Architecture

02/08/17 AMES, IA — Six Iowa State University College of Design students took home awards in the 2017 Art Inspired juried student exhibition on display through Monday, March 20, in the Iowa State Memorial Union Pioneer Room. The show features 29 artworks by 25 students majoring in integrated studio arts, integrated visual arts, architecture, art and design, graphic design, interdisciplinary design, interior design, landscape architecture and agricultural education and studies.…

February 8, 2017

02/05/17 AMES, Iowa — The founders of Winnipeg-based collaborative design studio 5468796 Architecture will discuss the conditions and ambition required to challenge the Midwest status quo in a lecture at Iowa State University. Architects Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic will present “Operating in the Margins” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Gallery 181, College of Design. Part of the ISU Department of Architecture Spring 2017 Public Program Series,…

February 5, 2017

Archasm's Liberty Museum New York design competition Iowa State University faculty Jungwoo Ji and Bosuk Hur, both lecturers in architecture, and fourth-year architecture student Suk Lee, Seoul, South Korea, have won the "Liberty Museum New York: Freedom to the people" ideas competition with their speculative design for a museum at the site of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York City. Inspired by candlelight marches against social injustice…

February 3, 2017

01/31/17

AMES, Iowa — Italian architect Simone Bove, an interior design instructor for the Iowa State University College of Design Rome Program, will speak about “Contemporary Architecture and Local Identity” in a public lecture at Iowa State.

In his presentation, Bove will investigate the multiple relationships between a work of architecture and the identity of the place, providing a theoretical introduction to the concept of genius loci along with a selection…

January 31, 2017

January 26, 2017

This lecture has been canceled due to a family health emergency. We hope to reschedule it at a later date. 01/24/17 AMES, Iowa — Interactive design historian and theorist Orit Halpern will speak at Iowa State University in February. Halpern will present “The Smart Mandate: Ubiquitous Computing, Environment and ‘Resilient Hope’” at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Department…

January 24, 2017

Cheongseok (Bluestone) Church, a project completed in 2015 by Iowa State University architecture Lecturer Jungwoo Ji and colleagues at his architecture firm, then known as eu.k architects and now EUS+ Architects in Seoul, South Korea, received a Faculty Design Honorable Mention in the 2016-17 Architectural Education Awards presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

The project was part of the South Korean Pavilion at the 2016 Venice…

January 24, 2017

Noel Gonzalez, a second-year architecture graduate student from Sioux City, will receive the Martin Luther King, Jr. Advancing One Community Award at the university's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Convocation, which begins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. As a graduate assistant to the College of Design's multicultural liaison officer, Gonzalez has played a significant role in helping students of color acclimate…

January 11, 2017

The faculty teaching the Iowa State University second-year architecture studio this semester received a $4,500 spring 2017 Outreach Studio Grant to collaborate with the Reliable Street arts collective on a public design-build project that will be installed in late April. ARCH 202 is taught by Assistant Professors Nick Senske (coordinator) and Andrea Wheeler and Lecturers Roman Chikerinets, Reinaldo Correa and Bosuk Hur.

January 9, 2017

Style and Creativity in Design by Chiu-Shui Chan, originally published in English by Springer Press in May 2015, was published in Chinese as Style and Creativity: A Cognitive Theory by Tianjin University Press, China, in December 2016. Both editions cover the same concepts and theories of style and creativity as expressions of human cognition, written differently for their readers. Chan is a professor of architecture at Iowa State University.

January 6, 2017