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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.
Articles
- 09/17/08 1 Rethinking Education in Today’s Competitive Arena With the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s accreditation review currently in the works, Ava Abramowitz revisits her 2003 DesignIntelligence article, which helped serve as an impetus to add clients and negotiation into the NAAB’s student performance measures.
- 08/11/08 Aligning Sustainability in Professional Practice and Education Increased student interest in sustainability coupled with a rising public policy commitment to green design and increasing energy costs augurs for greater involvement of design schools and the profession in teaching and research related to ecologically sensitive design.
- 06/17/08 ID Students Land Positions in Hong Kong A group of industrial design students spent time in Asia this spring, and three walked away with offers to work for the company to which they presented design concepts.
- 04/15/08 Developing Architectural Leaders with a Global Perspective
- 03/24/08 Michael Graves Serves ‘Beyond Architecture’
- 03/19/08 Harvard Grad School Tackles Architect Shortage
- 12/18/07 Bringing Best Practice to Education The ninth annual America’s Best Architecture Schools study ranks accredited undergraduate and graduate architecture programs from the perspective of practitioners. The survey, conducted in mid-2007, tapped architecture firm leaders who, during the past five years, have had direct experience in the hiring and performance of recent architecture graduates.
- 12/18/07 1 DI 25 Most Admired Educators of 2008 Again this year, DesignIntelligence asked professional practice firm presidents and managing directors to nominate their most admired and respected educators based on their recent experiences with colleges and universities.
- 12/18/07 Resources for Aspiring Architects If an individual who wanted to be an architect sought your guidance, to what resources might you refer them?
- 12/18/07 1 Recruitment Preferences DesignIntelligence interviewed 270 professional firms and hiring organizations on their recruitment preferences. Here is a sampling of their responses.
