2023 SUMMER VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE RESIDENCY LIGHT + POLYCHROMY

‘T’ Space and the Steven Myron Holl Foundation announce our Summer 2023 Virtual Architecture Residency program. We expect a competitive pool of international applicants this year, with full scholarships available to all admitted residents and a $1000 stipend to visit the grounds and other destinations of interest in the Hudson …


Student Design Competition at BLTa – A Perkins Eastman Studio

BLT Architects – a Perkins Eastman Studio, (BLTa) is pleased to announce its 12th Annual Student Design Competition. This year we will host a virtual competition happening on Saturday, March 25th and Sunday, March 26th. Structured as a hackathon-style partner challenge, the competition is open to students enrolled in an architectural program graduating …


Carbon Sequestering: Synthesizing Passive House and Healthy Materials Recap

Passive House approach to operational energy with challenges of addressing upfront embodied carbon, as a key combination to address in approaching carbon-zero buildings. ​​To move our construction into a carbon-neutral environment it is essential to address the operational energy through Passive House performance together with the upfront embodied carbon through …


“On Hope” featuring Nishan Kazazian, AIA at King’s College

On March 10, 2023,  Nishan Kazazian will be presenting via zoom with the British Psychoanalytical Society  in Collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College, London as part of the ‘Questioning the Obvious’ series, “On Hope”. Dostoevsky was emphatic about hope: “To live without hope is to cease to live. …


Open Call: Good Interventions’23 Design Competition and Exhibition

Open Call: Good Interventions’23 Design Competition and Exhibition Good Interventions is an annual exhibition of intangible design projects that address the pressing issues of our time by bringing together the power of design and social sciences. For its second edition, fifteen projects will be selected to be exhibited. The program …


From Field to Form: An Introduction to Building with Plants and Earth

David J. Lewis, Dean of SCE, and Jonsara Ruth, Design Director, Healthy Materials Lab, is forming, alongside Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Lola Ben Alon Yona, and Mae-Ling Lokko, the introductory event of this important series, From Field to Form, next Wednesday, February 15th at 7:00pm at the Scholastic Auditorium. From …


LEED Green Associate (GA) Training – Webinar and Online Self-Paced Options

Start off the year by making your resume stand out with the premier sustainability designation called the LEED Green Associate! LEED is simply a sustainability scorecard for green buildings. As buildings can become LEED Certified, people can become LEED accredited! The best way to break into the sustainability space is to attain …


Aya Maceda (ALAO) Named A Design Awardee at AIA Connecticut

Congratulations to MFA Interior Design faculty member, Aya Maceda, (ALAO) on being the recipient of an interior design award at AIA Connecticut! For more information on the winning project, click here.


Call for Proposals: Architecture and Design Students

Attention all Architecture and Design students the Vera List Center for Art and Politics needs your help! Launched in 2017, the reading room has traveled to art spaces and museums around the world, and is presented at The New School’s Social Justice Hub from April 1 to May 23, 2023 …


David Gissen: The Architecture of Disability

  David Gissen is a professor of Architecture and Urban History at Parsons School of Design. He is a New York based author, designer, and educator working in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban design. This year, David taught the Masters of Architecture option studio, “The One-Story City,” and …