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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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- 12/21/05 Learning Sustainability Gensler Chicago’s summer internship in sustainable design brings together a group of the best and brightest design students to advance academic research while working in a professional design firm.
- 12/21/05 Making Choices: Evaluating Qualities of a Design Education It is well understood, among educators and parents, that the tipping point for a student deciding where to go to school is often independent of any professional criteria.
- 12/21/05 Summer Design Programs (2006)* Secondary students, as well as college students and adults contemplating a career change, can choose from a number of intensive summer courses to explore the architecture, interior design, industrial design, and planning professions.
- 12/21/05 Leadership and the Future of Design Education Managing change is where it’s at for today’s leaders. This is true in professional practice as well as for deans and faculty in architecture and design schools. Leaders understand that change is about renewal, growth, and relevancy. Change in some places is radical, in others gradual. Change may go unnoticed by some but, in fact, change happens constantly in every firm and in every program.
- 12/21/05 Solving for Pattern: Development of Place-Building Design Models Recently, public interests have invited the design professions to address intractable planning problems related to affordability, health, and mobility.
- 12/21/05 Collaboration: The New Professional Paradigm In 1957, Ernest Greenwold, a social scientist, made a provocative distinction between professions and occupations, suggesting that professions could be distinguished from occupations by certain characteristics.
- 12/21/05 2006 Partial List of Research Participants for America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools
- 09/08/05 University Raises Millions of Dollars In Research Grants and Contracts The University of Kentucky (UK) has introduced a $1.6-billion budget for the 2005 to 2006 fiscal year, a measure that represents an investment in the university and the state designed to conquer challenges and encourage dreams, according to president of the university, Lee Todd Jr.
- 05/26/05 The Importance of Being Bucky (Buckminster Fuller) An Unorthodox Primer on How to Be Great. As a 20th century futuristic practitioner and iconic philosopher, “Bucky” Fuller was and is, an architect’s architect and a scientist’s scientist.
- 11/15/04 Ranking of National Teaching Awards ACSA Distinguished Professor Award & Topaz Medallion
