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Download our new supplement on landscape architecture for free

March 6, 2020
The magazine’s latest digital supplement focuses on the technological innovations and material improvements impacting urban streetscapes and public spaces.
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USC Architecture appoints two new program directors

March 4, 2020
Associate professors Doris Sung and Alvin Huang will serve as directors of undergraduate and graduate and post-professional architecture programs, respectively, at USC Architecture.
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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara awarded the 2020 Pritzker prize

March 4, 2020
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin, Ireland, have been selected as the 2020 Pritzker Prize Laureates, known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
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Architectural events cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak

March 3, 2020
As the worldwide number of people infected with the deadly coronavirus nears 900,000, some architectural and design events have been rescheduled or cancelled altogether due to the outbreak.
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BuroHappold launches long-term partnership with ILFI to tackle climate crisis

March 2, 2020
Engineering firm BuroHappold has announced a two-year investment to support the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The firm will become an Angel-level sponsor for the institute, beginning this year.
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Grimm + Parker Architects win green school award

March 2, 2020
Grimm + Parker Architects have won a 2020 Best of Green Schools Award from the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Schools National Network.
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro to renovate Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Dallas theater

March 2, 2020
New York-based design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro will renovate Dallas’ famed Kalita Humphreys Theater, originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Petition started to save Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture school

February 28, 2020
The student body of Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin (SOAT) has started a petition to save the institution, which was slated to close after 88 years.
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Rona Rothenberg receives AIA’s public architecture award

February 28, 2020
Rona Rothenberg, FAIA, has been awarded the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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Nicholas de Monchaux to head MIT’s architecture department

February 28, 2020
Nicholas de Monchaux will lead the department of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning.
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