This informational webinar, organized by the ACSA Research & Scholarship Committee in partnership with the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), is open to faculty interested in developing constructive relationships between academic researchers and policy organizations. Attendees will explore strategies for aligning goals, translating research findings into accessible language, and building long-term trust—all with the aim of strengthening partnerships and increasing the public impact of academic research.

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA are pleased to share a competitive call for the 2026 Course Development Prize. ⁠This call seeks proposals that include methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting—asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change. Participants are invited to submit either a full course syllabus or a particular unit/component within a syllabus for consideration.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Think Wood are pleased to announce TIMBER IN THE CITY 6: Urban Habitats Competition for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. Now in its sixth cycle, the series continues to push the urban potential of wood—this year by tackling the “missing-middle” gap between single-family dwellings and high-rise apartments. Entrants will deploy innovative, highly replicable wood-based systems on a real, under-utilized urban site to deliver attainable, human-scaled housing that strengthens community resilience and climate stewardship.

This issue of TAD invites inquiry into soil not as backdrop but as an active thread in shaping form, structure, living habitat, and community. Soil is neither inert nor empty. It is a charged and living substrate that, materially and figuratively, underpins architecture. It is where gravitation meets structure, extraction meets economy, and permanence meets decay. Soil is a medium of transformation: chemical, cultural, and political. Soil supports and resists–shaped by forces of compaction and combustion, microbial life, and industrial processes. The editors strongly encourage submissions highlighting contributions from those traditionally excluded or underrepresented in the field. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers, but are not required to do so.

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education will celebrate the core mission of the JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. JAE is calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. The editors welcome contributions that look at how architectural education got to this point and at where it is likely to go in the future. The journal also invites design submissions that address some aspect of the above challenges, narratives that lay out the potential for the future of architectural education, and visual storytelling that makes a critical comment about any one of the many challenges we face.