Faculty News (11 of 20) | UTK College of Architecture + Design

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Architecture Students Win International Design Competition

Two student teams from our School of Architecture were named winners of an international design competition for a science education facility near San Francisco. The competition, hosted by Architecture at Zero, challenged designers to create…

Monday, April 9, 2018

Students Visit Haiti to Explore Culture Through Design

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…

Students take a selfie with children in Haiti

Monday, February 26, 2018

To Iceland and Back: Architecture Students Spend 48 Hours in Reykjavik

“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…

Bittinger and Taylor in the water at Iceland's silfra fissure

Monday, January 29, 2018

Sachs’s Book Examines the Evolution of a People, Society and Politics

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…

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Students Design Tall Wood Structure for Downtown Nashville

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…

Model of a wood-frame high-rise structure

Friday, October 6, 2017

Interior Architecture’s Liz Teston Named Fulbright Scholar

Liz Teston, an assistant professor and James Johnson Dudley Faculty Scholar in the School of Interior Architecture was named a 2017 Fulbright Scholar. The Core Fulbright Scholar Program is the most widely recognized and prestigious…

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Interior Architecture Undergoes Reaccreditation

Beginning Oct. 20, 2017, the School of Interior Architecture will host a team representing the Council for Interior Design Accreditation for an onsite review toward reaccreditation. In 2011, the school earned a six-year accreditation from…

Friday, September 22, 2017

Goeritz and Hall Guest-Edit Japan A+U 564

Hansjoerg Goeritz, Professor of Architecture, and his professional colleague and a former College of Architecture and Design faculty member, Matt Hall, have together guest-edited the September issue of the renowned international architectural magazine, A+U. The…

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Download the College’s App

The Dean’s Student Advisory Council has updated the Guidebook app to assist students and faculty. The app features a building map with interactive locations to help students pinpoint faculty offices and room locations. The app also allows users…

Friday, September 8, 2017

College Celebrates New Faculty Appointments

Maged Guerguis, Alyssa Kuhns, Andrew Madl, Marshall Prado The College of Architecture and Design celebrates a strengthened era of innovation by announcing the appointment of four distinguished faculty members who champion the college’s legacy of…