Architecture

Roshanak Ashrafi, a Ph.D. candidate in the interdisciplinary Infrastructures and Environmental Systems (INES) program, recently received third place for her oral presentation at the 2022 Graduate Research Symposium. The INES program is housed in the William Lee States College of Engineering and includes faculty from multiple departments across the university, including the School of Architecture. […]

Ketki Prashant Bapat was awarded first place for her oral presentation in the category of Arts & Architecture at the 2022 Graduate Research Symposium. Bapat is a dual degree graduate student pursuing a Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Architecture and Building Science. She will graduate this May. Bapat’s research project, “An […]

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One former and two current undergraduate architecture students were awarded prizes in the inaugural Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) Student Design Competition. The competition for undergraduate and graduate students challenged participants to create an innovative metal building design for a one or two-story elementary school housing approximately 200 students. Alumna Brittany Myer ’15 and students […]

Master of Urban Design Director Sekou Cooke’s studio has been named a 2022 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, an annual juried award that recognizes North American individuals and firms “with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design,” the announcement states. […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Liz McCormick has won a 2022 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award conferred jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). The award is one of the Architectural Education Awards given annually by the ACSA. “Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 18, in the eighth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The award ceremony will take place at 11:30 am in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts and will be open to the public. The Distinguished Alumni Awards were created by the […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang has won first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture competition, an international competition that will award Zhang a $5,500 honorarium to develop her proposal and the opportunity to produce the next book in the Pamphlet Architecture series. Founded in 1978, Pamphlet Architecture is one of the most prestigious architecture […]

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Professor of Architecture Eric Sauda and School of Architecture alumni Alireza Karduni and Ginette Wessel recently published their book, Social Media and the Contemporary City (Routledge). The book focuses on the interplay between social media, local communities, and urban space in a variety of political and economic settings related to social activism, informal economic activity, […]