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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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- 11/15/04 Practitioners Rank Top 15 Undergraduate Architecture Programs for 2005 With year-by-year comparisons, 2000 - 2005
- 11/15/04 Current Salaries in Landscape Architecture Median; Median range; & Federal employees (all levels), median for Landscape Architect, 15 Years Experience; Landscape Architect Principal/Owner; Urban and Regional Planning
- 11/15/04 Honor Roll: 30 Leaders Who Bridge Practice, Education Leading practitioners were surveyed to discover the most respected educators who are notable in bridging the practice of architecture with higher education.
- 11/15/04 How a Changing Profession Can Work With Today’s Education, Students In this edition of our annual rankings of the top architecture, landscape architecture and interior design schools we provide new insights and perspectives on education’s relevancy and differentiation.
- 11/15/04 Landscape Architecture: Education Intelligence Report Skills can be honed and computer programs can be learned but these attributes are usually there or not. Be sure to bring these to the table in all of your landscape architecture endeavors—academic and practice alike.
- 11/15/04 Internship at the Speed of Professional Practice Some entrants paint pictures of architecture as sweat shop. We practitioners, too, sometimes can’t believe the stress we are under, but we do it, all the same and, in the end, with love.
- 11/15/04 Who’s Responsible for (and defines) “Practice-Ready”? Let’s start by addressing the stalemate between the Academic and Practice communities about which institution bears the responsibility in helping entry-level architecture professionals achieve practice-ready status.
- 11/15/04 New Dean Makes Case for Change What is at stake is nothing less than a healthy future for the discipline of architecture and its alliances in planning, interior design and landscape architecture.
- 06/15/04 The Essential Dean It has been years since such a critical mass of talent has stepped up to the plate at the same time to provide energized leadership in our struggling and often fledgling higher education system.
- 03/15/04 A Grudge Match Made in College? Having spent an extensive amount of time over the years with deans of both architecture and interior design schools, I can tell you that any survey of the skills of recent graduates will bring howls of protest.
