is set to become chair of UC Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (LAEP) for a two-year term beginning this fall. Berkeley describes Hood as “one of the pre-eminent American landscape designers working today,” whose projects “combine... View full entry
Today, our Get Lectured series continues with a look at goings-on happening at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture this fall semester. Events kick off Monday, August 28, with a lecture on the “Ideal City” from Beijing’s Drawing Architecture Studio... View full entry
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering has announced the creation of a research and development center dedicated to autonomous construction technologies. The initiative, funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, will engage with research on self-driving... View full entry
Summer is winding down, and that means it's time again for our Get Lectured series, which continues today with a look at the events taking place at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning this fall. This academic year’s programming at UB is centered around the theme... View full entry
A recyclable alternative material developed by researchers at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Digital Architecture Research & Technology (DART) Laboratory is providing builders with a more sustainable way of applying concrete casts in the... View full entry
The Cooper Union has announced an update in its search to find a new permanent Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. In a letter to the schoolwide community, the Board of Trustees announced the continuation of Hayley Eber as Acting Dean and the addition of South African-born... View full entry
With the Fall term starting, architecture schools are getting ready to welcome students for another academic year. That also means another season of exciting lecture programs from schools. To kick off Archinect's Get Lectured Fall 2023 series, we highlight upcoming events from Boston Architectural... View full entry
It's time to let Archinect readers judge the graphic prowess of architecture schools again as they have showcased their lecture and public events programming in our ongoing Get Lectured series. As we prepare for the upcoming Fall term, which Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 lecture poster will win the... View full entry
This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc, an Archinect School Partner SCI-Arc is proud to present its annual Graduate Thesis Weekend, taking place September 8-10 at the school’s LA Arts District campus. In recognition of the exceptional talents that form the Graduate Thesis class of 2023, this... View full entry
The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has announced Dora Epstein Jones will be joining its faculty in the fall as one of five new appointments. Previously, Jones served as former faculty at Texas Tech University at Huckabee College of Architecture in Lubbock and will be... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work. Tip: Use the handy FOLLOW... View full entry
[The] quintessential local issue of zoning squabbles ends up generating a national scarcity of elite college admissions slots, fueling zero-sum competition and ultimately reducing America’s ability to increase global “exports” of its best-in-class high-end higher education product. — The Washington Post
The Washington Post has a useful primer on the zoning hangnail stimying elite American higher-ed institutions from expanding their enrollment in response to societal outcries and prospective applicants' increasingly high standardized test scores. The issue dates to the mid-1990s when... View full entry
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s newly-formed College of the Arts and Architecture has announced its appointment of Chicago-based artist and nonprofit leader Krisann Rehbein as the new director of Community Design Solutions (CDS). The position, which is organized within the School... View full entry