Architecture

Je’Nen M. Chastain, an alumna of the UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, has received a 2017 Associates Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). According to the AIA, the national award “is given to individual Associate AIA members to recognize outstanding leaders and creative thinkers for significant contributions to their communities and the architecture […]

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The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture will be well represented on the architecture conference circuit this spring. Four faculty members will participate in various presentations and discussions in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York. Nadia Anderson, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, will participate as a panelist on “Design for Social Impact” at […]

Dr. José Gamez, UNC Charlotte School of Architecture Assistant Director and Associate Professor, has been elected to the Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) as the Mid Atlantic Regional Director. His three-year term with the ACSA will begin July 1, 2017. In his role as a Regional Director, Gamez will serve […]

The School of Architecture’s Master of Urban Design studio has joined urban design students from Georgia Institute of Technology and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) for a joint urban design studio project. The studio is led by Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee. The project began on February 5 with […]

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture (SoA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Stantec Diversity Scholarship in Practice. Launched in 2015, Scholarships in Practice are combined scholarship/internship programs created in partnership with the local offices of architecture firms. The Stantec Diversity Scholarship in Practice is the fourth such partnership. Supporting students in the […]

Associate Professor of Architecture Jeff Balmer is leading an effort to save the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto, Canada, from destruction. The planetarium opened in 1968 and closed in 1995. Since 2009 the Mid-century Modernist building has belonged to the University of Toronto, which has announced plans to demolish it and build a Centre for Civilizations […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack is a guest speaker on two architecture lecture series this fall. On October 26, Manack spoke at the Drury University Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Missouri, as part of the lecture series, Impermanence. The lecture, GOOD|FAST|CHEAP focused on the work of SILO AR+D, the practice he directs with […]

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design and director of City.Building.Lab, has been invited to present lectures on publicly engaged design at the Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) and the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) in the Czech Republic during the week of October 31. She will also be leading a workshop on […]

Dr. Lee Gray, a professor of architectural history in the School of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts + Architecture, was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The article, “Dumbwaiters on the Rise in New Home and Renovations,” looks at the resurgence of 19th-century-style dumbwaiters in contemporary high-rise apartment buildings […]