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Dirtworks Studio’s Roth Trailhead is american-architects.com Building of the Week
The award winning Roth Trailhead structure, designed by the Department of Architecture’s Dirtworks Studio, is american-architects.com’s Building of the Week. The Dirtworks Studio is a third-year architecture studio taught by Chad Kraus, assistant professor of Architecture. The design-build studio focuses on rammed-earth construction. Students designed the structure during the Spring semester, and built it during the summer of […]
$100,000 Howard Nearing Prize honors 100th year of KU architecture
This weekend, as the University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design and Planning marks its centennial anniversary, the school is also celebrating a gift to honor the occasion. The Prairie Village architectural firm of Nearing Staats Prelogar & Jones (NSPJ) has made a $100,000 gift for a student prize within the school. The Howard Nearing […]
Architecture Department alumnus John Eyler establishes gift commitment for scholarships in architecture and music
In appreciation of the educational foundation he received at the University of Kansas, John Eyler, of Kansas City, Mo., has established a gift commitment to create full renewable scholarships in architecture and music at KU. “I wanted to create something that would last in perpetuity and benefit students forever,” said Eyler. Eyler earned two degrees […]
Architecture Student Lauren Leigh Brown’s Team Wins Urban Land Institute Design Competition
A team of five students that included KU Department of Architecture student Lauren Leigh Brown has won the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Brown is a fifth-year student in architecture from Hermitage, Mo. She will split the $50,000 prize with her teammates. The competition required teams of five students made […]
Professor Paola Sanguinetti Named Architecture Department Chair
John Gaunt, Dean of the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning has announced that Paola Sanguinetti, Associate Professor, will become the Department of Architecture’s new chair. She replaces Nils Gore, associate professor, who served as interim chair for the past three years. Her three-year term begins July 1. “This is an exciting assignment and I am […]
Architecture Professor Kapila Silva wins ARCC New Researcher Award
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium has announced that Kapila Silva, assistant professor of architecture, has received its 2013 New Researcher Award. The ARCC is an international association of research centers that support the expansion of the research culture in university architecture schools. About 60 institutions are members. The type of research supported by ARCC varies […]
Please welcome our three new architecture faculty members
The SADP is pleased to welcome three new Department of Architecture faculty members. They are professors Joe Colistra, Nilou Vakil, and Farhan Karim. Joe Colistra has joined as an associate professor of architecture, and is teaching Comprehensive Studio 609. Prior to his appointment he taught design studios and building technology at the American University of […]
Architecture Student Lauren Brown’s Team Finalist in Urban Design Competition
An entry by KU archtecture student Lauren Leigh Brown’s team of area university students is among the finalists in the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Late last fall Brown, who is from Hermitage, Mo., formed a team with three landscape architecture students from KSU and an MBA student from UMKC […]
Arch Student Henry Lennon cited for Excellence in Danish Study Abroad Program
Henry Lennon, a fourth-year M.Arch student from Branson, Missouri, has received the Academic Excellence Award for Architecture from the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. Institute staff members select recipients of the award. The winners must have distinguished themselves not only through outstanding studio work, but also for their embrace of Danish Culture and the study […]
Anthony Vanky, “Bits and Bricks, Toward a SENSEable City Lecture 2/22
Anthony Vanky, project director, strategist, and researcher at the MIT SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss how the ubiquity of digital devices and the telecommunication networks that augment our cities are impacting urban living. The lab is a multidisciplinary research group that studies the interface between cities, people, and technologies. Vanky […]
