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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
- 12/13/06 The First Step: An Intern Architect Reflects on a Journey of Decisions The beginning of the end was bitter sweet with the knowledge that life was moving drastically forward.
- 12/13/06 1 The Candidate Crisis: Bridging the Gap Between Good Firms and Great People Last spring, a graduating architectural student flew to Washington, DC, to interview for an entry-level design position. Prior to his arrival, he researched and contacted nearly 20 firms, securing nine interviews.
- 12/21/05 Most Admired Industrial Design Educators 2006
- 12/21/05 Doctorate Programs in Architecture & Design Including architecture, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, and educational resources.
- 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.
