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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.
Th (...)
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
Jun 28th, 2017
Auburn Architecture Program Granted Eight-Year Term of Accreditation
The Bachelor of Architecture degree program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction has been granted an eight-year term of accreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. The term is effective January 1, 2017.
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Jun 25th, 2017
Meyer Davis Wins 2017 James Beard Design Award for Best Restaurant Design
Adding to their considerable list of awards and accolades, Meyer Davis received the 2017 James Beard Design Award for Best Restaurant Design (76 seats and over) for
Jun 25th, 2017
Cheryl Morgan Wins Alabama Governor’s Arts Award
On May 24, the Alabama State Council on the Arts honored former Auburn University Urban Studio Director, Cheryl Morgan, with the Governor’ (...)
Jun 11th, 2017
Krumdieck Named Director of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Urban Studio
Vini Nathan, Dean and McWhorter Endowed Chair in the College of Architecture Design and Construction, is pleased to announce that Alex Krumdieck has been named Associate Clinical Professor of Practice and Director of the Urban Studio in Birmingham, AL (...)
Jun 11th, 2017
Industrial Design Students Design and Build a Conference Table for Cater Hall
It’s a one-of-kind conference table. Not only is it designed specifically for the Cater Hall Conference Room, it’s also designed with materials from Cater Hall itself.
“I wanted to somehow capture the historic n (...)
Jun 11th, 2017
Christian Dagg Named Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture welcomes Christian Dagg as the new school head this fall. Dean Vini Nathan is pleased to announce that Dagg will serve a three-year term beginning August 16, 2017. “Christian brings (...)
May 28th, 2017
Industrial Design Hosts Third Annual Automotive Design Workshop
What makes a Buick a Buick or a Mercedes a Mercedes? Brand DNA is one of the things that students learned from one of the top automobile designers in the world, Boris Fabris, designer of the SP1 Ferrari. Fabris held an Automotive Design Workshop in Sch (...)