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Two recent books, Of Barns and Palaces: John Yeon, Northwest Architect and Triangle Modern Architecture, examine the role of regionalism in American modernism. (For more on Yeon, see “A Fortuitous Shadow,” in Places.)

Two new books, Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975 and Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone, spotlight the postwar emergence of Modernist housing.

The school is committing $1 million to establish the fund, intended to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity by breaking down barriers to access for graduate study.

The event will launch the new volume on the architectures of carcerality, edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt. (See an excerpt from Steven Dillon’s chapter, “Nothing stirred in the air,” in Places.)

The new volume, edited by Daniel’s associate professor Georges Farhat, builds on a 2017 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks.

The Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault Scholarship has committed $1 million to establish new support for diversity, beginning with awards to three incoming high-achieving undergraduate students this year.

Three new archival videos feature designers including Claire Forest, Ena Dubnoff, Inga Rose, and Lynn Paxton discussing topics include the design process, hierarchy , and gender difference.

The landscape theorist, designer, and historian’s work focuses on how the interpretation of sociocultural practices and marginalized histories and memories can contribute to the design of meaningful urban places.

Hugh Campbell talks with Meris Ryan-Goff about his new book Space Framed and the complex and varied relationship between photography and architecture. (Also see an excerpt in Places, Camera In Camera.”)

On Monday 26 October at 4pm Central, Lesley Lokko will present “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” the next virtual lecture in Fay Jones School’s series on equity in the built environment, co-presented by Places and the University of Arkansas’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

A new book, edited by Vincent Reina, explores the continuing problem of segregation in American housing. Register now for panel events on October 13 and 22 which will explore key issues from the volume.

On Monday 19 October at 4pm Central, Marion Weiss + Michael Manfred will present the next virtual lecture in Fay Jones School’s series on equity in the built environment, co-presented by Places and the University of Arkansas’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

Monument Lab has received a transformative $4 million grant for “Beyond the Pedestal: Tracing and Transforming America’s Monuments.”

If you missed Sara Jensen Carr’s virtual lecture, “Embodied Environments,” at Fay Jones School last week, a recording is now available.

On Monday 12 October at 4pm Central, Mira Henry, co-principal at Current Interests and a faculty member at SCI-Arc, will present “Kitchen Table Talk.”

This semester’s series is organized by the departments of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and the Dean’s Office. All lectures are free and open to the public and will be livestreamed via Vimeo.

The fall lecture series features twenty leading voices in art, architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The sessions will take place via Zoom and are free and open to all.

The Mistresses of Pratt program is working on an archive and film honoring the legacy of female design leadership throughout the Institute’s history.

This semester all lectures are free, online, and open to all, and will be exploring design’s capacity to respond to activism, resilience, decolonization, density, narrative, and justice.

Students from across the school have been recognized for their work in a range of areas including drawing, history and theory, and environmental design.

Paradise is a new journal for Australian architecture and research run by students of the University of Technology Sydney School of Architecture. Contributions are requested for the inaugural theme of “the backyard.”

Justin Garrett Moore will present “Building Equity and Sustainability” as part of the School of Architecture’s TSW Lecture on Urban Design series.

Weitzman School of Design has selected Peter Eisenman as the 2020 recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, and the City of Philadelphia as the 2020 recipient of the Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for GreenPlan Philadelphia.

The new dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design will join the president of the Ford Foundation at 6.30pm Pacific time on Zoom.

Watershed Moment is a multi-disciplinary art installation that involves the interplay of monumental cast-latex curtains, changing lights and the sound of six different New York State bodies of water.

Sara Jensen Carr will present the first lecture in the Fay Jones School Fall 2020 series, presented in collaboration with Places Journal, on Monday 5 October at 4pm Central via Zoom.

The internationally renowned, L.A.-based architect will discuss his work and participate in a q&a at the next installment of the Fall Lecture series, all of which are taking place via Zoom and are free and open to the public.

Barry Bergdoll, Beatriz Colomina, Arindam Dutta, and Joan Ockman will explore the challenges and opportunities for architectural history today for Sam Fox School’s DISCUSSIONS series.

Register now for the next edition of this semester’s virtual public lecture series, featuring Yale professor emeritus Dolores Hayden.

The panel discussion will bring together scholars and analysts to comment on the recent conversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque from the perspective of architectural history in geopolitical context. (Also see our recent article on the topic, “Hagia Sophia Past and Future.”)

This year’s theme is “Hand Me A Drawing,” and the competition is seeking handmade entries only, celebrating the continuing relevance of traditional techniques in design. Submissions are being accepted until November 1.

The show at UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives examines Bauer’s contributions to the modern housing movement through photography. (For more on Catherine Bauer, see Barbara Penner’s article in Future Archive and our recent news story on Modern Housing.)

This semester’s virtual lecture series brings leading speakers online to explore contemporary issues in design, including social justice, climate change, and the politics of place.

As part of Detroit Month of Design, Sam Fox School faculty member Linda C. Samuels will join Lauren Hood, John George, Abir Ali, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Melissa Dittmer, and Steven Lewis for virtual discussion on September 15-16, hosted by LOH Architects.

This year’s J. Irwin Miller symposium at the Yale School of Architecture will take place online on Tuesdays and Thursdays between September 10-24  and bring together designers and practitioners to address destigmatizing perceptions of mental health embedded in the built environment.

The nonprofit, led by led by current Berkeley-Rupp professor Deanna Van Buren, presents a three point plan that focuses on dismantling and reimagining how justice is carried out in the United States.

The Places partner school’s move to an online gala in response to COVID-19 offers a model for a digital future.

Tulane’s Iñaki Alday, Kent State’s Ivan Bernal, CCNY’s Lesley Lokko, University of Washington’s Bryan McLaren, Harvard GSD’s Rahul Mehrotra, Kean University’s David Mohney, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Stephen Philips, University of Detroit’s Dan Pitera, Princeton’s Monica Ponce de Leon, UCLA’s Heather Roberge, Portland State’s Jeff Schnabel, and Wash U’s Heather Woofter report on how their schools adapted to the new normal for thesis reviews, graduation, and more.

Harvard GSD’s Sarah Whiting, Cooper Union’s Nader Tehrani, the ACSA, and Places‘ partner school deans Hernán Díaz Alonso of SCI-Arc, Monica Ponce de Leon of Princeton, Iñaki Alday of Tulane, Milton S. F. Curry of USC, and Meejin Yoon of Cornell respond to systemic inequalities in the United States.

The deadline for consideration for this year’s for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of architectural history is July 31.

The Summer Academy offers two design camps for kids and the Summer Bootcamp offers high school students and university undergraduates the opportunity to learn more about architecture and design.

Places editor Nancy Levinson will join Brian McGrath, Anya Sirota, David Brown, Georgeen Theodore, and Sharon Haar to discuss the future of urban space.

The 2020 Eduard F. Sekler Talk, “Home of the Oppressed”: Democracy, Slavery and American Civic Architecture,” is available for free.

More than $152,000 was distributed to students in recognition of their achievements in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design as part of the school’s Honors and Awards Recognition program.

This year’s winners include David Eskenazi, Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose, Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, Isaac Michan Daniel, Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, and Luis Beltrán del Río García and Andrew Sosa Martínez. Prize lectures will take place online in June.

This year, the CED will offer the introductory Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design as well as DISC*, a course on design and innovation for sustainable cities, for current students.

The new one-year program prepares students for a new kind of hybrid career that has emerged in architecture: the architect-theorist-educator.