Architecture

April 11, 2023

04/07/23 AMES, Iowa — Rusty Smith, associate director of Auburn University Rural Studio, and Mackenzie Stagg, an assistant research professor and project principal for Rural Studio’s Front Porch Initiative, will speak about their work in a lecture at Iowa State University. Smith and Stagg will present “Housing First! Rural Studio and the Front Porch Initiative” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 14, in Kocimski Auditorium, 0101 College of Design. Their talk…

April 7, 2023

3/17/23 AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University third-year architecture students Isabel Witten and Bayleigh Hughson won the 2023 Richard F. Hansen Prize in Architecture awarded by the ISU Department of Architecture. Iowa State alumni Richard F. and Barbara E. Hansen established the Hansen Prize in 2004 to recognize the winner(s) of a design studio competition held in conjunction with the Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture. Jurors for this year’s…

March 20, 2023

03/16/23 AMES, Iowa — Researcher, editor, author and educator Elise Hunchuck will lead the 2023 OPN Workshop from March 20–24 at Iowa State University. Sponsored by Midwest design firm OPN Architects, the workshop series brings globally recognized professionals to campus to lead intensive educational sessions for Iowa State architecture students. During this year’s workshop, undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Architecture will engage with the landscapes…

March 16, 2023

January 17, 2023

10/03/22 AMES, Iowa — Enric Ruiz-Geli, the founder, principal architect and director of Barcelona, Spain-based firm Cloud 9, will talk about his interdisciplinary team’s work in a lecture at Iowa State University. Ruiz-Geli will present “It’s All About Particles” at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. In this lecture, he will discuss Cloud 9’s “Atlas of Projects” and innovative work, from the…

October 3, 2022

10/02/22

AMES, Iowa — Shelby Doyle, an associate professor of architecture and the Stan G. Thurston Professor in Design Build at Iowa State University, received the 2022 Educator Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Iowa) Thursday, Sept. 29, at the AIA Iowa Annual Convention in Des Moines.

The award recognizes significant contributions to architectural education in Iowa.

Doyle joined the Iowa State faculty…

October 2, 2022

09/06/22 AMES, Iowa — Sharon Johnston, FAIA, founder and partner of Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles, will deliver the final keynote lecture of the 2022 AIA Iowa Convention this month in Des Moines. Johnston will present “Art & the City” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at the Iowa Events Center. Her talk is sponsored by the Iowa State University Department of Architecture. Johnston will discuss the…

September 6, 2022

August 29, 2022

08/12/22 AMES, Iowa — Alla Vronskaya, a professor of architectural history and theory at Kassel University in Germany, will kick off the Iowa State University Department of Architecture’s 2022-2023 Public Programs Series with a guest lecture on “Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences.” Vronskaya’s talk will be at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design. Presenting research from her new book of…

August 12, 2022