ACSA and Temple Buell Center announce $50,000 in prize money to support climate change coursework

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University have announced the winning entries of the 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. 

The competition, launched in 2019, aims to bring $50,000 in funding to five university teams that are each tackling a different facet of the climate crisis through cross-disciplinary research that proposes "methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting" while also "asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it grapples with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change." 

According to the organizers, the prizes seek to find a middle ground between the expansive creative capabilities of design education and the more focused, practical realities of professional practice that sometimes complicate the application of design i...