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.

Student Organizations

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inter·punct's 10th birthday!

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As far as we can tell, 2021 is the 10th year of inter·punct – seems like cause for celebration, right? The group has changed a lot over the years, but join us as we commemorate all iterations of inter·punks past and present this semester! We've got a special slate of events and releases planned for the coming months – so mark your calendars now and stay tuned for updates!

Join us for the Environmental Justice and the Built Environment Teach-In on Fri 16 Oct

The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture hosts the Environmental Justice and the Built Environment Teach-In on Friday 16 October. This set of conversations, organized by students and faculty, aims to foster learning about how the design and planning of the built environment contributes to environmental harms that specifically concentrate in marginalized Black and brown communities, and the ways in which designers can work with communities to address these structural and localized conditions.

Freedom By Design Chapter Awarded 2020 NOMA-NAACP-SEED Award for Design Excellence in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The Carnegie Mellon Freedom By Design chapter has been awarded a 2020 NOMA-NAACP-SEED Award for Design Excellence in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Weatherization Kit Project. The project aims to address housing inequalities by providing information and materials to help Pittsburgh families save money and energy in the winter months.

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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School of Architecture B.Arch Fifth-Year Selena Zhen Recognized at 2019 AIAS Honor Awards

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The SoA congratulates B.Arch fifth-year Selena Zhen on being awarded the Special Accomplishment Honor Award as part of the 2019 American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Honor Awards. Each year the AIAS honors individuals and groups for their exemplary work in areas such as leadership, collaboration, scholarship, and service.

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CMU Selects Freedom By Design Home Weatherization Kit Project for Annual Crowdfunding Campaign

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Freedom by Design’s Weatherization Kits are one of 12 projects featured in the annual CMU Crowdfunding Campaign. Each year, CMU highlights student projects that promote hands-on learning and impact the local community. Donations are being accepted now through December 3, 2019 at 11:59pm EST.

inter•punct Call for Submissions: Pedagogy Zines

inter•punct is putting together a project discussing emergent and often radical issues latent in the educational environment that the organization feels are far too absent from current discourse. Following the footsteps of pamphlet architecture, clip-stamp-fold, and 'a few zines,’ the group is curating a collection of zines, and they invite you to be a part of this process.

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SoA Students Construct Official Entryway for CMU Spring Carnival

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A group of 50 SoA students started a new tradition by designing and building the official entryway to CMU's Spring Carnival. The effort is led by SoA Pavilion Committee chairs Ghalya Alsanea (B.Arch ’20), Edward Fischer (B.Arch ’21), and Ryu Kondrup (B.Arch ’21).

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B.Arch Fifth Year Zain Islam-Hashmi Has Designs for Fashion

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As head designer for CMU's annual Lunar Gala fashion show, Zain Islam-Hashmi has created his niche as an architect of fashion, who creates clothing and wardrobe ensembles with materials like resin, cement, and plexiglass. He has taken advantage of opportunities at CMU and around the world and has shaped them into something unique.