America’s Top Architecture Schools 2013
Read our annual list of leading programs, as well as students survey results and a comparison of tuition costs.

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Architecture Education Now
A gentle manifesto to improve design education.

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Why the Lack of Black Students?
RECORD speaks to architecture students about the field’s diversity problem.

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The Architecture of Architecture Schools
Architecture-school buildings haven’t changed much from their early-20th century design roots: prominent drafting rooms and studios, surrounded by classrooms, lecture halls, and offices. Each iconic structure remains a symbol of the institution’s educational mission.

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Academic Discourse
What is the status of the “big book” today? The editors of Architecture School, along with the board of advisers of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture—which initiated the book to celebrate its 100th anniversary—must have asked that question often while preparing this massive survey.

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Expanding Universities
Plans proceed apace at Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Yale, and Princeton.

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