Leadership

The Board of Directors shall be the administrative and governing body of the Association. The Board is empowered to transact all business not specifically reserved for action by the membership. It is also empowered to adopt Rules to address policy issues in its discretion. The Board of Directors shall consist of the following members:

Sara Taketatsu

Vice President
American Institute of Architecture Students
Washington, DC

Gundula Proksch

Associate Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Antje Steinmuller

Chair and Associate Professor
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Sharon Haar

Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Jeffrey L. Day

Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE

Courtney Crosson

Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Robert A. González

Dean
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Michael J. Monti

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Washington, DC

Victor Rubin

Senior Fellow
PolicyLink
Oakland, CA

Anne Bordeleau

Director and Associate Professor
University of Waterloo
Cambridge, ON, Canada

June Williamson

Associate Professor
City College of New York
New York, NY

Rashida Ng

Chair and Associate Professor
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Lynne Dearborn

Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Join us May 25th for the webinar: The Evolving Project: 75 Years of the Journal of Architectural Education. Over its seventy-five year history, the Journal of Architectural Education has documented nothing less than the evolution of the discipline. In the decades following World War II, the idea of an architecture school has evolved from a professional training ground to an intellectual platform allowing educators to engage the larger social, cultural, and political issues of the time. This panel brings together past, current, and future executive editors of the journal to reflect on changes in architectural education, and to speculate on its possible futures. The panel also launches the book, The Evolving Project: The Journal of Architectural Education and the Expansion of Scholarship, which recontextualizes and republishes fifty essays around the themes of research, environment, pedagogy, and politics.
#jae75 #theevolvingproject

The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition.

The competition recognizes 10 exceptional studio projects that integrate creative and innovative design strategies. These projects work toward achieving carbon-neutral operations through daylighting, passive heating and cooling systems, sustainable materials, water conservation, energy generation, and other sustainable systems.

See the full list of winners on our website. @aianational #AIACOTE #cotetoptenforstudents

The year 2021 has shown us so far that although the quest for racial justice in the United States may be gaining traction, progress continues to meet strong resistance. At ACSA , we believe that regardless of our race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or abilities, we must continue to speak out against injustice and exclusion. We will continue to advocate for changes in architecture and architectural education to remedy the systemic embrace of historically White and Eurocentric theories, design aesthetics, and processes as the best or only bases in our discipline.

To read the full statement from the ACSA Board of Directors, visit our website.

The ACSA Annual Meeting convenes educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. The 110th Annual Meeting will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange: an in-person conference March 17-19, 2022, in Los Angeles, followed by virtual sessions May 19-20, 2022. One conference program to capture architecture today—multiple opportunities to connect. Submit abstracts, projects, and proposals for special sessions by June 9th. #ACSA110 #callforabstracts #callforprojects #callforspecialsessions #annualmeeting #acsa #empower

Congratulations to Cathi Ho Schar & Dan Milz | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa for being awarded 109th Annual Meeting Best Project for “Practicing Engagement: A Post-COVID Field Report”. @uhmanoanews #ACSA109 #bestproject #practicingengagement

Congratulations to Jeffrey Balmer of @uncc_soa @unccarts for his paper Marble & Lead: Aldo Moro, Luigi Moretti, and the Bunker Courtroom of the Foro Mussolini #bestpaperaward #bpa #acsaawards #ACSA109

Join us tonight for the 2021 ACSA Annual Business Meeting. The meeting is an opportunity for the board of directors to update the membership on ACSA’s activities and to hold some structured conversations on change happening in architectural education. #acsaannualbusinessmeeting

Submit your abstracts by May 19th for the 2021 AIA/ACSA INTERSECTIONS Research Conference: COMMUNITIES. For this conference, there will be five tracks focused on building resilient communities: Equitable Communities, Healthy Communities, Zero-Carbon Communities, Community Localism, and Post-Pandemic Communities. #intersectionsconference #communities #resilientcommunities #equity #healthycommunities #communitylocalism #postpandemic #covid19 #callforabstracts

Join us April 1 at 6pm ET for our next ACSA webinar: “Culturally Responsive Teaching: Providing an Equitable Architectural Education” featuring ACSA Director of Research and Information Kendall Nicholson @kan8g.

As educators, our mission is to ensure that every student can succeed. As a discipline, architecture often prioritizes the “product,” and the “place” before considering the “people”. This lecture will share the theoretical framework originally established by Gloria Ladson-Billings in her efforts to reach students from diverse backgrounds, and the tangible strategies necessary for validating students’ voices. By developing a socio-political consciousness, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) empowers faculty to engage students in ways that architects should engage the public.

Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our full members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together ACSA schools represent some 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.

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