Have you been wondering where to go study architecture in a world class environment? Are you looking for a place to acquire that first degree, Masters degree or your Doctorate degree?
QS have released the top universities to study the subject of architecture among others. The QS world University Ranking by subject, ranking individual subjects in various Universities. This year (2016) 42 Areas of study were ranked. This ranking according to their website is aimed at helping prospective students to identify the world leading school in their chosen field.
At Archi-appraisal the focus is on the ranking among top universities offering architecture. To a achieve a global standard and acceptable ranking, four components are considered. The four components are combined to reach a conclusion for a school in each of the 42 areas/field of study. The four components are:
1. Academic reputation
2. Employers reputation
3. Research citation per paper
4. H-index
To know what this four components really mean. Click here.
Here below is the list for the top universities offering architecture and Other subject in the Built environment.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/ United States
2. UCL (University College London))/ United Kingdom
3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)/ United States
4. Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
5. Harvard University / United States
6. University of Cambridge / United Kingdom
7. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Switzerland
8. Tsinghua University / China
9. National University of Singapore (NUS)/ Singapore
10. Manchester School of Architecture / United Kingdom
11. The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
12. Columbia University / United States
13. The University of Tokyo / Japan
14. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / United States
15. Politecnico di Milano / Italy
16. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Hong Kong
17. The University of Sydney / Australia
18. The University of Melbourne / Australia
19. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) / Australia
20. Cornell University / United States
21. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/ Switzerland
22. Tongji University / China
23. Stanford University / United States
24. KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Sweden
25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / United States
26. University of Pennsylvania / United States
27. University of British Columbia / Canada
28. Georgia Institute of Technology / United States
29. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) / Chile
30. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Spain
31. Seoul National University / South Korea
32. Princeton University / United States
33. University of Toronto / Canada
34. University of Texas at Austin / United States
35. Cardiff UniversityCardiff University / United Kingdom
36. RMIT University / Australia
37. Eindhoven University of Technology / Netherlands
38. The University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
39. Universidade de São Paulo / Brazil
40. Technische Universität München / Germany
41. Yale UniversityYale University / United States
42. Kyoto University / Japan
43. The University of Queensland / Australia
44. The University of Auckland / New Zealand
45. University of Michigan / United States
46. University of Salford / United Kingdom
47. Carnegie Mellon University / United States
48. The University of Newcastle, Australia (UoN) / Australia
49. KU Leuven / Belgium
50. Politecnico di Torino / Italy
51-100. Aalborg UniversityAalborg University / Denmark
51-100. Aalto University / Finland
51-100. Arizona State University / United States
51-100. Chalmers University of Technology / Sweden
51-100. City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
51-100. Curtin University / Australia
51-100. Griffith University / Australia
51-100. Hanyang University / South Korea
51-100. Korea University / South Korea
51-100. Lund University / Sweden
51-100. McGill University / Canada
51-100. Monash University / Australia
51-100. Nanjing University / China
51-100. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) / Taiwan
51-100. New York University (NYU) / United States
51-100. Newcastle University / United Kingdom
51-100. Norwegian University of Science And Technology / Norway
51-100. Oxford Brookes University / United Kingdom
51-100. Pennsylvania State University / United States
51-100. Politécnica de Madrid / Spain
51-100. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/ Australia
51-100. RWTH Aachen University / Germany
51-100. Shanghai Jiao Tong University / China
51-100. Southeast University / China
51-100. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) / South Korea
51-100. Technische Universität Berlin / Germany
51-100. TU Dortmund University / Germany
51-100. Texas A&M University / United States
51-100. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)/ Hong Kong
51-100. The University of Nottingham / United Kingdom
51-100. Tianjin University / China
51-100. Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) / Argentina
51-100. Universidad de Chile / Chile
51-100. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Mexico
51-100. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
51-100. Université de Montréal Université de Montréal / Canada
51-100. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)/ Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Malaya (UM) / Malaysia
51-100 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) / Malaysia
51-100. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia / Malaysia
51-100. University of BathUniversity of Bath / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Cape Town / South Africa
51-100. The University of Edinburgh / United Kingdom
51-100. University of Florida / United States
51-100. University of Liverpool / United Kingdom
51-100. University of South Australia / Australia
51-100. University of Southern California / United States
51-100. University of Washington / United States
51-100. University of Waterloo / Canada
51-100. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / United States
Someday I hope a university in Nigeria will be able to make the ranking. For the prospective students out there, Good luck finding admission in any of the institution above.
Signing
Clem.
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Zaha Hadid wins RIBA Gold
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its Gold Medal, the highest honor in its repertory, since 1848. This year, on Wednesday, at a black-tie ceremony in RIBA’s stately Art Deco building in London, Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, officially received the award, the first woman in the institute's history to win it in her own right.
In the context of England’s clubby association of architects, still very much a fraternity, awarding the Gold Medal to an Iraqi-born exponent of a radically unorthodox modernism—perhaps best known here for twice winning the Cardiff Opera House competition, only to be rejected twice under cloudy circumstances—was a very big deal. Per protocol, Queen Elizabeth II approved the award. Prince Charles, the architectural traditionalist, was probably not amused.
Though Hadid was trained at London’s Architectural Association, and has practiced in the city since her graduation in 1977, it seems every major international architectural prize beat RIBA in honoring the architect: the Pritzker Prize was awarded in 2004, Japan’s Praemium Imperiale Prize in 2009, and the Queen even dubbed her Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. Though RIBA twice awarded Hadid the Stirling Prize and numerous specific building citations, a deep moat of silence surrounded the institute regarding the Gold Medal. Hadid was conspicuous by her absence on the list.
Finally, this year, under the direction of Jane Duncan (only the third female RIBA president), the institute has redressed the “oversight.” Sir Peter Cook, Luisa Hutton, and David Chipperfield, Hon. FAIA, architects with an international point of view, nominated her.
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Architecture’s Biggest Prize Goes To Alejandro Aravena of Chile.
You probably haven't heard of that name before now.I must admit same here. He is a non celebrity Architect if you know what I mean.(you are probably wondering : so there are celebrity Architects?) Well, yes.Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, Tom Pritzker announced on 13th January 2016. Mr. Pritzker is Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prize. It was announced in Chicago. Alejandro Aravena, known for his pioneering social housing projects in Latin America.
the first Pritzker Laureate from Chile, and the fourth from Latin America, after Luis Barragán (1980), Oscar Niemeyer
(1988), and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006).
Last year laureate, German Architect/Engineer Frei Paul Otto at age 89 died two weeks after the announcement and never made it to the award ceremony. ARCHITECT Aravena is a 48th year old and is unlikely to suffer the same fate.
While Alejandro Aravena may not be popular around the world he is quiet famous in his native Chile and Mexico, where is designs are social and public driven. He is a credible architect and design, consequently —he was recently named curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale —but his own mode of architectural practice is what sets him apart. Aravena is the owner and moderator of Elemental, which bills itself as a “do tank”—not a think tank—and which sort to creates “projects of public interest and social impact, including housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation.”
A hallmark of the firm is a participatory
design process in which the architects work closely with the public and end users.
ELEMENTAL is also known for
designing social housing that they call “half of a good house,” in which the design leaves space for the residents to complete their houses themselves and thus raise themselves up to a middle-class standard of living. This innovative approach, called “incremental housing,” allows for social housing to be built on more expensive land closer to economic opportunity and gives residents a sense of accomplishment and personal investment.
At the announcement, Mr. Pritzker said, “The jury has selected an architect who
deepens our understanding of what is truly great design. Alejandro Aravena has pioneered a collaborative practice
that produces powerful works of architecture and also addresses key challenges of the 21st century. His built work gives economic opportunity to the less privileged, mitigates the effects of natural disasters, reduces energy consumption, and provides welcoming public space. Innovative and inspiring, he shows how architecture at its best can improve people’s lives.”
His most striking body of work is a
series of thoughtful, monumental structures for his alma mater, Santiago’s Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. These projects resonates sustainability, using practical means expressed in radically bold forms. Aravena has also tackled social housing with a deft hand that produces complexes that are both inventive and ennobling on tight budgets. Beyond his native Chile, Aravena has built projects in Texas, Mexico, Switzerland, and China.
In response to being named the 2016 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Mr. Aravena emailed: “Looking backwards, we feel deeply thankful. No achievement is individual. Architecture is a collective discipline. So we think, with gratitude, of all the people who contributed to give form to a huge diversity of forces at play. Looking into the future we anticipate Freedom! The prestige, the reach, the gravitas of the prize is such that we hope to use its momentum to explore new territories, face new challenges, and walk into new fields of action. After such a peak, the path is unwritten. So our plan is not to have a plan, face the uncertain, be open to the unexpected. Finally, looking at the
present, we are just overwhelmed, ecstatic, happy. It's time to celebrate and share our joy with as many people as possible.”
Nina VidicUC Innovation Center—Anacleto Angelini in Santiago, Chile
Cristobal PalmaSiamese Towers at the Universidad Católica de Chile San Joaquín Campus in Santiago, Chile
His works so far includes the Metropolitan
Promenade (1997 - ongoing) and Bicentennial Children’s Park (2012), both in Santiago. After the 2010 earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile, ELEMENTAL was called to work on the reconstruction of the city of Constitución; their work there includes emergency relief work, a master plan, Villa Verde (incremental housing, 2013), and the Constitución Cultural Center (2014). Other works include a Montessori School (2001) in Santiago, Chile; “Chairless” furniture (2010) for Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Germany; Monterrey Housing (incremental housing, 2010) in Monterrey, Mexico; Las Cruces Pilgrim Lookout Point (2010) in Jalisco, Mexico; Calama PLUS master plan (2012 - ongoing) in Calama, Chile; Writer’s Cabin for the Jan Michalski Foundation (2015) in Montricher, Switzerland; and Ayelén School (2015) in Rancagua, Chile.
Cristobal Palma
Quinta Monroy Housing in Iquique, Chile
Medical School at Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile(Roland Halbe).
Villa Verde Housing in Constitución, Chile In(incremental housing, the owners will developed the other side). 2014
Sherigu Ban won the prize and his works is social and public responsible. Fast forward to 2016, exactly two year after, an architect with radical approach to social and public housing gets the nod. Well, this may suggest where the jury's search light is beam. Well that is just my opinion.
Congratulations to Alejandro Aravena. To our readers, welcome to the first article of the new year. Hope you liked it. Stay tune.
Cheers
Klem
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