Head of School Steve Lee announced this year's full slate of Spring Awards before the final lecture of the Spring 2016 series on April 4. We'll be featuring individual winners over the next couple of weeks, but click through for the complete list. Congratulations to all winners and participants!
Dream On
Thesis Exhibition Opens 21 April at Miller Gallery
Post-Buggy Open House This Saturday!
All School of Architecture alumni and their families are invited to join us for an open-house reception after Buggy during this weekend's Carnival. Touch base with old friends and faculty, take a look at current students' award-winning work, and refuel before heading back to the Midway. We hope to see you Saturday, 16 April from 12p to 2p in CFA 214.
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.
Don Carter's New Book Addresses Thorny Questions About Post-Industrial Urban Design
Remaking Cities Institute Director Don Carter's Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe, published by Routledge, examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.
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!
Three SoA Alumni Honored in Stewardson Competition
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.
Applications Now Open for Spring Awards
Join us in San Francisco!
SoA and UDBS are hosting two special events in concurrence with REAL 2016, a showcase of reality computing technologies. Events are free with registration; see more information.
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."
How to Tame Your Robot, with Madeline Gannon
Check out CMU's feature story on SoA's doctoral student, Madeline Gannon!
Erica Cochran Attends White House Building Energy Event
We're hosting the 2016 AIAS Northeast Quad Conference!
In March 2016, CMU SoA's chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) will welcome hundreds of top architecture students to Pittsburgh. The two-day conference will explore urban renewal through the lenses of technology, sustainability, public interest design, and the arts using Pittsburgh as a powerful example of post-industrial resilience. Registration opens 24 December at forgequad.org.
Inter·punct Newsletter Issue 01
Spring 2016 Lecture Series Announced!
This spring's lineup:
25 Jan: EVA FRANCH I GILABERT, Storefront for Art and Architecture
08 Feb: MAURICIO BERTET, George N Pauly Jr Fellow
M22 Feb: JESSE REISER & NANAKO UMEMOTO, Reiser-Umemoto
M14 Mar: FERDA KOLATAN, SU11 Architecture+Design
M21 Mar: SEBASTIAAN KAAL, Mecanoo
M04 Apr: JOSEF KAPS, DREiCON
