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  • Jungwoo Ji receives honorable mention in ACSA Architectural Education Awards

    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

  • Ceramics designer, ISU alumnus Jonathan Castro is artist-in-residence Jan. 30-Feb. 4

    01/12/17 AMES, Iowa — Ceramics designer Jonathan Castro will visit Iowa State University as an artist-in-residence Jan. 30 through Feb. 4 at the College of Design and the Memorial Union. Castro will speak about “Branding Your Creativity: The Business of Art, Networking, Social Media and Development” in a free public lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. During the residency, Castro also will…

    January 12, 2017

  • Jane Rongerude selected for Women Impacting ISU calendar

    Jane Rongerude, assistant professor of community and regional planning, is one of 12 Iowa State University faculty, staff and students selected for the 2017 Women Impacting ISU calendar. She was recognized at a reception Wednesday, Jan. 11. Rongerude was selected for successfully integrating teaching, research and community outreach to become a leader on campus in the area of team-based learning pedagogy and in fulfilling the university's land-grant mission. Rongerude heads…

    January 12, 2017

  • Architecture graduate student Noel Gonzalez to receive Advancing One Community Award

    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

  • ARCH 202 studio receives grant for public design-build project

    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

  • Sharon Wohl publishes article in Space and Culture journal

    "The Turkish Tea Garden: Exploring a 'Third Space' with Cultural Resonances," an article by Sharon Wohl, Iowa State University assistant professor of architecture, was published in Space and Culture, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2017.

    January 6, 2017

  • Chiu-Shui Chan's book Style and Creativity in Design published in Chinese

    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

  • ISU industrial design students' emergency response project is topic of Jan. 9 radio program

    01/05/17 AMES, Iowa — An emergency-response project by a team of Iowa State University industrial design students will be featured on KHOI Community Radio’s Local Talk program Monday, Jan. 9. The four students — Zachary Benjamin, Fort Dodge; Ran Duan, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Aaron Evans, St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Rachel Harksen, Camanche — developed a damage-assessment kiosk and a mobile app for use by communities following natural or human-caused disasters. They will be…

    January 5, 2017

  • Photos of New York City featured in Design on Main Gallery exhibition Jan. 6-28

    01/04/17 AMES, Iowa — The fine art photography of Michael Corones will be exhibited Jan. 6-28 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “Gotham” will reflect Corones’ view in images taken during his wanderings around New York City, where he is a photographer, writer and editor. The show will open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6. Gallery…

    January 4, 2017

  • 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