To begin 2022, Architectural Record highlights education starting with K-12 schools spanning architectural and educational styles in both urban and rural settings. This month’s Continuing Education focuses on climate adaption and how designers create learning environments that respond to the consequences of global warming. Read all about news for the new year including a Design and Healing exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, the AIA awards, and Biden’s decarbonization plan. Explore Greenland’s Icefjord Center by Dorte Mandrup and Olson Kundig & Faulkner Architects’ Analog House in Lake Tahoe. In our Community & Education feature, learn about efforts in Chile, Detroit, and Johannesburg that support local youth and their families. Finally, discover SO – IL’s Amant Art Center in Brooklyn, New York and Reiser+Umemoto’s Music Center in Tapiei, Taiwan — and be sure to check out our education product showcase.
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MAPAA Architecture Studio with Duque Motta design a school as part of a program to preserve and foster the language and culture of the indigenous Mapuche communities in remote parts of Chile.
A new building by Marlon Blackwell Architects on a former Detroit college campus provides prenatal services through pre-K education for local families.
A pro bono youth center by William Reue Architecture for non-profit Growing Up Africa supports a program at the University of Johannesburg for urban youth.
The American Institute of Architects awarded the Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa with its 2022 Gold Medal and Boston-based MASS Design Group its Architecture Firm Award.
The founding director of the African Futures Institute and previously the founder and director of University of Johannesburg's GSA has been appointed to organize the international exhibition.
The celebrated architect and Pritzker Laureate has over 100 built projects across his decades-long career that has emphasized urban planning, social housing, and education.
Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after the first World War.