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Durst Gift Helps Launch New Center on Urban Real Estate
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Carole Ann Fabian and Helena Durst talk about the Durst gift and the new Center for Urban Real Estate.

Intelligent Buildings Project receives gift from Wells Far
Yale's Intelligent Buildings Project has received $200,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support groundbreaking research on energy consumption in buildings.

Intelligent Buildings Project receives gift from Wells Fargo Foundation
Yale's Intelligent Buildings Project has received $200,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support groundbreaking research on energy consumption in buildings.

Here comes the sun
A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency. Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design announces events for winter 2012

Stanford’s Board of Trustees approves sites for two new arts buildings
The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, which will open in 2014, and the McMurtry Building, which will open in 2015, will join the Bing Concert Hall, which will open in 2013, and the Cantor Arts Center as cornerstones of the new arts district.

Three UC San Diego Computer Scientists Named ACM Fellows
Keith Marzullo, Dean M. Tullsen and Amin Vahdat, all professors in the department of computer science & engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, have been named Fellows of The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

U of M College of Design Dean Tom Fisher and Department of Architecture Head Renee Cheng named two of top 25 design educators in the country

U of M Physics and Nanotechnology Building's ceremonial groundbreaking set for Oct. 12
Building was centerpiece of state's capital investment plan passed during the 2011 special legislative session Media Note: This is an invitation-only event, open to media.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design announces events for fall 2011

MIT: First prototype built from MIT’s effort to construct houses for $1,000 each
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Home prices in many of the world's most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot.

A Decade Later: The University Reflects on 9/11
As the city, nation and world pause to remember the 10th anniversary of the destruction and heroism that will forever mark lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa., Columbia University is c