Architecture

A group of graduate students from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, China, have come to Charlotte to work on a joint urban design workshop with students in the School of Architecture MUDD 6102 Advanced Urban Design Studio, led by Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee. The students are collaboratively developing plans for […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang’s proposal, “60 mph: Architectural Mediums and Speed Tectonics,” has been selected as a finalist for the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize to support extensive travel and research, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. The prize is awarded annually “to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional […]

Marc Manack, assistant professor of architecture, has contributed a chapter to The Interior Architecture Theory Reader. The book was edited by Gregory Maninic and recently published by Routledge. In 50 chapters, the book surveys interior architecture, examining history, theory, and production across the fields of interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Manack’s chapter is […]

The School of Architecture presents Technoecologies, a solo exhibition by Zenovia Toloudi/Studio Z, on view in Storrs Gallery February 2 through March 2, with an opening reception on February 2 at 5:30 pm. Technoecologies reconceives the relationship between humans and their environment in architecture through prototypes and models that explore emerging forms of bioarchitecture, living […]

Three students in Professor Jefferson Ellinger’s Graduate Topic Design Studio have taken the top prizes in the 2017 Living Building Challenge-Los Angeles (LBC-LA) Collaborative Student Competition. The international competition invited students to design Pavilion Zero, which is envisioned as the main pavilion for the Los Angeles World’s Fair, if the city hosts the fair in […]

Dr. Kyounghee Kim, associate professor of architecture, was awarded a 2017 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grant ($30,000) for Biophilic Architecture: Sustainable Materialization of Microalgae Facades – in support of her research on high-performance building envelope design. This is her second AIA Upjohn Award; she was awarded a 2013 AIA Upjohn Research Grant ($27,000) for Sustainable […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack and students from his summer studio will travel to Chicago this month to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Over the summer, the studio designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. Their challenge was to translate the research into […]

Two UNC Charlotte architecture alumni, Miyuki Tsujimura, AIA (Bachelor of Architecture, 2013) and Chuck Travis, FAIA (B.A. in Architecture, 1982) were honored this fall at state conventions of the Americans Institute of Architects (AIA). Tsujimara received the Associate Member Individual Honor Award at the 2017 AIA Florida Convention in Naples. Tsujimara has been at Hoy+Stark […]

Dr. Zhongjie Lin, associate professor of architecture and urbanism, has written an essay for the forthcoming book, SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, which will be published in October. Lin’s essay, “Conflicts and Re-adaptation: Introduction to East Asia,” is also the introductory essay for a large survey exhibition of Brutalist architecture, on view November 9, 2017 […]

Members of the School of Architecture faculty will present papers nationally and internationally this fall. Marc Manack’s paper, “Good|Fast |Cheap Inventive Project Delivery Methods that Expand Audiences for Design-Build,” will be presented at the 2017 International Association of Architectural Educators Conference at Oxford Brooks, England, September 6-9. Chris Beorkrem and Eric Sauda, with Jack (Michael-Paul) […]