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:

Martha Campbell

Principle
Rocky Mountain Institute
Oakland, CA

Catherine Hamel

Associate Dean, Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

Shannon DeFranza

Vice President
American Institute of Architecture Students
Washington, DC

Kwesi Daniels

Architecture Department Head and Assistant Professor
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL

Mo Zell

Chair and Professor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

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

Lynne Dearborn

Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Today is DAY ONE of the 2021 Administrators Conference. Join us today for an opening plenary on "Meeting the Moment: The Need for a Racial Equity Lens in Architectural Education" by Heather Hackman. Follow along with #2021ADMIN ⁠
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https://www.acsa-arch.org/conference/2021-administrators-conference/schedule/

Join us next week to discuss the PROSPECTS of Architectural Education with leaders from universities across the US and Canada. The conference will be a series of face-to-face online forums to collaborate, share ideas, and discuss. Register today! ⁠
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https://www.acsa-arch.org/conference/2021-administrators-conference/registration/

Last day to submit for the 2022 Architectural Education Awards!

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.

Submit today! #acsawards #architecturaleducationawards #architecture #facultyawards

#2021ADMIN · Register by Oct. 8 to get the Best Available Rates!⁠
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Join us and fellow administrators virtually on October 14 + 15, 2021 for the 2021 Administrators Conference: PROSPECTS. The conference will be a series of face-to-face online forums to collaborate, share ideas, and discuss. There will be multiple supplemental sessions designed for current and future educational leaders in addition to the two core days. Check out the full schedule for the details. ⁠
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#ArchitecturalAdministrators #studyarchitecture #architecture #acsaconference #acsa

#2021ADMIN · Don't miss the Opening Plenary, "Meeting the Moment: The Need for a Racial Equity Lens in Architectural Education" by Heather Hackman, Hackman Consulting Group followed by an Opening Discussion: Prospects for Change in Architecture Education with Anne Bordeleau, University of Waterloo and Malo Hutson, University of Virginia, moderated by ACSA President Robert Gonzalez, University of New Mexico. Register today and join us next week! ⁠
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BUY ONE GET ONE⁠
This year with the purchase of an ACSA Member (BOGO) registration you will receive one complimentary registration. This complimentary registration is meant to encourage participation from an aspiring administrator or a faculty member that is interested in expanding their knowledge.⁠
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Today is the first day of the 2021 Intersections Research Conference: COMMUNITIES hosted in partnership with @aianational. Check out the full schedule and add your favorites to your schedule. ⁠
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#intersectionsconference #aianational #researchconference #research #intersections #designconference #architectureconference #communities #communitydesign #design #architecture #urbandesign #resilientcommunities #equitablecommunities #postpandemiccommunities #community #communitylocalism

Submit your course proposals by October 20 for the 2022 Course Development Prize. ⁠
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Education in architecture and urbanism is well-positioned creatively and critically to address the exigencies of climate change. However, pedagogical methods that prioritize immediate applicability can come at the expense of teaching and research that explore the sociocultural and ecopolitical dimensions of the crisis. This, in turn, ultimately limits the range of approaches addressing climate change in professional practice. Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture is therefore issuing, together with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, a competitive call for course proposals on the theme of “Architecture, Climate Change, and Society.”⁠
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Successful proposals for this Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society will 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 in the midst of a global pandemic as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change.⁠
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#2022CourseDevelopmentPrize #courseproposals #teacharchitecture #architectureschool #architecture

In response to the simultaneous crises of Housing, Climate and Equity, this competition challenges students to envision the ideal Habitat home in one of seven North American regions. The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the HABITAT Design Competition: Climate Positive Concrete Housing for the 2021-2022 academic year. The competition is a partnership between the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) and Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. The Habitat Design Competition: Climate Positive Concrete Housing is based on the Habitat for Humanity U.S. Construction standards for affordable, resilient, sustainable & accessible homes. The competition will challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of concrete in design and construction of a Habitat home.⁠
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@habitatforhumanity #buildwithstrength #climatechange #habitathome #climateandequity #affordablehousing #designbuild #habitatdesigncompetition #designcompetition #architecture #architectureschool #design #studyarchitecture #imadethat

Explore the Program — 2022 Steel Design Student Competition. ⁠
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This competition is intended to challenge undergraduate and graduate students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. Steel must be used as the primary structural material and contain at least one space that requires a long-span steel structure, with special emphasis placed on innovation in steel design.⁠
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#steeldesign #studentcompetition #designcompetition #steel #aisc @aisc #architecture #architecturestudent #studyarchitecture #steelconstruction #materialscience #longspansteel ⁠
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https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2022-steel-competition/

Explore the Program — TIMBER IN THE CITY 4: Urban Habitats Competition. ⁠
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The competition invites students, working individually or in teams, to imagine the transformation of our existing cities through sustainable buildings from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wooden materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. This is the fourth competition in this TIMBER IN THE CITY series, and focuses this year on the interrelationship between housing, urban transit infrastructure, equitable living, and climate change.⁠
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#timberinthecity4 #urbanhabitatscompetition #designcompetition #studentcompetition #architectureschool #studyarchitecture #architecture #timber #softwoodlumberboard #lumberboard #competition #architecturestudent

Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our membership includes 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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