Conferences

ACSA114 Annual Meeting

The 114th ACSA Annual Meeting will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange in Chicago, IL. Join educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. The conference will include research sessions, exciting tours & workshops, extraordinary keynotes, opportunities to obtain Continuing Education Credits, including Health Safety and Welfare, and much more. ⁠

Online Discussion

March 5, 2026 | 7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST

2026 ACSA Member Caucus: Navigating Change Collectively Login

ACSA invites all faculty from our member schools to join our annual member caucuses. This meeting will feature structured breakout conversations with members of the ACSA Board of Directors on a range of issues facing architecture schools, including the impacts of government policy changes, opportunities for faculty development, and changing licensing and accreditation frameworks. The caucuses are also an opportunity to ask members about what other conversations are happening at their schools.

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Research & Scholarship

Submit by April 22, 2026

Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment:
SPATIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

For the third consecutive year, ACSA is partnering with The Op-Ed Project to equip faculty with strategies for public-facing communication and knowledge translation. This program is intended for architecture faculty whose research explores the spatial determinants of health and seeks to strengthen its impact on public discourse and policy. ACSA will select a cohort of twelve academics to participate in The Op-Ed Project’s Write to Change the World workshops.

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Awards

Winners Announced!

2026 Architectural Education Awards

ACSA is s excited to announce the recipients of the 2026 Architectural Education Awards, which honor architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning educators inspire and challenge students, advance the discipline’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector.

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Publications

Submit by June 15, 2026

TAD 11.1 Biogenic Call for Papers

The upcoming issue of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) welcomes submissions addressing new and original research on architecture, design, and technology. The focus area for this issue ventures into the territory of biobased, bioorganic, bio-fabricated, and regenerative materials and their applications in the design and construction of environmentally sound, livable, healthy, and socially just built environments. TAD invites contributions that address materials intended for standalone structures, as well as those designed to be interfaced and integrated with existing material, architectural, cultural, and historical contexts, particularly in areas such as preservation, maintenance, renovation, repair, and care of existing building parts, structures, and entire spaces. The journal welcomes research or scholarship on the topic of this call for papers or open topics on a rolling submission basis.

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Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 8, 2026

2026 Timber Competition

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Think Wood are pleased to announce TIMBER IN THE CITY 6: Urban Habitats Competition for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. Now in its sixth cycle, the series continues to push the urban potential of wood—this year by tackling the “missing-middle” gap between single-family dwellings and high-rise apartments. Entrants will deploy innovative, highly replicable wood-based systems on a real, under-utilized urban site to deliver attainable, human-scaled housing that strengthens community resilience and climate stewardship.

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Publications

Submit by March 23, 2026

JAE 80.1-2 The Future of Architectural Education Call for Papers

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education will celebrate the core mission of the JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. JAE is calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. The editors welcome contributions that look at how architectural education got to this point and at where it is likely to go in the future. The journal also invites design submissions that address some aspect of the above challenges, narratives that lay out the potential for the future of architectural education, and visual storytelling that makes a critical comment about any one of the many challenges we face.

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Equity and Justice Resources

2026 Steel Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 8, 2026

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2026 Concrete Masonry Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 8, 2026

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2026 Design for Aging Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 8, 2026

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2026 COTE Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 8, 2026

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