Blogs

Be the first person to recommend this.
One of my goals as the National President of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is to make architectural education accessible to everyone. One of the most consistently cited barriers of entry in our field is the cost of a degree. I’m personally struggling with the debt resulting from five years of college, not to mention the skyrocketing prices of model-making and the technological investments that are expected of this generation of architecture students. It is also a known fact that attitudes towards architecture and licensure are changing - younger generations are significantly less interested in a traditional career in architecture than ...
0 comments
Be the first person to recommend this.
Arizona State University's Design School has shared their listening report, which began last July with this question: How do you create a school that is inclusive, collaborative and equitable? More than 200 students, alumni, faculty and leaders engaged in this process to inform their future plans. Download the comprehensive ReDesign Listening Report here .
0 comments
1 person recommends this.
We are looking for research projects tackling the issue of SOCIAL CHANGE from three lenses of BUILDINGS, MATERIALS, and COMMUNITY ! Projects from academia, practice, business, government, communities and collaborative efforts (of course) are encouraged. Complete details here: Deadline to submit is SEPTEMBER 26, 2018. Help us pass last year's submittals (87 abstracts) as we work to make AIA's INTERSECTIONS SYMPOSIUM the premiere architectural research event each year. This competitive, blind, peer-reviewed process will enable your work to be seen and heard by hundreds. Submit today!
0 comments
Be the first person to recommend this.
We had our largest Intersections Symposium ever with 488 registrants for the three sessions at the AIA Conference on Architecture in NYC. Our co-chairs, Julie Kim , AIA, Ga Tech and John Folan , AIA, Carnegie Mellon, are working on the Proceedings of the symposium, which should be available this fall and will be posted online. Billie Faircloth, AIA, Kieran Timberlake facilitates a discussion of resilience and design from a technological perspective, using the projects of Cordula Roser-Gray, AIA, Tulane Univ. and Vera Parlac, Univ. of Calgary. The call for 2019 Intersections Symposium in Las Vegas, NV is now open here . We are thrilled ...
0 comments
1 person recommends this.
0 comments
Be the first person to recommend this.
http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB097932
0 comments
2 people recommend this.
Peter Eisenman, FAIA, the iconoclastic educator who’s done the most to bring rigorous architectural theory back to the forefront of academia since the early 20th-century Modernist reformation, is the recipient of the 2015 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. Jointly awarded by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has been intensely involved in architecture education for a decade or more.
0 comments