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Industrial design professor's wine barrel e-bike in Designboom (Opens in new window)
Spring 2022 KU Design Symposium Lecture Series
Dirt Works Studio featured in Design for the Common Good International Exhibition
Frank Zilm profiled on AIA's Citizen Architect feature (Opens in new window)
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). ...
Amy Van de Riet awarded KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Award
National experts to discuss rural health care at KU symposium (Opens in new window)
Frank Zilm awarded Lifetime Achievement Award (Opens in new window)
Architecture professor Nils Gore's design-build studio featured (Opens in new window)
“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...
Symposium to explore solutions to America's rural health care crisis
Corridor Gallery exhibition 'HOME: photography by Jennifer Wetzel and Deanna Dikeman'
Fall 2021 Architecture Lecture Series lineup
HOK Diversity x Design Scholarship to KU architecture student
ArcD students awarded 2021 Kansas City Architectural Foundation (KCAF) scholarships
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. ...
Architecture Chair Hui Cai Receives Educator of the Year Award
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. ...
Architecture students awarded AIA-St. Louis scholarships
LAWRENCE — Eight University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design students have received scholarships from the American Institute of Architects’ St. Louis chapter. ...
Fall 2021 KU Design Symposium Lecture Series Line-up Announced
LAWRENCE — The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Fall 2021 KU Design Symposium Lecture Series. ...
Nils Gore discusses his ARCH509 studio’s Lawrence Public Library bookmobile “Dottie” (Opens in new window)
The Lawrence Public Library and KU School of Architecture & Design students work together to create a new mobile library to serve the local community. ...
Mahbub Rashid’s new book examines social production of cities in Muslim societies
LAWRENCE – In his new book, Mahbub Rashid writes about the impact of power, capital and everyday life on the social production of physical space and spatiality in traditional cities of the Muslim world. ...
Hui Cai named architecture department chair
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced that Hui Cai, associate professor of architecture and associate director of the KU Institute of Health + Wellness Design, has been named the next chair of the Department of Architecture. ...
Photography Professor Documents a City's Cycles
LAWRENCE – For Mike Sinclair, in some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic period of lockdown and restriction was no different than the before times. Walk around and shoot photos. Every. Single. Day. ...
Collaborative Rural Health Project Wins AIA Regional & Urban Design Award
LAWRENCE — A rural health initiative developed by University of Kansas alumnus Tom Trenolone, director of HDR's Great Plains studio in Omaha, Nebraska, in collaboration with the KU School of Architecture & Design has been awarded a 2021 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Regional & Urban Design Award. ...
Kapila Silva's New Book Documents Sri Lanka's Unique Buddha Image-Houses
LAWRENCE – For centuries, they have been intimate spaces for personal prayer and contemplation for the Buddhists of Sri Lanka. But until now, no one had fully documented the existence of nearly 250 ṭämpiṭavihāras – small buildings, raised on stone pillars housing images and relics of the Buddha – scattered...
Kapila Silva Among KU Faculty and Staff Taking on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Roles
LAWRENCE – Five individuals at the University of Kansas are taking on enhanced roles in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, either as a promotion or an expansion of their current responsibilities: ...
KU hosting photography workshop in Hays
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design will host a free, one-day photography workshop for high school students at the Hays Arts Center on July 10. ...
Design professor awarded arts & humanities grant
LAWRENCE — The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) in the University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences has announced the recipients of the organization’s first Arts & Humanities Grant. ...
Architecture professor and associate chair Jae Chang promoted
LAWRENCE – Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 80 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 89 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses. ...
KU Design wins Best School, multiple individual honors at national design competition
LAWRENCE — Department of Design students represented the University of Kansas at the 2021 National Student Show design competition and brought home the Best School Award, along with multiple individual honors. The winners were announced during a virtual ceremony in early April. ...
Charles Kahn, first dean of the School of Drchitecture & Urban Design passes away
Charles H. Kahn, the first dean of the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Urban Design (now School of Architecture & Design), died at the age of 95 on April 8, 2021, at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ...
School of Architecture & Design announces interim associate dean of administration
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced that Andrea Herstowski, associate professor of design, has been named interim associate dean of administration effective April 19. ...
Architecture student nominated for Udall Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Four students at the University of Kansas are nominees for Udall Undergraduate Scholarships, which recognize students who demonstrate leadership, public service and commitment in the fields of tribal public policy, native health care or the environment. ...