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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Landscape Architecture Studio Investigates Redevelopment in Cleveland, TN

The Landscape Architecture Program continued its tradition of community-engaged studio work this fall by partnering with the City of Cleveland, Tennessee, to craft redevelopment visions for an 850-acre study area adjacent to downtown. The student…

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

UT Groups Use Research, Heart to Improve Appalachian Region

UT students and professors from various disciplines are working together to make an Appalachian community a safer and healthier place to live—and serve as a model to help other communities like it. Clay County, Kentucky,…

Monday, September 29, 2014

Cross-Disciplinary Efforts Land New Norris House National Research Award

The New Norris House, a sustainable home and landscape designed by UT students and faculty has earned a national Honor Award for Research from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The American Society of Landscape…

Thursday, August 28, 2014

President of the American Society of Landscape Architects Mark A. Focht to Lecture

Mark A. Focht, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects and first deputy commissioner of parks and facilities for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will lecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on Wednesday,…

Monday, August 11, 2014

UT Architecture and Design Kicks Off Fall Lecture Series

The celebrated Robert B. Church III Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, kicks off the 2014 academic year this month with a dynamic lineup of internationally recognized architects and designers. The lecture…

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Urban Design Leader Philip Enquist of SOM Named UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair

Philip Enquist, partner in charge of urban design and planning and leader of the City Design Practice at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, has been named the sixteenth UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair. Skidmore, Owings,…

Monday, July 14, 2014

Jason Young Begins Appointment as New Director of School of Architecture

Jason Young has been named the new director of the School of Architecture of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He becomes acting director on August 1. Young, a researcher specializing in contemporary conditions of American…

Friday, June 20, 2014

Sam Rogers Named Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects

Sam Rogers, a recently retired faculty member of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Landscape Architecture Program, has been elevated as one of thirty-two members named to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows…

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Professor Mark DeKay Named UT Quest Scholar of the Week

Mark DeKay, associate professor of architecture, recently published the third edition of Sun, Wind & Light, Architectural Design Strategies. The book, already a classic of sustainable design education and practice, is now a design resource making accessible to…

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Design-Build Projects by UT Faculty, Students Continue in Haiti

Students and faculty from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design went to Haiti this May to continue work on design-build projects, including a guidebook that will address the urgent need for…