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Assistant Professor Marc Schulitz‘s firm Schulitz Architekten, along with São Paulo-based Tetra Arquitetura won the 2015 International Olympic Committee/International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities Silver Award for the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil.

Professor Dr. Pablo La Roche led a design team that included alums Aireen Batungbakal (’10) and Arianne Ponce (’15) in the 2015 Tristan da Cunha Design Competition, launched on behalf of the island government of 270 residents. Their entry, t37, made it to the juried selection presented to the Island Council to address solutions ranging from government and residential infrastructure to water management and energy usage. Tristan da Cunha lays 1,750 miles — about 7-10 days of sailing — southwest of Cape Town.

Professor Gary L. McGavin, AIA recently signed a new contract with NCARB to convert and update NCARB’s Professional Development Program Momograph – Seismic Mitigation into an electronic format.  It is due in March 2016.  He also taught a course for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services at Parsons in Pasadena for the Pasadena-Foothill Chapter of the AIA.  The class trains licensed architects, engineers and building officials to travel to disasters for California’s Safety Assessment Program (SAP) immediately following a significant disaster.  

Associate Professor Michael Fox published a new book with Princeton Architectural Press: “IA: Adaptive World” as part of the Architectural Briefs series.  He was the Keynote speaker at the AIAOC Awards Ceremony and lectured at the Professional Practice Week hosted by Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The event highlighted for the student how excellent building requires attention to many of the operational aspects of architectural practice. Michael’s lecture focused on innovative architectural design and practice. A project “Eco 29, an interactive Wedding Hall” in Israel done by his office FoxLin with Associate Professor Juintow Lin recently received an AIA award.

Associate Professor Juintow Lin‘s students’ design for a cabin for the State Park system was recently given an AIA design award.

Faculty member Mitchell de Jarnett and CPP students Erin Day, Hana Lemseffer, Kirill Volchinskiy received honorable mention in the international Istanbul Community Garden Competition for their entry: “The City Below, The Ground Above.” The CPP team worked alongside ex-CPP (now ELAC) faculty Orhan Ayyuce, Woodbury faculty Joshua G. Stein and student Eda Yetim. 

Faculty member Barry Milofsky of M2A Architects  received a 2015 California Preservation Foundation Award for the restoration of the Rosslyn Hotel Apartments to provide housing for 264 homeless veterans and chronic homeless in the 1923 historic hotel originally designed by the office of John Parkinson.

Faculty member Omar L. Garza, SE of Nous Engineering led the structural engineering for The Pulp Pavilion project by Ball-Nogues Studio which was recognized by Architect Magazine for the 2015 R+D Awards. The project consisted of a pavilion made of seven 20-foot-tall woven “trees” that joined together in a latticed roof. Multiple failure tests on mock-ups along with a finite element analysis of the entire pavilion helped understand its performance under live and wind loads.

Call for Nominations: 2017 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2017 ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster
Deadline: February 24, 2016

The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2017 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members participating in the accreditation process will be made by NAAB.

Nominating Procedure

  1. Members of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on visiting teams for a term of four years.
  2. Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via ACSA News. Proposals must include a 2-page curriculum vitae (please include any accreditation experience).
  3. The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters.

Nominee Qualifications

  • The candidate should demonstrate:
  • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience;
  • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work;
  • Administrative experience; and
  • An association with several different schools.

Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.)

ACSA Nominee Selection
Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service.

Description of Team and Visit
Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.

The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process. The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications.

Team Selection
The visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by providing resumes of prospective team members.

A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if:

  • The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated with a rival institution;
  • The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution;
  • The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to evaluate the program.

NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines. Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations Deadline and Calendar
The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a 2-page curriculum vitae (please include any accreditation experience), is February 24, 2016. E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to eellis@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2016. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2016-2017 team visits in November 2016.

Nominations should be sent to:
    ACSA, Board Nominations
    1735 New York Avenue, NW 
    Washington, DC 20006
    Email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

ACSA Update 1.15.16

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2016 ACSA Board Candidates

We are pleased to present the slate of candidates for the 2016 national board! New this year is the selection of a first and second Vice President, following the Bylaws change in November. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by 5pm PT, February 10, 2016.

 

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Call for Abstracts/Projects: 2016 International Conference

This year’s conference in Santiago will focus on emerging disglobal narratives in the academic and design communities. Submit your abstracts by January 20 and your projects by February 24.

 

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Host the ACSA Fall Conference

The ACSA Board invites proposals from member schools to host the 2017 Fall Conference, an opportunity to bring educators from around the world to your campus. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2016.

 

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RFQ for 2016 MICD Regional Sessions

The Mayor’s Institute on City Design is accepting applications to host 2016 MICD sessions. Architecture, planning, and landscape architecture schools, design organizations, and nonprofits are eligible to apply. Deadline: February 10, 2016, 4 p.m. ET.

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2017 ACSA Fall Conference: Request for Proposals

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Deadline: March 1, 2016

The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2017 ACSA Fall Conference. This ACSA Fall Conference will be thematic in focus and feature scholarly presentations, based on peer-reviewed abstracts, and a digital proceedings that will be available in ACSA’s permanent online archive.

The Fall Conference is an opportunity for the host school to bring educators from across North America and beyond to their campus. The thematic focus can highlight a school’s strengths and demonstrate educational excellence to upper administration. Other goals for the new format include strengthening social opportunities for participants with common scholarly interests and bringing concentrated visibility to the work being done in the topic area.

Attendance at the Fall Conference is anticipated to be 100-200 people, with host schools using campus facilities or other appropriate venues (including a local hotel or conference center) for conference sessions. Joint proposals from neighboring schools and partnerships with other groups (such as those formed around the thematic area) are welcome.

Final proposals will be reviewed and selected through the ACSA Board of Directors Scholarly Meetings Committee.


Proposals should be 3 pages or less, excluding supporting documents, and should include:

1)   A title and paragraph-length description of the conference that clearly identifies the theme.

  • Further explanation for the theme is encouraged. However, a separate brief description of the conference is required.

2)   Proposed dates for the conference.

  • The Fall Conference should occur in late September or October, typically a Thursday–Saturday.

3)   The name of the conference chair or co-chairs, as well as any other relevant organizers.

  • Identify one or more faculty members to act as chair and whose area of expertise relates to the proposed theme. The chair(s) will be responsible for the academic portion of the conference and will work with ACSA staff on logistical details, communication with partners, and other planning and promotion duties.

4)   A description of other potential conference features: partnerships, sponsors, keynote speakers, tours, etc. that would enhance the conference.

5)   Clear expression of interest by school.

  • Show evidence of support from the school’s dean, provost, or other appropriate university representatives through letters and/or supporting documents.

6)   A description of other resources available for the conference.

  • This includes potential venues for conference sessions, keynote lectures, and receptions; potential tour sites; or other local connections to enhance the conference.

  • Fall Conferences are normally funded by income from registration fees and sponsorship. This income pays for expenses related to meeting space, audio-visual equipment, invited speaker travel and honoraria, and food and beverage.

  • ACSA will provide the following support: international promotion of the conference, from the call for papers through the proceedings publication; an online system (including staff support) for submission, review, and upload of scholarly material; publishing services for conference programs and proceedings; and other planning services, such as negotiation and coordination of meeting facilities.

  • In-kind support from the school is requested for invited speaker costs, a/v equipment, meeting space, student volunteers, etc. Schools providing in-kind support will be recognized for their contribution in promotional materials, and participation of students and faculty in the conference will be invited.

ACSA Fall Conferences from the last four years:

Location: Syracuse, NY
Host Schools: Syracuse University
Co-chairs: Roger Hubeli & Julie Larsen, Syracuse University
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Location: Halifax, NS
Host School: Dalhousie University
Co-chairs: Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University; Ursula Hartig, Technical University of Berlin & Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University 
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Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Host School: Florida Atlantic University
Co-chairs: Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University; Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University; Rosemary Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology 
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Host Schools: Temple University
Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, University of Utah; John Quale, University of Virginia; & Rashida Ng, Temple University
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Location: Houston, TX
Host Schools: Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University
Co-chairs: Ikhlas Sabouni and Jorge Vanegas
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Schools interested in hosting are encouraged to contact the ACSA to discuss potential arrangements prior to making a proposal.

SUBMISSION AND INFORMATION
Please submit your proposal, by March 1, 2016, and questions to:

Eric Wayne Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org
phone: 202.785.2324

ACSA Update 1.8.16

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Join ACSA for Webinar on Academic Internships
on January 22

Increasingly, architecture schools are seeking ways for students to receive work experience while enrolled. Join us on January 22 from 2:00pm–3:00pm ET, to discuss efforts to develop relationships with firms, establish mutual goals for a work-while-studying experience, and innovative ways to use federal work-study funds to place students. Registration is free at acsa-arch.org/webinars.

 

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Call for Abstracts

The conference will focus on emerging disglobal narratives in the academic and design communities throughout the Americas through six topics and one open category. Authors are invited to submit 500 word abstracts in English or Spanish and a maximum of 5 images. The abstracts should be prepared for a blind peer review process with no references to author or institution. The same abstract may not be submitted to multiple topics. Submit by January 20.

 

Call for Projects

In recognition of highly visual research and creative work, the conference will feature a juried Research + Design Projects Exhibition. Educators, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are invited to submit their work as a single PDF image (20″ x 30″ in. portrait), along with an optional abstract. Selected projects will be included in a physical exhibition held during the conference and published in a digital proceedings. There will also be special merit awards in student and professional categories. Submit by February 24.

 

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North Carolina State University

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Call for Academic Projects in Public Interest Design
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016 (5PM EST)

Learn More and Submit at http://seednetwork.org/pideg-call-for-academic-projects/

This call seeks College and University projects that evince the strategies and philosophies of public interest design pedagogy. Submitted projects will be double blind peer reviewed for inclusion in Part 2 of the book, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, edited by Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell and under contract with Routledge. This publication, the second in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebook series, will address a specifically academic audience of educators, scholars, and administrators intent on understanding the complexities of public interest design pedagogy.

Submissions are desired from across the disciplines of design including but not limited to: architecture, communication design, environmental design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, service design, urban design, and urban planning. Applicants whose projects embrace diversity and inclusion both within the academy and beyond are strongly encouraged to submit.

Please visit the SEED Network for complete information about the review process, submission themes, schedule, and requirements.

Questions may be directed to:
Lisa M. Abendroth, Professor
Communication Design Coordinator   
Metropolitan State University of Denver            
Founding Member, SEED Network             

lisa@seednetwork.org

University of Texas at Austin

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On November 6, Professor Juan Miró, FAIA, accepted the 2015 Edward Romieniec Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions from the Texas Society of Architects. Additionally, Miró Rivera Architects’ (MRA) Chinmaya project graced the cover of Texas Architect‘s September/October 2015 Design Awards issue. The Hindu temple and educational building are the first phase of the mission’s new campus in North Austin.

Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb‘s recent and upcoming scholarly activities include:

  • Edited O’ Neil Ford Monograph 6: Narkomfin: Moisej J. Ginzburg, Ignatij Milinis, jointed published (fall 2015) by the School of Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design, __usev State Museum of Architecture, and the O’Neil Ford Chair in Architecture.
  • Authored the lead chapter, “L’Exposition de 1937 n’aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions,” In Architecture of Great Expositions 1937–1959, London: Ashgate, 2015. Editors Vladimir Paperny, Alexander Otenberg, and Rika Devos.

Students from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) took fourth place overall in the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition in Irvine, California, for their project, the NexusHaus. Over 75 students from seven disciplines were involved on the NexusHaus. School of Architecture instructors Michael Garrison, Petra Liedl, and Adam Pyrek supervised the students throughout the two-year project, with support from Michael Webber of UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, as well as TUM’s Werner Lang.

For the Badlands National Park Studio’s midterm review last week, six National Parks Service (NPS) staff came to Austin, from the park and from two NPS regional offices. Other NPS personnel observed and commented online. In September, 13 students (from five countries and six UTSOA graduate degree programs) traveled to the park for nine days of intensive fieldwork and interviews. Studio instructors Michael Holleran and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla accompanied them, as well as six staff members from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Ecological Design Group.

Michael Benedikt, Larry Doll, Michael Garrison, and Larry Speck — on their 40th anniversary of teaching and service to the School of Architecture celebrated with a  school-wide Conversation and 4×40 Fiesta

Associate Professor Fernando Lara’s 2015 publication, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, was named a runner-up at the Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards ceremony, held November 2, in Austin, Texas.

Danze Blood Architects [Elizabeth Danze, FAIA, and John Blood, AIA] received a 2015 Texas Society of Architects (TxA) Studio Award for their Saints Peter and Paul Chapel.

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe‘s book, Beyond BIM: Architecture Information Modeling, was just published by Routledge.

The award-winning residential designs of Alterstudio Architects LLP are showcased in “6 Houses,” an exhibit running through January 19, 2016, in Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery.

Alterstudio principal, Professor Kevin Alter, presented a lecture at the exhibit opening on October 26. In addition to garnering numerous awards including the Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects and Design Excellence awards from the American Society of Interior Design and the International Interior Design Association, the homes featured in the exhibit also drew praise from essayists in the book, 6 Houses, which features designs Alter created with firm partners Ernesto Cragnolino [B.Arch. ’97, BSAE ’97, BA Plan II ’97] and Tim Whitehill [B.Arch. ’02].

Assistant Professor Robert Young‘s article, “The Oregon Way: Planning a Sustainable Economy in the American West,” was published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER).

Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry/ El arte de la cantería mixteca by Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla was awarded with a medal for the best published work at the Architecture Biennale of Mexico City 2015.

Auburn University

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Tiger Giving Day, a special 24-hour fundraising initiative held at Auburn University as part of Giving Tuesday on December 1, was a success for the College of Architecture, Design and Construction. CADC’s two projects were both funded beyond their published goal: 
Build Hale County Homes: Rural Studio Designing 20K Houses: $65,492 (327% of goal!) 

3D Printing Prosthetics for Wounded Veterans: $9,400 (104% of goal!) to provide researchers and students with 3D printers and supplies to create better prosthetics for veterans. 

CADC’s Rural Studio is part of Auburn University’s Place Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. APLU’s fourth annual Innovation & Economic Prosperity University Awards honor public universities that are actively engaged in and promoting regional economic development. Universities compete in four different categories that recognize different components of economic engagement: talent, innovation, place and connections. The Place Award “recognizes Auburn for excelling in community, social and cultural development work.” Auburn’s application highlighted the work of Rural Studio, the National Poultry Technology Center and the off-bottom oyster farming initiative at the Auburn University Shellfish Lab. For the more, click here.

Carie Tindill, B.Arch 2005 and MIDC 2006, has opened Auburn University’s first licensed bakery—Cakeitecture Bakery. She brings her design and construction skills to creating bespoke cakes, cookies, cake pops, and cupcakes. She has partnered with Auburn’s Office of Trademark Management and Licensing to be able to use Auburn’s logos and trademarks, which means she can make cakes shaped like Aubie. Carie was recently profiled in Auburn’s Take Five.

McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth and Ferrier Interiors have been selected for Architectural Digest’s prestigious AD100 for the third time. Now in its thirtieth year, McAlpine Tankersley is the Montgomery, Alabama-based partnership of Auburn Architecture graduates Bobby McAlpine ’81 and ’83, Greg Tankerlsey ’85, John Sease ’92, Chris Tippett ’92, and David Baker ’98. McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors, a partnership formed with Bobby McAlpine, Ray Booth and Susan Ferrier in 1997, maintains offices in Nashville, Atlanta, and New York. Working independently and in collaboration, both firms are internationally recognized for their innovative design. Read more and see some of the projects that have been in Architecture Digest over the past few years here.

 

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Hadrian Predock, Director of Undergraduate Programs at USC was invited as thesis juror at Sciarc, invited to the Chicago Architecture Biennial as representative of USC School of Architecture. He is currently curating an exhibition titled Errors, Estrangement, Messes and Fictions, which includes the work of emerging recent and past USC faculty who are gaining national attention for their work.  Hadrian Predock Architecture was established after the dissolution of Predock Frane Architects. Current projects include private residences in Sonoma and Los Angeles, an art gallery in LA, a mixed-use community center in LA, among other projects. 

USC School of Architecture Undergraduate Study Abroad Program, Asian Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism (AALU), held 3 workshops in 3 cities, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.  Faculty participants included Professors Masami Kobayashi and Yasutaka Yoshimura from Meiji University, Professors Eunice Seng and Anderson Lee from Hong Kong University, Professor Bing Bu, and Professors Yo-ichiro Hakomori, John Dutton, Andy Ku and John Mutlow from USC.  The topic of design research was urban “hybridity” as exhibited in high rise, high density housing in Hong Kong, “zakkyo” composite buildings in Tokyo, and the rapidly transforming Shanghai district of Dinghaiqiao.  The three universities will hold a public exhibition of the student’s work between Dec 7 and Dec 18 at the Hong Kong University Shanghai Study Center Gallery.

Dr. Travis Longcore (Landscape Architecture Program) was a keynote speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the International Dark-Sky Association in Phoenix in November, speaking on Light Pollution as Global Change.  He was also co-author of a paper in the journal Ecology, “Belowground interactions with aboveground consequences: Invasive earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.”  

Karen Kensek has been invited as a premier speaker to the first Shenzhen International BIM Summit, January 2016. Co-organized by the National Higher Education Advisory Committee on Architecture, Shenzhen University, and the China Smart Construction Group, Co., Ltd., her talk will be on integrating BIM in higher education in the United States:  research and teaching. 

Geoffrey von Oeyen, Assistant Professor of Practice, has been invited to serve as a visiting juror on final studio reviews at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design on December 8 and 9, 2015, and to lecture at the The Knowlton School at Ohio State University on March 30, 2016. His three commercial buildings under construction in Winder, Georgia, approach completion in early 2016, and he is halfway through the construction of a new residential project in Malibu, California. 

Patrick Tighe, Adjunct Professor, received an AIA Award from the California Chapter for the Monte Karp Residence, Pacific Palisades, CA. He also received an AIA Award from the South Bay Chapter for the Garrison Residence Redondo Beach, CA, which was also featured in the November issue of Interior Design Magazine.  Tighe was featured in 50 under 50, Innovators of the 21st Century. His project “Trahan Ranch,” in Austin, Texas was featured in Global Architecture, GA Houses #144.

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2015-16 Budget & Enrollment Survey

ACSA has released the results of our annual survey, which this year showed some stabilization in budgets and signs of improvement for applications and enrollment in architecture schools. The full report is now available on ACSA’s data resources page.

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2016 Topaz Medallion

On Wednesday, AIA and ACSA named Douglas S. Kelbaugh, as the 2016 winner of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architecture Education.

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Journal Impact: Real, Imagined, or Manipulated?

In the past few years, the term “impact factor” has become increasingly important in the tenure process in schools of architecture. However, the concept is not new. Read the latest AASL column on our blog.


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