The architect will assume the role on June 8, 2020, pending approval by the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents.

The chief curator and executive director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York since 2010, Franch will become the new director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

While the Yale School of Architecture is one of the leading architectural education programs in the country, it is—probably to the surprise of many—much younger than similar programs at universities with whom it shares top billing.

Modular construction yields a surprisingly fresh aesthetic in a school for young children in Germany.

Established in Rio de Janeiro’s northern neighborhood of Tijuca in 1973, the MOPI school was planning to open a facility in the rapidly growing Barra region to the west.