Archive

02/08/17 AMES, IA — Six Iowa State University College of Design students took home awards in the 2017 Art Inspired juried student exhibition on display through Monday, March 20, in the Iowa State Memorial Union Pioneer Room. The show features 29 artworks by 25 students majoring in integrated studio arts, integrated visual arts, architecture, art and design, graphic design, interdisciplinary design, interior design, landscape architecture and agricultural education and studies.…

February 8, 2017

Archasm's Liberty Museum New York design competition Iowa State University faculty Jungwoo Ji and Bosuk Hur, both lecturers in architecture, and fourth-year architecture student Suk Lee, Seoul, South Korea, have won the "Liberty Museum New York: Freedom to the people" ideas competition with their speculative design for a museum at the site of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York City. Inspired by candlelight marches against social injustice…

February 3, 2017

02/01/17 AMES, Iowa — Five artists with ties to the Iowa State University College of Design earned top honors in the 49th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood exhibition at the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames. Guest juror Santiago Cal announced awards during the opening reception Friday, Jan. 27. Olivia Valentine, ISU assistant professor of art and visual culture, won the Winifred V. Brown Best of Show…

February 1, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, assistant professor of industrial design, has been selected as a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) jury.

November 14, 2016