Department News

Dirt Works Studio partnering with Kansas City nonprofit The Good Work on Solar Decathlon project
KU faculty, community partners to advance racial equity through newly funded projects
2021 Alumni Award nominations open
KU students converted shipping containers into housing for community shelter guests in need of quarantined spaces
Team of KU architecture students chosen to compete in US Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon
Design-build project provides safety during the pandemic for people without homes
KU Institute for Health + Wellness Design brings together leaders to discuss the future of rural healthcare
Architectural program encourages hands-on learning
Symposium to explore solutions to America’s rural healthcare access crisis
October 29, 2021
'Citizen Architect' Frank Zilm, KU Health + Wellness Institute director featured by the AIA
Architecture professor Andrew Moddrell's River Frames among Dezeen's 10 installations to see at Chicago Architecture Biennial
Dirt Works Studio ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 14 at Wells Overlook Park
Studio 804 raising funds to expand tiny home village at community shelter
Explore the idea of home in the Corridor Gallery's current exhibition
PhD candidate Matt Kleinmann receives NEH funding to host workshop
Remembering alumnus, colleague and friend, Cooper Woodring, FIDSA
Architecture professor Andrew Moddrell's firm featured at 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Fall 2021 KU Architecture Lecture Series lineup announced
September 29, 2021
Remembering former professor and chair Christopher Theis
2021 HOK Diversity x Design Scholarship awarded to KU architecture student
September 17, 2021
Architecture and design students awarded 2021 Kansas City Architectural Foundation scholarships
September 15, 2021
Community invited to ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 14 for design-build project
Architecture chair Dr. Hui Cai awarded Educator of the Year award
September 8, 2021
Remembering former professor Philippe Barrière
KU architecture students awarded AIA-St. Louis scholarships
August 31, 2021
Lawrence Public Library and KU design-build students create new mobile library
Fall 2021 KU Design Symposium Lecture Series line-up announced
August 26, 2021
KU students eligible for vaccine incentives, including free tuition
Arc/D Dean Mahbub Rashid's new book examines urban space and Muslim societies
Hui Cai named architecture department chair
August 3, 2021
Photography professor documents a city's cycles
July 19, 2021
Collaborative rural health project wins AIA Regional & Urban Design Award
July 15, 2021
Kapila Silva's new book documents Sri Lanka's unique Buddha image-houses
July 12, 2021
Kapila Silva among KU faculty and staff taking on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging roles
July 6, 2021
New London Architecture checks in with alumnus Justin Cratty
KU hosting photography workshop in Hays
June 23, 2021
Sponsored architecture studio reimagines grocery store design
Design-build students introduce reptilian pavilion at Kansas Children's Discovery Center
Design professor awarded Arts & Humanities Grant
May 19, 2021
Registration open for pre-college Design Camp, June 13-19
Visual Communication Design alum is changing the design language of political campaigns
2021 Arc/D Virtual Recognition Ceremony
Architecture professor and associate chair Jae Chang promoted
May 6, 2021
Frank Zilm awarded lifetime achievement award
KU Design wins Best School, multiple individual honors at national design competition
April 29, 2021
Charles Kahn, first dean of the School of Architecture & Urban Design passes away
April 27, 2021
School of Architecture & Design announces Interim Associate Dean of Administration
April 23, 2021
Architecture student nominated for Udall Scholarship
April 15, 2021
School of Architecture & Design introduces the 80+40 Lecture series
April 13, 2021
Team of architecture department faculty win AIA Kansas honor award
March 19, 2021
Gould Evans Career-Building Series: Storytelling + Storyselling, March 9th
Spring 2021 Architecture Lecture Series programming announced
50+ firms attending the 2021 KU Architecture Career Fair on Feb. 23
School of Architecture & Design announces Spring 2021 Hallmark Symposium Lectures
February 2, 2021
Beautiful grotesques: Dyche Hall’s iconic limestone statues, recreated
Completion of museum preservation project to be celebrated Friday, January 15
Architecture students receive 2020 Healthcare Environment Award
December 9, 2020
Architecture student Annie Ringhofer awarded AIAS prize
Dirt Works Studio building ADA-compliant platform for Wells Overlook Park
Studio 804 featured in Dwell Magazine
2020 HOPE Award presented to Kapila Silva, professor of architecture
November 17, 2020
For Caldecott Medal-winning author Stephen T. Johnson, ‘Music Is ...’ a gift
Design-build students working to enhance KU research facility
Studio 804 students design a LEED Platinum home with an ADU in Kansas
School of Architecture & Design announces 2020 Alumni Awards
October 7, 2020
Industrial design program director receives IDSA Young Educator Award
October 1, 2020
Fall 2020 Architectural Lecture Series focusing on design responses to COVID-19 crisis
September 9, 2020
School of Architecture & Design hosting annual prospective student event
September 3, 2020
Fall 2020 Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series lineup announced
September 1, 2020
School names Nisha Fernando director of Interior Architecture program
August 28, 2020
$1M gift establishes KU architecture professorship to honor Lou Michel
August 18, 2020
PhD student awarded AAUW International Fellowship
July 24, 2020
Design students receive American Advertising Federation of Kansas City scholarships
July 16, 2020
Statement on Anti-Black Racism and Violence, from the Interim Dean of the School of Architecture & Design
Condemnation of anti-Black racism and violence, a message from Interim Vice Provost Ng
Three architecture faculty receive promotions, tenure
May 28, 2020
Registration for KU Design Camp is now open
Design students cast fresh eyes on animal health issue
Student group creates online series to help keep students connected
Designers pitch in to make open-source medical face shields
April 1, 2020
Designers have been anticipating outbreaks for years
March 31, 2020
Health + Wellness Institute director discusses design and pandemics in Healthcare Design Magazine
Spring 2020 Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series to continue online
Industrial Design professor's eco-bike aims to cut pollution in Kathmandu
March 23, 2020
Note to KU Architecture & Design students: School Coronavirus Information webpage
Message to students regarding coronavirus efforts
KU Institute of Health+Wellness Design to host 4th annual Health & Wellness Symposium
Remembering Design Professor Emeritus Richard Branham, by alumnus David W. Hill
Studio 804 receives Architect Magazine Residential Design Award
February 17, 2020
Design student Gwendolyn Sibley receives Undergraduate Research Award
February 18, 2020
Professor Kapila Silva's new book examines sustainability and historic preservation in Asian cities
February 17, 2020
School of Architecture & Design announces Spring 2020 Architecture Lecture Series lineup
February 4, 2020
KU architecture students renovate, brighten Watson Library's fourth-floor stacks
School of Architecture & Design announces Spring 2020 Hallmark Symposium lectures
February 3, 2020
School of Architecture & Design announces new photography minor
January 17, 2020
Architecture student Christian Hunn selected as a 2020 KU Global Scholar
November 26, 2019
Studio 804 prefab homes were designed for adding housing density
Corridor Gallery displays inside look at low-income housing in France
Health & Wellness students represent KU in design competition in New Orleans.
Dirtworks Studio's Nunemaker Center renovation design-build project honored
November 5, 2019
Library carrels design-build project wins AIA Kansas award
Architecture & Design Homecoming Week events
October 21, 2019
Design-build studio project wins international Architecture MasterPrize and AIA Kansas awards
October 18, 2019
School of Architecture & Design announces 2019 Alumni Awards
September 27, 2019
KU's oldest museum partnering with Architecture & Design's Dirt Works Studio
September 9, 2019
Architecture students receive scholarships from American Institute of Architects-St. Louis
September 3, 2019
Architecture students win Kansas City Architectural Foundation awards
August 30, 2019
Dotte Agency partner receives grant for neighborhood health work
Architecture student receives national Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
July 9, 2019
Sydney shortlists KU professors’ affordable, smart housing plan
July 1, 2019
New farmers tackle tough task out of love
June 17, 2019
Alphabet books inspire new library’s public art
June 12, 2019
Prairie Block Party Celebrates National Prairie Day and National Trails Day with the Grand Opening of Prairie Block
May 30, 2019
Associate Professor of Design Jeremy Shellhorn working to disrupt the fly fishing industry
May 29, 2019
Dirt Works Studio redesigns Nunemaker Center classrooms
May 14, 2019
Design lecturer Kent Smith's collaborative public art proposal selected for Lawrence project
Assistant professor Farhan Karim on the modernism of austerity in postcolonial India
April 15, 2019
Dotte Agency's walking-audit tool kit promotes civic empowerment
April 2, 2019
Architecture PhD student awarded Oppenheimer Scholarship
Remembering Design Alumnus and Innovator David Immenschuh
Mini Symposium to Showcase the Work of the School of Architecture and Design’s Research Collaboratives
KU Design Wins Best School, Dominates Individual Awards at the National Student Show Conference
School of Architecture & Design welcomes Gregory Crichlow to the faculty
March 5, 2019
Associate Professor of Design May Tveit's 'Drop Unit' asks: What shapes us?
February 15, 2019
Professor Jeremy Shellhorn and Design Outside Studio students enhancing visitor experiences at Rocky Mountain National Park
January 22, 2019
Mobile Grocer Hopes That Listening To Locals Will Help Fill A Kansas Food Desert
Photography student Meagan Taylor's work featured in Italian Vogue
Architecture students win 2018 Healthcare Environment Award
School of Architecture & Design searching for Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture & Design
Asistant Professor Farhan Karim co-directing Getty Research Institute project
November 20, 2018
Dirt Works/Global Studio+Global Birthing Home Foundation project wins World Architecture Award
Warning Signs photo exhibition in the Corridor Gallery
Design professor Lance Rake's bicycle designs to be exhibited at the Design Museum of Chicago
November 13, 2018
Architecture lecturer Anne Patterson profiled in the Lawrence Journal-World
Design professor Tim Hossler's New Farmers project on display at the University of Nebraska's Great Plains Art Museum
How Magazine profiles Arc/D’s Think Wrong Institute director John Bielenberg
Architecture student Yasmeen El-Jayyousi documents 2,000-year-old Roman ruins in Turkey
Carpenter Collective brings Dotte Mobile Grocer to life
October 16, 2018
Arc/D Alumnus Peter Landon to receive AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award
Assistant Professor Keith Van de Riet’s collaborative proposal with Brooks+Scarpa honored by AIA
Germany's Vitra Design Museum presents retrospective on the late Arc/D professor Victor Papanek
School of Architecture & Design announces 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
September 27, 2018
Architecture Associate Professor, Kapila Silva, wins K. Barbara Schowen Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
May 10, 2018
Arc/D Professors display an utility bamboo bike at North American Handmade Bicycle Show
April 3, 2018
Attend Studio 804's Public Open House on May 12
May 8, 2018
You’re Invited to Studio 804’s Open House at 1220 E. 12th Street
May 8, 2018
Learn more about the 2018 KU Design Camp
April 19, 2018
Remembering Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Tom McCoy
April 27, 2018
Designers envision robots helping chronically ill children
February 26, 2018
Cracking the mobile-market code could create food-desert oasis
August 22, 2017
School of Architecture & Design announces Distinguished Alumni Awards
September 8, 2017
Board of Regents approves new Interior Architecture & Design degree
October 2, 2017
The poetics of 'Universal Boxes': May Tveit’s industrial artwork
October 19, 2017
Arc/D's Global Studio to design and build Community Center in Haiti
October 25, 2017
Strategic Initiatives Director Nilou Vakil among 25 most admired architecture educators in U.S.
November 30, 2017
Arc/D doctoral students' experiments optimize solar power
January 3, 2018
Dotte Agency's 'Active Living Trails' project boosts public parks in KCK
January 10, 2018
KU Architecture & Design on short list of world's top programs
January 25, 2018
Brave new world of robotic architecture dawning
January 31, 2018

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