Design Excellence

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.