Hadley Arnold, co-founder of the Arid Lands Institute, joined the School of Architecture at USC to teach a year-long advanced MLA+U Design-Research Studio dedicated to water adaptation and the global history of drylands design. The goal was to form a laboratory that drilled into the history of how humans around the world have adapted to … Continue reading Arid Lands Institute and USC Lead Design Research on Water Adaptation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the University of Minnesota for the interdisciplinary Heritage Studies and Public History (HSPH) graduate program in the College of Design. Awarded over the course of two years, the grant will provide support for students and their collaborative work with community partners. “Continued support from The … Continue reading HSPH Program in College of Design at Minnesota Awarded $500,000 Mellon Grant
Karen Chapple, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, a research consortium headquartered at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aims to mobilize AI, machine learning and the Internet of Things to transform societal-scale systems. The Institute recently selected 26 research proposals that advance Digital Transformation Science to mitigate COVID-19 … Continue reading Digital Transformation Institute Awards 26 Research Projects to Mitigate Covid-19
More Daytime Light = Better Sleep and Mood The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is investigating the impacts of working from home or quarantining indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic on individual daily light exposures, and how this may be affecting sleep quality and psychological health. In May 2020, the LRC invited … Continue reading RPI’s Lighting Research Center Investigating Impact on Quarantining Indoors
District Office, Portland, OR Hacker Architects with Anderson Construction TallWood Design Institute Iain Macdonald, Director, College of Forestry, Oregon State University Judith Sheine, Director of Design, School of Architecture & Environment, University of Oregon TallWood Design Institute (TDI) is an industry-academic collaboration that unites practitioners with faculty from top U.S. engineering, sustainable architectural design and wood science programs … Continue reading TallWood Design Institute, School of Architecture & Environment at Oregon
Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I (STTR) Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF) PI: Dr. Kyounghee-Kim, Co-PI: Dr. Chengde Wu, School of Architecture, UNC Charlotte The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is in the sustainable and economic retrofitting of low-performing older buildings toward improved economic, social and ecological impacts … Continue reading NSF Funds $225K Microalgae Building Enclosure Research
Developments in the automation of construction processes, observable in recent years, is focused on speeding up the construction of buildings and structures. Additive manufacturing using concrete mixes are among the most promising technologies in this respect. 3D concrete printing allows the building up of structure by extruding a mix layer by layer. However, the mix … Continue reading Additive Manufacturing: Automation in the Construction of a 3D-Printed Concrete Wall
Data, Data Everywhere, Not a Lot in Sync: Reconciling Visual Meaning with Data Pieter Marthinus de Kock What is visual data; how is it converted into useful information; and where should we look for it? Is data causing a mismatch between mind and environment? Data has emerged as our modern zeitgeist. Up to 100 billion … Continue reading Data, Data Everywhere, Not a Lot in Sync_ARCC Journal Enquiry Vol. 16, Issue 2
2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission Leslie Dietz (a), Patrick F. Horve (a), David A. Coil (b), Mark Fretz (a, c), Jonathan A. Eisen (d,e,f), Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg (a, c) With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that results in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), … Continue reading Built Environment Considerations to Reduce Coronavirus Transmission
From Line to Landscape: The Irish Northwest Border Region Gareth Doherty, Pol Fité Matamoros A border is not a line, it is a landscape. And, to the extent to which borders are landscapes, they mediate – and are produced by – a myriad of interrelationships that span space, scale and time, humans, animals and plant … Continue reading Ideas on the Complexity of Border Landscapes
Research Centre: Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities Initiative, University of Hong Kong (HKU) When future epidemic waves of COVID-19 occur, near- instantaneous contact tracing will be essential to lower the transmission growth rate. The recently released Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT) system only traces device-to-device proximity for users of its app and neglects other crucial … Continue reading Covid-19 Spatial Contact Tracing Research at HKU
From tree bark and crustacean shells to silkworm webs and human breath, nature shapes Neri Oxman’s innovative design and production processes. As a designer, architect, and founding director of The Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab, Oxman has developed not only new ways of thinking about materials, objects, buildings, and construction methods, but … Continue reading Neri Oxman of the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab Opens Exhibition at MOMA
The American School refers to the imaginative school of design and practice that developed under the guidance of Bruce Goff, Herb Greene and others at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s and ‘60s. Students were taught to look to sources beyond the accepted canon of Western architecture and to find inspiration in everyday objects, … Continue reading Virtual Exhibition > RENEGADES: Bruce Goff and The American School, University of Oklahoma
The Upjohn program funds up to six research grants of $15,000-$30,000 per recipient annually for projects completed in a 6- to 18-month period. The research should relate to architectural knowledge that can be applied within the discipline. One grant will be dedicated to design and health principles. Read more on the flyer or at their … Continue reading Call for Submissions: 2018 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grants
Article submission is open at any time of the year. However, we have editorial cut-off dates in order to potentially be published in the current edition. The submission deadline for the next upcoming issue is April 22 Submission process: Potential authors need to register at the Journal’s website in order to submit an article for consideration : … Continue reading Submission Deadline for Enquiry Approaching April 22
Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, is the director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota and he is also the Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design at the university’s School of Architecture. In a 2017 essay for ACSA’s Journal of Technology | Architecture + Design, entitled “Research and Architecture’s Knowledge Loop,” Fisher, a regular contributor to ARCHITECT, … Continue reading Tom Fisher in “AIA Voices” section of ARCHITECT
ANFA has created a Fellowship in the name of John Paul Eberhard, the organization’s founding president (and former director of AIA’s Research Corporation). This fellowship is established to encourage Masters & PhD students and Post Docs, of either Neuroscience or Architecture programs to undertake, in their projects, theses or dissertations, the research required to develop new knowledge at … Continue reading ANFA John Paul Eberhard Fellowship
The February 1st deadline is fast approaching for paper submissions to TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) for the issue: MEASURED. TAD is the Taylor & Francis journal. Past issues can be accessed via T&F portal: www.tandfonline.com/toc/utad20/current CALL FOR PAPERS: Measurement is fundamental to the discipline of architecture. Through measurement, one gains a more complete understanding of what is intended to be … Continue reading TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) Journal Submissions due February 1st
In his new book, professor Edgar Stach unlocks the relationship between space and construction by analyzing key works from famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s extensive oeuvre, spanning from Europe in the 1920s to the United States in the late 1960s. The just-released “Mies van der Rohe: Space – Material – Detail” (Birkhäuser) features original … Continue reading New Book analyzes Mies van der Rohe
Iowa State University’s Department of Architecture has been productively pursuing funding and receiving awards. Take a look at some of their recent progress: Ulrike Passe, director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, received the 2017 Educator Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes significant contributions to … Continue reading Research at Iowa State
House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented … Continue reading House and Home – A Book by Thomas Barrie
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