Research News (8 of 13) | UTK College of Architecture + Design

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Clarksville Redevelopment Project Sparked by Students’ Proposal Opens to Community

Six years after a request to study and design redevelopment projects for downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, one of the projects sparked by Architecture and Interior Architecture students now is open for the community to enjoy. On…

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…

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Sayegh Awarded Dream of Studying Architecture Around the World

Cullen Sayegh, a 4th-year Architecture student, was chosen as the 2018 Aydelott Travel Award recipient for his proposal, “Architecture as Infrastructure: Investigating Spatial Networks.” Now in its third year, the Aydelott Travel Award was established…

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…

Friday, January 12, 2018

Students Chosen as Normandy Scholars

Four students have been selected to participate in the Normandy Scholars program during the spring 2018 semester. Students in the program will study World War II in a wider context by examining how social, cultural,…

Black and white image of Normandy Invasion

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Students Intern at NCDC, Engage with Community, Work with Next Generation

Natalie McCarthy and Fernando Turpin worked with these and other high school students during their summer internship with Nashville Civic Design Center. Natalie McCarthy and Fernando Turpin, second-year Master of Landscape Architecture students, spent the…

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Watershed Symposium Features Tennessee River Studio Students, Faculty

The 6th Annual Watershed Symposium brought together local and regional agency and industry experts, educators and students to discuss challenges to the Tennessee River Watershed and featured a charrette led by students and faculty from…

A group of people gathered around a table with a model of the watershed.

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…