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Compiled and edited by former architecture professor Dennis Domer and designed by design chairperson Tim Hossler, the new book includes chapters on anti-slavery efforts and other local battles for freedom and equality that had yet to be fully explored.

Designed and built by architecture students, the Pollinator Pavilion welcomes pollinators and people to a little piece of prairie at the Kansas Children's Discovery Center in our state's capital.

“Just as I wish for my design students at KU, I wish the same for each young reader engaged with these books: that they embark on creative explorations of their own and celebrate their individual and authentic voices" Stephen T. Johnson, design lecturer.

In a third-year designbuild studio – led by professor Kurt Hong and practitioners Matthew Hufft and Josh Ogren of the design and fabrication studio, Hufft – students learned to apply parametric design to repurpose materials otherwise destined for the landfill. 

The global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, HOK, has named KU architecture student Sarah Montes as one of ten recipients of a 2023 Diversity x Design scholarship.

University of Kansas architecture students in Nils Gore’s third-year Designbuild studio have helped to transform marina facilities at Clinton Lake. The public is invited to a ribbon-cutting on Tuesday, June 6, 4–6 p.m. at Clinton Lake Marina.

KU International Affairs has announced that professors Jae Chang and Elise Kirk and doctoral student Ifeloju Olusanya have received travel grants to support research and collaboration abroad. 

This is an exciting time at the University of Kansas. Learn more about recent developments in the School and get a preview of the future of design education at KU. Connect with alumni designers and architects, reconnect with classmates and professors at Multistudio's SF office.

Artist Janine Antoni partnered with the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, KU Indigenous Studies, ArcD professor Keith Van de Riet's Designbuild studio, and Architecture PhD student Suzan Hampton to develop the labyrinth project commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art.