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  • 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

  • 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

  • A Mirror to the Soul: When Suzanne Verma restores a patient's outward features, she restores an identity

    December 14, 2016

  • April Eisman receives NEH Fellowship for book research

    April Eisman, Iowa State University associate professor of art and visual culture (art history), has received a prestigious one-year National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to conduct research in Germany between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. Her project, "Angela Hampel: A Contemporary Artist in East Germany," will result in her third book. Read more

    December 12, 2016

  • Art and visual culture faculty member brings mother's Holocaust story to school stages

    "My Broken Doll: A Memoir of Survival of the Vichy Regime," a book co-written by Deborah Pappenheimer, senior lecturer in art and visual culture, and her mother, Bea Karp, has been translated into a stage production that premiered in Omaha in August and will tour Nebraska schools throughout 2016-17. The book and the play share Karp's experiences as a Jewish child in France before, during and after World War II.…

    December 6, 2016