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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
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
Big fish: Iowa State faculty-student team creates immersive art experience in Johnston
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
College of Design honors student solutions during Dean's Charrette

May 11, 2021
ISU architecture students among winners of national AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition
05/06/21 AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University undergraduate architecture students is among the winners of the seventh annual AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The competition challenges students to use an integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology to design projects that protect…

May 6, 2021
ISU interior design students honored in Metropolis Future 100
04/22/21 AMES, Iowa — Two Iowa State University interior design students have been named to the inaugural Metropolis Future 100 list of the top architecture and interior design graduates of the class of 2021. Sponsored by Metropolis magazine, the Metropolis Future 100 recognizes 50 interior design and 50 architecture students (undergraduate and graduate) nominated by their instructors and mentors for their outstanding leadership, design and advocacy for equity and inclusion.…

April 22, 2021
Memorial to avant-garde dancer Anna Halprin wins inaugural Confluence, Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize
03/11/21 AMES, Iowa — Hossein Entezari, a second-year graduate student in landscape architecture at Iowa State University, won the inaugural Confluence, Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize awarded by the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture. Three other individual students and a two-person team won honorable mention awards in the competition. The studio prize was established by Confluence, Inc. — one of the largest and most-decorated landscape architecture, urban design and…

March 11, 2021
Outpost Office co-founders to present ISU Department of Architecture’s Richard F. Hansen Lecture March 3
02/15/21 AMES, Iowa — Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, co-founders of Columbus, Ohio-based Outpost Office, will present the 2021 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture hosted by the Iowa State University Department of Architecture. Event details and registration Bigham and Herrmann’s virtual lecture, “Working Afield,” will be from 5:30–6:45 p.m. CST Wednesday, March 3, over Zoom. Register in advance to participate in this free online presentation. A confirmation email…

February 15, 2021
Top student work to be showcased in first Confluence Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize competition Feb. 9
02/01/21 AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture will host the inaugural Confluence, Inc. Landscape Architecture Studio Prize juried competition online next week. Event details The public event will be from 3–5 p.m. CST Tuesday, Feb. 9, over Webex. Enter event password 2ksQ2Gc3dm9 if the password does not autofill. About the prize The studio prize was established by Confluence, Inc. — one of the…

February 1, 2021
ISU design students take top honors in virtual Art Directors of Iowa Design Exhibition
10/02/20 AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University students took top honors in the student categories of the 62nd Annual ADAI Design Exhibition sponsored by the Art Directors of Iowa. Held virtually this year, the exhibition and awards competition took place Aug. 28 over Zoom. Of 59 accepted entries by 38 students, more than half — 32 entries by 17 students — were from the ISU College of Design. Iowa…

October 2, 2020