News Archive

2010 News Archive

[July 1, 2010]  Register now for the Architecture for Change Summit: http://architectureforchange.aa.uic.edu.

Join architects, developers and affordable housing activists on September 22-24, 2010 in Chicago to address the affordable housing crisis.

• Affirm the ways design matters in the affordable housing crisis;
• Hear about the dedicated work of nationally recognized affordable housing design advocates;
• Understand how conventional housing development practices and policies impede affordable, appropriate and sustainable housing design; and
• Mobilize support for meaningful and inclusive change in these practices and policies

[May 27, 2010]  The SEED Network: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  The Social/Economic/Environmental Design (SEED) Network Meets to Discuss its Contribution to the Crescent City's Recovery Effort: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  SEED: Design that matters: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  Green ArchiTEXT: Beyond LEED: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  AIGA National Conference Papers Presenters: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  A view on sustainability from Seattle Parks: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  Design Activism: Public Domain: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  New green standard addresses social impact of construction projects: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  Lo standard per stabilire l’impatto dei progetti sulle comunità: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  New Design Standard Creates Metrics for Social, Economic Sustainability: [Read]

[May 27, 2010]  The Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network: [Read]

[Apr 4, 2010]  SFI 10 launches SEED Evaluator: [Read] [Read]

[Apr 4, 2010]  Design Corps in partnership with AARP and Tulane receives NEA grant for Hollygrove. Design Corps Summer studio graduates Zach Gong and Michael Cohen to lead design. 

[Apr 4, 2010]  Rest in Peace, Art Collings. A dear friend of Design Corps has passed. Art Collings was a true public servant who contributed beyond measure to the USDA housing programs. His brilliant intellect was always at the service of those in need. Thank you Art.

[Feb 12, 2010]  Ten speakers selected for Structures for Inclusion 10; March 27 and 28, Howard University, Washington DC | Keynote: Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso and Berlin | Registration

[Feb 4, 2010]  Bryan Bell to be featured in film on architecture: [Link 1] [Link 2]

[Feb 4, 2010]  Collection of essays honoring Robert Gutman released: Architecture from the Outside In. Edited by Dana Cuff and John Wriedt. Published by Princeton Architectural Press. Essay by Bryan Bell included as a tribute to a great man and teacher: Pre-form and Post-form Design Activism.

Upcoming Speaking Events for Bryan Bell

[Mar 31, 2010]  Traveling Activism article in METROPOLISMAG.COM [Read]

[Feb 22, 2010]  Virginia Tech, Fairfax, VA

[Feb 24, 2010]  Catholic University, Washington, DC

[Feb 24, 2010]  Howard University, Washington DC

[Feb 24, 2010]  U. Maryland, College Park, MD

[Mar 3-5, 2010]  U. Tennessee Chattanooga

[Mar 5-7, 2010]  ACSA, New Orleans, LA

[Mar 24, 2010]  University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

[Mar 25, 2010]  Yale, New Haven, CT

[Mar 27-28, 2010]  SFI Conference, Washington, DC

[Apr 8-9, 2010]  UNC-Charlotte, CriticalMASS, Charlotte, NC

[Apr 9, 2010]  Northwest AIA, Portland, OR

[Apr 21, 2010]  Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

2009 News Archive

[Apr 29, 2009]  Make a Difference in Two Days [Go]

[Apr 29, 2009]  Bryan Bell asks local architects to become agents of change. [Go]

[Jan 30, 2009]  SFI9: Generate, Activate, Maintain - March 20-22, 2009 in Dallas, Texas [Go]

[Jan 30, 2009]  Bryan Bell named Shure Professor at the University of Virginia for Spring, 2009. School lecture to be February 13, open to the public.

[Jan 29, 2009]  Metropolis Magazine and Steelcase Furniture sponsor a series of conversations on the new book Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism [Go]

[Jan 29, 2009]  Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, edited by Bryan Bell & Katie Wakeford, to be released by Metropolis Books in October.[Go]

2008 News Archive

[Jul 09, 2008]  Design Corps selected for Venice Biennale. [Read 1] [Read 2]

2007 News Archive

[Oct 23, 2007]  Speaker: "Design for the other 98% Without Architects," Messiah College, Grantham, PA [Go]

[Oct 12, 2007]  Speaker: SUBSTANCE: Diverse Practices from the Periphery, exhibition lecture, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Center for Visual Arts. [Go]

[Sep 19, 2007]  Speaker: Rice Design Alliance Lecture Series, "Agents of Change," Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

[Sep 15, 2007]  Speaker: AIA Midwest Regional Convention, Tulsa, OK

[Sep 08, 2007]  Panelist: "Imagining America, Artist and Scholars in Public Life," Imagining Urban Transformation through Community Design Panel, Syracuse, NY

[Sep 08, 2007]  Speaker: Syracuse University Brown Bag Lunch

[Sep 01, 2007]  New Design Corps Fellows start work in New Orleans, LA, Biloxi, MS, Greensboro, AL, Hayesville, Andrews and Raleigh, NC

[Jul 19, 2007]  Keynote: Cooper Hewitt Museum Summer Design Institute, New York, NY

[Apr 24, 2007]  Presentation: South Carolina Community Design, South Carolina State AIA Summit

[Mar 06, 2007]  Keynote: Interior Design Educators Council Annual Conference, Austin, TX

[Feb 27, 2007]  2007 Summer Design/Build Studio Announced [Go]

[Feb 27, 2007]  2007 Fellowships Announced [Go]

[Feb 27, 2007]  Structures for Inclusion Announced

[Jan 19, 2007]  Bryan Bell to receive 2007 AIA Collaborative Achievement Award [Go]

[Jan 08, 2007]  AmeriCorps VISTA position available for Farmworker Food Security project in Newton Grove, NC [Go]

[Jan 03, 2007]  Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design application deadline January 3, 2007. Consult website for nomination form. [Go]

2006 News Archive

[Nov 13, 2006]  Jane Jacobs Fellowship in New Orleans application deadline November 13, 2006. Contact Steven Goldsmith: stgoldsmith@gmail.com for application and questions.

[Oct 28, 2006]  Presentation: Gulf Coast Green, Symposium on Building, AIA Houston, TX

[Oct 26, 2006]  Presentation: Woodbury University, Architecture School, Fall Lecture Series, San Diego, CA

[Oct 25, 2006]  Presentation: University of Southern California, Architecture School, Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA

[Oct 09, 2006]  Applications for the 2007 Rudy Bruner Award are now available at the Rudy Bruner web site [Go]

[Aug 28, 2006]  The Perfect $100,000 House: DC staff recommends new book that details challenge of quality affordable home design.

[Aug 28, 2006]  Ground Breaking: Design Corps assists Common Ground to open health clinic in New Orleans' Ninth Ward.

[Aug 15, 2006]  Alabama Self Help housing funded: $335,000 grant from USDA to design/build 20 houses over two years.

[Jul 31, 2006]  Bus shelter #2: Design Corps' summer studio completes second community project in Asheville, NC.

[Jul 12, 2006]  Inaugural international design/build program has successful completion in Nicaragua partnering with BaSiC Initiative.

[Jun 25, 2006]  RFP: New Housing New York Legacy Project [Go]

[Jun 01, 2006]  Applications for Master course at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya are due June 20.

[May 03, 2006]  2006 Summer Design/Build Studio awarded grant by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

[May 01, 2006]  "Materials for Design" by Victoria Ballard Bell & Pat Rand, available on [Amazon.com]

[Apr 24, 2006]  2006 Summer Design/Build Studio applications due.

[Apr 12, 2006]  2006 Design Corps Fellowship applications due.

[Apr 11, 2006]  Structures for Inclusion 6 recap and presentations are now posted online.