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America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools, 2008
From Architecture and Landscape Architecture, to Interior Design and Industrial Design, America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2008 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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- 12/18/07 Addressing Design Disparities: The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Practitioners and educators, along with the media and other spectators of the design fields, criticize the fact that design professionals do not reflect American demographics.
- 12/18/07 1 How to Make Technical Courses More Relevant I believe that almost all students of architecture enter school wanting to acquire a broad technical competence in structures, materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems of buildings. They want to learn to design elegant structures like those of Santiago Calatrava. They want to learn to use materials as creatively as Renzo Piano does. They want to become masters of daylighting and natural heating ad cooling.
- 10/05/07 1 Top 7 Countries for Architecture Students Estimates of students in accredited and non-accredited design fields
- 12/13/06 1 2007 Architecture & Interior Design Educators of the Year
- 12/13/06 1 Doctorate Programs in Architecture and Design The following US schools offer doctorate and PhD degrees in architecture and design. Detailed information about entrance requirements and the programs’ field of study is available from the individual schools.
- 12/13/06 Canadian Universities - Schools of Architecture
- 12/13/06 1 2007 Industrial Design School Survey Methodology The second annual America’s Best Industrial Design Schools study ranks undergraduate and graduate industrial design programs from the perspective of practitioners.
- 12/13/06 1 Qualities of Most Admired Design Program, as determined by Deans and Chairs - 2007
- 12/13/06 1 Recruitment Realities These days, in addition to a baseline skill set and a knockout portfolio, employers are looking for another dimension - influencing skills.
- 12/13/06 2007 Landscape Architecture Schools Survey Methodology The third annual America’s Best Landscape Architecture Schools study ranks accredited undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture programs from the perspective of practitioners.
