This year the Curry Stone Design Prize has been awarded to Rural Urban Frameword (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit research and design firm that is working to help recover and…
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Adding to this year’s course highlights, we’re excited to welcome Allison Koornneef, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, as the new assistant coordinator of our masters program. Allison is from…
We’re excited to announce the start of our masters program this year and welcome our new group of students for the 2015-16 term! The program will kick off once again…
We are proud to announce that our co-director Carmen Mendoza has been invited to speak at the 1st Public Spaces International Congress at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do…
Words cannot express the pain we feel at the loss of our student Nerea this past weekend. Nerea passed away in a motorcycle accident (12-9-2015) in Senegal, where she had…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bellvitge, a working class peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona that became one of the largest residential complexes in Europe when it was constructed in…
Summer is a great time to catch up on good reads. For those interested in socially-oriented architecture, urbanism and design, we’ve put together a roundup of recent publications recommended by…
We recently caught up with former student Flavia Scognamillo, a graduate of our 2011-12 class, who is designing schools and residences for disadvantaged communities in Tamil Nadu, India through an…
The IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) has announced the release of their updated edition of the landmark publication Shelter After Disaster by Ian Davis originally…
We recently caught up with former student Yuya Fukada, a graduate of our 2011-12 class, who has since been overseeing a Syrian refugees project with the Japan International Cooperation Agency…