Welcome Grover C. Dear Jr

Join us in welcoming Grover C. Dear Jr. to Academy of Art University! A 45-year veteran of the architectural profession and one of the 20 “World’s Leading Design Names of 2016,” according to the…

Interior Designer and Blogger Katty Schiebeck

Today we fell in love with the style of Barcelona based interior designer/blogger  Katty Schiebeck, her minimalist style and use of geometrical lines caught our attention and we immediately did some…

Monday Morning Photos- Super Bowl Edition

For today's Monday Morning Photos , we have a look at some of the amazing design we saw during the super bowl. From the incredible set up at the Super Bowl City in San Francisco's Embarcadero…

Mission District meets Japan

The Mission district in San Francisco continues to grow and develop as destination for food, art and design. Architect Craig Steely has recently completed a ramen bar that was inspired by the complex…

Nominated for a VES Award: Scott Carroll

One of our AAU alums, Scott Carroll was nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature for his work on Blue Sky's The Peanuts Movie. For more…

RSA Competition – Student Design Awards 2016

The 2015-16 competition is officially open for entries! University students and recent graduates anywhere in the world can enter the 2015/16 Awards, which challenge participants to tackle pressing…

Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops 1966-1971

How do you perceive the environment? In the summer of 1966, renowned American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) and his wife, dance pioneer Anna Halprin (born 1920), began a series of…

The ASLA-NCC 2016 Call for Entries

The American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter has released the Call for Entries for the 2016 Professional & Student Awards. Award recipients and their clients will be…

Les Dada East, Paris

Architect Joshua Florquin was in charge of the overall design of Les Dada East hair salon in Paris. The space is quite simple and very minimal, but he decided to create a focal point through the…

Terence Lee: Learning By Working: From Kiley To Present – Video Lecture

The School of Landscape Architecture presents Terence Lee and his lecture Learning by Working: From Kiley to Present. Academia is a necessary first step to becoming educated in your field. One must…