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CARV Laboratory’s Traveling Road Show Educates and Entertains
It’s showtime at Montgomery’s Johnnie R. Carr Middle School, and ringmaster Eric Wetzel, an Associate Professor BSCI and founder of its CARV Laboratory, has his young audience in the palm of his hand.

Faculty awarded grant to continue Rosenwald school preservation work
A $750,000 grant from the National Park Service (NPS) will allow Auburn faculty members to continue their restoration of the Tankersley Rosenwald School in Hope Hull, Alabama.

Strengthening partnerships to develop affordable housing in Selma
When an EF-2 tornado struck Selma, Alabama, in January 2023, it brought terrible destruction to the city, taking broad swaths of trees and homes and endangering hundreds of historic buildings.

Fifth-annual Auburn CityBuilders symposium coming to Birmingham
Economic fundamentals, continued population growth drives Alabama’s commercial real estate development marketplace.

Urban Studio and DesignAlabama Transforming Alabama Communities
Nearly 30 years ago, a partnership between the Center for Architecture and Urban Studies (Urban Studio) and DesignAlabama (DA) began when Urban Studio Founding Director Frank Setzer, AIA, and Philip Morris brought the organizations together.

BSCI Students Impact Community Through Service
Each semester, students in Auburn’s McWhorter School of Building Science (BSCI) have the opportunity to engage in hands-on work with a community non-profit project under direction of BSCI faculty.

CADC’s Katherine Buck Chastain introduces design to prospective students
Katherine Buck Chastain might know more about Auburn’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) than anyone else.

RURAL STUDIO: Celebrating 30 Years of Rewarding Research
Fall 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Auburn University’s Rural Studio, a unique design-build architecture program located in the small town of Newbern in Hale County.

Alabama Department of Archives and History Debuts Rosenwald Exhibit
The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) has opened a new temporary exhibit, History Lives On: Preserving Alabama’s Rosenwald Schools, at the Museum of Alabama.

Memories of Urban Studio
Urban Studio was founded in 1991 by Associate Professor Franklin Setzer and Dean Dan Bennett as an opportunity for CADC students to gain urban design experience.