Architecture

Faculty in the School of Architecture will present at several national and international conferences this fall: Associate Professor Thomas Forget will present “Housing Inquiry: Changes in Contemporary Urban Living” at the Culture in Urban Space Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (August 24-26); Associate Professor Jefferson Ellinger will present “Urban Vertical Farming” at the Association of Collegiate […]

School of Architecture alumni Eddie Winn and Samantha McPadden have won third place in a competition sponsored by the Nka Foundation. The competition called for the design of a small artist-in-residence center in a rural arts village in Ghana, Africa. Nka Foundation was established in 2008 as a network of arts villages and arts-based community […]

The UNC Charlotte chapter of Freedom By Design™ has won the 2016 Freedom By Design Program Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). The AIAS Honor Awards were developed to publicly recognize outstanding achievements by students, educators, and practitioners who have exhibited an exemplary commitment to the education and development of architecture […]

A design project by School of Architecture Director Chris Jarrett and Associate Professor of Architecture Peter Wong has received the Citation Award in the Activate North Carolina 2016 Urban Housing Competition. Activate North Carolina is a program of AIANC, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects, that seeks to engage architects, designers, and […]

Students in the School of Architecture Master of Urban Design program will present at the Civic By Design Forum on July 12, 5:30 to 6:30 pm, at Levine Museum of the New South. The students, under the direction of Assistant Professor Ming Chun-Lee, will present proposals on “Building a TRUE College Town through a Complementary […]

Work for the City of Beaufort, South Carolina, led by Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design David Walters with alumnus Craig Lewis (Master of Public Administration) and a team of UNC Charlotte alumni, has won a Charter Award from the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU). Among the nation’s premier urban design awards, the […]

Students in the School of Architecture’s AIAS Freedom By Design™ chapter recently completed Phase 1 of a two-phase project at the Cabarrus Bilingual Preschool, run by Families First in Cabarrus County. Families First in Cabarrus County is a non-profit organization that serves low-income families through bilingual (Spanish and English) programs for children and parents. The […]

Work by Associate Professor of Architecture Kelly Carlson-Reddig will be included in Re-Action, a show opening June 3 at Ciel Gallery. Re-Action features three artists: Carlson-Reddig, book artist Jackie Radford, and painter Leigh Williams. Their work is in exhibition through June 25. A registered architect and former Associate Director of the School of Architecture, Carlson-Reddig […]

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Jeffrey Nesbit’s proposal, “Aquatic Resiliency,” has been named a finalist in the NYC Aquarium & Public Waterfront international design competition. Sponsored by arch out loud, the open idea competition attracted 565 participants with 178 proposals from 40 countries across six continents. Twenty-four projects were chosen for recognition, including three winning […]

Architecture student Jessica Nutz, mentored by Assistant Professor Dr. Kyounghee Kim, has received a “2016 International COTE Top Ten for Students” Design Competition Award. Open to accredited schools in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, this international competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) in partnership with the […]