The Brick Industry Association (BIA) and the  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Brick in Architectural Education Prize.

The Brick in Architectural Education Prize recognizes effective, innovative proposals and curricula that create a stimulating environment for learning about brick. The winning course proposals will equip students with the knowledge and design skills to achieve sustainable design goals in a range of project types. These courses will be taught at ACSA member schools across the world in the coming years.

The jury selected three winners who will receive a cash prize along with travel support for the course, students to visit a manufacturing facility, and/or guest speakers for the class.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has established an extended training opportunity for faculty to expand the outreach and impact of their research and scholarship on housing equity. Housing equity ensures fair access to safe, affordable, and inclusive housing, and architects can advance the cause by articulating critical links between design, social justice, and community well-being. ACSA is partnering with The Op-Ed Project for the second consecutive year to provide training and guidance on externalization strategies. This is an opportunity for architecture faculty whose research focuses on housing equity, and is intended to help amplify their impact on public discourse and policy.

This year’s Budget and Enrollment Survey reflects changes in budgets, applications, enrollment, academic staffing, and curricula at 65 member schools. The survey was made available to ACSA Full, Candidate, Canadian, 2-year, and 4-year members. The survey is conducted annually and this report includes data collection dating as far back as the 2010-11 academic year. The purpose of this report is (1) to provide a cross-section of information regarding the current status of funding and admissions at architecture schools, (2) identify any ongoing trends survey results may suggest, and (3) gauge the pulse of faculty recruitment across architectural education.

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) announce the winners of the 2025 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. These innovative courses will be taught at ACSA member schools across the world in the coming years.

The jury selected two courses to receive a cash prize and support to lead their course at their host institution within the next two years. In addition, the jury selected three courses to receive an honorable mention.

ACSA is pleased to announce the 2025 Architectural Education Award Winners. Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. Award winners inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector.

We are excited to extend a warm invitation to the upcoming ACSA Annual Meeting, a global gathering that unites educators, practitioners, and students in the fields of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. Situated in the city of New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, this year’s conference theme, “Repair,” challenges us to reflect on repair in practice, repair in teaching, and the ethics of repair in engagement, especially in schools of architecture. Taking place from March 20-22, the 113th Annual Meeting promises to be an enriching experience for all participants.

Administered by ACSA and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the 2025 Steel Design Student Competition is intended to challenge undergraduate and graduate students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. Steel must be used as the primary structural material and contain at least one space that requires a long-span steel structure, with special emphasis placed on innovation in steel design.

This issue of TAD investigates how information and communication technologies shape how we perceive, use, manage, and design the built environment and how these relationships change as our world becomes more interconnected and densified. Topics for this submission may include but are not limited to innovative applied and scholarly research on shared models of urban intelligence, their design traits and limitations; design projects on networked human-computer interfaces for collective interactions; data-driven simulation studies on urban resource allocation networks; aesthetic projects on technologically augmented public engagement; case studies on current sociotechnical systems and their design characteristics; historical perspectives on the relationship between information technologies, urban operations, and planning specifications. The editors strongly encourage submissions highlighting contributions from those traditionally excluded or underrepresented in the field. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers but are not required to do so.