When we first launched our masters program–Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture–back in 2010, we were virtually the only postgraduate degree with a specific and joint focus on the…
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Students visiting Comuna 8 with representative of the Urban Development Enterprise of the Municipality of Medellín. Photo: Allison Koornneef, 2013. We are proud to present a new article co-authored by…
It has been nearly two months since our we lost our dear student Nerea Pérez-Arróspide to a tragic accident in Senegal, where she was living out her passion for improving…
We are excited to announce that Alejandro Haiek Coll, Venezuelan architect, artist and cofounder of LAB.PRO.FAB and The Public Machinery will be joining our faculty and leading his first workshop…
Refugee Republic, an interactive online documentary mapping the lives of 58,000 people living in the Domiz camp for Syrian refugees in northern Iraq, has been awarded best communication project and…
This week’s workshop is taught by African geopolitics and refugee camps expert Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, former director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Liberia and Ivory Coast and head of its programs…
Disasters happen all the time. We can’t always prevent them from happening, but disaster risk reduction efforts can limit the scale of devastation. Launched this Tuesday to coincide with the…
We are so proud to hear that RAPIDO, the disaster recovery housing pilot program led by our former student Elaine Morales with BCworkshop, has been awarded 1st place in the…
We recently caught up with former student David Kostenwein, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, who is now based in Bogotá implementing Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative,…
Last April we ended our series of Development by Design Dialogues with special guest Teddy Cruz, architect known for his extensive research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. In the dialogue,…