The American Academy in Rome has announced 36 artists and academics as winners of the 2023–24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. The prize comes with a stipend and all-expense paid stay at the Academy’s Janiculum Hill campus, along with some much-needed “time and space to think and work”.
Today, the American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the 2023-24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Two UNM School of Architecture and Planning faculty in the Department of Architecture will receive their prizes in person today in New York City.
Nora Wendl, an associate professor from The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning was recently named executive editor of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). “I was honored to have been chosen for this position. I believe.
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Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers.
What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architecture its conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactment into the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? In addressing these controversial questions, Architecture and Labor brings contemporary discourses on creative labor to architecture, a discipline devoid of labor consciousness.