Architecture

Director of Community Development for the City of Glendale, CA

Hometown: Penza, Russia BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in Architecture? I first became interested in architecture in middle school when I began thinking about what future career I wanted to pursue. I’ve always been drawn to the arts and mathematics, so I decided that architecture would be an ideal combination of those two. While in […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a minor in Urban Studies & Geography 2024 How did you first get interested in Architecture? My interest in architecture first started when I started to travel often to the city of Los Angeles in California.  I began to compare the different architectural qualities between Los […]

Hometown: Harleysville, PA BA in Architecture 2025 How did you first get interested in architecture? I first got interested in architecture when I was little because I liked to look at houses and see how differently each one was set up. Once I got to high school, that is when I really got interested, especially when […]

For nearly a decade, Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang has been studying air as an important and active system to be foregrounded in the design process. An exhibition in Rhinebeck, New York, features tools and products of her investigations. Pamphlet Architecture: Visions and Experiments in Architecture at ‘T’ Space gallery presents works by […]

A major grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the next stage of Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim’s development of a high-performing window system that reduces building energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant is Kim’s third NSF grant in support of her decade-long research […]

Hometown: Charlotte, NC Master in Architecture 2024 How did you become interested in architecture? As a young creator, I have always been attracted to art (drawing, painting, etc) and the construct of structure. For Christmas, I would ask for the K’Nex building kits where my dad and I would build massive amusement park rides. If anyone remembers […]

The School of Architecture was featured as the cover story of the August 5-11 issue of The Charlotte Business Journal, the city’s leading business publication. “Five Decades in the Making: UNC Charlotte’s School of Architecture has shaped what Charlotte is and will be” was written by Erik Spanberg in response to the School’s celebration of […]

Hometown: Wendell, NC Master of Architecture 2024 Tell us a little about yourself!I am a 22-year-old first-year Master of Architecture student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, expected to graduate in 2024. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Architecture with a Minor in African Diaspora Studies from The University of North Carolina […]

“Walk through The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City and you’ll see rap lyrics from Nas, Slick Rick and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s hit song ‘The Message’ splashed in graffiti on the walls,” wrote Gordon Rago recently in the Charlotte Observer. “Framed photos hang on fragments of a shipping container, showing concepts […]