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America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools, 2009
From Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to Interior Design and Industrial Design, America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2009 provides students, parents, counselors and industry professionals with targeted and timely information, the tools for an evaluation of the nation’s top performing schools and a benchmark for evaluating other programs.
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- 11/15/03 History and Preservation Degree Programs If America wants a past, it will have to understand what buildings are valuable and how to save them. The following schools offer either master’s, bachelor’s or associate degrees in architectural history and preservation.
- 11/15/03 Editor’s Choice 2004 Value Picks for Architecture Education Rankings are based on a 100-point scale. Basic requirements are NAAB Accreditation and non-resident tuition below $19,999 per academic year.
- 11/15/03 Big Building on Campus New structures by prominant architects and firms are appearing on campuses across the nation. A few of the most notable:
- 11/15/03 Education Needs Your Commitment Many [architecture] programs have had serious budget cutbacks and some programs and professors have been eliminated. The bottom line: all the design professions face an uncertain future if our schools do not get stronger standards soon.
- 11/15/03 Professionals weigh graduate skills, weaknesses The Skill Assessment Survey indicates a need for the design studios in architecture schools to further promote the values of respect, optimism, sharing, innovation and engagement.
- 11/15/03 Have Usefulness and Delight Been Replaced by Quirky and Hip? …the primary skill obtained in architectural education is a critical eye, one that questions itself as well as the world around it. We become so accustomed to questioning architecture that we find it difficult to produce architecture.
- 11/15/03 A Canadian Perspective on Changing Design Education What role can designers, and design students, play in this picture? What difference can individuals make? Is there hope? My answers are: MANY roles, a SIGNIFICANT difference, and GREAT hope.
- 10/15/03 ARCHVoices Reports on the State of Internship What is the future of the profession? Earlier this year ARCHVoices received a 26 percent response rate to their Internship and Career survey. Nearly 5,000 participants replied to the online study.
- 06/15/03 OpenCourseWare Offers MIT Material on the Web This September, MIT will officially launch its OpenCourseWare project, after a year’s pilot period.
- 02/14/03 Gender Trends in Professional PractIce At the country’s best architecture schools, the number of women among the student body is steadily rising—-and in more than one case, they outnumber men.
