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Pat Connell passed away Thursday, June 13, 2018, leaving behind an important legacy in both the Georgia Tech School of Architecture and the historic preservation of Atlanta’s architecture.
Four communities of varying sizes in the state of Georgia were selected to develop and implement smart design solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the state, including issues in housing, traffic congestion, sea level rise and shared autonomous vehicles.
Students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Architecture proposed an origami design that earned them an opportunity to travel to Japan to learn from Tomohiro Tachi, a widely-known origami expert and associate professor in graphic and computer sciences at the University of Tokyo.
In May, Dennis Shelden, director of the Digital Building Lab (DBL), presented a keynote address at the 2018 Tech+ Expo titled “The Digital Twin and the Future of AEC Collaboration.”
Each year, the Young Architects Forum of AIA Atlanta recognizes individuals and firms who demonstrate influence in the design community of Atlanta. This year, Jeffrey Collins, instructor and Ph.D. candidate in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture will be honored as part of the event on Tuesday, May 22 at Ponce City Market.
The Central Atlanta Library, designed by Marcel Breuer, was completed in 1980, and now in 2018, will be undergoing a $50 million renovation. Sonit Bafna, Associate Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, sat down with Curbed Atlanta to discuss the preservation the library’s Brutalist façade.
Each year, DesignIntelligence conducts surveys among professionals like you to determine rankings for U.S architecture schools.
From 2010-2016, Burton photographed the renovation of Ponce City Market. This comprehensive visual record of the building's transition includes essays written by Sears historian, and Dr. Robert Craig.
The earth is finally beginning to make way for The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.
The Undergraduate International Design Studio immerses undergraduate architecture students through extended residence in Berlin or Barcelona in order to provide a rich learning experience that fosters awareness and appreciation of cross-cultural approaches to architecture, urbanism, and design.
A studio team comprised of twenty students from the Schools of City and Regional Planning, Architecture, and Computing is set to present its final studio project to its Tokyo partners on April 18, 2018. An exhibition of the final studio project is scheduled from April 21-27, 2018.
Georgia Tech School of Architecture is tied for 19th in the World, 6th in the United States
Connect Savannah discusses Professor Richard Dagenhart’s Urban Design Studio's presention of the initial findings from their semester-long project concerning sea-level rise.
Eastman, a pioneer of computer-aided design (CAD) and one of the originators of building information modeling (BIM), said in his retirement he plans to continue his research and writing and maybe attend a few conferences.
Atlanta's City Planning department has released a book discussing the future of Atlanta city planning called Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the Beloved Community based on a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1957 that championed "The Beloved Community."
Two teams made up of Georgia Tech students from the Schools of Architecture, Building Construction, and City and Regional Planning have been announced as finalists in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition. Of 130 entries, only four teams are chosen to proceed to the final round.
Professor Benjamin Flowers quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer discussing the U.S. Bank Stadium where this year's Super Bowl will take place.
George Ramsey's son, Greg Ramsey, discusses his father's life and contributions to the early sustainability and energy conservation movement in the 1970s.
Scott Marble and Dennis Shelden discuss the future of practice with ARCHITECT Magazine
Scott Marble, Georgia Tech School of Architecture Chair, shares his tribute to John Portman
Dunham-Jones voted as one of Planetizen's 100 Most Influential Urbanists of all time
Communities are finding innovative ways to transform their abandoned malls and big-box stores into more useful spaces.
Like many students, Kyle Forbes spent spring break in Florida this year. But he didn’t go for fun. He went in search of his dream job as a theme park designer.
Bridges were built this semester in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture Structures I course in a unique exercise that tasked students with responsibilities as designers, engineers and builders.
The quality of public space and public life has declined – even in downtowns, where shopping malls, parking lots and highways killed street life in their effort to compete with the suburbs. But today, that pattern has been reversed. Today, metro Atlanta suburbs are following our revitalized center’s lead.
The assignment took the architecture students out of the classroom and put them in the heart of the one of Atlanta’s most transformative projects. Their challenge was to design a new bridge for the Atlanta BeltLine directly above North Avenue.
