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UC Berkeley faculty Ronald Rael and his partner Virginia San Fratello are developing novel techniques for sustainable building using low-cost waste materials from mud to coffee grounds.

Architecture students from the University of Miami and the UNPHU are working on design alternatives for the reconstitution of sugar mills in the region.

Liam Young’s new book explores the technological sublime of non-human spaces designed to service human needs, from data centers to container terminals.

Folded Skies, by UJ GSA lecturers Sumayya Vally and Sarah de Villiers of Counterspace, recreates and reflects on the iridescence created by pollution from the city’s mining dumps.

The prestigious award is presented annually by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation to an academic leader supporting scholarship on women in architecture and engineering.

The School of Architecture’s longest-serving faculty member, who taught at the school for fifty years, has donated $5 million to support the field of urban design.

The Irish architect and Pritzker Prize winner, perhaps best known for his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, has died aged 96. (Also see “Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment,” in Places.)

The Yale dean and Places board member talks about the challenges of making modern additions to historic buildings and how the right design interventions can give new energy to old spaces.

The annual camp offers the chance to learn about the design professions through hands-on experience led by faculty of the Fay Jones School.

The School is to be known as the Stuart Weitzman School of Design in recognition of the influential designer and Penn alum’s ongoing philanthropic support of the university.

The show, curated by Zeuler Rocha Lima, is on view at Fundació Joan Miro in Barcelona until May 26. (Also see Lima’s article, “Lina Bo Bardi and the Architecture of Everyday Culture,” in Places.)

The co-founder of the Berlin design firm, AllenKaufman Studio, will bring a global perspective to interior architecture in the studio and seminar supported by the Julie Neupert Stott Visiting Professor endowment this semester.

Curated by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design’s Mari Lending, Tim Anstey, and Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn, the show and accompanying volume explores an ancient landscape in radical transformation.

Connor Gravelle, winner of the The Blythe and Thom Mayne Undergraduate Thesis Prize at SCI-Arc, talks about his work.

Not only are many print journals now gone, architectural theory courses have been eliminated in many schools’ curricula. Speakers including Joan Ockman, Jane Rendell, Jonathan Massey, and Francesca Hughes will discuss its future.

Can digital technologies for capturing and reproducing reality deepen our understanding and enrich our experience of built heritage? Speakers including David Gissen and Pilar Bosch Roig will discuss.

Open positions include a professorship in Architecture and Building Technology, an associate professorship in Architectural Design and Building Components, and assistant professorships in Digital Fabrication and Urban Design.

Faculty from Places partner schools Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of Michigan, UT Austin, USC, UC Berkeley, and University of Arkansas are among those honored in this year’s awards.

Hochhäusl, who joined PennDesign as an assistant professor of architecture this year, is rewriting the history of twentieth-century architecture from the perspectives of gender, personal history, and activism.

Columbia GSAPP faculty and Places author Phu Hoang’s form MODU is one of the eight recognized as future leaders in this year’s competition. (See Hoang’s reading list for Places, “Designing for Future Weathers.”

The Biology and the Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon is developing tools for architects and interior architects to design indoor environments for human and ecosystem health.

The first two recipients of the award will focus on preserving cultural heritage in Portland’s Albina neighborhood and investigate how to design spaces and products for healthy aging, focusing on an older demographic.

Richard Campanella’s new book explores the particular cultural geography of the city through a series of vignettes that span its 300-year history.

On Site, a new freshman course at Taubman College, took students out of the classroom to experience the modern architecture in cities like Detroit and Columbus, Indiana.

This semester will feature a new livestream for selected events, including lectures by David Humphrey on February 4, Georgina Huljich on February 6, V. Mitch McEwen on February 11, and Richard Murphy on March 18.

Applications are being accepted until April 15 for this year’s course, in which students will travel to Singapore and Shanghai to study the effects of industry and their relationship to housing and commerce.

Eschewing the confines of a codified profession can lead, symbolically and actually, to a more diverse, socially relevant, and economically democratic enterprise.

A new collaboration at Tulane University between the School of Architecture and the Freeman School of Business will offer the only MBA/MSRED program in the field.

The works he left behind in Brazil speaks to the country’s enduring enthusiasm for civic gigantism and Modernism.

Andrew Atwood’s new book, Not Interesting, explores what might happen if we were to change the conversation around what makes architecture worth talking about.

The new dean of the UW College of Built Environments talks about the challenges and the opportunities that brought her to the school.

This semester’s program will address some of the design disciplines’ most pressing challenges, present innovative perspectives on the future of design, and celebrate leaders that have paved the way for change.

Too much thought is bound up in ideological forces that devalue the experiences of those most threatened by economic change, argues USC Architecture dean and Places board member Milton Curry.

Jesse LeCavalier and J. Alstan Jakubiec have joined the school this winter.

Virginia Tech faculty and Places board member Susan Piedmont-Palladino’s new book reflects on the nature of architectural drawings as tools of communication. (Also see “Into the Uncanny Valley,” in Places.)

The program begins on January 17 with the Martin Luther King, Jr. symposium on “Institutionalizing Equity: Radically Restructuring Opportunity in Detroit.”

The series this semester begins on January 22 and features speakers including Barry Bergdoll, Nina Marie Lister, and Places editor Nancy Levinson.

A brand new film showcases the School of Architecture at Aarhus, from its approach to design to the influence of Denmark’s built environment.

The Oakland-based architect is the fourth to receive the $100,000 prize and is focused on using design to address the intersecting issues of racial, gender, and economic equity.

Incoming NOMA president and Taubman College faculty member Kimberly Dowdell talks about her desire to see more diverse communities designed by more diverse teams.

The technology allows designers to walk through their buildings before they are built. For Thom Mayne, it is a means of “playing with time.”

Former rector Karl Otto Ellefsen discusses the process of transformation that began when the Oslo School of Architecture and Design relocated to an industrial complex in 2001.

“Why do we clean iconic monuments and then just get rid of the dirt? What stories, what histories are in the stuff that we are removing?” asks Jorge Otero-Pailos. (Also see “Experimental Preservation” in Places.)

Speakers include Princeton Architecture dean Mónica Ponce de León, award-winning Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, and sustainable design pioneers Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa.

Events will begin January 16 with the Chicago-based artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and the series will feature ten presentations by renowned artists, architects, curators and designers.

MIT faculty member Rafi Segal and Sara Segal talk about their work at the property, which was modeled after a demonstration house Breuer designed for a 1949 MoMA exhibition. (Also see “Marcel Breuer and the Invention of Heavy Lightness,” in Places.)

The new dean of Architecture at Tulane talks about what drew him to the school and his vision for its future.

The dean of MIT School of Architecture and Planning has been appointed as Director of La Biennale di Venezia’s Architecture Sector for the 7th International Architecture Exhibition.

After helping start the school in the early 70’s, Thom Mayne will be returning to teach and coordinate the EDGE Design of Cities postgraduate program in fall 2019.

James Graham took a road trip to Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky to explore the sites of the fossil fuel’s historicization that are already on and in the ground.