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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
- 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.
- 03/15/04 The Gaps Between Interior Design and Architecture A critical need in both architecture and interior design is to realize that their roles, methodologies, and service expectations are continually evolving within a shifting social, economic, and political culture.
- 01/27/04 FUTURE VISION 2005 What percentage of U.S. architecture and design firms will truly succeed in 2004? How will they achieve this? How might you? This issue will look ahead to imagine the next 12 months forward to January 2005.
- 11/15/03 Practitioners Rank Top 15 Architectural Programs Note: For the first time, our annual survey ranked undergraduate and graduate programs separately.
- 11/15/03 Cross the Border: Canadian Schools The following colleges and universities are members of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture:
- 11/15/03 Faculty Matters: Rankings of National Teaching Awards: ACSA Distinguished Professor Award & TOPAZ Medallion.
- 11/15/03 Topaz Vision The recipient of the 2003 Topaz Medallion, Dean Marvin Malecha comments on the award and architecture education in these written remarks:
- 11/15/03 History and Preservation Degree Programs If America wants a past, it will have to understand what buildings are valuable and how to save them. The following schools offer either master’s, bachelor’s or associate degrees in architectural history and preservation.




