If there is one certainty that we can universally count on as an enduring condition in the built environment, it is the increasing UNCERTAINTY brought by climate change. Unquestionably, the field of architecture has been responding to the alarm bells within the normative bounds of how we teach and practice by folding new content into education, pushing for standards in the profession, and introducing new initiatives. However, we have yet to fully face the scope and scale of the consequence through a substantive rethinking of our disciplines, our products, and our pedagogy.

In partnership with the Union of Architects, ACSA is combining the 2020 International Conference with the 27th World Congress of Architects which invites architects, urban thinkers, researchers, university students, builders to convene and share experiences related to the construction of the space of social life.

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture is therefore launching, together with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, a competitive call for course proposals on the theme of “Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.”