Architecture

This semester, the School of Architecture entered into a bilateral transfer agreement with Central Piedmont Community College, which allows students who have completed an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Architectural Technology to apply for advanced standing in the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture program at UNC Charlotte. After two years at Central Piedmont, students […]

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed to join the City of Charlotte’s Equitable Development Commission. The Charlotte Equitable Development Commission was created with the adoption of the Future Charlotte 2040 Comprehensive Plan by City Council resolution on June 21, 2021. The Commission is charged with advising in the assessment […]

At one time, more American flags were printed in Rock Hill, S.C. than in any place in the world. The Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, which opened in 1929, was one of the largest cloth printing and finishing companies in the United States and the center of that patriotic production during World War II. […]

A new book by Associate Professor of Architecture Mona Azarbayjani, High-Performance Double Skin Façade Buildings: Climatic-Based Exploration, provides the first systematic assessment of the operational performance of double-skin façade technology in buildings in the United States. In developed countries, commercial buildings account for a significant amount of energy consumption – some 40% of energy use […]

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B.A. in Architecture

B.A. in Architecture

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 […]

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 […]