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Mass Timber Pedagogy

The Mass Timber Pedagogy resources are designed to help faculty integrate mass timber concepts into architectural education through flexible, evidence-based teaching materials that support a range of course types and instructional approaches.
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Housing Education Prize

American Institute of Architects (AIA), Housing and Community Development (HCD) Knowledge Community and ACSA announce The Housing Education Prize call for proposals for innovative courses and educational activities focused on housing in schools of architecture.
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Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: Health

ACSA has established an extended training opportunity for faculty to expand the outreach and impact of their research and scholarship on the spatial determinants of health. This program equips architecture faculty with tools to publish op-eds, engage broader publics, and contribute to policy conversations about how design and planning shape health outcomes across scales.
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ACSA / DPACSA Faculty Mentoring Program

In fall 2025, ACSA and its College of Distinguished Professors (DPACSA) launched the new Faculty Mentoring Program. The goal of the program is to help faculty develop mentoring relationships based on their needs, in contrast to the ways in which many departments to assign senior faculty as mentors of new faculty, with promotion and tenure primarily in mind.
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2026 Course Development Prize

Education in architecture and urbanism is well-positioned creatively and critically to address the exigencies of climate change. However, pedagogical methods that prioritize immediate applicability can come at the expense of teaching and research that explore the sociocultural and ecopolitical dimensions of the crisis...
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ProPEL Call for Units

ProPEL is a library of video resources on foundational and emerging topics ranging from contracts to lean construction and design. ProPEL was developed in partnership between ACSA and NCARB.
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Brick Education Prize - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Brick Industry Association and ACSA announce a competitive call for Brick in Architecture Education. The prize features the most innovative and sustainable ways to design with clay brick. Special consideration is given to proposals that include methods and themes that innovate and promote sustainable design.
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ACSA Transfer Toolkit: Best Practices for Facilitating Community College Transfer

This document is the outcome of work initially begun at the ACSA 2023 Convening to Advance Community College Transfer and Articulation in Architectural Education.
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2024 Timber Education Prize - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Timber Education Prize seeks to recognize effective, innovative courses and curricula that create a stimulating and evidence-based environment for learning about timber.
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ACSA Conference Keynotes

Each ACSA conference highlights several keynotes who establish the framework or underlying or theme. Most often our conferences keynotes reflect the current and pressing issues that we face daily.
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Professional Practice Education Library

ProPEL is a library of video resources on foundational and emerging topics ranging from contracts to lean construction and design. ProPEL was developed in partnership between ACSA and NCARB.
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ACSA Online Discussions

Since March of 2020, the ACSA has been hosting a series of online discussions centered around the pivot to online learning and equity in architecture. This page is a growing repository of resource videos and audio files of the online events.
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