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ACSA and the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) are pleased to announce the 2026 International Conference: Planetary Practice. This conference will examine how architecture can operate as a planetary practice鈥攖hrough design, through research, through teaching, and through the cultivation of new forms of knowledge and collaboration.聽Educators, Practitioners, Researchers, Artists, Designers, and Students are invited to submit work that investigates large-scale challenges through innovative design approaches, research methodologies, digital tools, and alternative epistemologies.

Columbia University鈥檚 Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA are pleased to share a competitive call for the 2026 Course Development Prize. 鈦燭his call seeks proposals that include methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting鈥攁sking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change. Participants are invited to submit either a full course syllabus or a particular unit/component within a syllabus for consideration.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Think Wood are pleased to announce聽TIMBER IN THE CITY 6: Urban Habitats Competition聽for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. Now in its sixth cycle, the series continues to push the urban potential of wood鈥攖his year by tackling the 鈥渕issing-middle鈥� gap between single-family dwellings and high-rise apartments. Entrants will deploy innovative, highly replicable wood-based systems on a real, under-utilized urban site to deliver attainable, human-scaled housing that strengthens community resilience and climate stewardship.

This issue of聽TAD invites inquiry into soil not as backdrop but as an active thread in shaping form, structure, living habitat, and community. Soil is neither inert nor empty. It is a charged and living substrate that, materially and figuratively, underpins architecture. It is where gravitation meets structure, extraction meets economy, and permanence meets decay. Soil is a medium of transformation: chemical, cultural, and political. Soil supports and resists鈥搒haped by forces of compaction and combustion, microbial life, and industrial processes.聽The editors strongly encourage submissions highlighting contributions from those traditionally excluded or underrepresented in the field. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers, but are not required to do so.