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Robert A.M. Stern, Influential American Architect and Educator, Passes Away at 86

Reyyan Dogan — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Robert A.M. Stern, the American architect, educator, and historian whose work shaped both the physical and intellectual landscape of contemporary architecture, has died at the age of 86. His passing was confirmed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), the New York-based practice he led for more than five decades. Known for advancing a contextual, historically informed approach during decades dominated by modernist and high-tech architecture, Stern remained a prominent voice advocating for continuity, urban civility, and an understanding of architecture as part of a longer cultural lineage.

Former MoMA Curator Barry Bergdoll Receives the 2025 Vincent Scully Prize

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The Vincent Scully Prize, established in 1999 by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., recognizes exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. Named after its first recipient, Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, the prize has been awarded to figures such as Theaster Gates, Jane Jacobs, Laurie Olin, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, and Mabel O. Wilson. The 2025 prize will go to Barry Bergdoll, art historian and former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The European Cultural Centre Announces 21 Shortlisted Projects for the 2025 ECC Awards

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The European Cultural Centre Italy has organized the ECC Awards since 2010 to recognize artists, architects, designers, and academics in their respective fields. The Awards highlight projects featured in the Time Space Existence exhibition, which runs in parallel with the Venice Architecture Biennale and showcases tangible approaches to building more sustainably, aiming to position architecture as a force for environmental and social repair. The seventh edition of Time Space Existence is a group exhibition spanning three Venetian venues: Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, and the Marinaressa Gardens. This year, the exhibition focuses on the themes of Repair, Regenerate, and Reuse, emphasizing the essential role of architects and designers as agents of positive change in shaping sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative ways of living.

From Modernism to Multiculturalism: The Historical Evolution of Student Housing

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Student housing has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last century. Once seen as a utilitarian necessity, providing shelter and basic amenities for students, this architectural typology has evolved to address increasingly complex societal, cultural, and urban demands. Starting with Le Corbusier's modernist approach at the Cité Universitaire in Paris, student housing has reflected broader trends in architecture, urbanism, and social change.

‘Not Having to Worry about Proportion, Harmony, and Beauty Is a Cop-Out’: A Conversation with 2024 Driehaus Prize Winner Peter Pennoyer

Martin Pedersen — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

AD Classics: Möbius House / UNStudio

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:30:00 +0000

In 1993 a young professional couple from Amsterdam set out to build a private house unlike any other. They wanted to create something that “would be recognized as a reference in terms of renewal of the architectural language.” They reached out to several architects, including Rem Koolhaas, but finally decided to entrust the commission to Dutch architect Ben van Berkel after he studied the site and came up with a vision for the project, relating it to the couple’s lifestyle.

"I Would Rather Be Known as an Architect of Elegant Restraint": Interview with Belmont (Monty) Freeman

Vladimir Belogolovsky — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 03:30:00 +0000

Belmont (Monty) Freeman (b. 1951) founded his New York-based, currently eight-person practice, Belmont Freeman Architects in 1986. Its active projects are half institutional and half residential, with a special focus on adaptive reuse, predominantly in New York and nearby states. Among the firm’s most exemplary projects are the LGBT Carriage House on the University of Pennsylvania campus, a series of restorations at the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building, renovations at the Yale Club in Manhattan, and the renovation of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, designed by Kevin Roche. Current projects include an expansive but minimalist residential compound on Martha’s Vineyard, branch library renovations in New York City, and redevelopment of a former meatpacking building into a new Innovation Hub for Columbia University’s Business School.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Columbia Business School Carves Out a Niche with Crystalline Curves

Katie Angen — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:30:00 +0000

Columbia University’s Manhattanville Campus expansion has ushered in a crystalline district of glass-clad buildings amid the masonry vernacular architecture of Harlem. The latest additions to the 17-acre, $6.3 billion campus, which was master-planned by SOM, are two buildings designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in collaboration with FXCollaborative that provide a new home for the Columbia Business School. Set to open in early 2022, Henry R. Kravis Hall and the East Building rise 11 and 8 stories, respectively, and provide 492,000 square feet of classrooms, public space, and faculty offices.

America's Most Admired Architectural Schools 2020 Ranked

Christele Harrouk — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0000

The annual DesignIntelligence architecture school ranking for 2020 classified the establishments according to the “most admired” rather than the “best”, for the second year in a row. The subjective classification is based on the responses of hiring professionals.

Columbia University Creates 3D-Printed Timber Lookalike with Internal Grain Pattern

Niall Patrick Walsh — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Researchers at New York’s Columbia University have unveiled a method of vibrantly replicating the external and internal structure of materials such as wood using a 3D printer and specialist scanning techniques. While conveying the external profile and patterns of natural objects is tried and tested, a major challenge in the 3D printing industry has been replicating an object’s internal texture.

A Definitive List of the Best U.S. Architecture Schools 2019

Niall Patrick Walsh — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Earlier this month, we published the results of DesignIntelligence’s annual ranking of U.S. architecture schools, listing the top Undergraduate and Graduate schools for 2019. Using feedback from architecture and interior design professionals, the full analysis delves deeper than a generic “Most Admired Architecture Schools” list, and instead breaks the rankings down into twelve categories, focusing on technology, design theory, and more.

A Murdered Architect and Our Obsession With Cladding the Truth

Ella Comberg — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 09:30:00 +0000

In 1906, American architect Stanford White was murdered on the roof of a building he had designed sixteen years earlier. The now well-known story goes like this:

GSAPP Columbia is Launching the First-Ever Ph.D. in Historic Preservation Program

Ella Thorns — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) has launched the United States’ first-ever Ph. D in Historic Preservation. GSAPP is ranked within the top 10 architecture graduate schools in the US in the latest figures for 2017. It’s leadership in learning and experimental practice is about to be further enhanced by the introduction of the course.

Decades After the Rise of CAD, Architecture Is Going “Paperless”—For Real This Time

Anna Kenoff, Morpholio — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:30:00 +0000

If you visit an architecture office today, you may sense a slight change. The days of bulky desktops, ergonomic mouse pads and tower-high stacks of drawing sets are slowly giving way to digital pencils, tablets, and tons of architects’ hand-drawings—both physical and digital. Architects across the globe are clearing their desks, literally, and utilizing emerging touchscreen tools and software for designing, sharing and collaborating. It seems possible that, for the first time in years, the architecture profession could revisit Bernard Tschumi’s “paperless” studio which formed a key part of his tenure as dean of Columbia University’s GSAPP in the mid-1990s. However, this time, “paperless” starts with a pencil, instead of a click.

Construction Underway on Renzo Piano's Columbia University Academic Center

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Construction is now underway on Columbia University’s new University Forum and Academic Conference Center, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Dattner Architects. Located at the school’s new Manhattanville campus at the corner of West 125th Street and Broadway, the 55,980 square foot building will serve as a new home for academic conferences and a meeting place where scholars from many fields can gather to share ideas.

Two Buildings by Renzo Piano Near Completion at Columbia University's New Manhattanville Campus

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:01:00 +0000

The first stage of Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus, consisting of two buildings by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, is nearly complete, with a move-in and grand opening slated for spring 2017.

The Best Architecture Schools in the U.S. 2017

Patrick Lynch — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000

With schools around the country starting back up again, it’s time for the latest edition of DesignIntelligence’s yearly rankings of the Top Architecture Schools in the US for both undergraduate and graduate programs. This year, CEOs, managing partners, and human-resource directors from more than 2,000 firms were asked to list the 10 programs from each category they felt best prepared students for success in the profession of architecture.

The Best US Architecture Schools for 2016 are...

Karissa Rosenfield — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:30:00 +0000

DesignIntelligence has released their 2016 rankings of the Best Architecture Schools in the US for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Nearly 1500 professional practice organizations were surveyed this year, as part of the survey's 16th edition, and were asked the following question: “In your firm’s hiring experience in the past five years, which of the following schools are best preparing students for success in the profession?”