The spring 2024 public programs emphasize architects as mediators negotiating disparate modes of thought, creating common ground, and mitigating harm. We discuss how our work addresses critical sites and debates in the world around us; what it takes to articulate our values and stand by them.
Carnegie Mellon Architecture is proud to announce the 2024 awardees for the PJ Dick Innovation Fund Faculty Grants Program. A total of $100,000 has been awarded to 16 project and teaching grant proposals. Established in 2023 by PJ Dick Trumbull Lindy Group, the program supports faculty research and teaching innovations that address the school’s three pedagogical challenges of climate change, social justice and artificial intelligence.
Carnegie Mellon Architecture is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Spring 2024 Awards. Applications are due on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. Over $44,000 of funding is available to support undergraduate and graduate students (Master’s and PhD). Awards recognize student work in public interest design, design and representation, sustainability, and real estate, as well as professional promise.
Our Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree program has received an eight year term of Continuing Accreditation with a Plan to Correct from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Congratulations to Track Chair Sarosh Anklesaria and former Track Chair Kai Gutschow and the Master of Architecture students, staff and faculty.
Carnegie Mellon Architecture faculty and alumni on project teams at Pittsburgh-based design firms were recognized for outstanding design at the 2023 Design Pittsburgh Awards. A signature program of AIA Pittsburgh, the annual event highlights outstanding architecture and design in the Pittsburgh region.
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Public Programs announces our fall 2022 and spring 2023 series: Materiality. Materials shape the spaces around us. This series of events examines the tactile, structural, and visual qualities of the materials used in architecture practice. Events are free and open to the public, and eligible for AIA CEUs.
The 2022 EX-CHANGE celebrates projects from first year through PhD programs through an exhibition in the CFA Great Hall, on view August 29-September 11, 2022. The exhibition, designed by means+methods, led by Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp, will be accompanied by a catalog designed by Group Project, Jimmy Luu and Ryan Menefee (DC ’08, HNZ ’09).
Join us for the 2022 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW) on Thursday, August 18 from 1pm-4pm (EST) followed by a keynote from Nader Tehrani of NADAAA at 5:30pm (EST). Now in its seventh year, ACAW is the paramount venue for exploring innovations in architectural terra cotta. Virtual event is free to attend. AIA credits available.
Join us in telling the SoA’s stories. Whose work do we see? Whose stories are told? We’re looking for students to join photographer Kemuel Benyehudah in documenting life at the School of Architecture in April and early May 2022. This is an opportunity to practice skills related to community-facing and human-centered design work while gaining familiarity with photographic techniques.
“Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi” is an online week-long joint symposium and design charrette organized by CMU SoA, in association with three schools of Architecture in India. The event considers questions of design ethics and justice as these relate to broad issues of worldmaking, and in particular, to the contested futures of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Public Programs announces our spring 2022 series: World Making. How are worlds made, experienced and contested? Join us in this series of lectures, discussions and hands-on workshops to explore notions of the real, fictive and possible. Events are free and open to the public, and eligible for AIA CEUs.
The Remaking Cities Institute’s research and programming on resilient industrial regions is continuing to contribute to a transatlantic dialogue on challenges and opportunities. RCI will be sustaining this dialogue in 2022, including programs with the Ruhr region which will be announced in early 2022.
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has named Carolyn Ristau, Remaking Cities Institute Visiting Scholar, as its inaugural Kathy A. Possinger Housing Policy Fellowship awardee. Ristau will receive a financial stipend of up to $12,000 to support her research project "Residential Zoning by Race: How Pittsburgh's Zoning Districts Promote Different Housing Options for Black and White Residents."
The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture is now accepting applications for our graduate programs for the fall 2022 semester. The application deadline is February 1, 2022. We invite prospective students to attend the Graduate Program Open House on Monday, 01 November 2021 to learn more about the SoA and to speak with faculty and students in their program(s) of interest.
