Every year at this time, a new crop of students is busy assembling applications and portfolios for architecture school. In this issue of record, we're publishing our annual rankings of the best graduate and undergraduate programs in the United States, from research conducted and analyzed by the DesignIntelligence group. Despite the costs of higher education-and the hammering the profession has taken in this economy-becoming an architect is still a powerful aspiration. In 2011, enrollment in architecture schools was down only 1.1 percent from the previous academic year, and the student survey included in our report (page 67) indicates that 82 percent of the respondents plan to become registered architects.
Anyone who can't understand why architecture remains such an alluring profession should have dropped in on record's 10th annual Innovation conference in New York last month, titled “Design Leaders Envision the Next Decade”. The stellar lineup of speakers exemplified the best in innovative thinking and practice, not only in the use of rapidly changing digital technology but in research, sustainability, and explorations in materials, engineering, and construction. The day belonged to newer leaders as well as more senior professionals: One of the panels celebrated the successes of four architects under 50 who had previously been chosen as significant emerging talents in record's Design Vanguard program. Two of the keynote speakers-Jeanne Gang and David Adjaye-were also former Vanguard winners.
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