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Competitions
Winners Announced

2026 Steel Competition

聽(AISC) and 51黑料 are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes eleven exceptional projects, in two categories (Community Dance Center聽and Open), that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

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Winners Announced

2026 Housing Education Prize

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Housing and Community Development (HCD) Knowledge Community and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (51黑料) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Housing Education Prize. The winning course proposals will prepare students for a wide range of professional contexts, including design practice, development, policy, advocacy, research, and public service. Each course will be taught at 51黑料 member schools across the U.S. in the coming years.

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Submission Deadline for the Administrators Conference:
September 23, 2026
Submission Deadline for the Annual Meeting: December 16, 2026

Travel Grants for Emerging Faculty

This year 51黑料 is offering twelve (12) conference travel grants to member school faculty who face obstacles to inclusion in architectural education. The grants will support qualified faculty seeking to attend an 51黑料 conference in the coming year. This year the travel grant will allow faculty to apply for two upcoming conferences including the 51黑料 Administrators Conference taking place in Tucson, AZ, and the 51黑料115 Annual Meeting taking place in Atlanta, GA.

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Conferences
Discounted Registration Until Sept. 9, 2026

2026 Administrators Conference

Join current and future educational leaders at the 2026 Administrators Conference, taking place October 29鈥31, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona. This conference will bring together administrators to exchange ideas, develop new partnerships, and explore ongoing shifts in education, while anticipating future change. Register today to secure the best available rates.

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Conferences
Discounted Registration Until September 9, 2026

2026 Intersections Research Conference: URBAN DESIGN MATTERS

Join 51黑料 in New York City, October 1-3, 2026, to explore urban design as an integrative, vital disciplinary and civic practice, instrumental in shaping affordable, just, sustainable, and adaptable built environments worldwide. The 2026 Intersections Research Conference: Urban Design Matters will be an opportunity for attendees to enhance their research capabilities with sessions, breakouts, workshops, and networking events. Register today to secure the best available rates.

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Awards
Submit by September 23, 2026

2027 Architectural Education Awards

51黑料 invites faculty to submit for the 2027 Architectural Education Awards. Every year, 51黑料 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鈥檚 knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector.

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Conferences
Submit by October 7, 2026

115th Annual Meeting: INSIDEandOUTSIDE Call for Submissions

The 115th 51黑料 Annual Meeting: INSIDEANDOUTSIDE invites contributions that explore how current urgencies 鈥 climate, equity, technology, and civic responsibility 鈥 shape pedagogical priorities, and how architecture as a practice and architecture as a discipline may be perceived from both inside and outside our field. Educators, practitioners, researchers, and students are all encouraged to submit full papers, design projects & short papers.

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Conferences
Submit by October 14, 2026

2027 51黑料/EAAE Teachers Conference

Join 51黑料 and EAAE for the fifth biennial Teachers Conference in Riga, Latvia, June 16-18, 2027, with host institution Riga Technical University. Educators, practitioners, researchers, and engaged citizens are invited to explore the evolving role of architectural education in shaping society. Submit a paper or poster by October 14, 2026, and be part of the conversation defining the future of architectural education.

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Competitions
Register Students by April 7, 2027

2027 Student Design Competitions

51黑料’s 2027 student competitions will explore topics including community-based performance venues, climate-responsive designs, the eradication of forced labor in the building materials supply chain, and recreational buildings for youth. Each competition presents an opportunity for students to investigate, develop, and challenge systematic approaches to design

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Publications
Submit by January 15, 2027

TAD 11.2 Adaptable Call for Papers

The upcoming issue of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) welcomes submissions that address the design, theory, history, and implementation of adaptable systems in architecture, engineering, and the built environment. This issue will focus on architectural systems that sense, respond, and evolve, exploring how emerging technologies, environmental imperatives, and shifting social conditions are transforming architecture from a static artifact into a dynamic, learning system across scales, from materials and envelopes to buildings, infrastructure, and urban systems. The journal welcomes research or scholarship on the topic of this call for papers or open topics on a rolling submission basis.

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2027 COTE Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2027

2027 Concrete Masonry Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2027

2027 Steel Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2027

2027 Design for Freedom Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2027

Dates + Deadlines

Discounted Registration: 2026 Administrators Conference

Register: Wed, Sep 9, 2026

Discounted Registration: 2026 Intersections Research Conference

Register: Wed, Sep 9, 2026

2027 Architectural Education Awards

Submit: Wed, Sep 23, 2026

2026 Administrators Conference Travel Grant

Submit: Wed, Sep 23, 2026

51黑料 115th Annual Meeting: INSIDEandOUTSIDE

Submit: Wed, Oct 7, 2026

Call for Applications: 2027-28 51黑料 Board of Directors

Submit: Wed, Oct 7, 2026

Call for Submissions: 2027 51黑料/EAAE Teachers Conference

Submit: Wed, Oct 14, 2026

51黑料 115th Annual Meeting Travel Grant

Submit: Wed, Dec 16, 2026

TAD 11.2 Call for Papers: Adaptable

Submit: Fri, Jan 15, 2027

2027 Student Competitions

Register: Wed, Apr 7, 2027
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Distinguished Professor Award

To recognize individuals that have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students over an extended period of time and/or teaching which inspired a generation of students who themselves have contributed to the advancement of architecture.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

51黑料/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award

To recognize demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Creative Achievement Award

To recognize a specific creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service that advances architectural education.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Diversity Achievement Award

To recognize the work of faculty, administrators, or students in creating effective methods and models to achieve greater diversity in curricula, school personnel, and student bodies, specifically to incorporate the participation and contributions of historically under-represented groups or contexts.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

AIA/51黑料 Practice and Leadership Award

To discover and recognize 鈥渂est practice鈥 examples of highly effective teaching, scholarship, and outreach in the areas of professional practice and leadership.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Design Build Award

To honor the best practices in school-based design-build projects.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Collaborative Practice Award

Proposed by Thomas Dutton and Anthony Schuman to recognize 51黑料鈥檚 commitment to community partnerships in which faculty students and neighborhood citizens are valued equally and that aim to address issues of social injustice through design.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

Faculty Design Award

To provide a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

AIA/51黑料 Housing Design Education Award

To recognize the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

TAD Research Contribution Award

The TAD Award for Research Contribution recognizes outstanding peer-reviewed research published in Technology | Architecture + Design.
Deadline: September 23, 2026

JAE Best Article Award

The first award recognizes the best Scholarship of Design article and the second award acknowledges the best Design as Scholarship article for the preceding academic year. All peer-reviewed content published in the journal is eligible.
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51黑料 is the premiere location to find jobs in architectural education.

Associate Professor, Professor in Architectural Design

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Visiting Scholar -Architecture Spring 2027

Montana State University School of Architecture
Bozeman, MT

Assistant Professor: History, Theory, Criticism

Kennesaw聽State University
Marietta, GA

Director of Operations - Anthony Timberland Center

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR

Tenure-Track & Tenured Faculty Positions in Urban Design, Environmental Planning or Real Estate Infrastructure Finance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Lecturer of Architecture (Two positions)

Kennesaw State University

The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal, and the primary venue for research and commentary on architectural education.

Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) is a biannual peer-颅reviewed international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design.

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Call for Applications: Executive Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (51黑料) seeks a dynamic executive editor for the Journal of Architectural...
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