A new survey finds that architecture majors post more hours studying per week than students in any other major.
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The AIA has elected Helene Combs Dreiling, currently the executive director of the Virginia Center for Architecture, to serve as its next president.
Flat LCD display panels to create a composite video wall system
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The AIA can report progress toward the goals it outlined for its 2030 Commitment Program, but there is more work to be done.
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Home to AIA|DC and the Washington Architecture Foundation, the District Architecture Center is a storefront gateway to D.C.'s architecture community.
A look at Gordon Bunshaft's cylindrical museum, as captured by Ezra Stoller just after it opened.
Design firm Generator Studio builds a photovoltaic installation for the 'World's Fair' exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins. Through Aug. 19.
This Minneapolis-based firm is the 2012 AIA Archtitecture Firm of the Year.
This year's 25-Year Award goes to this famous, and misunderstood, house, as fondly remembered by his project designer.
Bill Zahner, one of Frank Gehry's go-to materials experts, dispels the myths surrounding the metal tapestries in Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial design—a prototype of which Zahner designed.
Last year's Avenue, displayed at the AIA National Convention, is now being put together as a house in New Orleans.
Breaking a streak of five straight months of growth, billings contracts for architecture work reported to the American Institute of Architects. Only half of the nation’s regions and half of the industry’s sectors came in above 50 for the month, fewer than in each of the months for the past...
More statues and an older Young Ike centerpiece mark the major changes to Frank Gehry’s design for the memorial to the President, Supreme Allied Commander, and barefoot boy from Kansas.
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Some of the AIA's other awards: Young Architects Award, Associates Award, Whitney M. Young Jr. Award, Collaborative Achievement Award, and Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture.
In the 1850s, the political climate was just as partisan as now, when politicians helped design and construct the U.S. Capitol Building.
A nature-inspired mosaic design featuring stones or jewel glass.
As part of the Pacific Standard Time consortium of exhibits, the Chinese American Museum highlights four architects who helped build L.A. Through June 3.
Northbrook, Ill. / Goettsch Partners
Chicago / John Ronan Architects
New York / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Providence, R.I. / Anmahian Winton Architects
New York / Andre Kikoski Architect
Fayetteville, Ark. / University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC)
New Orleans / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
New York / Ennead Architects
Oklahoma City / Rogers Marvel Architects
Owings Mill, Md. / David Jameson Architect
Miami Beach, Fla. / Gehry Partners; Hines; West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture
Los Angeles / Patrick Tighe Architecture
Virginia Tech University
Amman, Jordan / Sasaki Associates
Toronto / Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Incheon, South Korea / Gensler
Dublin / Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners/DMOD Architects
Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia / MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited
Pittsburgh / Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Philadelphia / Cooper, Robertson & Partners; KieranTimberlake; Olin
Los Angeles / Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Indianapolis / Marlon Blackwell Architect
Portland, Ore. / ZGF Architects
La Crescenta, Calif. / Michael Maltzan Architecture
Omaha, Neb. / Randy Brown Architects
Copenhagen / Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
New York / Morphosis Architects
The 2012 AIA Gold Medalist has never compromised on his design philosophy—even when his clients have no idea what he's talking about.
A spherical light fixture with a porous texture that draws inspiration from a sea sponge.
The Architect of the Capitol surveys the city of Washington that almost was, in an exhibit at the National Building Museum.
The National Building Museum curator talks about the influence of the P/A Awards.
An illuminating wallpaper designed by Ingo Maurer.
Ettore Sotsass is getting two retrospectives in Berlin. Through June 23; through June 9.
Weiss/Manfredi Architecture speaks about its winning design for the National Mall.
With projects across the city, Washington, D.C.'s ever-present Core has participated in building the District from the ground up.
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The heart of architecture is connecting people.
Rebuilding in a recession's and a tornado's wake.
Connecting place and practice with Janet Bloomberg, AIA, and Richard Loosle-Ortega, RA.
Urban Charrette connects Tampa and the design community.
For two decades, the Young Architects Forum has helped emerging designers network and grow professionally.
Alexandra Lange, an architectural critic and a writer for Design Observor, teaches us all to take a second look at buildings in her primer on reading and writing architecture criticism.
A limited-edition seating piece made completely from paper.
BarberOsgerby’s design for this summer’s Olympic Games wins Design of the Year from London’s Design Museum.
Ned Cramer to moderate AIA NY panel on technology and social media.
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Young practices blur boundaries and push precedents aside.
The signature Thom Mayne–designed Cooper Union building casts a shadow over the design school’s financial future, which announced that it will begin charging tuition from graduate students.
Meulensteen Gallery in New York is hosting a week-long unveiling of designs for the new museum at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
A glare-free light fixture with integrated shades designed by Shoichi Uchiyama.
Highlights from the exhibit halls of the fairgrounds at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.
An architecture professor describes eleven architecture and urban environments that have that elusive authentic, sense-of-place quality--with lessons to be learned in each.
Happenings at Fuori Salone, the segment of the International Furniture Fair that turns Milan’s Zona Tortona into a playland for the design-minded.
Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning is building a modern-day hermitage on its campus.
The "Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places." competition highlights the Sunshine State's favorite structures, including oceanside hotels, university student centers, and a famous princess's castle.
The atmosphere of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile is inescapable. As, apparently, is Marcel Wanders.
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The AIA’s ABI shows growth for the fifth straight month, led by the commercial sector, which came in at its highest number since August 2007. Three of four regions are still in positive territory, as are half of the industry sectors.
Alcatraz has a history of intrigue, but it also has a history of architectural styles, as documented in a new book by San Francisco architect Donald McDonald.
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The short list for the new Menil Drawing Institute includes designers whose geographic bases are as diverse as their portfolios.
The Hirshhorn in D.C. will get a video makeover by artist Doug Aitken this spring. Through May 13.
A line of faucets inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement.
Frank Lloyd Wright's main photographer, now 95, exhibits his work at the Julius Shulman Institute. Through April 25.
The classic stackable chair is available in nine new colors.
The CCA pairs photos and sketches of Macchu Picchu as yet another moment of nostalgia for the drawing days of architecture. Through April 22.
The photographer tells us what it was really like to be Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite.
Former platforms used in mushroom-growing facilities become architectural finishes.
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Queens, N.Y. / Caples Jefferson Architects
Six years out from Katrina and six years away from New Orleans's tricentennial, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple is rebuilding the City That Care Forgot.
A glass tabletop supported by a two-way, solid wood base.
Peter Rose’s urban design for the port of Montreal mixes public access with a working waterfront.
Vershina Trade and Entertainment Centre
Surgut, Russia / Designed by Erick van Egeraat
Missouri Bank Branches
Kansas City, Mo. / Helix Architecture + Design
Park City, Utah / BIG
Miami / Grimshaw Architects
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Lumber reclaimed from irreparable fences that may be used in many building applications.
A journalist's novelistic take on ground zero doesn't add weight to the debate.
Wastewater-treatment plants used to be dirty buildings. Today, architects are cleaning them up.
Software is crucial to design, but a program is only part of the story. Plug-ins, updates, and other customizations are key to getting work done.
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A look at local market conditions in Jackson, Miss.
Wang Shu's use of materials both exploits and exposes China's reckless approach to building.
The app economy promises to change the way that architects and engineers do business.
A new San Francisco exhibit showcases Buckminster Fuller's projects as well as Bay Area projects inspired by him. Through July 29.
Recent national and grassroots initiatives open the door for reuse to have a greater role in sustainable design.