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A group of urban design and architecture students have transformed the basketball courts at Alexander Street Park into vibrant street murals in a partnership with the Charlotte Urban Design Center, an office in the City of Charlotte’s Planning, Design, and Development department. The student group, representing Master of Urban Design (MUD) students and students in […]

Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger’s book, Philosophical Difference and Advanced Computation in Architectural Theory: From Less to More was recently published by Routledge. Ellinger’s book “presents a new take on the evolution of digital design theories in architecture from modernity to today, as they have been inspired both by contemporary philosophy and the emergence […]

The Graphic Design program, the Department of Art & Art History, and the College of Arts + Architecture wish to express our sorrow for the death of alumnus Broderick Adé Hogue (BFA 2012). Adé was struck by a vehicle on October 27 in Chicago while training for an upcoming cycling race. He was taken to […]

The night the exhibition Container/Contained: Phil Freelon – Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories opened at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Sierra Grant stood before a crowd of more than 200 visitors and read the words of the late Civil Rights leader John Lewis. The moment was meaningful for […]

The International Downtown Association recently awarded an International Award of Excellence for Planning, Design and Infrastructure to a team from Stantec Urban Places that included Professor Emeritus David Walters and three former Master of Urban Design students: Dylan McKnight (MUD ’12), Ashley Bonawitz Thompson (B.Arch ’13, MUD ’15), and Ginny Young (MUD ’17). The team […]

Student Kira Wagner has been named the North Carolina state representative for 2021-2022 Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Solo Competition in the Brass Area. The three-tiered competition begins with a state round in the fall, followed by a division round in the winter and a national round in the spring. Kira is a […]

Two architecture professors are among the eight UNC Charlotte faculty named to the 2021-22 cohort of Gambrell Faculty Fellows by the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. Now in its third year, the Gambrell Faculty Fellows program, funded through the Gambrell Foundation, provides seed money to faculty projects that seek to address Charlotte’s economic mobility challenge. Dr. […]

Alumnus Banks Wilson ’01 has established a scholarship endowment to honor Emeritus Professor of Art Eldred Hudson. Hudson retired from the Department of Art & Art History in 2021 after 33 years at UNC Charlotte, where he served as the area coordinator for graphic design and was chair of the department from 2009 to 2018. […]

Assistant Professor of Costume Design Aly Amidei has adapted the novella Carmilla as an audio play that the Chicago-based Lifeline Theatre Company will begin streaming on October 30. Written in 1871-72 by the Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla is an early example of vampire fiction and was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s 1897 […]

Master of Urban Design Director Sekou Cooke has designed and built an installation for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), the largest international survey of contemporary architecture in North America. Founded in 2015 and now in its fourth edition, the 2021 CAB takes place September 17-December 18 and is organized around the theme of The […]