{"506551":{"#nid":"506551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Architecture PhD Program Thriving","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Architecture has one of the largest and most successful PhD research programs in the country led by\u0026nbsp;faculty that are internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGodfried Augenbroe\u003C\/strong\u003E, Director of the High Performance Building Lab, received the Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04b200ded3d9fea3c916281c3\u0026amp;id=e3b4dd2d80\u0026amp;e=3e094da844\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInternational Building Performance Simulation Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IBPSA). The SimTigrate Lab, directed by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECraig Zimring\u003C\/strong\u003E, was recently awarded over $1.2 million in research grants for healthcare and design research.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Peponis,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;who leads research at the School on Space Syntax and is one founding leaders in this field, was a keynote speaker at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04b200ded3d9fea3c916281c3\u0026amp;id=9dd7bb0ff5\u0026amp;e=3e094da844\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E10th\u0026nbsp;International Symposium on Space Syntax\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;recently held in London.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChuck Eastman\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of the Digital Building Lab and one of the original developers of BIM technologies, participated in a special panel at the recent ACADIA conference,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04b200ded3d9fea3c916281c3\u0026amp;id=2b48563b19\u0026amp;e=3e094da844\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPioneers of Design Computation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EAt the recent\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.us1.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=04b200ded3d9fea3c916281c3\u0026amp;id=67b1fb280a\u0026amp;e=3e094da844\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EeCAADe Annual Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the Vienna University of Technology,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThanos Economou\u003C\/strong\u003E, Director of the Shape Computation Lab, presented the\u0026nbsp;keynote lecture on his ongoing research on Federal Courthouses. This group was very busy last semester!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Architecture has one of the largest and most successful PhD research programs in the country led by faculty that are internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The School of Architecture has one of the largest and most successful PhD research programs in the country led by faculty that are internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields."}],"uid":"32541","created_gmt":"2016-02-26 08:15:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:53","author":"Lauren Gryder","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"506561":{"id":"506561","type":"image","title":"phd program thriving","body":null,"created":"1456765200","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 17:00:00","changed":"1475895268","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:28","alt":"phd program thriving","file":{"fid":"204858","name":"09_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/09_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/09_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":123479,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/09_1_0.jpg?itok=tOvtGCqz"}}},"media_ids":["506561"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}