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08/02/21 AMES, Iowa — A leaping largemouth bass has landed in the new Johnston Town Center. Weighing 2 tons and measuring 20 feet long, 13 ½ feet high and 10 feet wide, the stainless steel sculpture shimmers with nearly 2,000 kinetic “scales” that capture the light and breeze to heighten the sense of movement created by the curving frame. The “Ripples” (aka “Big Fish”) installation was designed by Reinaldo Correa…

August 9, 2021

June 24, 2021

04/08/21 AMES, Iowa — Ana Pinto da Silva, co-founder and chief executive officer of innovative modular home company Minka, Inc. and former principal user experience design lead for Amazon, will kick off Iowa State University’s first Ignite Innovation Showcase with a lecture Friday, April 16. Pinto da Silva will present the College of Design Dean’s Charrette Keynote Lecture, “Learning Courage: Designing Innovation in a Post-COVID World,” at 5 p.m. via…

April 8, 2021

March 18, 2021

02/11/20 AMES, Iowa — Douglas Spencer, an internationally renowned architectural theorist, has been named the next Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture in the Iowa State University College of Design. Spencer, an associate professor and director of graduate education in the ISU Department of Architecture, is widely recognized for his research and writing on the politics and theory of contemporary architecture. Iowa State alumni Jon Pickard, FAIA, RIBA, and William D.…

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