It was amazing to have Bjarke Ingels on campus to discuss BIG and BNIM’s designs for a remade home for architecture and design education at The University of Kansas.  

  

Joined by BNIM principals (and KU architecture alumni) Katie Nichols and James Pfeiffer, Bjarke Ingels presented a plan born from close collaboration with KU students, faculty, and staff and the unparalleled ingenuity and sustainable performance for which these firms are known.   

  

Equal parts adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and high-performance new construction, the architects showcased how the project will enhance KU’s already excellent facilities by increasing spatial connections between program spaces and labs and creating an inspiring new studio building optimized for KU’s hands-on design education.  

We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Bjarke Ingels and the world class team that has been assembled to remake our home in the heart of campus – one that honors our history, creates new ground for multidisciplinary discovery, and celebrates the unique power of design to make the world a better place. This is an extraordinary time for the architecture and design departments at KU.

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Join Bjarke Ingels Group, BNIM, and the KU School of Architecture & Design to learn more about our building project.  

Thursday, October 30 | 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. 

Hilton Anatole, Miro Room 

This year, a total of 10 alumni received awards in four categories. Winners will be honored on Wednesday, October 22, 6-9 p.m. at the Jayhawk Welcome Center. 

Meet the 2024 Alumni Award winners 

The KU Veterans Alumni Network presented Jordan Wade, the School of Architecture & Design’s Director of Student Academic Services & Success, with the organization’s Honorary Coin, an annual award that recognizes individuals who have made far-reaching contributions to the KU veteran community. 

AIA Missouri presented Frank Zilm, D.Arch, FAIA, FACHA, with the organization’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary leadership, lifelong dedication to advancing healthcare design, and profound contributions to the profession at local, state, national, and international levels.  

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Amy Phillips, architecture alumnae and member of the school’s Professional Advisory Board, was named one of the St. Louis region's Most Influential Business Women of 2025.

The Athletic profiled leading stadium architect and 1994 KU architecture graduate David Manica, founder of to explore how the hand of the stadium designer works to create optimally immersive experiences for spectators. MANICA Architecture, to explore how the hand of the stadium designer works to create optimally immersive experiences for spectators.

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Special thanks to professors Steve Padget and Kent Spreckelmeyer for their help in identifying the individuals pictured. If you know who any of the others are or have corrections, let us know!

 

Back row, standing: Jack Morley; Tom Geraughty; unknown; Basil Honikman; Bob Gould; Steve Grabow; unknown; David Henderson? Middle row, seated in chairs: Lou Michel; Bill Doyle?; David Henderson?; Jim Mayo; Dale Glenn?; Peter Burgess?; Fount Smothers; Max Lucas. Front row, seated on floor: Curtis Besinger; Marci Francisco; Dave Griffin, unknown.  

 

“Warren Corman played an integral role in what Kansas basketball is today as one of the architects who designed Allen Fieldhouse.” – Bill Self 

 

A proud alumnus of the Department of Architecture, Mr. Corman and his wife established the Warren Corman Architecture Scholarship to support architecture students who are studying abroad.  

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Expanding on research from his award-winning Mangrove Reef Wall – a digitally fabricated seawall panel system that mimics mangrove roots – which has been deployed in Florida Gulf Coast waterways, architecture professor and department chair Keith Van de Riet and colleagues at Canada’s Carleton University are experimenting with panel designs that could provide attractive habitats for freshwater fish species in Canada’s extensive waterways. 

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Design chair Jeremy Shellhorn and a colleague at the University of Montana have formed the Conservation Communication Collaborative, which has received a grant from the League to Save Lake Tahoe, to identify the best types of nature-conservation signage. 

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This summer, design lecturer and Book Arts program coordinator Linda Talleur’s limited-edition book, The Phoenix, was featured in the exhibition, Press On: A Juried Exhibition of Letterpress Art, at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center near Washington D.C. 

Studio 804’s latest completed project – built to meet U.S. Green Build Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Standards – is another perfect example of how architecture professor Dan Rockhill and his students have helped to redefine what is possible in architectural education for going on three decades. The home at 1040 New York Street in East Lawrence – a neighborhood with one of the highest percentages of working artists in the country – is a short walk from the Historic Downtown Lawrence District and the Warehouse Arts District. Appropriate in scale for the neighborhood but with external materials that embrace difference and showcase sustainably-focused innovation, the house sits comfortably within the eclectic fabric of the neighborhood. 

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