Mon, 05/02/2022
VoyageKC magazine profiled Visual Communication Design alumnae Mollie Hanselman – Senior Designer at the content design agency Yoodle.
“Here, I work alongside my team to develop brands for local non-profits, restaurants, and hospitality. More recently, I have been designing and building websites for various KC Organizations, early education centers, and colleges across the nation.”
Thu, 04/28/2022
Kansas City-based ARCH806 Design Studio led by architecture professor Andrew Moddrell developed an expanded vision for a bi-state KC gondola system that connects existing and proposed civic destinations through an extended route network.
Thu, 04/28/2022
The KU School of Architecture & Design is excited to announce that, for the first time since 2019, Department of Design Senior Shows will once again take place in person at galleries in Lawrence and Kansas City.
Mon, 04/25/2022
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design invites the public to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Polaris Pavilion – the second of two universally-accessible projects at Wells Overlook Park designed and built by Dirt Works Studio students in collaboration with the Douglas County government – at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 29.
Fri, 04/22/2022
In April of 2022, Julia Manglitz (Associate Principal, Historic Preservation at TreanorHL) and Steve Nowak (Executive Director, Watkins Museum of History) led a site visit at an important Underground Railroad site in Lawrence for KU Historic Preservation Technology students.
Fri, 04/22/2022
The question of an artist’s influences always seems relevant to critics, and in his new exhibition, “In the Academic Tradition: Connections between the Artist’s Work and his Art Collection,” Stephen T. Johnson makes no bones about his. The artist's exhibition opens April 22 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Fri, 04/15/2022
John Margolies: Roadside Kansas, on view through summer of 2022 in the KU Photography program's Corridor Gallery, features photographs from the John Margolies Photographs of Roadside America Archive at the Library of Congress.
Thu, 04/14/2022
"Liz Fraka is truly a force to be reckoned with. The care she has for her members is only equally matched by her drive to run her chapter smoothly.
Liz is a third-year M.Arch student at the University of Kansas from Shawnee, Kansas. She chose architecture because its interdisciplinary nature combines her academic and artistic passions. Liz got engaged with AIAS her freshman year as a general member, and since then, has not stopped in her service to others.
Fri, 04/08/2022
KU Design Week 2022 kicks off this Sunday, April 10th at 5:30pm in the Marvin Hall Forum.
Organized and managed entirely by design students, KU Design Week is an annual weeklong series of workshops, social events, and discussion sessions that allows students to engage design thinking and making outside of the academic studio setting.
Thu, 04/07/2022
Though a community-focused understanding of services, economic contexts and zoning considerations, the students located innovative methods to employ design, research and civic engagement towards creating a practical approach to affordable housing development.
In March, the students traveled to Atlanta to present their proposal – a $90.1 million urban redevelopment that includes mixed-use high rise, residential mid-rise, and townhouse buildings. A panel of independent subject-matter-expert jurors selected the KU team as one of four finalists to compete for the competition’s top prize. The finalist teams will present their proposals on April 13 online.
Mon, 03/28/2022
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Libraries will open a new exhibition in Watson Library’s newly renovated Haricombe Gallery, “Sitting in a Circle,” on March 31. ...
Mon, 03/28/2022
A panel representing firms from around the country has chosen the winners of KU's 2022 Architecture Student Portfolio Awards.
Tue, 03/22/2022
Kapila Silva, professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, is the recipient of the 2021 George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award.
Fri, 03/11/2022
Director of the KU School of Architecture & Design’s Center for Design Research (CDR), Professor Greg Thomas, recently discussed the wide range of possible applications for mixed reality and extended reality robotics in Lifewire. ...
Wed, 03/02/2022
The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Spring 2022 Architecture Lecture Series.
Tue, 03/01/2022
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded its 2021-22 International Fellowship to Bushra Nayeem.
Mon, 02/14/2022
Industrial designer and professor Lance Rake has been building bamboo bicycles for over a decade. his typical method is to join cured bamboo with fiberglass, carbon fiber, and resin wraps. recently, he’s been experimenting with new geometries to achieve the stiffness needed without using resins.
Wed, 01/26/2022
The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Spring 2022 KU Design Symposium Lecture Series.
Wed, 01/12/2022
The Passerine Pavilion – designed and built by students in our Dirt Works Studio in collaboration with Douglas County Kansas Public Works – is among 30 projects from 22 countries featured in the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition in Denver.
Thu, 12/02/2021
The The American Institute of Architects (AIA) profiles our own Frank Zilm, FAIA, director of the Institute of Health + Wellness Design at KU School of Architecture & Design (Arc/D). ...
Mon, 11/29/2021
Architecture lecturer Amy Van de Riet was among 10 winners of the inaugural KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Awards co-sponsored by The University of Kansas Center for Research and the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Fri, 10/29/2021
National experts on rural health care design and administration are coming to the University of Kansas next week to discuss ways to improve access to health care and boost small communities.
Thu, 10/28/2021
The Center for Health Design awarded Frank Zilm awarded the 2021 Russ Coile Lifetime Achievement Award.
Thu, 10/28/2021
“We’re not really training people to be craftspeople, we’re training them to be designers. But as part of their education, we have an extensive construction laboratory that’s 68,000 square feet, so it’s big...
Tue, 10/26/2021
Some of the nation’s leading experts on rural health care design and administration are coming to the University of Kansas on Nov. 5 to show how new approaches can increase health care access in rural areas while also helping to revitalize small towns across the country.
Fri, 10/01/2021
The exhibition features collections of photographs taken in two very different homes. One, an apartment on Armour Boulevard, the center of old Kansas City, once home to the city’s elite now home to its young hyper-urban professionals. The other a ranch-style house in Sioux City, a city on the northwest edge of Iowa whose motto is "Successful, Surprising, Sioux City'' The photographs also came about differently, one set taken in a day the others taken over many years.
Wed, 09/29/2021
The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Fall 2021 Architecture Lecture Series.
Fri, 09/17/2021
Global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm HOK has awarded its 2021 HOK Diversity x Design Scholarship to University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design architecture student Darius Mathis.
Wed, 09/15/2021
LAWRENCE – Nine University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design students, representing both the architecture and design departments, have received 2021 Kansas City Architectural Foundation (KCAF) scholarships. ...
Wed, 09/08/2021
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design architecture department chair Hui Cai has been named the HDC 10 Educator of the Year by Healthcare Design Magazine. ...