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Oct 5th, 2017
College of Architecture, Design and Construction Programs Ranked among Nation’s Best
Stephanie Bond
Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction programs continue to be ranked among the nation’s best by DesignIntelligence Quarterly in its annual “American Best Architecture and Design Schools 2017-2018.” The ran (...)
Oct 5th, 2017
The Future in Innovation: The Story of Jerry Gillman
Latha Bhavnani
Devastation caused to the built environment by hurricanes (such as Harvey and Irma recently), tornados and severe storms have long inspired manufacturers in the construction industry to improve and develop technology and building materials that can wit (...)
Sep 17th, 2017
Poetry Broadsides Series wins UCDA Award of Excellence
Robert Finkel and his team of graphic designers have once again been recognized for their Third Thursday Poetry Broadside Series created for the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The series received an Award of Excellence in the In-House Print cat (...)
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Sep 17th, 2017
Alabama Workshop[s] Toolkit Selected for Communication Arts Magazine Design Annual
Alabama Workshop[s] Toolkit created by Robert Finkel, Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Industrial + Graphic Design, and Sheri Schumacher, Associate Professor Emerita in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architectu (...)
Sep 3rd, 2017
APLA’s Urban Studio Provides Exciting Experience for Third-Year Architecture Students
During the Fall 2016 semester, four third-year architecture students joined Auburn University’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama, where they teamed with fifth-year students to learn about urban design, working on group and individual design pr (...)
Sep 3rd, 2017
CADC Welcomes the futures studio
The College of Architecture, Design and Construction will soon welcome a new academic initiative—an innovation studio—in Mobile, Alabama. Beginning as a field studies program, The School of Industrial + Graphic Design’s futures studio (...)
Aug 31st, 2017
Design in Denmark
Morgan Smothers
This summer, seven Environmental Design and Architecture students traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, under the supervision of Program Chair Magdalena Gar (...)
Aug 27th, 2017
Industrial Design Student’s Sneaker Design Puts Him on a Winning Path
Stephanie Bond
Auburn industrial design student Blake Scordino has a passion for sneaker design. Pensole Footwear Design Academy is looking for the next generation of sneaker designers through master class competitions. Scordino’s winning sneaker design, &ldquo (...)
Aug 22nd, 2017
Nequette Architecture & Design wins National Award
Birmingham-based Nequette Architecture & Design has won a national award for their design of a Little Cahaba River house. They received the award for New Design and Construction in the less than 5,000 square feet category from the 16th annual Palla (...)
Aug 22nd, 2017
Future CADC Service Learning Projects in Haiti
Karen Rogers and Morgan Smothers
In April of this year, a team from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction took a trip to the Hope Center in Thoman, Haiti. The group included the college Dean Vini Nathan, School of Industrial and Graphic Design School Head Clark Lundell, (...)
Aug 4th, 2017
Building Construction Campers Think Small
Latha Bhavnani, Stephanie Bond
Tiny, in fact. This summer nearly 30 rising eleventh and twelfth grade students began construction on a tiny house on wheels during Building Construction Camp
Aug 3rd, 2017
Spotlight on INDD Alum Don Keller
Stephanie Bond
Auburn Industrial Design alumnus Don Keller and his exhibit design and construction company, Blue Sky Exhibits, have had a very good. Year. Blue Sky Exhibits was recently recognized with the 2017 Small Business of the Year Award by the (...)
Aug 3rd, 2017
Packaging Fit for a Queen
Auburn Graphic Design student Amy Denny found inspiration for her packaging project from none other than Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. She created her Windsor Chocolates in Professor Robert Finkel’s spring 2017 Intro to Design class. “At the end of the (...)
Jul 31st, 2017
Bennett Receives President’s Medal for Distinguished Service from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board
Stephanie Bond
Daniel D. Bennett, FAIA, Professor and Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction, was awarded the President’s Medal for Distinguished Service, the National Council of Architectural Registration Board’s highest ho (...)
Jul 31st, 2017
Charlene LeBleu Honored at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference
Stephanie Bond
Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor and Interim Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, has woven outreach and service learning into her teaching and scholarship throughout her academic career. She has used her experti (...)
Jul 25th, 2017
Industrial Design Students Recreate Chair Project from 1976
Morgan Smothers
Professor Randy Bartlett found inspiration for his summer studio class and Café Chair Workshop of Third and Fourth year design students in a very unlikely place. It was a photo in a magazine from 1976 of prototype chairs, designed by industrial (...)
Jul 25th, 2017
Nakhjavan Invited to Exhibit Work at International Conference
Nicole Truitt
Prof. and Chair of the Architecture program in the School or Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Behzad Nakhjavan, had twenty-one original charcoal drawings exhibited at the international "Arts in Society" conference at the Ame (...)
Jun 28th, 2017
Courtney Hurst-Windham—An Educator to Watch!
Stephanie Bond
If you’re going to do it, do it big and on the cover. That’s “Educator to Watch” Courtney Hurst-Windham – the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s graphic design rock star.
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Jun 28th, 2017
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg Awarded Prestigious Graham Foundation Grant
Stephanie Bond
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg’s research project, “Samuel Mockbee: Art and Architecture Representation and Vision,” has been awarded a prestigious News Details