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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Winter 2020 Externships: Experience and Explore 

While some students use winter break as a time to catch up on sleep, reconnect with friends and family or enjoy holiday food, Landscape Architecture students spent their 2019-2020 break networking with professionals and increasing…
group of young professionals at table
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Tennessee RiverLine 2020 Summit Convenes Partners, Exhibits Student Work, Plans for Future 

The fourth annual Tennessee RiverLine Summit convened members of the Tennessee RiverLine Partnership, Pilot Community partners, UT officials as well as other key project stakeholders in January. The summit gave partners time to reflect on…
Tennessee RiverLine student exhibit 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020

Bittinger Chosen as Winner of Holiday Design Competition 

Congratulations to Sydney Bittinger, a 5th-year student in Architecture, who was chosen as the winner of the college’s 2020 holiday message student design competition. Bittinger’s design is a topographical representation that encompasses her approach to…
Sydney Bittinger _ student headshot
Friday, January 24, 2020

Squire Named 2020 BarberMcMurry Endowed Professor 

The College of Architecture and Design has named Mitchell Squire, an artist and educator whose practice encompasses architecture, visual art and the study of material culture, as its 2020 BarberMcMurry Endowed Professor. Squire is a…
Mitchell Squire headshot
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

College Releases 2019 Annual Report 

We thought we had momentum in 2018. Then 2019 happened. The momentum we experienced in 2019 was beyond amazing. We grew to our largest ever; we received more applications than ever; our financial support grew;…
Group shot in atrium of students, faculty, staff
Monday, January 13, 2020

Architecture Fellows Install at Oslo Triennale 

Architecture Fellows Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann were selected to participate in the Oslo Architecture Triennale in Norway in fall 2019.  The triennale is the Nordic region’s largest architecture festival and focuses on architectural and…
Red draped fabric with Schumann
Thursday, January 9, 2020

DeKay Named Guest Co-editor of Sustainability Journal 

Professor Mark DeKay has been named a guest co-editor of a special issue of Sustainability, an international open-source, research-focused journal.  DeKay will share the editing role with Prof. Rob Fleming, Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Focused…
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Architecture Students’ Sustainable Designs Recognized 

  In December, students were recognized by two organizations for their designs during fall 2019. The American Institute of Architects Middle Tennessee Student Design Award and Brewer Ingram Fuller Sustainable Design Award were presented on…
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Students Design Future Workplaces with Technology, Human-Centered Design 

During fall 2019, Interior Architecture Assistant Professor Rana Abudayyeh and Adjunct Assistant Professor Hochung Kim encouraged their studios to explore workplaces of the future.  They started with a trip to California in September to research…
Amazon Prime air fulfillment center designed by Lauren Podraza
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Sachs, Dodds Receive Regional Awards for Professional Writings 

Two professors of Architecture earned publication awards from the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Avigail Sachs, Associate Professor, received the 2019 Award for Excellence from the SESAH for her book, Environmental Design:…

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