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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, April 9, 2018

Interior Architecture Student Earns First Place in National Design Scholarship, Internship

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…

Niklos Toldi with a pinup of his project

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Finnish Architect, Author Juhani Pallasmaa in Public Lecture April 9; College-Only Dialogue April 10

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…

A sculpture of stairs by Juhani Pallasmaa

Friday, March 23, 2018

Landscape Architecture Students Win National Design Competition

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…

Three students stand outside of the Art + Architecture Building

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

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Celebrate a Century of Design at UT on March 24

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…

Monday, February 5, 2018

Artist Lecture: Carrie Shaw

Note: This story first appeared on the School of Art's website. Thursday, February 15, 7:30–8:30 p.m. room 109, Art + Architecture Building Carrie Shaw, a medical illustrator and health educator, is passionate about the intersection between…

Monday, January 29, 2018

MAX_min 2018 Addresses Diversity through Design

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…

Students, jurors at MAX_min announcement

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…

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

School of Art, Graphic Design Host 17th Annual High School Arts Academy

Note: This story first appeared on the School of Art's website. Open to all high school students in Tennessee, the 2018 High School Arts Academy is full-day, comprehensive workshop experience at the University of Tennessee…