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.

Ashley Cox joins the evolveEA Team

Ashley Cox

Ashley Cox

We are excited to announce that Ashley Cox has returned to evolveEA as a full-time member of our team! A talented and enthusiastic Urban Designer, Ashley was initially engaged with us during the summer of 2014 as an intern through Carnegie Mellon’s award-winning UDream program. After completing the internship program, Ashley remained in Pittsburgh to earn a Master of Urban Design at CMU. While in school she continued to work with us on select projects.
Ashley has demonstrated leadership capacity with valued contributions to our Pittsburgh community based projects such as the Hill District Centre Avenue Redevelopment Plan, Garfield Green Zone, and Urban Agriculture and Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Larimer. In her new role, Ashley will continue to draw upon her advanced technical background in urban systems and her experience with creative engagement to empower people and help create resilient communities. We’re thrilled to have Ashley with us as we begin 2017!

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UDBS & Quito’s Universidad de las Americas Collaborate on Vertical Gardening Prototypes

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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.

Front Studio's Sharpsburg Public Library Gains National Attention

Front Studio Architects' Sharpsburg Public Library is featured in October's issue of Architect's Newspaper in print and online. Principals Yen Ha, Michi Yanagishita, and Art Lubetz, who first met in SoA, seek to create environments that encourage a sense of belonging; AN notes that the new library building is "a major gathering center for the little town."

Jonathan Kline's Work Featured in New Cooper-Hewitt Exhibition

The work of Associate Studio Professor Jonathan Kline and his Studio for Spatial Practice is on display as part of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's “By the People: Designing a Better America,” the third exhibition in its series on socially responsible design, from Sept. 30 through Feb. 26, 2017. The first exhibition in the series to focus on conditions in the U.S. and its bordering countries, “By the People” explores the challenges faced by urban, suburban and rural communities. 

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!

Meet José Oubrerie at Lecture and Reception

José Oubrerie, internationally renowned French architect and protégé of Le Corbusier, will offer a lecture in conjunction with the Miller Gallery exhibition Architecture with and without Le Corbusier: The Chapel of the Mosquitoes (Associate Curator Spike Wolff). Join us at Miller Gallery on Friday, September 23 for Oubrerie's lecture (5:00PM) and a reception (6:00 - 8:00PM). See more information.