115th Annual Meeting

As architectural educators, we continually seek the ideas, values, methods, problems, and desires that make up the inside core of our disciplinary preoccupations. Conversely, we look outside the core to learn, adapt, and transform ideas and practices from other disciplines, as well as from the ever-changing social, cultural, technological, and environmental contexts that influence and impact our worlds. At this meeting, we will reflect on the changing roles of the architect and schools of architecture, and the shifting boundaries of our discipline. What sits at the center, what gathers around it, and what operates less visibly at the edges? We will explore how current urgencies – climate, equity, technology, and civic responsibility – shape pedagogical priorities, and how architecture as a practice and architecture as a discipline may be perceived from both inside and outside our field. Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, provides a stimulating setting for the 115th ACSA Annual Meeting, starting from the city’s center, inside the vertigo-inducing atrium of one of John Portman’s iconic hotels, through its many diverse and distinct districts and neighborhoods, to outside its famous highway perimeter.