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On Monday (Aug. 3), the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative, in partnership with the City of Benton Harbor, the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission and Cornerstone Alliance, will launch a community-driven planning process to create a shared vision for the St. Joseph Riverfront in Benton Harbor.

Students embark on summer research for the common good July 22, 2026   This summer, the Institute for Social Concerns…

The Notre Dame Arts Initiative has awarded 38 grants to foster sustained growth in the arts through partner programming for the inaugural Notre Dame Arts Biennial, scheduled for January through…

Joyce Owens, FAIA, RIBA, B.Arch ’84, has been elected 2027 president-elect of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), positioning her to serve as AIA national president in 2028. Her election marks a significant milestone for the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and for the profession at large. Owens becomes only the second Notre Dame graduate to lead the AIA, following Bill Bat…

Architecture School graduates visit the Architecture Library Makerspace to 3D print GradCaps for commencement.

On Tuesday, May 12, John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame, announced the winners of the 2026 University faculty awards. “This year’s faculty award recipients represent the very best of Notre Dame through their outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service,” McGreevy said. “Their work strengthens our academic community and furthers …

Join Nikiforos Meimaroglou, civil engineer, and Vasileios Chanis, architect, for a lecture about traditional Greek building practices and their value today through the lens of the Boulouki Group's work in Greece. Boulouki is a collective that studies and transfers knowledge of traditional building crafts as active, sustainable knowledge. AIA credit is offered for this lecture.

Come hear from Prof. William Viestenz explore the hidden social, political, and environmental ramifications of the ongoing "infrastructural turn" in recent cultural productions! Following his presentation there will be an open discussion. So come with questions! This paper argues that recent Catalan and Galician cultural production has made ‘visible’ the infrastructural turn that has emerged of l…

Lotty Rosenfeld's Materiality: Sculpture Takes Up Space In this talk, Julia Bryan-Wilson explores how the work of Chilean feminist artist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943-2020) utilized sculptural propositions to alter public space through materiality. Though Rosenfeld has been generally understood as a conceptual artist and co-founder of the important dissident group Colectivo Acciones de Arte, active duri…

Summer 2025 marked a major milestone for classical archaeology at the University of Notre Dame as Associate Professor Alessandro Pierattini assumed leadership as the director of excavations at Isthmia, one of the four great Panhellenic sanctuaries of ancient Greece. With this appointment, the project officially became the University of Notre Dame Excavations at Isthmia with support from the Notre…

Every month in 2026, Notre Dame Global will feature one of the 12 locations on its website—asking each director to share with us “the one thing” they want the Notre Dame community to know about their programs, their achievements, their goals, or their aspirations. In January, our focus was on Notre Dame Mexico. This month, we turn to Notre Dame Mumbai and its director, Dhiraj Mehra ND ’96, who jo…

In honor of his lifelong dedication to and outstanding achievements in traditional urbanism and architecture, John Simpson has been selected as the 2026 laureate of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. He will receive the prize during a ceremony on March 21 at the Murphy Auditorium in Chicago. A native of the United Kingdom, Simpson first gained prominence in 1990 during…

On a frozen stretch of the North Quad, what began as a fun winter construction experiment grew into something far more meaningful: a student-built ice chapel that drew thousands into prayer, community, and shared wonder. For Wesley Buonerba ’27, School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, the project became a powerful lesson in how architecture shapes human experience far beyond the c…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) selected the project, From Studio to Systems: A Research-Based Model for Architectural Education, by Ming Hu, associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame’s school of architecture, as the winner of the 2026 AIA/ACSA Practice and Leadership Award. This national aw…

Research Themes - Urbanism and Placemaking Faculty research on designing beautiful, durable, and resilient towns and cities empowers communities to thrive while addressing challenges like rising sea levels and heat-related illnesses. - Climate Resilience, Environmental Justice, and Health Through research, our faculty focus on how to fulfill their social responsibility as architects and designers…

Concentrations The School of Architecture encourages undergraduate students, beginning in their fourth year, to participate in one of three concentrations: These concentrations develop specialized skills that benefit students in the workplace and beyond. The Architectural Practice and Enterprise concentration, established in 2007, allows architecture students to take courses in accounting, manage…

Time-tested and Emerging Technologies Research in Time-tested & Emerging Technologies bridges historical knowledge with technology advancement like Extended Reality (XR) to create more resilient urban spaces. By incorporating insights from the archaeological record and historical texts, researchers can understand how ancient and traditional societies built sustainable environments, informing cont…

Graduate Programs "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul." - French Priest Ernest Dimnet Instruction in Notre Dame’s graduate architecture program is informed by the same fundamental understanding of architecture and urbanism as that which is promoted in the undergraduate curriculum. At the heart of the School of Architecture’s miss…

Urbanism and Placemaking At Notre Dame Architecture faculty are leveraging their skills as researchers and designers to shape towns and cities that nurture all inhabitants and prepare them to confront the critical issues of our time. Research in Urbanism & Placemaking focuses on the design and development of human-centered spaces that foster community, sustainability, and cultural identity. This …

Architecture, Design, and Preservation Building on the School's focus on using the past as a guide for the future, our research will emphasize heritage conservation and adaptive design and reuse. We aim to explore methods for safeguarding and repurposing historic buildings while addressing contemporary needs, linking adaptive reuse to sustainable development, cultural preservation, and community …