The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design welcomes seven new members of the standing and associated faculty in the 2024 - 2025 Academic Year, subject to University approval, and two new department chairs. “As communities across the US and abroad face imminent threats from... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frank Jacobus, professor and head of the Department of Architecture and Stuckeman Chair of Integrative Design in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is set to go on a four-week artist residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee to work... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Meisam Dadfarmay, a master of architecture student in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School who will graduate from Penn State in August, has been named one of the top 100 architecture graduate students in the United States and Canada by Metropolis... View full entry »
EKA Arh CONFERENCE 2024 Building Systems 10 October 2024Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture, Põhja pst 7, Tallinn, EstoniaCALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Faculty of Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts together with the scientific committee of the EKA Arh conference 2024 invites you... View full entry »
With Earth Day 2024’s spotlight on eliminating non-regenerative plastics, new plastics alternatives and reinventions created by innovative student teams from Wege Prize international design competition offer the promise of game-changing solutions to plastics pollution. This year alone... View full entry »
In 2020, the USC School of Architecture and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) acquired the Paul R. Williams Architecture Archive from the Estate of Paul R. Williams. The Archive includes over 37,000 plans, including 10,000 drawings, blueprints, project diazo types, hand-colored renderings... View full entry »
Acclaimed Appalachian novelist and Clemson alumnus Ron Rash will keynote Clemson University’s Upstate Symposium on April 4-5 at the Barnes Center. Through a series of round table discussions by cross-disciplinary panels of Clemson staff, faculty and students, the event will explore how... View full entry »
The Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) recently appointed Cierra Davies, a Master of Architecture student, as the National Chair of the Society for American Registered Architects Students (SARAS). For Davies, the journey to this position has been filled with advocacy and support... View full entry »
The School of Architecture is launching a new lecture series, “Alternative Careers in Architecture.” The first lecture in the series will be held on March 27, 2024, at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston, from 12:20 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by Jeff and Melissa Pitts, the new lecture... View full entry »
The School of Architecture’s Bachelor of Arts in Architecture program is working to connect undergraduate architecture majors with architecture mentors through a new mentorship initiative for students, alumni and licensed architects. Dubbed the SoA Mentorship Program, the first program of this... View full entry »
Andreea Mihalache and David Franco, co-directors of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program at Clemson’s School of Architecture, have been awarded an LS3P Foundation’s Design Interventions Grant. They are recipients in the grant’s first cycle ever. The LS3P Foundation, founded in... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State has named two recipients of its Interdisciplinary Design Professorship: Hannes Famira, graphic designer, type designer and founding principal of FamiraFonts, and Luisa Caldas, professor of architecture... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farzad Hashemi, who graduated from Penn State in 2023 with a doctorate in architecture, was recently named the recipient of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Dissertation Award. He is the second recipient of the prestigious research award in as many... View full entry »
The load-bearing wall has historically served as the primary enclosure and structural component of most durable secular and religious buildings. However, the Industrial Revolution brought about technological advancements that allowed structural frames from non-structural enclosures to be... View full entry »
