Professor and Alumna named President-Elect of NAAB
Rebecca O’Neal, associate professor of architecture/interior architecture and APLA alumna, has been named President-Elect of the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB). O’Neal has served on the APLA faculty since 1999, and previously collaborated with NAAB as member of an accreditation review team comprised of educators, practitioners, regulators, and students. Read more here.
UC Berkeley’s Summer Programs Reinvent the Studio for the Pandemic Era
UC Berkeley’s top-ranked College of Environmental Design is offering a suite of virtual summer programs incorporating architecture, landscape architecture, city planning and urban design, crafted for participants of all ages and backgrounds.
In the spring of 2020, the College was compelled to ask, “Can a program with studio at its core be taught in a virtual space?” Faculty and participants in the summer 2020 intensive courses answered with a resounding YES, and their work speaks for itself.
We hope you’ll join us in 2021 with questions of your own, and you, too, will have an impactful experience exploring answers with like-minded classmates from around the world.
SUMMER [IN]STITUTE: [IN]ARCH ADV
July 6-August 13, 2021
Rising college Juniors/Seniors, Post-Baccalaureates
Experience in Architecture Required
[IN]ARCH ADV participants come from architecture programs across the globe to spend six weeks strengthening their design portfolios, connecting to faculty and practitioners, advancing their conceptual ideas, building an international network of like-minded peers, and learning to see their work, their practice and their world in clearer focus.
Disc* (Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities)
July 6-August 6, 2021
Currently Enrolled College Students
Architecture Experience Welcome but not required
Disc is an intensive five week summer program that takes an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to design and analysis in the urban environment, incorporating elements of architecture, landscape architecture, digital fabrication, urban design and city planning into its curriculum. Disc* participants engage in the discourses of urban innovation, acquiring the tools and expertise necessary to craft design-based solutions that meet the increasingly urgent challenges of global urbanization.
July 2-August 10, 2021
College Seniors and Post-Baccalaureates
No Architecture Experience Required
International Application Deadline: Friday, May 11
Domestic Application Deadline: Tuesday, May 15
[IN]ARCH is an intensive program designed to immerse students in the foundational theories and practices of architectural design. The program is structured as an introduction to studio culture and architectural discourse, and serves as a vehicle for further academic pursuits in the field. [IN]ARCH participants find themselves making, representing, discussing and thinking in new ways, and encounter faculty enthusiastic about introducing new students to this demanding and rewarding field.
July 6-August 6, 2021
High School Students
No Architecture Experience Required
embARC brings together high school students from diverse backgrounds to explore architecture, urban design and sustainable city planning through integrated components: an Architecture + Urban Design Studio, a Sustainable Planning Workshop, a Digital Design Workshop, an Environmental Design Conversations Series, and a Tools + Materials Workshop.
July 6-August 13, 2021
College Seniors and Post-Baccalaureates
No Architecture Experience Required
The [IN]LAND program introduces participants to the practice of landscape architecture as an active inquiry. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of landscape architectural practice through the process of making and experimentation as research into site potentials. Initial ideas will be developed and transformed through rigorous investigation in a collaborative studio environment. Students will develop a landscape vocabulary that engages with the concepts of ecology, public space, sustainability and multiple scales of design.
Learn more about CED’s Summer Programs, or APPLY NOW.
Spring 2021 Sciame Lecture Series – February 4, 2021 at 5:30pm 9 (ET)
Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, &/Or. Mel Chin and Ronald Rael will discuss art and architecture, introduced and moderated by Max Wolf.
Free and open to the public – Please register for this Zoom event here.
In this online series, curators Viren Brahmbhatt, Ali C. Höcek, and Martin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lecturer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own — speaker/listener, which simply reinforces the power structure between those who “possess” knowledge and those who “consume” it. In its place, the &/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each other, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists, activists, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.
Mel Chin conveys complex ideas and themes through a mutative strategy, working alone or employing different disciplines and people, compelled by researched concept. From such critical means, actions, films, to objects are realized, as necessary. He is based in North Carolina.
Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and Director of the Master of Architecture program with a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture, in the College of Environmental Design, and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.
Max Wolf has worked as an independent curator, and art dealer for over 2 decades. Most recently he held the position as director and chief curator of Red Bull Arts — a non-commercial contemporary art program, with locations in NYC and Detroit, which he founded in 2013 with the aim of redefining the role of corporate patronage in the arts.
2021 Spring Panel Series at Catholic University of America Architecture
Link to the Spring 2021 Panel Series:
https://architecture.catholic.edu/academics/lecture-series/spring-2021-panel-series/index.html
-BVH Architecture donates lead corporate gift for scholarships and design competition
Working to elevate design excellence, student engagement and access to higher education, Nebraska-based BVH Architecture pledges $45,000 in scholarship funds as the lead corporate gift for the College of Architecture’s Norman Ochsner Matching Gift Challenge. As a matching gift, the scholarship funds will be matched by the Ochsner fund for a total impact of $90,000 for student scholarships. The scholarships will be awarded in conjunction with two BVH sponsored design competitions for architecture and interior design students. Once the funds are endowed for a year, program administrators and faculty can begin program implementation. To assist with competition administration costs, BVH is also pledging an additional $30,000.
A third-year architecture and interior design studio will be invited to participate. Participating studios may submit team or individual entries. Winners will be selected by a jury based on demonstrated creative and technical excellence in the study of architecture and interior design.
“BVH Architecture has been a long-time supporter of the college,” said Dean Katherine Ankerson. “BVH’s donation demonstrates their desire and commitment to improving the quality of education and opportunities we provide our students and shaping the future trajectory of the professions. We are extremely grateful for this gift and their continued support and friendship.”
BVH and the college have enjoyed a long and enduring partnership. Over the years, many UNL graduates have found internships and employment with BVH’s multi-disciplinary, design studios in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, and Denver, Colorado. Numerous employees have taught courses and provided studio critiques, strengthening that important connection between academia and the professions.
“BVH Architecture is thrilled to take part in the Ochsner gift matching program to create design competitions for the Architecture and Interior Design Programs,” said Mark Bacon, BVH design principal. “BVH has a storied history supporting the UNL College of Architecture with achieving education and design excellence. The next chapter is creating two endowed scholarships to provide new opportunities and exciting possibilities for the next generation of designers. Our commitment to the students, faculty and college illustrates the optimism we find vital in the designed world.”
BVH’s donation match was made possible by an estate gift from a 1967 alumnus Norman Ochsner who grew up and lived in Norfolk, Nebraska. To maximize Ochsner’s forward-thinking gesture, the college is investing and using a portion of those funds for matching, endowment-level scholarships of $15,000 or more. For more information regarding the Norman Ochsner Matching Gift Challenge or other donation opportunities contact Cameron Andreesen, director of development with the University of Nebraska Foundation at 402-458-119 or cameron.andreesen@nufoundation.org.
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