Events
Christi Danner
Announcing the Spring 2024 Public Programs ...

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.

Announcing the Spring 2024 Public Programs Series: Resolutions
Faculty
Meredith Marsh
Carnegie Mellon Architecture Awards $100,000 to ...

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.

Students
Meredith Marsh
Spring 2024 Architecture Awards: Applications ...

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.

Faculty
Meredith Marsh
Remembrances of Delbert Highlands

Following the passing of Professor Delbert Highlands this past July, the School of Architecture presents a collection of remembrances of Professor Highlands from members of the Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship committee and Steve Lee, former School Head.

Research & Programs
Meredith Marsh
M.Arch Program Receives 8-Year NAAB Continuing ...

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.

Cruz García

WAI Presents LOUDREADERS Trade School June 19-28

WAI Think Tank presents LOUDREADERS Trade School from June 19-28, 2020. The sessions, discussions, and workshops are presented by WAI Think Tank and a series of guests from different disciplines including several previous LOUDREADERS speakers. Applications are due on June 15 and enrollment is free.

LOUDREADERS Session Presents WAI Think Tank's ‘Anti-Racist Manifesto’ Sat 13 June at 4pm EST

On the occasion of the vital uprisings of manifestations demanding justice and dignity for Black Lives, WAI will lead the eleventh session of LOUDREADERS, a discussion around 'Un-Making Architecture: An Anti-Racist Manifesto,' on Sat 13 June at 4:00pm EST.

LOUDREADERS Session Welcomes Léopold Lambert Sat 16 May at 12pm EST

The seventh session of LOUDREADERS on Sat 16 May at 12:00pm EST welcomes Léopold Lambert as he reads from Samia Henni's Architecture of the Counterrevolution, Ariella Azoulay's Potential History, and Nick Estes' Our History is the Future.

LOUDREADERS Session Welcomes Platforms Sat 09 May at 5pm EST

The sixth session of LOUDREADERS on Sat 09 May at 5:00pm EST welcomes three student-run platforms: Carnegie Mellon University’s inter·punct, The School of Architecture at Taliesin WASH Magazine, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fold, as they exchange questions, strategies, and projections.

LOUDREADERS Session Welcomes Ilze Wolff Sat 02 May at 3pm EST

The fifth session of LOUDREADERS on Sat 02 May at 3:00pm EST welcomes Ilze Wolff presenting the Loudreading of ‘Aesthetics of Superfluity’ by Achille Mbembe, and Yakhal' Inkomo by Capetonian Jazz Legend Winston “Mankunku” Ngozi.

LOUDREADERS Session “Narrative Architecture” Book Release and Discussion Sat 18 Apr at 4pm EST

The third session of LOUDREADERS welcomes you to join WAI Architecture Think Tank and Team Thursday as they present and discuss the contents, concepts, process, strategies, ideas, and design of the recently published Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto (Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, 2020) on Sat 18 Apr at 4:00pm EST.

LOUDREADERS Online Conversation Series Welcomes Traumnovelle Sat 04 Apr at 4pm EST

LOUDREADERS online conversation series begins Saturday 04 April at 4:00pm EST with Traumnovelle, a militant faction founded by three Belgian architects: Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul, and Johnny Leya. Traumnovelle uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical, and subversive tools to emphasize contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions. 

WAI Launches Online Conversation Series LOUDREADERS

Kalla Co-Professors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia launch LOUDREADERS, an online conversation series in collaboration with inter·punct. LOUDREADERS is a cross between podcast, YouTube channel, Zoom meeting, lecture series, digital curatorial program, and online workshop that establishes networks of solidarity around the world while discussing urgent positions, discourses, and media about architecture, urbanism, art, and culture.

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Kalla Co-Professors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García to Lecture on Mon 07 Oct

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Ann Kalla Co-Professors in Architecture Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García present their talk, “In Post-Novis all the Students are the teacher,” which discusses a decade of alternative projects as historical reflex in a time of pressing global challenges. A variety of examples are summoned to question historical narratives from positions of power while searching for kynical, emancipating, and critical forms of architecture.

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Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García Receive 2019-20 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture

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The SoA is pleased to announce that Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García have been selected for the 2019-20 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture. The duo will deliver a lecture during the Fall 2019 Lecture Series and teach an ASO studio and spring seminar in spring 2020.