Architecture

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  • Architect Peggy Deamer to speak at ISU Sept. 28
    Architect Peggy Deamer to speak at ISU Sept. 28

    09/20/16 AMES, Iowa — Peggy Deamer, principal of Deamer Architects and a professor of architecture at Yale University, will speak at Iowa State University Wednesday, Sept. 28. Deamer will talk about her work in a lecture at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Department of Architecture's Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, "Beyond: Architecture and Its Outsides," her talk is free and open…

  • Interdisciplinary student team takes top-three finish in international urban design competition
    Interdisciplinary student team takes top-three finish in international urban design competition

    09/14/16 AMES, Iowa — A team of students from the Iowa State University College of Design and the Technical University of Kenya is among the top three finishers in an international competition that sought creative planning and design ideas for sustainable urban development in Kenya. The International Design Collaboration for Kenya (IDCK) competition was hosted by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in collaboration with Kenya's Ministry of Transport,…

  • Architect and urban planner Claudia Yamu to speak about energy and smart cities Sept. 22
    Architect and urban planner Claudia Yamu to speak about energy and smart cities Sept. 22

    09/07/16 AMES, Iowa — Architect and urban planner Claudia Yamu will speak about "Energy and Smart Cities: Participatory Models" in a lecture Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Iowa State University College of Design. Yamu's presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 Design. Part of the 2016-2017 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series, her talk is cosponsored by the College of Design, Department of Community and…

  • Italian architect Simone Capra to speak about environmental transformation and innovation in Sept. 7 lecture
    Italian architect Simone Capra to speak about environmental transformation and innovation in Sept. 7 lecture

    09/02/16 AMES, Iowa — Simone Capra, a registered architect in Italy and a new architecture instructor for the Iowa State University College of Design Rome Program, will speak about the production of innovation in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the ISU College of Design. Capra will present "Looking at the World to Produce Innovation: Every Time Is (Almost) the First Time" at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College…

  • Student work created in Rome on display Aug. 30-Sept. 10 in Gallery 181
    Student work created in Rome on display Aug. 30-Sept. 10 in Gallery 181

    08/30/16 AMES, Iowa — Projects by 40 Iowa State University students who studied in Italy last spring will be exhibited Aug. 30 through Sept. 10 in the ISU College of Design's Gallery 181. "Mura Aureliane/WallWalk" will feature projects created by 31 architecture and nine landscape architecture students who participated in the spring 2016 College of Design Rome Program. The show will include collages, digital renderings, sketches and sketchbooks, maps, photographs, videos…

  • Iowa State architecture students, faculty design and build new shelter for Urbandale’s Dunlap Park and Arboretum
    Iowa State architecture students, faculty design and build new shelter for Urbandale's Dunlap Park and Arboretum

    08/16/16 AMES, Iowa — A new shelter designed and constructed by Iowa State University architecture graduate students and faculty for the Jackaline Baldwin Dunlap Park and Arboretum in Urbandale will be dedicated in a public event Tuesday, Aug. 30. The Bishop Family Shelter dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 5:45 p.m. at the shelter, located at 3040 Sherry Ln., Urbandale. The event will include brief remarks by Urbandale Mayor Bob…

  • BCJ’s Ray Calabro to present 2016 Herbert Lecture in Architecture Sept. 9
    BCJ's Ray Calabro to present 2016 Herbert Lecture in Architecture Sept. 9

    08/10/16 AMES, Iowa — Ray Calabro, FAIA, a principal with the award-winning design firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ) in Seattle, Wash., will present the 2016 Charles E. "Chick" Herbert Lecture in Architecture Friday, Sept. 9, at Iowa State University. Calabro's presentation, "Humane Modernism: The Architecture of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson," is part of Architecture Premiere 16, the annual celebration of the new academic year in the ISU Department of Architecture. The…

  • College of Design to honor Clemson University School of Architecture director with Christian Petersen Design Award
    College of Design to honor Clemson University School of Architecture director with Christian Petersen Design Award

    08/09/16 AMES, Iowa — Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, director and professor of the Clemson University School of Architecture in Clemson, S.C., is the recipient of the 2016 Christian Petersen Design Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. Established in 1980, the award is given annually to alumni, staff and friends of the university for distinguished work that advances the design and art professions. It is named for the…

  • Interdisciplinary design student proposal wins Winterset Library Outdoor Art Competition
    Interdisciplinary design student proposal wins Winterset Library Outdoor Art Competition

    07/29/16 AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University interdisciplinary design students has won an international invitational competition to create outdoor public artwork for the Winterset Public Library. The winning entry, "Open Book Nook," was one of four proposals submitted by students from three universities — Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Iowa State — at the invitation of the nonprofit Friends of the Library.…