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Monday, March 11, 2024

IDEC Recognizes Dean with National Teaching Excellence Award

The Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) presented Assistant Professor Felicia Dean with the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award at the organization’s annual conference in New York City on Thursday, March 7. The award recognizes an individual…

Monday, February 19, 2024

Interior Architecture’s Teahouse Dedicated to Knoxville Asian Festival

This fall’s 11th annual Knoxville Asian Festival will showcase a portable teahouse created by students in the School of Interior Architecture. The studio, held last fall, blended regional Appalachian design and materials with the traditions…

Professor David Matthews and Knoxville Asian Festival Executive Director Kumi Alderman cut the ribbon on the mobile teahouse.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Saldaña Receives Prestigious Humanities Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a prestigious NEH Fellowship to Marie Saldaña, assistant professor of interior architecture in the College of Architecture and Design. Her book project, provisionally titled “Settled Spaces: Tejano…

The Treviño-Uribe fortified house in San Ygnacio, Texas. Photo by Marie Saldaña , 2016.

Friday, February 9, 2024

Al Borde Partner Joins Interior Architecture Faculty as Visiting Professor

David Barragán (dah-VEED bah-rah-GAHN), co-founder and partner of the Ecuadorian architecture studio Al Borde, joins the School of Interior Architecture this semester as its second visiting professor. Barragán and his colleagues showcase their projects internationally…

Black and white image of David Barragán.

Monday, October 9, 2023

Interior Architecture Students Sweep ASID Tennessee “Joy of Design” Awards

Six projects by students in the School of Interior Architecture garnered top honors at the 2023 American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Tennessee Annual Award Gala “Joy of Design” competition. “Our students are designing incredible…

Milagros Zingoni, center left, with six female students at the ASID Gala.

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Kim Named ASID Ones to Watch Scholar

Hojung Kim, assistant professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School of Interior Architecture, has been recognized as a Ones to Watch scholar by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). The program recognizes rising…

The stage at the American Society of Interior Designers' conference. On the screen, a yellow background features an image of Hojung Kim with his name and title 'Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville'. Hojung poses with a woman for a photo.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Alumnus, IDEO Partner Inspires Graduates at Commencement

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Architecture and Design celebrated more than 160 graduates at two commencement ceremonies this past weekend. This year’s graduating class is comprised of 126 undergraduates and 41 master’s students.…

Monday, January 30, 2023

Faculty Recognized with National Education, Creativity, Diversity Awards

Six faculty members were honored with national ACSA and AIA 2023 Architectural Education Awards in the categories of Diversity Achievement, Housing Design Education and Creative Achievement. Zingoni and Team Receive National Diversity Achievement Award…

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Photo Gallery Fall 2022 Final Reviews

From Nov. 29-Dec. 14, 2022, students presented to faculty and visiting critics their final projects from their fall 2022 studios and offered public presentations of their work. This was a time to celebrate our students’…

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Students Transform Airstream into Mobile Design Lab for Local Children

What’s silver and shiny and rolls down the interstate on its way to great adventure? The logical answer is the iconic Airstream travel trailer. For the School of Interior Architecture, however, the answer is…

lighted inside of renovated Airstream trailer