Now in its Fifth Year, Design Immersion Days Debuts June 22 on the School’s Campus in Downtown LASCI-Arc has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Design Immersion Days (DID), a summer program for high school students designed to educate and inspire... View full entry »
Four architecture professors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, helped transform an old rural West Tennessee homestead into a modern family oasis that communicates its owners’ commitment to sustainable farming practices.For their work, they recently received a national housing... View full entry »
Lauren Jacobi, Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture at MIT is this year's recipient of The National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for 2015–2016. Her Rome Prize... View full entry »
MIT to unveil the Sean Collier Memorial, designed by Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, J. Meejin Yoon. The unprecedented, solid stone five-way arch structure to translate ‘Collier Strong’ into a permanent memorial for Officer Sean Collier.Via Höweler +... View full entry »
In September 2014, SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles announced the start of a strategic partnership tackling innovative ways to redevelop neglected properties in LA and design low-income homes that would positively impact their communities.During fall, a group of graduate and... View full entry »
Lecturer Cristina Parreño Alonso and Assistant Professor Joel Lamere (with Cynthia Gunadi, GLD Architecture) are among the winners of the fourth Design Biennial Boston, organized by the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission in collaboration with pinkcomma... View full entry »
Thresholds 43: Scandalous!, edited by students Ann Lok Lui and Nathan Friedman, was released on April 9, 2015. Thresholds 43 was designed by Azusa Kobayashi and Julia Novitch. Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, held in over... View full entry »
SCI-Arc is pleased to announce the 2015 Undergraduate Thesis presentations and the opening for the school’s end-of-year Spring Show exhibition, featuring student work from all programs.Thesis PresentationsFriday, April 24, 2-6pmSaturday, April 25, 10am-1pm & 2-5pmSpring Show Opening... View full entry »
CORAL GABLES, FL (April 16, 2015)The University of Miami School of Architecture today announced a plan to bring “third places” – community spaces, marketplaces, incubators and training centers – into two underserved Miami neighborhoods with $650,000 from... View full entry »
Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard has been accepted to be a MacDowell Fellow at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire this summer. “The MacDowell Colony is the nation’s leading artist colony. The Colony offers creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring... View full entry »
KNOXVILLE—A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, student has been awarded a prestigious national scholarship and internship from Gensler, one of the world's leading architecture, design and planning firms.Erin Collins, a third-year interior design student, is the recipient of the... View full entry »
IDEAS is a platform for cross-disciplinary research and collaborations among students, faculty, and industry partners that questions, challenges and expands the current parameters of architectural practice. Removed from the constraints of a traditional university context at a new satellite campus... View full entry »
More than 200 School of Architecture students, faculty and staff came together on Wednesday, March 25, at Little Havana’s Jose Marti Park for the inaugural U-Serve Day. The participants were able to inventory 439 properties in the neighborhood, encompassing 25 square blocks of territory... View full entry »
The Thickening of Time, a new book by senior SCI-Arc faculty Coy Howard, continues the school’s tradition of innovation by challenging the current status of digital architecture. Published by SCI-Arc Press in collaboration with the architect, the 288-page volume features Howard’s... View full entry »
