Read the most recent issue of StudioAPLA, the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s newsletter.  StudioAPLA features current news about Auburn APLA faculty, alumni and students. The Winter Issue typically focuses on the many travel opportunities available to APLA students, either abroad or in studio-related field studies.

Izumi Kuroishi, PhD, Professor of Architecture Theory and History at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, will present the final lecture in the APLA’s Spring 2016 Lecture Series: “Small Houses with Large Dreams: Technology and Design of Prefabricated Houses in Postwar Japan.” Professor Kuroishi’s research focuses on material culture and ethnographies of architectural space as well as on the idea of interior, and on the relationship among technologies, rituals, and mathematics in the designing of buildings.

Associate Professor and Director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s International Studies Program in Rome, J.Scott Finn, has been invited by the Institute of National Architects in Italy (INARCH), to speak at a seminar in Rome that creates a dialogue between Roman designers and visiting designers.