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An exploration of young people’s experiences of home, work, mobility, community, and well-being during the Covid-19 lockdown, featuring Barbara Lipietz and Jordana Ramalho, on 10/20. Free, open, virtual.

The Columbia GSAPP is hosting a virtual lecture series. 10/7 will feature a discussion of architect Álvaro Siza’s Imagining the Evident. Siza will participate. The series is free and open.

The Penn State Stuckeman School will broadcast a lecture by architect David Leven at 6 pm EDT Wednesday, 9/28. The livestream is free and open to the public.

Shannon Mattern will participate in a virtual conversation 10/5 about A City Is Not a Computer (Princeton UP and Places Books) and more, presented by Urban Design Forum. Free and open.

The HKU Faculty of Architecture is hosting a virtual fall public lecture series, through 11/16. They are also hosting a virtual public discussion series, through 11/11. All events are free and open and take place on Zoom.

Places contributor Matthew Soules’ virtual book launch, hosted by The Cooper Union, is Thursday, 9/23. Free and open; registration required. Read an excerpt.

The MIT Department of Architecture announces its fall 2021 public program, a continuing set of conversations on where we are now. Events will be held in-person and online.

Tulane School of Architecture announces its fall 2021 lecture series, “Debate, Delete, Reboot: Being Wrong in Times of Change.” The series runs 9/13 to 12/6, 2021.

The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design has opened registration for its fall 2021 and winter 2022 outreach programs for children and teens, including a “design bootcamp.”

Penn State Stuckeman School Assistant Professor Emily Burns has received a 2021 Design Award from the University and College Designers Association.

The London Guildhall School and Barbican Center announce their Women in Architecture short course on the history of female architects, including Lilly Reich, Charlotte Perriand, Anne Tyng, and others. Registration deadline is 9/17; space is limited.

The Weitzman School of Design announces its fall lecture series, including a book launch for Penn Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam’s Strange Objects, New Solids, Massive Forms and a symposium on the preservation of Civil Rights sites. Events are free and open; advance registration required.

The Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis and AIA St. Louis invite applications for the Steedman Fellowship, a $75K award to support research travel. This year’s theme is “disruption.” Architects who earned their degree in the last eight years are eligible.

The Penn State Stuckeman Research Symposium will feature virtual lectures 9/23–9/24 on the built environment and social equity. The free symposium is themed “Design Consequences: Taking responsibility for our ideas.”

The Bartlett will present a public lecture by Professor Achille Mbembe on 10/14. The talk is the culminating event in the school’s Unfinished Symphonies: Transformational Decolonial Urbanism series.

Penn State faculty members DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas have designed an architectural space within the “University of African Futures” exhibition at Le Lieu Unique, a national center for contemporary culture in Nantes, France.

Felecia Davis, director of the Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) at the Stuckeman School at Penn State, is part of a team that has won a Graham Foundation grant for a new project that will explore how the Black cultural process of braiding hair can be translated into computer code, with the goal of developing architectural materials and fabrics.

A new article by Erin Moore, professor of architecture at University of Oregon, writing from the watery, mountainous Pacific Northwest.

Applications are now being accepted by the new Community Fellowship Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, which will promote ties between the school and communities of color.

The sixth and final episode, hosted by Christoph Lindner, explores the unintended consequences of switching to more sustainable building practices and asks: “how do you dissolve an industry fairly?”

The Europan design competition aims to exchange ideas between cities, academia, practice, and young design professionals. The 2021 round focuses on living cities as a new paradigm.

This year’s remote program, on the theme of “Design and Innovation for Sustainable Cities,” will utilize immersive technology including virtual and augmented reality.

The weekly podcast series, hosted by Professor Alan Thompson, aims to explore how technology, climate change, health and society interconnect with the urban spaces of tomorrow.

The Places author and University of Miami faculty member’s winning project, “Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture,” will examine Roman and Italian architecture through the lens of non-white constructors.

The new program, which will launch in January 2022, will enable students to integrate multiple fields of knowledge in the design of landscapes that are responsive to both climate and community.

Author Hugh Campbell will be joined by contributors Mary N. Woods, Mark Pimlott, Thomas Struth, Aisling McCoy, and Jesus Vassallo to discuss the new volume at 10am Pacific time.

The exhibition traces the life and work of the architect and educator, who led the architecture program at Virginia Tech from 1956 to 1962 and laid the groundwork for creation of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Students Ruotian Tan and Chenyi Xu were on the first Canadian team to win the prestigious annual contest, which challenges students to create solutions to complex urban design problems.

Places partner school faculty members Germane Barnes (University of Miami), Phoebe Lickwar (UTSOA), and Mireille Roddier (University of Michigan), are among the recipients of this year’s awards.

In a new interview with Oregon Quarterly, Parr explains how she sees timely connections between her work and the College of Design’s longstanding commitments to sustainability and social justice.

The two-day event will take place on October 7-8 and celebrate Denmark’s first new-built architecture school.

Students from the University of Oregon took the grand prize and also placed first in the Elementary Schools division, while the team from Virginia Tech triumphed in the Office Building division.

Efforts at the school to support equity in justice, access, and outcomes includes new hires, courses, partnerships, public programming, and exhibitions.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently launched a $1 million pilot program to help guide HBCU campus leaders to preserve their landscapes and, by extension, their traditions of community strength and scholarly excellence.

A recording of the The Bartlett Real Estate Institute’s first lecture for 2021, presented by Gee Sinha, director of ReSpace Projects, is now available to watch online.

In the latest episode of Building Better, Christoph Lindner talks to Maria Kamargianni, Lucy Natarajan, and Dr Leah Lovett about how the creation and use of public space is changing.

The discussion will examine the nexus between ethnic minority spaces, London heritage policies (both local and city-wide), and the creative industries.

The campaign argues that rebuilding prosperity in the wake of COVID requires the redefinition of the relationships between prosperity and policy-making in the UK.

Faculty from The Bartlett explain how the “energy transition” away from carbon is vital for reducing the extent of global climate change.

Architect and educator Mark Raymond, a graduate of the AA and RMIT, will succeed Lesley Lokko as director of Africa’s largest dedicated postgraduate architectural school.

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes funds for projects in Black and brown neighborhoods harmed by the mid-20th-century highway boom, which could benefit Philadelphia’s Nicetown, featured in Elizabeth Greenspan‘s article in Places.

The George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database includes more than 1,800 images of artworks worldwide, ranging from graffiti to murals and projections. (Also see “George Floyd and A Community of Care” and “Our Unwitting Autobiography,” in Places.)

This year’s program will continue to focus on the ongoing and intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial and social justice.

Seventeen designs garnered recognition at the 2020 AIGA Blue Ridge Flux Student Design Competition, with graduate student Blake Thresher earning a best in category award.

Ryan Russell, associate professor of graphic design, has been selected for the Fourth Shenzhen International Poster Festival. His work is on display in the Shenzhen Guan Shanyue Art Museum in China through April 5.

Designs by 10 Penn State graphic design students and their professors earned awards in the 2021 competition, with another eight designs earning honorable mention awards.

The Center is looking for candidates who have experience in the theory and practice of human-centered design and design thinking with a particular focus on equity and social impact.

A nine-month investigation by the Guardian and Consumer Reports found alarming levels of “forever chemicals” arsenic and lead in samples taken across the U.S. (Also see “Wearing the Lead Glasses,” in Places.)

MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored Humanities Open Book Program, features classic and previously out-of-print books on the digital book platform MIT Press Direct.

The Places columnist and University of Oregon professor spoke to How Stuff Works about the legendary cemetery.

Zaretsky, who is a UO architecture alum, comes to Eugene from the University of Texas at Arlington.

In the next episode of “Redesigning Cities,” Arthur C. Nelson and Debra Lam will join host Ellen Dunham-Jones to discuss ways to leverage the advantages of staying digital post-pandemic.

The Bangladeshi architect and 2016 Aga Khan Award in Architecture recipient will deliver the next Tecnoglass lecture at University of Miami at 12pm ET.

The words we use to refer to streets, buildings, and public places make maps of meaning across the city.

In “Reconstructions” at the Museum of Modern Art, African-American designers and artists envision an architecture of Blackness that grapples with the field’s troubled history.

A new publication highlights the research and work of students in the Master of Architecture program’s International Housing Studio at Sam Fox School.

The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice estimates that the infection rate in the prison population is 3.7 times higher than the national rate. (Also see “Writing Through Prison Storms,” in Places.)

Graduate student Yiru Zhang and alumni Jie Yang and Wenjuan Li have been named finalists in the 19th annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

This year’s conference will take place on March 24-26 and will address the theme of “Expanding the View: Prospect(s) for Architectural Education Futures.”

The online series engages with seven practitioners to explore the details, materials, and technologies embedded in the practice of landscape architecture. The next session, on March 23, features Nina Chase and Chris Merritt.

The school is particularly interested in candidates who can contribute to developing a curriculum based in principles of social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to developing a climate-crisis responsive curriculum.

The efforts of the Gwich’in Nation to focus on human rights and environmental justice have been essential to keeping oil drills out of the region.

Practitioners including Mario Pani, Juan O’Gorman, Félix Candela and Pedro Ramírez Vázquez have helped to reinvent Jojutla, Mexico after a devastating earthquake in 2017.

After more than 30 years of designing affordable new spaces out of existing structures, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have won architecture’s highest honor.

The internationally recognized architectural scholar will join the University of Toronto from the University of Hong Kong on July 1.

A new article in Journal of Transport Geography by faculty members at The Bartlett examines the impact of investment at the London hub railway station and its surrounding neighborhoods.

The third edition of Matthew Carmona’s book marks the ongoing evolution of the discipline of urban design in theory and in practice .

Three new white papers published by The Bartlett’s Institute for Global Prosperity examine the relationships between quality of life and the long-term prosperity of people and places.

Places board member and The Bartlett dean Christoph Lindner talks to faculty members Mike Batty, Katherine Curran, and Judy Stephenson about how they study and interrogate the past to help us solve the problems we face today.

The program is part of Catalyst, the Master of Architecture workshop, explores the concept of “lowercase-a” architecture through lectures by guest tutors including CLUSTER, HECTOR (Newark), Lacol arquitectura cooperativa, and Société d’Objets Cartographiques.

After their internships were canceled due to the pandemic, graphic design students Emily Parker, Emily Watkins, Cassie Luzenski and Taylor Mazzarella were able to work with the company on a special campaign for the Penn State campus.

Low Design Office (LOWDO), an architecture and integrated design firm co-founded by assistant professor DK Osseo-Asare, was recognized in this year’s Architectural League competition.

The leading designer and UC Berkeley CED professor will present the virtual lecture, “Black Landscapes Matter,” at 6pm ET.

The virtual event, which will take place from 4-6pm CT each day, will bring together innovative architects, urban designers and scholars to explore contemporary forms of inequality in the built environment.

Preservation consists of an ongoing conversation about what things the city wants to keep around to remind them about who they are, argues faculty member Randall Mason.

Alyssa Battistoni, Daniela Gandorfer, Reinhold Martin and Bernard E. Harcourt will be reading and discussing Martin’s Places essay, “Abolish Oil,” at the virtual event at Columbia University from 6.15pm Eastern.

David Heymann will present his work on John S. Chase, the first African American to be licensed as an architect by the State of Texas, at the Cooper Union at 6.30pm ET.

In the recent book, Our Days Are Like Full Years, landscape architect Harriet Pattison opens up about her professional and romantic relationship with the influential architect.

The interdisciplinary lab, known as {AR2IL}, brings together faculty from Architecture, Michigan Robotics, and the CS Department at the University of Michigan, including Places contributor Matias del Campo.

The inaugural event will celebrate the contributions of Black-identifying landscape architecture students, educators, and practitioners throughout February.

For this year’s Black History Month, ASLA are honoring the contributions of African Americans within the profession through the #BlackDesignExcellence social media campaign, including Places author Kofi Boone and his article, “Notes Toward a History of Black Landscape Architecture.”

Reconstructions opens at MoMA on February 27 and features works by Emanuel Admassu, Places author Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams, as well as new photographs by artist David Hartt.

University of Minnesota’s Terresa Moses and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Lisa Mercer discuss their Racism Untaught toolkit, which aims to help design educators focus on race, culture, and identity in their classrooms.

Videos are now available to watch from the series on the theme “c/o” or “care of” in relation to architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, and historic preservation.

This semester’s events include lectures by Elisa Iturbe, Saskia Sassen, Brent Leggs, Marcelo Faiden, and many more. All are free and open to all via Zoom.

The visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space will take up the post on July 1.

This semester’s program includes artist Yinka Ilori, architect and sustainable designer Tatiana Bilbao, architecture scholar and professor Mabel O. Wilson, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, and many more. All events are open to all and broadcast live online on SCI-Arc’s Livestream.

The line-up of speakers this semester includes Andrés Jaque, Daniela Rivero-Bryant, Sara Jensen Carr, Mónica Rivera, Kate Orff, and Bryan Lee Jr. All events are online and open to all.