The Boston Architectural College's Board of Trustees has named Mahesh Daas, M. Arch, Ed.D., as the College's eighth president, effective July 12, 2019. He will succeed Glen LeRoy, FAIA, FAICP, who announced he would be retiring at the end of this academic year. Mahesh Daas is a designer, a... View full entry »
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (UCLA AUD) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are proud to announce a pioneering collaboration that will enable twenty 11th grade LAUSD students from design-focused STEM high schools to attend UCLA AUD's Teen ArchStudio Summer Institute on full... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Alexandra Staub, a professor in the Department of Architecture, has been elected to the 2019-20 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) board of directors. Staub, who is an affiliate faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute where she was awarded a... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A design by Penn State architecture student Nicholas Fudali has been selected to become the look of the new East Coast Music Hall of Fame (ECMHOF) Museum in Wildwood, New Jersey. Fudali’s winning design was unanimously chosen by the ECMHOF board of directors following an... View full entry »
Professor Jeff Schnabel, who was promoted to full professor in May, has been named director of the School of Architecture at Portland State University. Schnabel will assume the directorship on September 1, 2019, succeeding Professor Clive Knights, who is stepping down to rejoin the School’s... View full entry »
As part of the newly formed joint experiential learning initiative between the Whitman School of Management and the School of Architecture, the two schools have organized a summer event series at the University’s Fisher Center in New York City, centered on architecture and real-estate... View full entry »
The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake—whenever it occurs--is expected to devastate the Pacific Northwest region and destroy the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Expert analysis indicates that the bridge is likely to collapse in a manner that would block north-south ship traffic in the... View full entry »
The international competition tasked architects with designing a café and display system for The Rosenfield Collection within the Everson Museum of Art. The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, is currently celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its iconic, I.M. Pei-designed building. As... View full entry »
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Weitzman School alumnus Gary Polk (MArch’18) was awarded a 2019 Archiprix International Hunter Douglas Award in Santiago, Chile. His design, Synthetic Cultures, was one of 7 finalists out of 407 nominees from around the world. He was the only representative from the United States. Of Polk's... View full entry »
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to inform you about the launch of Global Summer School 2019 - Becoming, 12th edition of the international summer educational program about the future of our cities, that will take place in Barcelona and in other nodes... View full entry »
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"Anthropocene," a new sculpture designed by Assistant Professor Aaron Whelton with the contributions of architecture students Jonathon Brearley, Griffin Lutz, Kip Olkowski, Molly Jacobs, and Kagan Reardon, was unveiled on the PSU campus on Friday, April 26. The sculpture underscores PSU's... View full entry »
Homelessness among military veterans in Clackamas County is on the rise. According to the Clackamas County 2017 Point-in-Time Count of Homeless Individuals, the number of homeless veterans increased by 15 percent between 2015 and 2017. This year, however, a small group of homeless veterans in... View full entry »
