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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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- 11/15/03 Professionals weigh graduate skills, weaknesses The Skill Assessment Survey indicates a need for the design studios in architecture schools to further promote the values of respect, optimism, sharing, innovation and engagement.
- 11/15/03 Have Usefulness and Delight Been Replaced by Quirky and Hip? …the primary skill obtained in architectural education is a critical eye, one that questions itself as well as the world around it. We become so accustomed to questioning architecture that we find it difficult to produce architecture.
- 11/15/03 A Canadian Perspective on Changing Design Education What role can designers, and design students, play in this picture? What difference can individuals make? Is there hope? My answers are: MANY roles, a SIGNIFICANT difference, and GREAT hope.
- 10/15/03 ARCHVoices Reports on the State of Internship What is the future of the profession? Earlier this year ARCHVoices received a 26 percent response rate to their Internship and Career survey. Nearly 5,000 participants replied to the online study.
- 06/15/03 OpenCourseWare Offers MIT Material on the Web This September, MIT will officially launch its OpenCourseWare project, after a year’s pilot period.
- 02/14/03 Gender Trends in Professional PractIce At the country’s best architecture schools, the number of women among the student body is steadily rising—-and in more than one case, they outnumber men.
- 02/14/03 Trends & Strategies, February, 2003 Smart Growth Plan Gets Resistance From Builders, Michigan Innovates with Habitat, Art Institute Launches Virtual Degree Program, CMD introduces new name, Segway not welcome on Streets of San Francisco,Scrumpy Jack Spirit Lives on…
- 02/14/03 Harvard’s New Chair Remains a Creator Despite High-Profile Demands It is only natural in speaking of this female architect to think of other women in the profession. What sort of mark have they left on architecture?
- 11/22/02 Faculty Teaching Awards: Which Schools Earned the Most TOPAZ Medallion and ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. 25 schools (each totaling 2 or more awards) are listed.
- 11/22/02 Architecture Schools: Top 10 Faculty Salaries for 2001 - 2002 Average yearly salaries for: Full Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors & Instructor Professors.
