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John Cary, Lee Ehmke, Sujata Srivastava
May 16, 2025

Three alums to be honored at CED commencement

Three alums will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award at CED’s 2025 Commencement ceremony on May 20 at the Greek Theatre. This year’s awardees are John Cary (MArch 2003), Lee Ehmke (MLA 1988), Sujata Srivastava (MCP 2000). The award honors alums who have exhibited outstanding public service, in its broadest sense, throughout their career.
3D printed structure courtyard of Bauer Wurster Hall
May 5, 2025

Ronald Rael / Emerging Objects wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in digital design

Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, founders of Emerging Objects, were honored with a National Design Award in the category of digital design. The awards honor innovation and impact and recognize the power of design to change the world.
Kyra Johnston and Day Render
Apr 30, 2025

Metropolis names Kyra Johnston to Future100 class of 2025

Metropolis has named Kyra Johnston (MArch 2025) to the Future100 class of 2025. Each year, a jury of experts designates the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the U.S. and Canada, nominated by their instructors and mentors.
Site plan and rendering of a mixed-use development
Apr 4, 2025

Project by LAEP and MUD students earns honorable mention in the Urban Land Institute Hines Competition

A team of students from landscape architecture and urban design earned an honorable mention for their project Regenesis Haven in the 2025 ULI Hines Competition.
Aerial view of adobe walls surrounding a palm tree
Mar 20, 2025

Ronald Rael: Bridging ancient construction and digital fabrication at Desert X

designboom explores Professor Ron Rael’s Adobe Oasis created for Desert X in California’s Coachella Valley: “Layered in rhythmic ribbons of red adobe, the walls mimic the texture of the surrounding palm trunks, anchoring the work in both its landscape and architectural heritage aligned with the 2025 exhibition’s call for interventions that reimagine the desert as a site of memory, transformation, and resistance.”
Building in field in golden light
Mar 12, 2025

Rudabeh Pakravan’s practice profiled in The Architect’s Newspaper

“Their bold, simple forms define an architecture that supports life’s unfolding, inside and out,” writes The Architect’s Newspaper about Sidell Pakravan Architects, Continuing Lecturer in Architecture Rudabeh Pakravan’s practice with Kristen Sidell.
Aerial view of low-lying house with two-story green wood-clad addition
Mar 11, 2025

Andrew Atwood/First Office designs ADU with studios for an artist and landscape architect

Associate Professor of Architecture Andrew Atwood designed the addition to blend in with other houses in the Los Angeles neighborhood, he tells The Architect’s Newspaper.
Walter Hood
Mar 10, 2025

Walter Hood receives Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Chair Walter J. Hood (MArch + MLA 1989) has been named the 2025 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the University of Virginia’s highest external honor in the field. Previous recipients include Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Jose Luis Sert, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin, Fumihiko Maki, Frank O. Gehry, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien, Zaha Hadid, Maya Lin, Rafael Moneo, Laurie Olin, Diébédo Francis Kéré, and Kate Orff.
two views of Friendship duplex by Ultramoderne
Feb 25, 2025

“Cheapskate” duplex by Ultramoderne — Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis — featured in AN

A duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, shows off Ultramoderne’s take on “cheapskate” architecture, using discarded materials from local construction projects. “Innovative architecture is still possible in today’s economic climate—it just requires a new approach.”
House facade
Feb 18, 2025

Complex, by Dan Spiegel (SAW), named AR House of the Month

Complex, a project in Atherton by lecturer Dan Spiegel’s practice Spiegel Aihara Workshop, named house of the month by Architectural Record. “Surprising details everywhere are the real joy of the project,” writes Clare Jacobson, who deems Complex “simply successful.”
Model of building made with hempcrete by Neyran Turan, winner of AN Best of Design Award 2024
Dec 6, 2024

Neyran Turan’s hempcrete project wins AN 2024 Best of Design Award

Hempo Longhouse, Associate Professor Neyran Turan’s research and design project on hempcrete construction, has been awarded first prize in the Unbuilt-Residential Single-Unit category of The Architect’s Newspaper’s 2024 Best of Design Awards. The project was made possible with funding from a 2023 CED Lau Grant for Just Climate Futures.
AN Best of Design Award editor's pick by Iwamoto Scott. Two story building from corner photographed at dusk
Dec 6, 2024

IwamotoScott’s Moravec Hall: Editor’s pick for AN Best of Design Awards

IwamotoScott Architecture’s Moravec Hall at Ivy Tech Community College has been selected as an Editor’s Pick in the AN 2024 Best of Design Awards.
Walter Hood
Sep 24, 2024

Walter Hood named winner of 2024 Vincent Scully Prize

The National Building Museum selected LAEP Chair Walter Hood for the prestigious prize, noting that his “illustrious career embodies the affirmative spirit of Vincent Scully’s perspective; that of melding art, history, landscape, and urbanism.”
Image of Neyran Turan and Mete Sönmez with text reading Architectural Record Design Vanguard 2024 for their hempcrete
Sep 13, 2024

Neyran Turan’s NEMESTUDIO honored with AR Design Vanguard Award

Architectural Record honored Associate Professor Neyran Turan’s office, NEMESTUDIO, with a Design Vanguard 2024 award. Turan, who joined the Department of Architecture faculty in 2016, is currently serving as chair of its MArch program.
Front yard of house showing landscaping, with two text labels reading Utilize existing furniture assuming it is safe and Repurpose flagstone from existing home
Jun 28, 2024

MLA students’ award-winning wildfire-resilient landscape design is a call to action for homeowners

Grace Diebel and Shayda Rashidi won the top prize in a contest aimed at generating innovative and cost-effective landscaping ideas that enhance wildfire defense while maintaining aesthetic appeal.
Logo that says American Society of Landscape Architects and includes a green abstract line drawing
May 30, 2024

Five alums elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows

We’re proud to announce that Patricia Algara (MLA 2007), Michael D. Murphy (MLA 1968), Patsy Eubanks Owens (MLA 1987), Dale Schafer (MLA 1991), and Judith Stilgenbauer (MLA 1998) have been elected to the 2024 class of fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Woman in red dress standing on mud wall in landscape
May 17, 2024

Ronald Rael talks to Arch Daily about the future of architecture

In an interview published in Arch Daily, Professor Ronald Rael shares his views on the potential of AI, material culture, the role of the architect in society, architectural education, sustainability, and more.
work by Jack Tam
May 21, 2024

Metropolis names Jack Tam among 100 top graduating architecture students of 2024

Metropolis has named Jack Tam (MArch 2024) to the Future100 class of 2024. A jury of design experts extends this exclusive designation annually to the top 100 graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada.
Modern wooden house in rural setting
Mar 28, 2024

First prototype of lecturer Dan Spiegel’s standardized Core House system built in Hawaii

Architectural Record features the Kauhikoa Core House by Spiegel Aihara Workshop, the first built prototype of a low-cost, compact, easily shippable, prefabricated house that can be deployed for rapid rebuilding after disasters like the 2023 Maui fires.
Building detail of white brick facade
Feb 20, 2024

IwamotoScott Architecture attracts notice for project in midwest architectural hotspot

The Architect’s Newspaper profiles new Ivy Tech campus building in Columbus, Indiana, designed by IwamotoScott (Chair of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, founding partners).
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