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Student projects honored in student and professional categories at annual AIA Kansas awards |
The KU Department of Architecture dominated student categories at the annual AIA-Kansas Excellence in Design Awards earlier this fall, including two top-prize honor awards – Chad Kraus’s Dirt Works Studio for the Sue Mango Garden design-build project at the Lied Center of Kansas, and the Mariposa Early Childhood Education Center by students Sarah Montes and Monet DeFreece.
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And notably, two student design-build projects were recognized with top-prize honor awards in professional categories with Dirt Works Studio winning the AIA Small Architectural Project Honor Award for their Phoenix House and Keith Van de Riet’s DesignBuild studio winning the AIA Architectural Craft and Innovation Award for their Prairie Park Pavilion.
See all award-winning projects
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Alumni spearhead KU’s Gateway District and the School’s new building project |
KU design students, faculty and alumni win AIGA KC awards
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KU students took home a total of 13 awards in the student category, including the Best in Class Award for Brand and Identity. Matthew Cook, KU assistant professor in the animation and illustration programs, won two awards in the professional category.
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Annual career-building event welcomes 40+ firms to campus |
On November 5th, we hosted our 12th-annual Mock Interview Night for architecture and interior architecture students. Designed to prepare students for the annual spring semester Architecture & Design Career Fair, the event demystifies the interview process and helps students hone their presentation skills with the guidance of professionals representing firms from around the country. This year, over 40 professionals led 210 student interviews.
Sincere thanks to the Kwame Charitable Foundation, founded by KU alumnus and friend of the School Tony Thompson, for generously sponsoring this year’s Mock Interview Night.
See the roster of participating firms.
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Congratulations and thank you to alumni award honorees |
We celebrated the newest class of KU Architecture & Design Alumni Award winners in October. Beyond the awards ceremony, awardees visited studios and participated in a panel discussion addressing the past and future of design education and professional practice.
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| Congratulations to this year’s award winners. It was wonderful having everyone back on campus to celebrate, reminisce, and share insights with students.
Submissions for the next alumni awards will open in late spring.
Meet the 2024 awardees
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Students present at national healthcare design conference |
In October, architecture and interior architecture students represented the KU Institute of Health & Wellness Design in the STERIS Student Charette at the HCD Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in Kansas City. Mentored by architecture professor Hermínia Machry, students designed a comprehensive cancer center in 48-hours.
Read more on LinkedIn
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Marvin Hall covered in ivy. If you know when the vines were removed, we would love to know! |
Design professor lets students in on book cover illustration job for big publisher |
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By allowing design students at The University of Kansas to follow along with his book illustration project for Simon & Schuster, design professor Matthew Cook provided an insider’s view of how creative vision, marketing research and collaborative processes come together in the business of commercial art and design.
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| Design professor Tim Hossler presents research on Cuban architecture |
Design professor Tim Hossler discussed his research project, “Connecting Concrete: Modernist Architecture from Havana to Miami,” at the 34th annual KU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Waggoner Research Colloquium in November.
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Designed in collaboration with Cuban-American, Miami-based photographer Silvia Ros, the project highlights the poetic beauty, resilience, and enduring cultural dialogue embedded in the built environments of Havana and Miami. In 2024, the project was featured in exhibitions at the MIA Gallery at Miami International Airport and the Miami Beach Art Deco Museum.
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Kapila Silva honored with KU teaching award |
Architecture professor Kapila Silva was honored with a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship which recognizes excellence in teaching and is awarded only to persons who have demonstrated outstanding teaching over a period of years. This is the fifth KU teaching award he has won since joining the Department of Architecture faculty in 2007.
Learn more about the award and Professor Silva on LinkedIn
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| The ‘bear’ necessities of good sign design |
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🎸 Industrial Design rocks finals |
In a finals finale, Industrial Design students plugged in and played their final projects – custom guitars digitally designed and then manufactured with a combination of digital fabrication and hand assembly.
Students created digital models of each guitar component – custom-designed necks and bodies and all of the off-the-shelf parts (pickups, tuners, bridges, etc.) — and then used computer-driven routers to fabricate the custom components. Once ready for assembly, every component had to fit perfectly for the guitars to work. At last week’s final presentation, every project worked perfectly.
Acquiring the skills to make an electric guitar with traditional tools could take years to develop. KU Industrial Design (ID) students learn to create custom guitars in one semester by employing computer modeling and digital fabrication techniques. A functional electric guitar is the culminating project, but this studio course illuminates processes applicable to the design and manufacture of products of all types.
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