Adjunct faculty member Paul Ostergaard accepted the 2019 Arthur Ross Award for Community Design, Civic Design, and City Planning on behalf of Urban Design Associates on May 6.
Professor Francesca Torello Selected to Participate in National Endowment for the Humanities Program
Adjunct Professor Francesca Torello, PhD has been selected to participate in a four-week program with the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute this July at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. “Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere” approaches museums as sites for interdisciplinary inquiry that offer windows on today's educational, ethical, and cultural debates.
Professor Ömer Akin Selected to Present at 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference
Christine Mondor Named one of 25 Essential Pittsburghers by NEXTpittsburgh
Dana Cupkova Delivers Keynote at SimAUD 2019 Symposium
Professor Dana Cupkova Receives 2019 ACADIA Teaching Award of Excellence
Professor Kristen Kurland Featured in Book “Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories” Published by Esri, Inc.
mossArchitects Featured in Dwell Magazine for Adaptive Reuse of The Detective Building
Metropolis Magazine Recap of ACSA Conference Features Work of SoA Faculty
Announcing the Winners of the 2019 SoA Design Awards
Dana Cupkova to Deliver Keynote at Penn State’s Stuckeman School Thu 18 Apr
Charles Klee of Payette Joins SoA as Adjunct Professor
Martin Aurand Awarded Distinguished Service Award from Association of Architecture School Librarians
Principal Architecture Librarian & Archivist Martin Aurand was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award for distinction in the profession from the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) for outstanding and sustained service to the profession through active participation, advocacy, and leadership.
Daniel Cardoso Llach Speaks at Harvard GSD on History of Digital Architecture
Associate Professor of Architecture Daniel Cardoso Llach participated in the symposium “Other Histories of the Digital” at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design this past week. He discussed aspects of digital labor in architecture based on his ongoing research on the history and contemporary practices of computer-aided design and building information modeling.
SoA Faculty & Students Explore Role of Architecture in the History of Computing at CMU
A new interactive installation by SoA faculty and students explores the role of the school in the history of computing at CMU. The installation is on display throughout the month of April at the Posner Center as part of a larger exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first computer at CMU.
Daniel Cardoso Llach Delivers Lecture on “Infrastructures of the Imagination” at Clemson University
Associate Professor of Architecture Daniel Cardoso Llach delivered a lecture entitled “Infrastructures of the Imagination” at Clemson University’s Department of Architecture drawing from his research on the history of CAD systems, and from recent work developed at the Computational Design Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon.
Francesca Torello Discusses Future of Technology and the Arts in Education During TripTech Roundtable Event
Adjunct professor Francesca Torello recently took part in a roundtable discussion about the arts and technology in education for the future as part of TripTech, a three-day event series organized by the CMU English department, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, and Google in cooperation with a wide variety of artists, activists, and educators from CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.
Dana Cupkova Presents at Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) Symposium 2019, Publishes White Paper on Psychosomatic Architecture with Daragh Byrne
Associate professor Dana Cupkova presented her design and research work at the 2019 Living Architecture Systems Group Symposium (LASG), and contributed to the 2019 LASG White Paper book with a paper co-authored by SoA assistant teaching professor Daragh Byrne titled Towards Psychosomatic Architecture: Attuning Reactive Architectural Materials Through Biofeedback.
Professors Joshua Bard and Dana Cupkova Publish in the Construction Robotics Journal
Associate professor Joshua Bard and assistant professor Dana Cupkova recently published an article entitled “Robotic concrete surface finishing: A Moldless approach to creating thermally tuned surface geometry for architectural building components using Profile-3D-Printing” in the Construction Robotics Journal. Their research is supported by CMU’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative.