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Spring 2020 Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series to continue online
LAWRENCE - Beginning on March 26th, all Spring 2020 Hallmark Symposium lectures will take place online via Zoom. Links to the lectures will be shared on social media and included under the speaker biographies on the Hallmark Symposium webpage as this information becomes available. ...
Industrial design professor's eco-bike aims to cut pollution in Kathmandu
LAWRENCE – Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The truth of that saying was revealed once again to Lance Rake when he traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, last year to develop a delivery version of the bamboo bicycles for which he is known. ...
Note to KU Arc/D students: school coronavirus information webpage
Note to School of Architecture & Design Students: ...
Message to students regarding coronavirus efforts
Dear KU Architecture & Design Students, ...
KU Institute of Health+Wellness Design to host 4th annual Health & Wellness Symposium
The School of Architecture & Design’s Institute of Health + Wellness Design will host the fourth annual KU Health & Wellness Symposium on Thursday, Mar. 5 in Marvin Hall. ...
Remembering design professor emeritus Richard Branham, by alumnus David W. Hill
The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design community is mourning the death of Richard Branham, pioneering designer and Professor Emeritus of Design, who passed away on February 19, 2020. During his 44-year tenure at KU, Professor Branham was known as a dynamic and dedicated teacher whose infectious enthusiasm...
Design student Gwendolyn Sibley receives Undergraduate Research Award
LAWRENCE — This spring, 50 KU students will receive an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRAs). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Professor Kapila Silva's new book examines sustainability and historic preservation in Asian cities
LAWRENCE – The preservation of Asia’s historic urban fabric is a passion for Kapila Silva, a Sri Lanka native and University of Kansas associate professor of architecture. ...
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. ...