Congratulations to 5th year B.Arch senior Amy Rosen, who was recently selected as the Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association’s (CMWA) outstanding graduating senior student as selected by the College of Fine Arts for 2017.
Call for Applications for 2017 Faculty & Student Funding Awards -- Deadlines Extended to 29 March!
UDBS & Quito’s Universidad de las Americas Collaborate on Vertical Gardening Prototypes
Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS) students worked alongside students from the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Quito, Ecuador in November. UDBS students and faculty traveled to Quito during the XX Pan American Bienal de Arquitectura to participate in the La Tolita Workshop, which itself was part of a larger research project and community-based design effort led by UDLA in Guapulo, a neighborhood in Northern Quito.
It's Here! Second inter·punct Issue Set to Launch
It’s here! Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture student journal, inter·punct, invites you to celebrate the much-anticipated launch of our second issue, inter·view, on Monday, October 3 in the College of Fine Arts Great Hall, directly before Amanda Williams's lecture. Join us for food, music, inter·punct merchandise, and your own copy of the publication!
Join MSSD Students for Final Presentations!
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Matthew Porter Wins Lashmit Traveling Award
Fourth-year student Matthew Porter (B.Arch 2017) has won this year's Luther S. Lashmit Traveling Award, Head of School Steve Lee announced in early April. Of Matthew's award submission (a retrospective of his work as an architecture student), Assistant Head Mary-Lou Arscott says: "This is the work of a designer emerging from a thinker. His productive working process is evident through his beautiful, continuous sketching his way through a problem."
Congratulations, Class of 2016!
Kirk Newton Wins Shear Memorial Traveling Scholarship
Fourth-year student Kirk Newton (B.Arch 2017) has won this year's John Knox Shear Memorial Traveling Scholarship, Head of School Steve Lee announced in early April. Assistant Head Mary-Lou Arscott commented specifically on the visual cogency and beauty of Kirk's award submission (a retrospective of his work as an architecture student).
Commencement This Weekend!
CMU Meeting of the Minds
Join UDBS for NavADAPT Review and Open House at PROJECT RE_
Join Us for Final Studio Reviews
Cy Kim, Mark Terra-Salomão and Kelsey Simpson Win Valentour Traveling Scholarships
Carolina Tamayo Wins Burdett Assistantship
Fourth-year student Carolina Tamayo (B.Arch 2017) has won this year's Burdett Assistantship, Head of School Steve Lee announced in early April. Of Carolina's award submission (a retrospective of her work as an architecture student), Assistant Head Mary-Lou Arscott says: "Tamayo's development from her early years' work is evident. Her distinctive concern is to expose structure and to frame space in a lyrical way."
SoA's 2016 Spring Awards: Full List
Thesis Exhibition Opens 21 April at Miller Gallery
SoA Students Tour NASA's Johnson Space Center
Fourth- and fifth-year students in the Advanced Option Space Studio traveled last week to Houston, TX to visit the Johnson Space Center, the NASA campus devoted to designing and testing human space missions. Under the direction of Ann Kalla Professor Christina Ciardullo and at the invitation of NASA's veteran space architects, students toured mission control; viewed a remote launch; wandered through full scale mock-ups of space shuttles, ISS modules, and future habitat demonstration units; and spoke with astronauts training on the pool deck of the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
SoA Welcomes AIAS Northeast Quad Conference
Nearly 500 architecture students from around the northeast United States will converge in Pittsburgh this weekend for FORGE: NEW URBAN FRONTIERS, the 2016 American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Northeast Quad Conference, organized and hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of the AIAS.
Zain Hashmi Wins AIAS .ARCHI Web Portfolio Design Competition
Second-year student Zain Hashmi created the winning digital portfolio in a recent national design competition hosted by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). Zain's design sought to integrate function, aesthetics and structure to showcase his projects and accomplishments. Congratulations, Zain!
SoA's Sophie Nahrmann and Sinan Goral Win International Design Competition, Amit Nambiar Takes Honorable Mention
Third-year architecture students Sinan Goral and Sophie Nahrmann have won both Most Innovative and People's Choice in the FLUX Emerging Architects Design Competition. Their project, Ecoschool, "reverse-engineers how waste water and energy are processed within a building by exposing such systems to create beautiful, austere, and honest pipe networks that are enclosed by a reductive and cloudlike cage...[it] heightens the awareness of climate change and hints at a futurist, technology-empowered housing strategy."