Studio X, the downtown outpost of Columbia’s GSAAP program, named Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) and Nicola Twilley (GOOD/Edible Geography) as co-directors. The fall season of programming under Manaugh and Twilley kicked off September 1.

Deborah Marton, who announced her resignation as Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space in March, assumed her new role as Senior Vice President of Programs at the New York Restoration Project.

David Glover of Arup Associates has left the firm to become deputy chief executive of AECOM’s building engineering business.

Dagmar Richter, former teaching professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University‘s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, has been named chair of Pratt Institute‘s Undergraduate Architecture Department.

Perkins+Will Seattle acquired Hinthorne Mott Architects to boost their Pacific Northwest presence.

Will Alsop left RMJM to start a new practice with fellow RMJM principal Scott Lawrie in London. The new firm is called  ALL Design.

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