On July 16, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that Howard University has recently been selected to participate in the $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project for reducing embodied greenhouse gas emissions for construction materials and products. Nea Maloo, assistant professor in the Howard University Department of Architecture, will be collaborating with researchers from the University of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on validating and expanding research and education for life cycle assessment (LCA) policy.
Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University architecture recent graduate Brianna Alexander (M. Arch. ‘24) was elected to the American Institute of Architecture Students as the Northeast Quad Director. Elected for a one-year term, after a successful campaign including speeches, meeting chapter leaders and hosting events, Alexander will be officially inaugurated at AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference 2024 in July.
Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
DOE launched its inaugural HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize Partnerships Track earlier this year, naming Howard University as one of only ten prize winners.
Architecture lecturer Julian Owens, NOMA, AIA, NCARB, was recently announced a winner of the 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, as a founding director of the Partners of Place design collective.
Nduom is one of only 15 scholars highlighted in the 2024 Emerging Scholars edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a publication dedicated to special reporting on diversity in higher education for over four decades.
Our Spring 2024 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony will feature two outstanding College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) graduates selected from a group of candidates who submitted entries based on a set of criteria. Presenting this year are Arriel Barganier (B.S. Arch. ‘24) and Alrick Davis (BSChE ‘24).
Category: Architecture, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University Architecture Professor Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. (B.Arch. ‘86) was selected as a 2023-2024 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. According to the Institute, a Radcliffe fellowship offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists, and other distinguished professionals—a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
The Howard University interdisciplinary teams Retro Booming and Team Revive successfully participated in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge. The teams are comprised of 21 students from the architecture, clinical laboratory, engineering, environmental science, environmental studies, and sociology disciplines.
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Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom recently received the AIA|DC 2022 Architect Educator Award sponsored by the Washington Architectural Foundation. The Architect Educator Award recognizes an individual or organization for excellence in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.
Howard University architecture lecturer Nea Maloo recently received the inaugural Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Educator of the Year Award. Sponsored by global omnichannel marketing production agency Tag Worldwide, this new award honors the outstanding accomplishments of full-time educators and their dedication to design education.
Howard University architecture professor Hazel Ruth Edwards, PhD., FAICP, (B.Arch. ’86) recently received Architectural Record's 2022 Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award in the category of educator.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded its first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD) seal of recognition to Howard University for its master of architecture program with an equitable high-performance energy design concentration.
Howard University architecture alumna, professor and former chair of the Department of Architecture Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B.Arch. ’86) was an invited speaker at a local, independently organized TED event, the TEDxPearlStreet event Mavericks & Moonshots, this past summer.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom recently received a 2022 Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts Grant for her archival research of the architectural morphology of tourist and non-tourist spaces in Jamaica. Her research is titled, “Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image.”
Howard University first-year architecture students collaborated with Temple X Schools on a class project for ARCH 208: Design Thinking + Making. Incorporated into course curriculum by course coordinator and architecture lecturer Martin Paddack, the project "Learning through Experimentation and Exploration: The Concept Toy/Tool" involved students designing and building conceptual toys or tools for preschool and elementary school students. Architecture adjunct lecturers Robert Klosowski and Jahlik Parkes assisted in leading the class of 44 students and bringing the educational and philanthropical project to fruition.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., recently received the 2022 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) New Researcher Award. The ARCC New Researcher Award celebrates the activities, accomplishments and promise of scholars in the early stages of their research careers.
Architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. According to NEH, NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research and rigorous analysis and provide support to recipients to conduct research or to produce books or other quality digital materials.
Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo has been appointed as consumer member of the board of the Maryland Real Estate Commission by the Senate Executive Nominations Committee and the Senate of Maryland. Maloo will serve as a commissioner for a term of four years beginning June 1, 2022, as well as for the remainder of the 2018 term.
Category: Architecture
The Howard University team of engineering and architecture seniors, Howard’s Gateway, won the Director’s Award for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge. The recipient of the Director’s Award is selected by the Solar Decathlon director to recognize a team who exhibited outstanding performance during the competition event and demonstrated passionate enthusiasm for affecting change through their participation in Solar Decathlon.
Category: Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Jason Pugh, AIA, AICP, NOMA, LEED AP, (B. Arch. 2005) was named principal at Gensler, the world’s largest design and architecture firm, according to Architectural Record. Founded in San Francisco, California in 1965, Gensler generated $1.2 billion in revenue in 2021, the most of any architecture firm in the U.S. Gensler operates offices in forty-nine cities in sixteen countries worldwide, working for clients in over one hundred countries.
Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo, AIA, was recently announced as the winner of the 2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Course Development Prize issued in collaboration with Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. The competitive prize recognizes exemplary course proposals on the designated theme of “architecture, climate change and society.”
Architecture alumnus Alonzo Robinson (B.Arch. ’51) was recently honored with the renaming of the Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building, which he designed. The building now stands as the Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building. Robinson was the first African-American architect to be registered in the state of Wisconsin.
This Black History Month, we honor our building namesakes and pioneers in engineering and architecture education, Lewis King Downing (BSCE 1921) and Howard Hamilton Mackey.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Architecture Educator Nea Maloo was selected as a 2021 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Scholar. A total of fifteen professional practice professors from architecture programs throughout the country were selected to participate in the third annual NCARB Scholars in Professional Practice training event.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous was recently awarded the HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship for her course, "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape." The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. The "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape" course provides students with a framework to assess different urban and built environments from health and wellbeing viewpoints.
Architecture seniors Christine Griffith and Kyle Martin received an honorable mention for their project titled “The Howard University Center for Inclusive Design” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2021 Steel Competition. Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., Howard University assistant professor of architecture, served as faculty advisor. The design was recognized for its detail to accessibility and integrated approach for an urban site, taking into consideration the need for ample light and air, as well as sensitivity to human scale.
Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom’s research work on the intersection of history, culture and traditional building practices in contemporary Ghanaian architecture was selected and is on display at the ArchiAfrika Pavilion in the New Blood 2021 Exhibition in conjunction with the European Cultural Centre’s Time Space Existence exhibition, a collateral exhibition at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., recently received a Graham Foundation Grant for a new research project that takes an in-depth look at the history of racial disparities and environmental epidemics and how this has impacted minority health through history.
Howard University Department of Architecture Chair Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP will be appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Joseph Biden. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) was established by Congress in 1910 as a permanent body to advise the federal government on matters pertaining to the arts and national symbols, and to guide the architectural development of Washington, D.C. The seven-member body is appointed by the President to serve four-year terms; new appointees are not subject to Senate review.
