Kris Yao wins New Taipei City Museum of Art Design CompetitionKRIS YAO | ARTECH2015Kris Yao, Hon. FAIA (M. Arch ’78), the founder of KRIS YAO | ARTECH, is the winner of the New Taipei City Museum of Art Design Competition. Since 2008, New Taipei City Government has started planning for the... View full entry »
Every City Should Have Something Like San Francisco's Mass Transit Access MapCitylabBy Eric Jaffe10 February 2015Dan Howard (MCP '15) developed a guide that shows transit riders just how much of the city they can reach on trains and buses in a given time window. Transit planners and scholars... View full entry »
Professors in Practice, Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling, of Johnsen Schmaling Architects (johnsenschmaling.com) have been recently featured in Architectural Digest and Fast Company. Architectural Digest just selected Johnsen Schmaling Architects for their “Rising Stars” feature... View full entry »
Applications are now being accepted.Master Interior Architecture [MIA] degree.Our next deadline is March 3 for Non-European and European students.Final Deadline (for European students only): April 1How to Apply: pzwart.nl/master-interior-architecture-retail-design/apply Program... View full entry »
Fourth-year and graduate students in Professor Gary Rohrbacher’s architecture studio addressed the remediation of the contaminated groundwater at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky. In this studio, the students investigated and proposed “remediating landscapes.”... View full entry »
Renowned landscape architect Drew Wensley has been appointed a visiting professor of practice in the College of Architecture and Design.Wensley is chief executive officer of Canada-based Moriyama & Teshima, a globally recognized planning and landscape architecture firm. He will visit the... View full entry »
Internationally recognized architects and designers will present their work this semester as part of the Church Memorial Lecture Series.The series, which will feature lectures, films, and exhibits, kicks off Monday, January 26. All events are free and open to the public and provide... View full entry »
KNOXVILLE—The Governor’s Chair for High Performance Energy Practices in Urban Environments, a partnership between UT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, will host three lectures this spring.The Governor’s Chair Seminar Series... View full entry »
Join us in New York on Saturday February 7th, 1 pm to 7pm, for The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water.Organized and presented by the Architectural League of NY and Cooper Union, the symposium focusses on water supply in the context of climate change. What’s the relationship between water... View full entry »
Steven Ehrlich ’68 and his firm Ehrlich Architects has been awarded the 2015 AIA Architecture Firm Award. This award is the highest honor the American Institute of Architects bestows on an architecture firm, and it recognizes a practice that has consistently produced distinguished... View full entry »
Since its founding in 2011, the Keller Gallery at MIT Architecture has set out to challenge the nature and limits of design discourse in an exhibition format. The gallery brings the spirit of debate, ambition, and design into the heart of the school. Each exhibition catalog compiles a combination... View full entry »
The Under the Influence book is based upon the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence. The symposium invited each of the participants to illuminate a single term -- a... View full entry »
Jan 23, Courtney Embrey, 2014 LT Shanks Travel Scholarship WinnerJan 30, Alvin Huang, Founder SDAFeb 6, John Adams, Managing Director Gensler, Los AngelesFeb 13, Seth Grizzle and Jonathan Junker, Executive officers, Greypants, SeattleMar 6, Peter Testa, Founder Testa | WeiserAll Lectures take... View full entry »
The School of Visual Arts presents the Spring 2015 Art in the First Person lecture series, bringing together notable artists, critics, curators and historians for in-depth discussions on issues related to contemporary art. The talks take place from January 13 through April 21 in venues... View full entry »
