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KU Design Senior Showcase

 7-8 pm | The Guild, 1621 Locust St, Kansas City, MO 64108

The Senior Show 2026 features graduating students in Illustration & Animation, Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Photography, and Visual Communication Design.

🧑‍🎓📲  Follow the senior show on Instagram to see features of each graduate! 

🛑 STOP DAY!

No scheduled classes: Congratulations on a great semester, ArcD! 🎊

Jayhawk Friday

10am - 2pm | Ascher Plaza outside Kansas Union

Jayhawk Fridays are designed to showcase local vendors who wish to sell products or services on campus. The event occurs the first Friday of each month, April through October.

International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Board Applications Open 

Join the IIDA KU Board and help shape the future of our design community! 
✨ Get involved 
✨ Uplift the KU ARCD community 
✨ Build lasting connections 
Don’t wait—applications close on the last day of classes (May 7)! 

Apply

Summer & Fall Architecture electives 

Click links below to learn about elective courses available this summer and next fall.

🌞 Summer 2026  🍁 Fall 2026 

The AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund 

The AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund offers opportunities for students that are born or raised in the AIA St. Louis region and are studying architecture in their third, fourth, fifth year or performing graduate work at an NAAB accredited school of architecture (the University may be located anywhere in the US).  Students will be asked to complete and application and if they meet the criteria, we will contact them to schedule a personal interview between the applicant and the Scholarship Fund Committee.  

Application deadline: July 1st, 2026  

Apply 

🎓 🌟 Celebrate The Class of 2026 

On Friday, May 15, the KU School of Architecture & Design will recognize our 2026 graduates. 

ArcD Graduates Open House Reception
🕑 2:00 - 4:00pm | Chalmers Café

ArcD Recognition Ceremony
🕕 6:00 - 7:30 pm | The Lied Center

KU’s university-wide Commencement ceremony on the Hill will begin at 10:30am on Sunday, May 17th.

More info

ArcD Student Organizations: Get involved! 

Get involved with student organizations to improve your educational experience! Learn more about ArcD Student Organizations here & keep in touch with them via social media! 

👀 Check out KU Student Jobs!

🔹 Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities

Since the release of their best-selling monograph Opportunistic Architecture in 2007, New York City–based Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis has picked up a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum while continuing to produce work featuring their unique combination of programmatic wit, material fabrication, and construction. 

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Intensities presents twenty new built and speculative projects ranging from small installations to interior home and office transformations to large cultural institutions and urban renewal plans. Featuring the firm’s signature drawings and revealing process shots, Intensities presents case studies for projects in New York City; Austin, Texas; Claremont, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Laramie, Wyoming.

The Hatch Reading Room, on the 4th floor of Marvin Hall, is here for you to de-stress, work on projects, take a break to read, and enjoy a quiet view of campus.

Open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday.  📚 

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