The originality and innovativeness that are applied to the teaching of beginning design students tells a story of commitment and vision about the future of the design disciplines. In our college, our first-year students in…
Architecture Assistant Professor Jennifer Akerman has been named the 2019-2021 James Johnson Dudley Faculty Scholar. Akerman’s research and creative work proposal, Living Architecture: Hybrid Ecologies in the Built Environment, challenges the “virtue of the architect’s…
Congratulations to Robert C. French, our faculty member, friend and colleague, who retired at the end of 2018. We call him “Bob.” There is nothing pretentious about Bob French. One only has to meet him…
The multi-awarded Beardsley Farm Education Center, one of our design/build projects, has earned a regional design award. In June, the project was recognized with an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects Gulf…
HBG Design partnered with the College of Architecture and Design in the HBG Design International Design Competition (INDECOM). HBG Design is a nationally recognized hospitality and entertainment architecture and interior design firm located in Memphis,…
The multi-awarded Beardsley Farm Education Center has earned statewide recognition from the Tennessee American Institute of Architects. The project, a product of the college’s successful design/build program, received the Design Award of Excellence, the organization’s…
The Beardsley Farm Education Center, a collaborative design/build project designed and largely constructed by students and faculty in the college, has earned the 2017 Brick in Architecture Gold Award. This national award recognizes design excellence, resilience…
Two professors of architecture in the College of Architecture and Design earned a national design award for their work leading students and collaborating with community members to develop an education center for Knoxville. Jennifer Akerman…
The College of Architecture and Design—and the work of more than 50 students—were recently recognized by the American Institute of Architects East Tennessee through the 2016 Honor Award for the Beardsley Farm Education Center. The…
The College of Architecture and Design’s design/build program recently was named one of the Top 7 in the country by Study Architecture, a program of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The organization specifically identified the Beardsley…
