Arizona State University is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature,the university is now one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States. It was one of about 180 "normal schools" founded in the late 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools. Some closed,but most steadily expanded their role and became state colleges in the early 20th century,then state universities in the late 20th century.
Paolo Soleri was an Italian-born American architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' –a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93.
Graduate School of Architecture,Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University,a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and prestigious architecture school. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design,Historic Preservation,Real Estate Development,Urban Design,and Urban Planning.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University,a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture,landscape architecture,urban planning,urban design,real estate,design engineering,and design studies.
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix campus is a public research university in Phoenix,Arizona. It is one of five campuses of Arizona State University.
The A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning,also known as Taubman College,is the school of architecture and urban planning and one of the nineteen schools of the University of Michigan located in Ann Arbor,Michigan.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication,is one of the 24 independent schools at Arizona State University and is named in honor of veteran broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite. The school,which is located at the downtown Phoenix campus,offers several undergraduate and graduate programs in journalism,and in fall 2011,launched its first doctoral program in journalism and mass communication.
Alejandro Zaera Polo is a Spanish architect,theorist and founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo &Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). He was formerly dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.
Albert Chase McArthur was a Prairie School architect,and the designer of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix,Arizona.
The history of Arizona State University began March 12,1885 with the founding of the establishment originally named the Territorial Normal School at Tempe. The school was founded after John Samuel Armstrong first introduced House Bill 164,“An Act to Establish a Normal School in the Territory of Arizona”to the 13th Legislative Assembly of the Arizona Territory. Instruction was instituted on February 8,1886,under the supervision of Principal Hiram Bradford Farmer. Land for the school was donated by Tempe residents George and Martha Wilson,allowing 33 students to meet in a single room.
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe,Arizona was created in 2009 by the merger of two existing academic units,the Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts and the College of Design. The Arizona Board of Regents approved the merger on April 30,2009. The Herberger Institute comprises five schools:the School of Art;the School of Arts,Media and Engineering;The Design School;The New American Film School;and the School of Music,Dance and Theatre. It also houses the ASU Art Museum.
The Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education at Arizona State University was established in 1954. It disestablished in 2010 by Provost Elizabeth Capaldi amidst strong objections from faculty,students,and relevant professional organizations. FIGSE is sometimes confused with ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College,which was renamed from the regional teaching-intensive West campus College of Teacher Education and Leadership (CTEL) at the same time the historic FIGSE was disestablished.
Arizona State University Tempe campus is the main campus of Arizona State University,and the largest of the five campuses that comprise the university. The campus lies in the heart of Tempe,Arizona,about eight miles (13 km) east of downtown Phoenix. The campus is considered urban,and is approximately 642 acres (2.6 km2) in size. The campus is arranged around broad pedestrian malls and,in toto,is considered to be an arboretum. ASU has an extensive public art collection,considered one of the ten best among university public art collections in the United States. Against the northwest edge of campus is the Mill Avenue district which has a college atmosphere that attracts many students to its restaurants and bars. ASU's Tempe Campus is also home to all of the university's athletic facilities.
Claudio Vekstein is an architect from Argentina and has been running his own architecture practice,teaching and researching the relationship between the architecture discipline,the public work and the Public Interest.
Theresa Ann Cameron was the first African-American woman to be awarded tenure in the College of Design at Arizona State University,in 2000.
Adèle NaudéSantos is a South African-born American architect and urban designer focused on low-income housing,campus architecture,and socially conscious design. She is the principal architect of Santos Prescott and Associates,based in San Francisco and Somerville,Massachusetts. She served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2014. She became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1996.
Nancy Levinson is an editor and writer working at the intersection of journalism,scholarship,architecture,and urbanism. She has been the editor and executive director of Places journal since 2008. She was the Founding Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at The Design School at Arizona State University,and a founding editor of Harvard Design Magazine at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Richard M. Sommer is a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and the Director of the Global Cities Institute at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture,Landscape,and Design,University of Toronto. From 2009 until 2020,he was the Dean of the Daniels Faculty. Sommer was born in Philadelphia,and now resides in Toronto,Canada. Trained as an architect and urbanist,Sommer is a leader in architectural education and is a designer and scholar of the built environment.
Marcus Whiffen was an English architectural journalist,historian,author and photographer specialising in British and American architecture. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University.
Steven Tepper is an American sociologist and the president of Hamilton College since July 1,2024. Tepper was previously the deputy director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies,associate director of the Curb Center for Art,Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University,and dean and director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.
