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Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen are not paper architects in the traditional sense. Partners in life as well as business, the two founders and design principals of the Vancouver-based firm Molo share an enduring fascination with making things.

Having designed a pavilion for a three-day event and a memorial required to stand for at least 200 years, Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke have wrestled with that most slippery of human constraints: time.

Tony Chenchow and Stephanie Little belong to a crowded field of husband-and-wife architectural practices in Australia.

Learning From America’s Best Schools View the 2011 Rankings Stepping into a successful career in architectural practice begins with education. Norman Foster, a Yale University graduate, said that two strong influences have contributed to his success and resilience over the years. They are, first, the people he met in school and during his formative professional practice years and, second, the time he spent in college. Foster has enjoyed a unique and storied career, but parts of his experience are common to all architects. Click the image above to view the Design Futures Council's annual rankings. At university, students’ experiences can

Architecture Skills Assessment   These rankings, based on the hiring experience of firms surveyed, assess the preparedness of recent graduates in a range of vital skills. Survey participants were asked which collegiate architecture programs (undergraduate or graduate) are strongest in each skills category.   Analysis and planning 1 University of Michigan 2 Harvard   3 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  4 Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.   5 University of Texas, Austin, Tex. 6 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans. 7 University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. 8 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. 9 Rice University,

Santiago Calatrava and New York City Ballet director Peter Martins choreograph a convergence of dance and architecture that demonstrates the synergy between their two disciplines.

Image courtesy Foreign Office Architects Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, rendering. Click here to view images. Talk to most architects in Ohio and they’ll tell you it’s a pretty conservative place. But while design innovation may be a hard sell for local architects, the state has had an astonishing track record in the last decade for giving cutting-edge foreign architects their first shot at building on American soil, arguably more so than more “forward-thinking” locales on either coast. When the Toledo Museum of Art picked this year’s Pritzker Prize winner, SANAA, to design an ethereal Glass Pavilion in 2000, it

Images courtesy Hans Hollein Click here to view images. Hans Hollein tried something new by doing something old. For nearly half a century, the prolific architect has been building around the world, though he is probably best known for the groundbreaking, and sometimes controversial, projects he completed in his native Vienna decades ago. For a recent competition entry for an office building in Shenzhen, China, the Pritzker Prize winner searched his archive of drawings, focusing on a series of sketches he did in his twenties while traveling through the United States on a Harkness Fellowship. A year spent in Chicago