Architectural academia was featured prominently in our 2023 news coverage, particularly in new leadership appointments. Notably, the year highlighted a significant increase in female leadership within academia, with Archinect covering the appointment of 14 women to key roles, such as deans.
Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes illuminated the field of solar energy. She invented a solar oven, a solar desalination kit and, in the late 1940s, designed one of the first solar-heated houses
US construction technology company ICON has launched a global architecture competition calling architects and designers to submit 3D-printed designs that can be built for under $99,000.
The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has announced Dora Epstein Jones will be joining its faculty in the fall as one of five new appointments. The current Chair of Architecture at Texas Tech University in Lubbock will be coming to campus as the school’s newest Professor of.