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RECENT

9 May 2008 Year End Show, 5pm - 8pm, A+A Building Galleries. A reception featuring jury comments and student awards will begin at 6:15pm in Gallery 1100. For a list of jurors, visit Events.

The School is now accepting applications for the Y ARCH Summer Architecture Program. For details and deadlines, visit the Y ARCH homepage.

The first issue of aX, the School of Architecture journal co-edited by Associate Professor David Brown, Assistant Professor Sarah Dunn, and Ellen Grimes, has just been released, and includes interviews with Will Alsop, Keller Easterling, Matthias Schuler, and R.E. Somol. Copies are available in the School office for $10. For more details, visit Events.

The City Design Center has just released Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism for Garfield Park, co-edited by Brent Ryan, Susanne Schnell, and Assistant Professor Penelope Dean, whose spring 2007 option studio "Extreme Green" is also featured in the publication.

Four School of Architecture faculty were recognized with individual Graham Foundation grants this spring: Assistant Professor Judith De Jong, Assistant Professor Clare Lyster, Associate Professor Annie Pedret, and Assistant Professor Juan Rois.

Professor Roberta Feldman, Director of the City Design Center, was awarded a 2008 EDRA/Places Award in cooperation with Metropolis Magazine, for the CDC's Historic Greystone Initiative.