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School of Architecture & Design announces Spring 2020 Architecture Lecture Series lineup
School of Architecture & Design announces new photography minor
LAWRENCE — The photography program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has developed a new photography minor available to all students. ...
Architecture student Christian Hunn selected as a 2020 KU Global Scholar
LAWRENCE — The Global Scholars Program has selected 15 University of Kansas sophomores as 2020 Global Scholars. ...
Health & Wellness students represent KU in design competition in New Orleans.
Four students from the KU School of Architecture & Design’s Health & Wellness academic program were invited to the 31st Healthcare Design STERIS charette in New Orleans in early November. ...
Dirtworks Studio's Nunemaker Center renovation design-build project honored
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design studio has been internationally recognized for its work on Nunemaker classrooms. ...
Library carrels design-build project wins AIA Kansas award
The University of Kansas Libraries, along with the School of Architecture & Design, are pleased to announce that a class of KU Arc/D students received an award from the American Institute of Architects Kansas (AIA Kansas) for the renovation of study carrels in Watson Library. ...
Architecture & Design Homecoming Week events
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design will welcome back Jayhawks during KU Homecoming Week for two days of events that will celebrate the work of students, faculty and alumni. ...
Design-build studio project wins international Architecture MasterPrize and AIA Kansas awards
LAWRENCE – Keith Van de Riet’s ARCH 509 design-build studio finished the Kaw Pavilion on a zero budget – and are walking away with two architecture awards. ...
School of Architecture & Design announces 2019 Alumni Awards
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced the recipients of the 2019 KU Architecture & Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honorees for the Distinguished Alumni Award are designer Jamie Koval and architect Rick Embers. The Young Architect/Designer Award has been given to architect Kate...
KU's oldest museum partnering with Architecture & Design's Dirt Works Studio
LAWRENCE — Phil Stinson points to a miniature marble head of a Dacian chieftain. ...
Architecture students receive scholarships from American Institute of Architects-St. Louis
LAWRENCE – Twelve KU School of Architecture & Design students have received scholarships from the American Institute of Architects’ St. Louis chapter. These awards for the 2019-2020 school year range from $2,000 to $4,000 and come from two of the seven possible AIA St. Louis funds. ...
Architecture students win Kansas City Architectural Foundation awards
LAWRENCE — Five University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design students have won awards from the Kansas City Architectural Foundation. ...
Dotte Agency partner receives grant for neighborhood health work
Kansas City, KS — Dotte Agency, a multi-disciplinary design collaborative at The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design, engages neighborhoods to shape the built environment in order to improve public health. ...
Architecture student receives national Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
LAWRENCE — Fourth-year University of Kansas architecture student Ashley Farrow was selected to receive a national Phi Kappa Phi fellowship as she completes her master’s degree. ...
New farmers tackle tough task out of love
LAWRENCE – Growing up on a farm and carrying on a family tradition is one thing. Taking on the trials of farming from scratch? That’s quite another. ...
Alphabet books inspire new library’s public art
LAWRENCE — If we accept French writer Jean Cocteau’s dictum that great literature is “simply a dictionary in disorder,” then Stephen T. Johnson’s 2-story-tall mosaic triptych featuring the alphabet and animating the new Lenexa City Center branch of the Johnson County Public Library can be said to encompass all the...
Prairie Block Party Celebrates National Prairie Day and National Trails Day with the Grand Opening of Prairie Block
LAWRENCE — A free and family-friendly event this week will celebrate the fascinating world of the Sunflower State's native prairie ecosystem and local trails. ...
Associate Professor of Design Jeremy Shellhorn working to disrupt the fly fishing industry
LAWRENCE – Sport fishing – think Bass Pro Shops, et al. — is a $100-plus-billion-a-year industry. So the size of the opportunity is one reason why a University of Kansas professor is working with a Colorado-based company to disrupt the industry and popularize a simplified style of fly fishing imported...
Dirt Works Studio redesigns Nunemaker Center classrooms
LAWRENCE – University of Kansas students in the School of Architecture & Design’s Dirt Works Studio will be wrapping up and showing off their redesign and renovation of two classrooms in the Nunemaker Center on Daisy Hill during a ribbon cutting May 15. ...
Assistant professor Farhan Karim on the modernism of austerity in postcolonial India
LAWRENCE – How, in the context of the Cold War, could America keep India from falling to communism? One way was by holding out a vision of better homes, and ergo better lives, for workers and others with low social standing. ...
Architecture PhD student awarded Oppenheimer Scholarship
Doriane Andrade Meyer received an Oppenheimer Scholarship, which will allow her to travel to Brazil for her work studying the relationship between enslaved Africans’ behavior and the architecture of sugarcane plantations in the colonial time. ...
Remembering design alumnus and innovator David Immenschuh
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design community is mourning the death of alumnus and design innovator, David Immenschuh (Interior Design 1967). David was a sustainability pioneer, an influential force in the national interior design profession, and a leading voice in the Kansas City arts community. ...
Ku design wins best school, dominates individual awards at the national student show conference
It is easy to claim that your school is the best, but KU Design proved it by reclaiming the Best School award at the 2019 National Student Show. ...
Dotte agency's walking-audit tool kit promotes civic empowerment
LAWRENCE – The storefront Dotte Agency was established in 2015 to bring the power of architecture and design to bear on some of the problems, mainly around health, that confront underserved communities in Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas. ...
School of architecture & design welcomes gregory crichlow to the faculty
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced the appointment of Gregory Crichlow as assistant professor of architecture. He will begin his work in this new capacity starting in fall 2019. ...
Associate professor of design May Tveit's 'drop unit' asks: what shapes us?
LAWRENCE – They’re not the biggest works of art University of Kansas Associate Professor of Design May Tveit has ever made. That would be the public artwork made of fabric curtains with which she covered the front of a six-story building some years ago. ...
Professor jeremy shellhorn and design outside studio students enhancing visitor experiences at rocky mountain national park
LAWRENCE – Nearly a quarter-million people volunteer each year to work for the National Park Service. That’s a lot of trash pickup and trail blazing. ...
Assistant professor Farhan Karim co-directing Getty Research Institute project
LAWRENCE – While many volumes have been written on the decolonization of the British Empire in India and its partitions, creating in 1947 the bifurcated state of Pakistan and then in 1971 Bangladesh, the phenomenon has not been looked at through the lens of art and architecture. ...