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Today, we commence a month-long focus on the future of cities. To begin, Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the challenges our future cities will face and how mitigation depends on the innovations we create and put in place today.

At the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, opening Saturday, architects and designers have responded to a charge to "report from the front" on major challenges and issues facing humanity around the globe.

The question of what restroom a transgender person should use has become a national debate.

ANN ARBOR-With eight faculty participants representing three different countries, the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will take center stage at the world's top architecture show this summer.

Four Stanford dance faculty members created four new dance works, showing how dance interacts and engages with space in different ways.

Dr Andy Krause: 0421852228 Dr Gideon Aschwanden: 0415589047 Researchers from the University of Melbourne have created a system to model and predict house values and rental rates at the individual property level.  The comparison of these two values offers insight into rental yields in the market; an import metric that can be used by buyers, sellers, investors and renters to help make informed choices.

The MIT campus Main Group buildings, which celebrate their 100th anniversary this year, were a marvel of modern construction when they were designed and built a century ago.

Take a tour of the future Geffen Hall via this 3-D visual simulation, courtesy of UCLA Capital Programs.

London's first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality this week after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with conceptual plans for an 80-storey, 300m high wooden building integrated within the Barbican. If London is going to survive it needs to increasingly densify. One way is taller buildings.

Kellogg College has now appointed the award-winning architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to design a new, ultra-low energy building in the heart of the College's North Oxford grounds.

Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch.

The University of Queensland's historic Customs House in central Brisbane is renowned for its elegant architecture, fine dining and magnificent views to the Story Bridge - and now a delicious secret is lurking in the cellar.

Basic research in the practice-oriented discipline of architecture is gaining importance at TU Graz.

The Trombe wall ventilation system (to the left) has through a research project been modified to be used both for heating and cooling using renewable energy sources.

A new research project aims to develop the world's first flying robots capable of autonomously assessing and manufacturing building structures to help areas suffering from natural disasters.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Adequate housing is difficult to find in many parts of Africa even for the middle class and wealthy, but it is particularly difficult for the poor, according to an international team of housing specialists.

The concept of moving your house without actually going anywhere isn't new — adaptive architecture has been around since the 1920s.

The town of Byblos, in Lebanon, is several thousand years old. Indeed, it may be the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world.

The recent completion of construction, and first month of successful operation of the 3for2@UWCSEA demonstration project by ETH Zurich turns the page in developing what could be Singapore's most energy-efficient office by 2018.

Jack Elliot and students completed a test build in Cornell's High Voltage Laboratory before erecting the structure in the Dominican Republic.

In episode three of the University of Liverpool's new podcast series, Dr Iain Jackson, from the School of Architecture, guides listeners through the north of India, to this first planned city post independence in 1947.

Five hundred years ago the masons working on one of the world's most famous buildings completed the stonework of a chapel conceived some 70 years earlier.

When the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive reopens at its new downtown location on Jan.

At first Alice Edwards thought her fatigue was caused by her first-year university studies, not a form of cancer she would have to battle on top of her degree.

"Cornell Rewind" is a series of columns in the Cornell Chronicle to celebrate the university's sesquicentennial.

The Biennale for Urban Development and Architecture opens in Shenzhen today. Two architecture professors from ETH Zurich are co-curators, and the university is making several contributions to the exhibition.

The University's office of Facilities Services is working to identify the source of a leak that was discovered on Dec.

Big data may soon make buildings greener. With a recent major acquisition, MIT alumni-founded Retroficiency, which has assessed hundreds of thousands of buildings, is poised to bring its advanced energy analytics platform to millions of commercial buildings.

UCLA modeling expert lets viewers marvel at Chicago World's Fair that drew 27 million people from around the world Nico Viele Lisa Snyder/UCLA UCLA modeling and visualization expert Lisa Snyder has s

John E. Fernandez, a professor of building technology in the Department of Architecture, has been named as the new director of MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), a campuswide initiative launched in 2014.

Faculty members will be brought up to date on the construction of 180 new homes off California Avenue, some of which may be ready as soon as 2017.

Stanford's revised plans for 500 El Camino Real in Menlo Park feature a public plaza, reduced office space, additional housing and space for restaurants and retailers.

The Chicago Department of Water Management has notified the University and nearby residents of a water safety issue that requires tap water to be boiled before it is consumed.