USF Architecture Grads Design Award-Winning Disaster Relief Shelter
(via WUSF) In 2009, University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design students Sean Verdecia and Jason Ross watched Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. What struck them was the...
View ArticleOutside the Studio | Representation and Spatial Design at Parsons
When you think about architecture school, the “studio” course is likely the first thing to come to mind. Within architecture school, there are so many other courses that help develop the unique skills...
View ArticleVirtual Reality, A Tool for Conservation?
(via Yale Environment 360) Could Virtual Reality (VR) — immersive digital experiences that mimic reality — save the environment? Well, that may be a bit of a stretch. But researchers say that it could...
View ArticleU. Cincinnati Graduate Students Build Tiny House on the Prairie
(via UC Magazine) Sprawling across 92 acres of Adams County, Ohio, the Kamama Prairie nature preserve is home to hundreds of unique and rare plants, 72 types of butterflies and moths, a family of...
View Article2015 Winners of the KRob Architectural Drawing Contest
(via ArchDaily) Established in 1974 by the AIA Dallas Chapter, the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) is “the world’s longest running architectural drawing competition of its kind”....
View ArticleArchitecture Guide App for Pittsburgh
Wouldn’t it be nice, when visiting a new city, to just be able to pull out your phone and have the city’s history at your fingertips? Now, you can! At least in Pittsburgh thanks to over,under!...
View ArticleLearn About Your City's Architecture By Playing PokémonGo
(via FastCoDesign) Photo: Flickr user Teemu008] Mark Wilson 7.12.16 | 7:00am I’m eating a physics-defying cracker-crust pizza in Bloomington, Illinois, at a local favorite spot, Lucca Grill. I know the...
View ArticlePrinceton Professor Liz Diller Receives ACADIA Lifetime Achievement Award
(via Architects Newspaper) The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) has announced Elizabeth Diller as the recipient of their prestigious 2016 ACADIA Lifetime Achievement...
View ArticleU. Buffalo Designs A Home for All
(via UB News Center) Home for All: University of Buffalo Design Students Use Universal Design Principles to Design Habitat for Humanity Home Later this summer, a family will move into their new home on...
View ArticleVirgil Abloh: Architecture Grad Turned Fashion Designer
Virgil Abloh, fashion designer (Off White) and creative director for Kanye West, was recently featured in GQ in an article called “The Life of (Virgil) Abloh.” This cleverly named article highlights...
View ArticleInterview with ACSA President Bruce Lindsey
(via Source WUSTL) Since its launch in 1912, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture(ACSA) has grown from 10 charter members — including Washington University — to become the primary...
View ArticleBuilding for the Birds
This article was originally posted on UB’s News Center. “I’ve been interested in creating work that not only provides habitable conditions for urban wildlife, but also draws attention to them as an...
View Article8 Free Online Courses on Urbanism
Interested in Urbanism? Want to supplement your degree? Check out these 8 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on the subject of Urbanism, from urban water to the Global History of Architecture. (via...
View ArticleArchitectural Filmmaking and Storytelling with Ian Harris
Frame by frame, moment by moment, we record the world around us through our senses. We experience the warmth of light through a window, the sound of our footsteps in a hallway, the texture of a...
View ArticleSmart City in the Yucatan Peninsula
University of Miami School of Architecture helps to create a new Smart City in the Yucatan Peninsula The project, which is being designed by UM SoA’s Responsive Architecture and Design Lab (RAD-UM...
View ArticleFrank Gehry on the LA River Revitalization project
(via Archinect) River LA, formerly the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, has posted a video interview with Frank Gehry about his work on the LA River revitalization project. The nonprofit...
View ArticleDesign-Build for High Schoolers
(via doggerel) by Zach Mortice ACE Design-Build Mentees in Chicago On a hot, sunny August morning on Chicago’s West Side, Matt Snoap, an architect with the firm bKL, is putting more than a dozen high...
View ArticleMSU Professor Transforms Butte Dump to Park
We like big Buttes and we cannot lie. But we definitely like them more as a park than a dump. That’s why we are so excited to share the news of the Montana State University professor, Bradford Watson’s...
View ArticleUCLA SOAA Summer Arts Program
FORM Academy created by UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture supports art education and college aspirations with exercises in “Dreaming Identity.” The Sculpture Lab in the Broad Art Center was...
View ArticleHow to Select an Undergraduate Program
DEGREE TYPES When picking a school, there is an ideal match for everyone. Our goal is to help you find that match. First, find out if the school offers professional or preprofessional degrees....
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