As the complexity of architectural design and construction increases with ever greater performance criteria and expectations, ever-evolving building technologies, and rapidly changing digital tools – firms and educational programs must adjust at an ever-increasing pace to meet basic expectations. The question is not merely how can we leverage new technologies and techniques to meet new expectations on our own, but what ways might architecture programs and practices engage each other in mutually advantageous ways that add value to the discipline, discourse, delivery, and diversity of what we do to advance the built environment and human condition?

Kent State’s Dr. Sharon Wohl, Associate Dean, Architecture and Urban Design Director Sung Ho Kim, and CUDC Director of Design Entrepreneurship and Inclusion will share their perspectives on a panel co-led by Daniel Bickerstaff, AIA President of AIA Cleveland and Mark Mistur, AIA, Dean of Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

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