The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected 13 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards, including The Learning School by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects (Merit Award)… The AIA has selected the eight recipients of the 2011 Small Project Awards, including PS 234 by Macrae-Gibson Architects… The AIA announces that the Union des Architectes Internationale (UIA) has selected the winners of the First UIA Architecture & Children Golden Cubes Awards; the Center for Architecture Foundation’s Learning by Design program was a finalist in the Institute Award category… AIA New York State has received a 2011 AIA Component Matching Grant for the Student Awards Program…

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners of the 2011 National Design Awards: Architecture Research Office (Architecture), Shelton, Mindel & Associates (Interior Design), and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Landscape Architecture). For the full list of winners and finalists, click here…

Gene Kaufman Architect has acquired a majority share in Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects. The firm will be renamed as Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates. Gene Kaufman Architect will retain the same name…

Sandow, the owner of Surface and Interior Design magazines, announced that it has acquired Material ConneXion, Inc…. Thomas Frascatore has been appointed as executive publisher and chief operating officer of Metropolis magazine… Nicolai Ouroussoff is leaving the New York Times to write a book about the architectural and cultural history of the last 100 years…

Kim Yao, AIA, has been named Principal of Architecture Research Office… Howard Kronland, AIA, has joined the AEG as Vice President…