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.

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John Folan Appointed Professor & Head of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas

After 11 years at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, Professor John Folan has been appointed Professor & Head of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Folan previously served as the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture, founder and director of the Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS), Track Chair of the Masters of Urban Design (MUD) program, and member of the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI).

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Metropolis Magazine Recap of ACSA Conference Features Work of SoA Faculty

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A recent feature in Metropolis magazine highlights the myriad ways architecture schools can help their nearby underserved communities. The article features the work of the Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) and the traveling exhibition An Atlas of Commoning spearheaded by SoA faculty.

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook Features Work of UDBS and PROJECT RE_

The recently released Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (2018) presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers and features the work of the UDBS and PROJECT RE_.

PROJECT RE_ Profiled by Katie Couric as Pittsburgh Innovation Leader

PROJECT RE_ Profiled by Katie Couric as Pittsburgh Innovation Leader

Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric is only the most recent ardent supporter of PROJECT RE_, the dynamic collaboration between SoA's Urban Design Build Studio, the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, and Construction Junction. Her report, part of Yahoo News's "Cities Rising: Rebuilding America" series, features PROJECT RE_ among a litany of features that make Pittsburgh one of the planet's most vibrant, innovative cities.