Eight students traveled to Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, in February to immerse themselves in the culture of the Haitian community and better understand the context of their studio designs this semester. The group is part of the…
Niklos Toldi, a third-year student in the School of Interior Architecture, was recently awarded first place in the 2018 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship in recognition of his academic excellence, design ability and creative expression. Toldi, a…
We welcome Juhani Pallasmaa, a Finnish architect and author of the book, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, who will present a public lecture on April 9. The lecture will be held…
Students in the School of Landscape Architecture were named winners of a national design competition for Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The competition called for students from accredited schools of landscape architecture to design…
“We should go to Iceland.” That’s what Architecture student Sydney Bittinger told her classmate Lauren Taylor when their professor assigned their class to design a “place of immersion” in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik. The…
Click here for parking, agenda and other details about the Centennial Jubilee of Design Studies at UT on March 24! A century ago on a campus in Knoxville, a design movement started that today…
With the theme “Diversity” and the challenge to re-invent the Pride Center on our campus, students developed a wide variety of design approaches during the annual MAX_min student design competition this month. Some teams designed…
Avigail Sachs is an observer. She studies those aspects of life that are perplexing and perhaps contradictory then ponders how to make sense of them. Many times, these observations become investigations….and sometimes those investigations become…
Four students have been selected to participate in the Normandy Scholars program during the spring 2018 semester. Students in the program will study World War II in a wider context by examining how social, cultural,…
Students in our School of Architecture participated in the Nashville Civic Design Center‘s Urban Design Studio Challenge last semester to design a concept for a wood-framed high-rise multi-use structure in Nashville. On December 4, fourth-year…
