Architecture

CSI-ISU Design Competition Winners
The team of interior design senior Catherine McClurg and fifth-year architecture student Connor Yocum won first place in the 2016 CSI-ISU Design Competition sponsored by the Central Iowa chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute and juried by CSI members. Their Panama hotel project was developed in the fall 2016 interdisciplinary studio (ART ID 668: Advanced Experimental Interior Design and ARCH 403/603 Integrated Design Studio) taught by Lee Cagley, professor and…

December 17, 2016
Architecture student team wins honorable mention in international ideas competition
12/14/16 AMES, Iowa — A team of third-year architecture students from the Iowa State University College of Design received an honorable mention in the ARKxSITE 2016 Site Landmark Portugal international architecture ideas competition. A total of 163 teams composed of both young professionals and architecture students submitted proposals. In addition to three winners, seven teams’ projects were selected as honorable mentions. The Iowa State team included Kevin Kim Larson, Des…

December 14, 2016
Student team participates in healthcare design charrette and conference
An interdisciplinary team of Iowa State University College of Design students under the guidance of faculty members Cameron Campell, associate professor of architecture, and Jihyn Song, associate professor of interior design, participated in the 2016 AIA-AAH STERIS Student Design Charrette on "Transportation Health: Bridging the Gap Between Urban Health and the Texas Medical Center" Nov. 11-12 and presented their work from the charrette at the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference…

December 5, 2016
Kimberly Zarecor begins term as Czechoslovak Studies Association president
Kimberly Zarecor, associate professor of architecture and director of the interdisciplinary design program, is the new president of the Czechoslovak Studies Association. She is serving a three-year term from November 2016 through November 2019. She had been vice president for the past three years and was a member of the organization's Book Prize Committee in 2015. She also has worked on its website and social media efforts.

November 29, 2016
Project H founder Emily Pilloton to speak about design and social action Dec. 2 at ISU
11/15/16 AMES, Iowa — Project H founder and executive director Emily Pilloton will speak about social action, empowerment and the power of making in a lecture Friday, Dec. 2, at Iowa State University. Pilloton’s presentation, “Fear Less. Build More,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. Part of the Underrepresented Women in Industrial Design and Architecture Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Departments of Industrial…

November 15, 2016
Iowa State University and city of Des Moines partner on big data research project

October 26, 2016
Architect Carlos Bedoya to speak about inherent 'difficulty' of architecture as a productive design element Nov. 16 at ISU
AMES, Iowa — Carlos Bedoya, founding partner of Mexico City-based architecture firm Productora, will present "Architecture with a Detour" Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Iowa State University. Part of the 2016-17 ISU Department of Architecture Lecture Series, Bedoya's talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. His presentation is free and open to the public. Bedoya will look at Productora's work "through…

October 14, 2016
Architect James Timberlake to speak at ISU Oct. 26
AMES, Iowa — James Timberlake, FAIA, founding partner in KieranTimberlake, Philadelphia, will present the Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture in Architecture Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Iowa State University. Timberlake's presentation, "Ortlieb's!", will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design. Part of the 2016-17 ISU Department of Architecture Lecture Series, his talk is free and open to the public. Timberlake will describe the renovation of…

October 12, 2016
Architecture student team wins ACSA international design competition
AMES, Iowa — A project by Iowa State University architecture students is one of three winners in the 2015-2016 Preservation as Provocation International Student Design Competition sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The competition asked students to create a new visitor center and approach experience for the iconic Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill. "Collecting Pieces: Three Elements of Experience" by Bohyun Chang and Suk…

September 29, 2016
Iowa State’s Rico-Gutierrez named one of the nation’s top 25 design educators
Top 25 design educators Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 25 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2016-17 class of education role models includes Luis Rico-Gutierrez, professor of architecture and dean of the ISU College of Design More Information

September 29, 2016