Design Excellence

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Professor Walter Hood, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, receives the 2023 WSJ. Magazine Innovator Award for Design. Innovator awards honor creators whose originality has led to meaningful change and offers inspiration to others.

The well-respected Quacquarelli Symonds Rankings for 2023 have been released: Berkeley ranked as top public university for architecture and number three among all schools in North America.

The public park and garden surrounding the new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, is a sacred space that pays homage to the profound history of the African diaspora.

CED professor Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, of Emerging Objects, receive the 2023 Jeff Harnar Social & Environmental Justice award for their project Casa Covid, which combines 3D printing with Indigenous building methods and materials.

Architecture faculty members Mark Anderson (Anderson Anderson Architecture) and Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest (Ultramoderne) weigh in on how mass timber has the potential to radically change the role of the architect.