Opinion: We Can’t Go on Teaching the Same History of Architecture as Before
Opinion: The writer and historian Mario Carpo makes a plea for architectural history, albeit one more sensitive to our times.
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Can You Teach Good Design on a Social Media Network?
Professors at Parsons, Princeton, Yale, and MIT are using a platform called Are.na to help students collaborate without judgment and create in the public eye.
How a DIY Floating University in Berlin Could Be an Unorthodox Prototype for Design Education
The temporary pirate shiplike school, spearheaded by local firm Raumlabor, provided a delightful hodgepodge of serious academia and public programming.
RIT's Metaproject Immerses Students in Real-World Design Challenges
The Rochester Institute of Technology’s senior studio Metaproject is a lesson and exercise in market reality.
How the National Society of Interior Designers Was Born
A breakaway chapter of the American Institute of Decorators decided to popularize and define the new role of "Interior Designer."
Get Licensed While in Architecture School? Deans Weigh in
NCARB's Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) aims to shorten the road to licensure. Five school heads discuss how it's changing architectural education.
"Baltimore Is a Blank Slate," and That Makes It Ripe for Design
So says Leslie Speer, the head of MICA's new product design program.
Is Architecture What They're Really Teaching Us?
I decided to study architecture to help improve the conditions of my city and country. However, after arriving at university, I quickly realized that humanity was far from the focus of my studies.
Students, Inspired by Broadacre City, Imagine a Better, Collective Sprawl
In revisiting the speculative proposal, pupils at the School of Architecture at Taliesin strive for avant-garde status without the aesthetic trappings of “Mr. Wright.”
A Sustainable Way of Life: Taliesin West Continues Wright's Legacy
Apprentice, resident, and practitioner for two decades at Taliesin West, Vern Swaback explores how the site's past and future are intertwined.
Cornell's New Flexible Design Space—With Pushcart Furniture—Is a Lesson in Itself
William Lim, an architect and Cornell grad, and furniture designers Lim+Lu create multifunctional pieces for a new Cornell studio space in Manhattan.
Nine of Taliesin West's Most Iconic Student Shelters
The student-designed desert shelters at Taliesin West, which began in 1938 with John Lautner's lean-to and continue today, provide a window into architecture's evolving relationship with the natural environment.
Student Designs Self-Navigating Fashion Line for the Blind
Parsons School of Design and AARP's "Disrupt Aging Design Challenge" asks students to design solutions for older clients. Camila Chiriboga's winning design helps blind wearers navigate the world, fashionably.
The 7 Best Booths of ICFF 2017
This year's ICFF was exceptional in quality and range. These ten booths (plus two student-run booths) stood out from the rest.
RIT Spearheads Program to Attract Deaf Students to Technical Design
We speak to the leaders of a new program at RIT that is focused on educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the field of three dimensional graphic design.
Students Create Low-Cost Solutions for Coffee Harvesters
Students and teachers from El Salvador will unveil new tools for ethical coffee collection at this month’s ICFF in New York.
The Challenge of a Chair: Students Compete to Create One-of-a-Kind Chair
For the past 13 years, Wilsonart has been hosting student chair design competition to challenge students to create a unique design.
Diane Lewis, Architect and Cooper Union Professor, Dies
Lewis, a design "dynamo" who combined practice and teaching, was a central fixture in the New York architecture community.
How to Get More Minority Students in Architecture? Look to 1968
Columbia University's radical experiments of the late 1960s were tremendously successful in recruiting and retaining minority students. Can we apply them again today?
Diversity Champions: 8 Schools That Aren't Just Paying Lip Service To Diversity
Many colleges are working to be more inclusive, but these architecture and design schools are going above and beyond.
