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Typographic Universe design studio highlight. Architecture student wins SOM Foundation Award. Dean Mahbub Rashid's new book. Health + Wellness Design Program celebrates 15 years. Alumni history. KU Design Camp registration.
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Designbuild students introduce KU's Solar Decathlon project to the public
Third- and fourth-year students and architecture professor Chad Kraus discuss their Solar Decathlon Build Challenge project in the latest episode of The Lawrence Times TV.
‘Typography as image’ gets results on trailside signs
Students and faculty from the KU School of Architecture & Design and the University of Montana teamed up on an investigation of how to most effectively communicate messages essential to the health of park ecosystems and surrounding communities.
Watch Bjarke Ingels Group presentation to KU leaders, April 14
Architects from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will present initial findings on the ArcD space planning and design project to KU leaders and the ArcD Professional Advisory Board on Friday, the 14th of April, from 9-10am CST.
2023 KU Design Week: Interference [April 10-14]
A week of talks, workshops, and networking events. Participation is free and open to all ArcD students, but registration is required. Tickets available April 6, at precisely 12 p.m. and close at 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 9.
Doctoral student awarded research funding to further future pandemic knowledge
To ensure hospitals can respond to any future pandemic situations, Marzia Chowdhury's research investigates emergency department design.
Alumni News: new book by Tucker Trotter, KU ID grad and ArcD Professional Advisory Board co-chair
From intern to CEO, ArcD Professional Advisory Board co-chair Tucker Trotter applies insights from his professional journey in the book, Go Big or Go Home: 5 Ways to Create a Customer Experience That Will Close the Deal.
MEDIA ADVISORY: View a house powered by renewable energy, meet the KU students who built it on April 15
Area media are invited to view Haven Studio–a zero energy house powered by renewable energy designed and built by KU ArcD architecture students for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Build Challenge competition–on Sat., April 15, in Lawrence.
Watch campus presentation by Bjarke Ingels Group project team
March 9 through 10, architects from BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group came to campus to begin working with School and University stakeholders to plan, design, and visualize the future of design education at KU. The team conducted workshops, toured campus, and introduced the project.
Visual essay by Tim Hossler, chair of design, captures makeshift home offices in the first days of COVID
With frame after frame of rooms without any people in them (there is an occasional pet), Hossler said the essay is melancholy, at best, in terms of its emotional effect.
KU School of Architecture & Design announces appointment of Bjarke Ingels Group to complete space planning and design
After a decade of increasing enrollment numbers and expanded program offerings, the school is working with Bjarke Ingels Group to transform its facilities to accommodate recent growth and upgrade academic spaces in alignment with KU's 2024 Master Plan.