The School of Architecture is proud to announce the student and faculty winners of the 2022 SoA Awards Program. Please join us in congratulating the winners on their tremendous accomplishments, and thanks to all of those who participated in this year’s competitions.
School of Architecture Hosts April Undergraduate Open House Events
The SoA invites undergraduate prospective students to attend an April Undergraduate Open House event. Events are hosted every Monday on April 4, 11, 18, and 25. Undergraduate applicants offered admission to the school and high school prospective students interested in studying architecture are welcome to attend these events.
PhD-AECM Students Kushagra Varma and Nihar Pathak Win First Place in Scott Institute Energy Research Poster Competition
Congratulations to PhD-AECM students Kushagra Varma and Nihar Pathak for winning first place in the Scott Institute's annual CMU Energy Week Poster Competition for their poster "Towards 4D Visualization of Urban Building Environmental Performance: Analysis of Manhattan’s Residential Energy and Water Use Performance Data." A longstanding tradition of Energy Week, the competition showcases innovative work of CMU’s student and post-doctoral researchers.
HUMANS OF THE SoA: A Paid Photography Workshop Opportunity for Students with Kemuel Benyehudah
Join us in telling the SoA’s stories. Whose work do we see? Whose stories are told? We’re looking for students to join photographer Kemuel Benyehudah in documenting life at the School of Architecture in April and early May 2022. This is an opportunity to practice skills related to community-facing and human-centered design work while gaining familiarity with photographic techniques.
School of Architecture Hosts Graduate Program Admitted Student Open House Thursday 31 March
The SoA invites applicants offered admission to the Graduate Program to attend a virtual Open House on Thursday, 31 March 2022. While the open house programming will be offered on Zoom beginning at 7:00pm ET, we invite you to visit our campus to attend the public lecture and tour the School of Architecture Graduate Program in person.
Announcing the Spring 2022 Computational Design Lecture Series: Re-Thinking/Re-Making
Carnegie Mellon Team Awarded First Place in CAWP Student Estimating Competition
Congratulations to the team of six MSAECM students on winning First Place in the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania (CAWP) 6th Annual CAWP Student Estimating Competition. This is the first time a team from Carnegie Mellon has won the competition in all its years of participation. The team received a $1,500 prize and the opportunity to showcase their skills in front of a jury of seven contractors from across western Pennsylvania.
"Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi" Symposium is Feb 19-26
“Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi” is an online week-long joint symposium and design charrette organized by CMU SoA, in association with three schools of Architecture in India. The event considers questions of design ethics and justice as these relate to broad issues of worldmaking, and in particular, to the contested futures of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Carter Nelson (B.Arch '17) Awarded 2022 Highlands Travel Fellowship
The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Carter Nelson (B.Arch '17) has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship for his proposal Dovecotes of Tinos. With this award, Nelson will fully document a selection of dovecotes on the Greek island of Tinos in order to help support their preservation.
Announcing the Spring 2022 CMU School of Architecture Public Programs
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Public Programs announces our spring 2022 series: World Making. How are worlds made, experienced and contested? Join us in this series of lectures, discussions and hands-on workshops to explore notions of the real, fictive and possible. Events are free and open to the public, and eligible for AIA CEUs.
RCI’s Research on New Local Mobility Focuses on Regional Highway Corridors
RCI’s Research on Resilient Industrial Regions Incorporates Adaptive Reuse
RCI’s Research on Resilient Industrial Regions Contributes to Transatlantic Dialogue
The Remaking Cities Institute’s research and programming on resilient industrial regions is continuing to contribute to a transatlantic dialogue on challenges and opportunities. RCI will be sustaining this dialogue in 2022, including programs with the Ruhr region which will be announced in early 2022.