In an era marked by increasing complexity, conflict, and rapid change, educators must act as navigators—to pursue new pathways and possibilities in our discipline and to instill navigational skills in our students. This conference examines shifting social, political, and institutional landscapes as sites for reorientation, transformation, and reconciliation at all scales, and across pedagogy and practice. The 2025 ACSA Summer Conference supports knowledge-sharing across the authors and presenters accepted into the 2025 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, and welcomes additional participants to engage in open discussion to collectively navigate the challenges ahead.

The in-person conference, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will take place on August 7–8, 2025, followed by virtual sessions via Zoom on September 11–12, 2025.

The Professional Practice Education Library (ProPEL) is pleased to announce an open call for proposals for a series of video lessons in a range of units. Each unit should consist of four to six lessons, with each lesson running approximately six to 12 minutes in length. All units feature an introduction that includes the presenter’s headshot, bio, and learning objectives for the unit. The ProPEL Editorial Board seeks submissions for the following topics: Ethical Public Obligation, Leadership and Collaboration, Environmental Stewardship, and Creating a Healthy Community in Workplace Culture.

ACSA and the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) are pleased to announce the 2026 International Conference: Planetary Practice. This conference will examine how architecture can operate as a planetary practice—through design, through research, through teaching, and through the cultivation of new forms of knowledge and collaboration.

Educators, Practitioners, Researchers, Artists, Designers, and Students are invited to submit work that investigates large-scale challenges through innovative design approaches, research methodologies, digital tools, and alternative epistemologies. Submissions are due by October 1, 2025.

The 114th ACSA Annual Meeting will emphasize the transformative potential of design thinking, convening educators, practitioners, and students into conversations about architectural pedagogy and production. The architectural history of Chicago will add to the context through tours and connections with local schools and firms.

The Annual Meeting Committee invites submissions in three categories: Full Papers, Design Projects, and Short Papers. Proposals for special sessions are also encouraged to enrich and expand the conference. Submissions are due by September 17, 2025.

Every year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector. 

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.

Faced with the challenge of an increasingly complex economic, environmental, and political reality, how might educating civic-minded architects help inspire and guide the profession? How do architecture schools foster a culture of collaboration with community and city leaders? How can design research inform the evolving role that civic-minded architects can play? Beyond the design studio, what role should the teaching of history, theory, professional practice, policy, technology, and other disciplines play in educating civic architects?

This issue of JAE seeks contributions that explore the full range of expressions of civic architecture and community design—past, present, and future. As well as research and exemplary projects by architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and students who have explored these questions. Contributions documenting educational efforts are most welcome.

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.