ACSA invites faculty to submit for the 2025 Architectural Education Awards. Every year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector. Visit the 2025 Architectural Education Awards webpage to learn more and submit today!

The ACSA Annual Meeting convenes educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. The 113th Annual Meeting will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange in New Orleans March 20-22, 2025.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the School of Architecture, Art and Design of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in partnership with Asociación de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Arquitectura (ASINEA) are pleased to announce the 2024 International Conference being hosted in Querétaro, Mexico. The conference will take place June 27-29, 2024.

The Brick Education Prize seeks to recognize effective, innovative proposals and curricula that create a stimulating environment for learning about brick. These proposals should equip students with the knowledge and design skills to achieve sustainable design goals in a range of project types. From seminars and design studios to building technology tutorials and lessons, the proposals for incorporating brick into your courses and offered at schools of architecture are endless.

This themed issue of the Journal of Architectural Education asks for critical examinations of the systems and processes of extraction that shape architecture as well as work that highlights non-extractive practices.

The focus area for this issue seeks to explore inventive topics from different aspects of the built environment. Innovation captures new ideas, methods, strategies, products, forms, designs, etc. Innovation is the action or process of innovating, introducing, or presenting novelties and modifying what is established by introducing new elements or forms. It is a change introduced to an existing product. Imaginative ideas include improvements that capture how components or processes are modified or configured in designs, systems, or domains, like building materials, data processing, digital fabrication, computation, history and theory of innovation. Innovation is critical to the success of any endeavor, such as an organization, enterprise, field or discipline, or industry. Invention is the primary driver of advancement in the built environment and other sectors, as it provides approaches, resources, and concepts generated and realized, leading to a better and more sustainable built environment. Invention guides all disciplines, and inventive ideas involve various players with diverse incentives.