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ISU Stan G. Thurston Professor in Design Build honored with AIA Iowa Educator Award
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
Iowa State MFA student awarded at Rome film festival

September 19, 2022
Two ISU student projects named finalists in national hospitality design competition
06/06/22 AMES, Iowa — Projects by two teams of Iowa State University College of Design students and recent graduates are among four finalists in the student category of the 18th Hospitality Design Awards competition. This national competition, sponsored by Hospitality Design magazine, recognizes outstanding design projects in 27 categories related to the hospitality industry. The Iowa State finalists are: “Maritime Gardens, Bahrain” by 2019 interior design alumna and current…

June 6, 2022
ISU planning professor wins Fulbright Scholar award for heritage policy research in Norway
05/05/22 AMES, Iowa — Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock, an Iowa State University assistant professor of community and regional planning, has received a 2022–2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to Norway for his project on "The Social Impacts of Heritage Policy: Gentrification and Displacement in Oslo." From August to December, Grevstad-Nordbrock will work with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research's (NIKU) Heritage and Society unit to explore the social impacts of heritage and…

May 5, 2022
Shaw receives 2022 Janice Peterson Anderson Medallion Award
05/04/22 AMES, Iowa — Darbi Shaw, an Iowa State University graduating senior in graphic design, is the recipient of the 2022 Janice Peterson Anderson Medallion Award. Established in 1968 in memory of Janice Peterson Anderson, a 1960 ISU graduate in home economics education, this award is presented annually to an outstanding senior in graphic design, interior design or integrated studio arts who “shows the greatest potential for distinguished work in design.”…

May 4, 2022
Student proposal for youth addiction-recovery campus wins 2022 Confluence, Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize
04/25/22 AMES, Iowa — A team of fifth-year Iowa State University landscape architecture students won the 2022 Confluence, Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize awarded by the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture. A second team and an individual student won honorable mention awards in the competition. Olivia Fletcher, from Spencer; Riley Fountain, from Forest Lake, Minnesota; Jordyn Kloss, from Badger; and Abby Schlotfeldt, from Waukee, all in their final year of the…

April 25, 2022
Doyle named Stan G. Thurston Professor in Design Build at Iowa State University
09/30/21 AMES, Iowa — Shelby Doyle, co-founder of the Computation and Construction Lab and director of the Architectural Robotics Lab at Iowa State University, has been named the next Stan G. Thurston Professor in Design Build in the ISU College of Design. Iowa State alumni Stan and Dotty Thurston created the professorship in 2014 to support the recruitment and retention of Iowa State faculty who are leaders in the…

September 30, 2021
ISU College of Design to honor Rise Community Development community planning and implementation director Brian Hurd with 2021 Design Achievement Award
09/24/21 AMES, Iowa — Brian H. Hurd, director of community planning and implementation for Rise Community Development, Inc., in St. Louis, is a recipient of the 2021 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. The award recognizes outstanding creative and professional achievements of alumni in all the college’s disciplines, which include architecture, art and design, community and regional planning, graphic design, industrial design, integrated studio…

September 24, 2021
ISU College of Design to honor Cooper Hewitt acting director Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar with 2021 Design Achievement Award
09/24/21 AMES, Iowa — Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, acting director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, is a recipient of the 2021 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. The award recognizes outstanding creative and professional achievements of alumni in all of the college’s disciplines, which include architecture, art and design, community and regional planning, graphic design, industrial design, integrated studio arts,…

September 24, 2021
ISU College of Design to honor Viva Landscapes founder Mariah Bakke with 2021 Outstanding Young Professional Award
09/23/21 AMES, Iowa — Mariah C. Bakke, the founder of Viva Landscapes in Fort Myers, Florida, is a recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Young Professional Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. Established in 2020, the award recognizes College of Design alumni who received their most recent degree from Iowa State within the past 10 years and have excelled in their professions early in their careers. Bakke,…

September 23, 2021