ACSA115 Annual Meeting: INSIDEandOUTSIDE
The ACSA115 Annual Meeting: INSIDEandOUTSIDE brings together architecture educators, practitioners, researchers, and students to explore the evolving boundaries of architecture, design, and the built environment through presentations, discussions, and interdisciplinary exchange.
The ACSA Annual Meeting convenes educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. The 115th Annual Meeting will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange in Atlanta, March 18-20, 2027.
As architectural educators, we continually seek the ideas, values, methods, problems, and desires that make up the inside core of our disciplinary preoccupations. Conversely, we look outside the core to learn, adapt, and transform ideas and practices from other disciplines, as well as from the ever-changing social, cultural, technological, and environmental contexts that influence and impact our worlds. At this meeting, we will reflect on the changing roles of the architect and schools of architecture, and the shifting boundaries of our discipline. What sits at the center, what gathers around it, and what operates less visibly at the edges? We will explore how current urgencies – climate, equity, technology, and civic responsibility – shape pedagogical priorities, and how architecture as a practice and architecture as a discipline may be perceived from both inside and outside our field. Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, provides a stimulating setting for the 115th ACSA Annual Meeting, starting from the city’s center, inside the vertigo-inducing atrium of one of John Portman’s iconic hotels, through its many diverse and distinct districts and neighborhoods, to outside its famous highway perimeter.
The ACSA Annual Meeting supports the needs of architecture faculty and enhances architectural education and research. ACSA aims to create an inclusive, transparent, and impactful program that elevates, addresses, and disseminates knowledge on pressing concerns in society through the agency of architecture and allied disciplines.
The ACSA115 Annual Meeting Committee, has combined representation of ACSA members, the ACSA board and ACSA staff. The ACSA115 conference leadership is intended to increase transparency and inclusivity while keeping in mind effectiveness and maintaining rigor. The committee’s primary deliverable is the peer-reviewed content, along with themed sessions.
