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Pratt Architecture dean Harriet Harriss will be among the speakers at the event, which explores how science-informed design can create inclusive cities, on October 15-18 in New York City.

Designer, artist, and UC Berkeley faculty member is the 26th edition of the honor, which recognizes artists that have contributed to social change.

Landscape and public artist Walter Hood, a Places author and faculty member at partner school UC Berkeley, was among this year’s recipients.

This year’s prize recognized projects at Thomas Jefferson University, Kansas and NC State universities, the universities of Maryland and Minnesota, NJIT, and Places partner school UVA.

The renowned British architect, critic, historian and professor of architecture at Columbia University will receive the honor on November 11.

The McHarg Center director and Places author will give the Ian Athfield Memorial Lecture series on 23 September in Auckland, 25 September in Wellington and 26 September in Christchurch.

The Wahiawa Value-Added Product Development Center in Wahiawa, Hawaii, is one of 16 projects listed for consideration in the Future Projects-Education category.

This year’s program at the University of Miami includes lectures by Hilary Sample, Rozana Montiel, Ling Hao, and many more.

The Places author and board member will join chair Stephen Breyer as well as André Corrêa do Lago, Kazuyo Sejima, Benedetta Tagliabue, and Wang Shu as jurors for the prestigious prize.

The A+D Museum show surveys the architectural thinking taking place at Places’ partner schools SCI-Arc and USC plus Cal Poly LA Metro and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.

Toshiko Mori, Sharon Johnston, Claire Weisz, Dana Cuff, and Mabel O. Wilson received this year’s honors.

In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, he curator of next year’s event is calling on architects to imagine spaces in which people can live together.

The principal of MOS Architects has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the new professorship.

The major donation from the IDC Foundation will help to launch the Housing Lab, an interdisciplinary research initiative, and fund a new endowed professorship of housing design.

Architect’s Newspaper’s William Menking talks to Frances Bronet about her design background and how it informs what she hopes to accomplish as the institute’s 12th president.

UC Berkeley’s Vishaan Chakrabarti, Pratt Institute’s Harriet Harriss, NJIT’s Branko Kolarevic, CCNY’s Lesley Lokko, UNC’s Brook Muller, University of Detroit’s Dan Pitera, Harvard’s Sarah Whiting, and Cornell’s Meejin Yoon share their visions for their schools.

In “Reinventing the Commons,” the director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center will discuss public-interest design and its role in producing public goods.

The University of Arkansas Community Design Center project has been recognized by the Green GOOD DESIGN program, the Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, and named a finalist in the PLAN Awards 2019.

Sonja Dümpelmann will join the department of landscape architecture, Megan Ryerson will become the UPS Chair of Transportation, and Lisa Servon and Sean Burkholder have respectively been named Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor.

The new major will allow liberal arts students to explore contemporary design and its relationship to the humanities, the sciences, and emerging technologies.

This semester’s program brings more than 60 of the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, planners, artists, and preservationists to Philadelphia.

Places author Neeraj Bhatia, reading list author (and partner school UC Berkeley PhD candidate) Desiree Valaderes, and partner school University of Toronto alum Kinan Hewitt received this year’s honors.

The Taubman College lecturer discussed recent trends for a segment on Michigan Radio’s Stateside program.

Four student design projects will be presented at the “Shaping Futures” exhibition during this year’s event, which takes place on September 5-14.

Exhibitions, lectures, and symposia are scheduled for the centenary year at University of Virginia School of Architecture.

The Stuart Weitzman School chair of fine arts is the first to hold the new position, named in honor of the former dean and Places’ board member’s commitment to interdisciplinary education and practice.

Hirsch talks about the graduate thesis studio she recently co-taught with Aja Bulla-Richards on environmental and socio-economic injustice and agriculture in the valley.

On October 3, Places partner school faculty members Beatriz Colomina, Sylvia Lavin and Paul Lavin of Princeton, Caroline A. Jones of MIT, and Yale’s Kurt Forster will join Peter Louis Galison and Diana Agrest to discuss her recent book.

Registration is open now for the event on September 12, which will bring together scholars and policymakers to explore real solutions to Detroit’s “Missing Middle” density housing.

The Bay Area-based emerging practice, which recently received an Architectural Record Design Vanguard award, was founded by UC Berkeley CED lecturer Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara.

Michael Allen explores the city’s uneven development in the wake of the expansion of tech company Square.

This semester’s program includes talks by Patrick Gmür Ai Weiwei, John Curley, Yvonne Farrell, Nader Tehrani, Brett Steele, Duane Slick, and Dave Hullfish Bailey.

The incoming architecture dean at UC Berkeley talks about his goals for the school, his immigrant roots, and how we can design cities that bring people together.

Associate professor Tamie Glass recently received a 2019 Educator Medalist Award for service to ASID and significant contributions to the interior design profession.

Georges Fares, graduate of the Master’s of Science in Interior Design program, recently received the One to Watch award.

This year’s competition, which is supported by CUHK School of Architecture, invites proposals for senior housing in rural villages in China. Applications will be accepted until September 8.

This semester, the school will host talks by Ghanian architectural technologist Iddris Sandu, Coolhaus founder Natasha Case, Princeton’s V. Mitch McEwen, and many more.

The award will support the first stage of a multi-year project to catalog and archive the 34,270 publications, posters, images, and other materials collected over the school’s fifty-year history.

Led by Khensani de Klerk and Solange Mbanefo, the group works on urban development and spatial education on the African continent, using digital media to challenge mobility and locality.

Students visited the Atlantic Coast to explore sites of migration and settlement as part of their research for a major project on ports.

Méndez, a recipient of the AIA’s 2019 Young Architects Award, is inspired by the innate pragmatism and understated elegance of infrastructure design.

Ways of Site-Seeing brought together students from Places partner schools University of Technology Sydney and University of Johannesburg to study security in their respective cities.

Students at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg visited Mozambique to study borders, boundaries, and limits.

Auralisations are being used to prevent sound transfer between spaces and make design decisions such where to place absorption, diffusion, or reflective surfaces.

A new collaboration between the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and Facilities and Operations will give students a hands-on role in campus construction and renovation projects.

Tulane’s architecture dean talks about the challenges facing the discipline today and the school’s unique role in leading the way for what it means to live with water.

David Dernie succeeded Nelson Chen as leader of the school on August 1. He joins CUHK from the University of Westminster, where he was Dean of Architecture and the Built Environment.

The organization’s strategy of incentivizing strong ethics to address discrimination and harassment in architecture has disappointed some, but for activists including Frances Halsband, it remains the place where change needs to happen.

Fred Scharmen’s new book gives us vital context about the ways that utopian thought is produced and how speculative design and science fiction intersect. (Also see “The Shape of Space,” in Places.)

Joon-Ho Choi has been appointed Associate Dean of Research and Creative Work and Doug Noble has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

The new dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington talks about how teaching students comprehensive design can engender inclusivity.

The Practice for Architecture and Urbanism founder and Columbia GSAPP professor is a graduate of the CED, and will return to lead the college in July 2020.

The architect best known for his resonant museum designs that chronicled the African-American story around the country died on July 9.