Working 9-5 in the dog days of summer can inspire longing for high school summer vacation. For the group of designers that gathered at BSA Space this month, however, it’s easy to remember it. After all, they just spent theirs working at some of the top architecture firms in Boston.

A survey by the Boston Business Journal found that the BSA ranked 10th on the list of business advocacy organizations in Massachusetts. The list includes Massachusetts-headquartered organizations.

Architecture is everywhere, and you can find Boston Society for Architecture members almost anywhere, too, even in the classroom. They were there this past spring, and no, they weren't lost. They belonged to a team of volunteers who visited classes in Boston and Cambridge to encourage young children to think more expansively about their neighborhoods and communities.

Climate change continues to threaten communities worldwide. Issues of racial and economic equity are causing many to re-evaluate practices that have been customary for centuries. And Boston has its first elected female mayor of color. At this crucial moment, the BSA is hosting "Intersections: Equity, Environment + The City" in conjunction with BSA Women in Design and BosNOMA.

Over the last four years, the BSA has partnered with Boston Public Schools’ Early Childhood Learning department to help teachers bring their “Construction” unit to life. In this unit, students learn from visiting architects about how cities are built and how different professions come together to create the built environment.

Design Thinking Days address the limited options for many students through Boston Public Schools (BPS) to become aware of architecture and design as a career pathway. The program gives students an introduction into the multiple aspects that the architecture industry encompasses; including interior design, computer science and technology, material and construction, and more.

The BSA is proud to continue our long-term partnership with Apprentice Learning to bring hands-on design to Boston students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week wraps up the fall workshop series with Boston eighth graders, where they worked at a variety of scales understanding the impact of design on the built environment.

At the third annual Housing Innovation Workshop, “Distributed Density: Middle-Scale Housing for Sustainable Communities'', participants were asked to apply an anti-racist lens to their proposed solutions and strategies to address the ways in which racially exclusionary policies have materialized as barriers to the creation of multifamily housing today.