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The Iowa Schools Guidebook on Architecture

By Alison Karfeld posted 08-04-2025
What is the Iowa Schools Guidebook on Architecture? The Iowa Schools Guidebook on Architecture is a new, free resource from AIA Iowa . Created for Iowa School Administrators and School Boards, it will serve as a guide for the architectural design ...
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The Public University: Driving the Future

By Alison Karfeld posted 07-29-2025
The Public University: Driving the Future By Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, FAIA From left to right: Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, FAIA, Adam Baacke, Kelly Hayes-McAlonie, FAIA and Douglas Marshall, AIA. Photo credit: ...
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Forum Subcommittee launch and listening session recap

By Alison Karfeld posted 06-27-2025
By Enrico Giori, Assoc. AIA The first Forum Subcommittee Launch and Listening Session conversation was energetic and insightful, centered around an urgency and impact matrix that helped frame today’s most pressing and forward-looking challenges ...
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Letter from the Chair – March 2025

By Alison Karfeld posted 03-11-2025
By Rebecca Baibak, AIA Dear Committee on Architecture for Education Community, In late 2021, I was appointed to serve on the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education for a five-year term. Since then, I have had ...
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EDspaces 2024 event recap and look ahead to 2025!

By Alison Karfeld posted 12-19-2024
Where do passionate experts discover the most cutting-edge ideas and trends in educational facility design? Look no further than EDspaces: Designing the Future of Education , the premiere destination for architects, designers, facility planners, distributors ...
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Letter from the Chair 2023

By Olivia Graf Doyle posted 02-01-2023
The Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) is a Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We are a large and active group of over 10,000 architects and allied professionals concerned with the quality and design of all types ...
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Learning By Design Magazine spring 2022 edition

By Carolyn Perricelli posted 04-26-2022
Learning By Design Magazine publishes its spring 2022 edition Learning By Design recognizes the nation’s preeminent architectural firms by publishing outstanding pre-K to 12 and college/university projects. The spring 2022 edition contains over ...
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Reimagine America’s Schools: A Blueprint for Equity and Opportunity

By Kerry Leonard, AIA posted 01-19-2021
On January 26, 2021, the Reimagine Schools National Summit will begin to lay out a blueprint for the future. The summit will focus on designing schools for equity and inclusion, including Community Schools 3.0, learning at the intersection of technology ...
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Join CAE at EDspaces 2020

By Brian Minnich, AIA posted 10-09-2020
The AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) would like to invite you to participate with us at our Fall Conference at the EDspaces Digital Experience . Our events have always been about innovation, content, connections, and community. This ...
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Update on 2020 CAE Spring Conference

By Maggie Brown posted 03-18-2020
COVID-19 and CAE Spring Conference Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Committee on Architecture for Education Spring Conference, April 26-29 in Minneapolis. ...
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2019 Spring CAE Conference Travel Scholarship Recipient

By Noah Meier posted 06-08-2019
Education is the foundation of human society as we know it today. Education leads to personal edification, scientific and artistic innovation, technological development, and the ability to transcend what we previously considered to be impossible. It develops ...
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Seeking Examples: Adaptive Reuse Projects

By Jenine Kotob, AIA posted 06-06-2018
Hi all, I'm hoping the individuals on this blog can share some precedent examples of adaptive reuse projects of former non-academic buildings into learning environments. These can be in either urban or suburban areas, small or large, national or international, ...
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Small Education Spaces Designed for Big Impact

By Nicole Nichols, AIA posted 05-16-2018
Large new construction projects on collegiate campuses typically generate buzz amongst students and faculty alike. The impact on the campus fabric, from construction noise to safety fencing, becomes an unavoidable but intriguing occurrence that can generate ...
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Reinventing the School Experience

By Taryn Kinney posted 04-26-2018
What does reinventing the school experience mean to you? Is it related to modern facilities, new pedagogies, community partnerships, or is it a combination of all three? At Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Austin, Texas, the answer to ...
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Three Tips for Safe and Secure Schools

By Christopher Gibbs posted 03-19-2018
​There are many tragedies related to the recent string of school violence in our communities. The fact that we are spending our valuable time and limited resources struggling to keep our children safe rather than being able to spend it on learning is ...
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Guns and Schools: Hard or Soft?

By John Clark, AIA posted 03-12-2018
In the wake of the Parkland shootings, the NRA has called for immediate hardening of schools, while NPR responded by saying they should be softened, and architects are caught in the crosshairs of the argument. Especially architects who are involved with ...
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Education Design Awards

By Brian McLaren posted 12-31-2017
The CAE Design Awards is an Internet-based marketplace of ideas. Through this forum the committee disseminates quality ideas on educational facility planning and design to clients, architects, and the public. As how we educate ourselves continues ...
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CAE Conferences

By Brian McLaren posted 12-31-2017
CAE’s conferences explore a variety of learning environments for students from Pre-K to Higher Education. Attendees have the opportunity to participate in the latest dialogue about the environment's effect on learning--as well as being able to network ...
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Education and Culture - 2017 ED Spaces / CAE Fall Conference Reflection

By Laurie Hoffman, AIA posted 10-31-2017
Last week was the 2017 EDspaces Conference in Kansas City. As a first-time attendee, the combination of designers / end-users / vendors coming together to discuss the state of education today and how collectively it can be improved upon for the future, ...
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Kristen Houghton I 2017 CAE Scholarship Recipient

By Kristen Houghton posted 10-16-2017
I am a graduate architecture student at Norwich University and also work as a substitute teacher’s aide for disabled children in the Saratoga City School District when my schedule allows. Through the classroom experience, as well as my own experiences ...
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