As a core intellectual engine within the school and following the program’s dissertation defenses this week, Ph.D. in Architecture candidates Pedro Correa Fernández and Maur Dessauvage present their dissertations, The Means of Abstraction: Building, Measuring, and Counting at the Dawn of Civic Equality Chile 1810-1860, and Monuments for a State to Come: Architecture, Historicism, and German Nation- Building, 1814–1871.

Organized by the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture Felicity Scott, in coordination with the Dean’s Office.

• Faculty Erica Avrami is awarded the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation (pictured).

• Dean Emeritus Amale Andraos is honored with the Academic Excellence Award from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (pictured).

• Faculty Sumayya Vally is an honoree in the Association of Women in the Arts Honors Leaders in Culture 2026.

• Director of M.S.CDP Laura Kurgan, Faculty Adam Vosburgh, and Faculty Dan Miller‘s Triennale di Milano award winning Two Sides of the Same Coin is acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.

• Fuensanta Nieto (‘83 MSAAD) is named member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (pictured).

• Faculty Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge (nARCHITECTS) are selected as one of five global finalists in the Architizer A+Awards Best Public Projects Firm category.

• Faculty Amelyn Ng, Faculty Gabriel Vergara, and Christine Giorgio ('19 M.Arch) (Friends Making Work) present their exhibition DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground at the Center for Architecture.

• Faculty Harold Fallon (AgwA) wins the 2026 EU Mies van der Rohe Award for Charleroi Palais des Expositions (pictured).

• Dean Andrés Jaque‘s (OFFPOLINN) Colegio Reggio profiled in Bloomberg.

• LOT-EK installs the exhibition CORNUCOPIA, a re-prospective of Sara Valente and Marcelo Ertorteguy STEREOTANK’s journey.

• Faculty Juan Herreros’ (estudio Herreros) essay “The Museums We Dreamed of Are Here… and It’s a Question of Architecture” is published in Dalí News

• Faculty Karla Rothstein (DeathLAB) presents “Civic Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable Burial in New York City” at the New York Public Library (pictured).