Graduates of the UK College of Design find positions in some of the most prestigious firms around the country and the globe. Additionally, our graduates own successful firms, design-build studios, and software companies.
Our graduates receive numerous design prizes, and their work is frequently featured in magazines and on television. One former student worker from the College even received an Oscar® for digital special effects!
NEWS:
04-29-08: Katie Zurlage (class of 2007) is working as an intern at Brandstetter Carroll Inc. in Lexington, KY. She has recently been certified as a LEED AP.
03-14-08: Christopher Morehead (class of 1997) started his own firm called Elements Architecture. The firm employs over 8 staff members including structural engineers. The firm is participating in Mixed use projects and has the first registered LEED project in Costa Rica. They are also participating in Holcim award, a competition for sustainable projects throughout the world. Elements Architecture currently has over 10 active projects in Costa Rica and have finished several in the last few years.
03-05-08: Architecture alumni Daniel Kinkead has been named associate with Hamilton Anderson Associates (HAA)
02-15-08: Vanessa Zeoli (class of 2007) has relocated to Central Jersey as of mid December. She accepted a position as architectural historian with Cultural Resource Consulting Group. CRCG is a CRM firm specializing in historic preservation and archaeology and is involved with a huge spectrum of projects. CRCG also advocates for historic resources and educates non-preservation minded people.
02-15-08: Carrie Naas has taken a job with the Historic Charleston Foundation as the manager of the Aiken Rhett House.
02-11-08: Architecture alumni Paul Stovesand and Rebecca Cox have been selected as finalists for the $99K House International Design Competition sponsored by the Rice Design Alliance and the AIA Houston Chapter. Five projects were selected from 182 entrants proposing a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of a low-income family in the Gulf Coast region. Finalists each receive a $5,000 award and the competition will move forward to Stage II. These entrants were chosen from a field representing 29 U.S states and 16 countries. Both Stovesand and Cox are employees of Perkins Will in Chicago.
01-04-08: Kari Emmons, CWFD (class of 2005) is now co-owner of V2K Window Décor & More on West Main Street in downtown Lexington.
09-28-07: Karen Hickey, Class of 1997 UK Interior Design alumnus, lives in Los Angeles and is director of a non-profit organization named Nest Feathers.
"We are a group in volunteer interior designers and project managers who decorate and furnish shelters who serve at risk individuals and families through donated time, skills and products. The UKID department instilled in me the impact the environment plays on the psyche. Nest Feathers tries to take this concept a step further by using this concept to reach environments that are not usually pleasant."
09-27-07: Three recent University of Kentucky graduates received second place honors in Columbus Re-Wired, an urban design ideas competition focused on downtown Columbus, Ohio. The UK team receiving recognition was comprised of Yu Fan Cheung, Matthew Storrie and Brian Buckner, who graduated with architecture degrees from the UK College of Design in May 2007. Read more here.
04-20-07: Michael Spencer, alumnus of the UK Department of Historic Preservation, is featured in an article titled "Seeing is Believing: Thermography Aids Historic Preservation" in the Spring 2007 edition of Kentucky Alumni Magazine.
04-06-07: Joshua R. Ives became a licensed/registered architect in the State of Kentucky on 3/22/07. Congratulations, Josh!
03-20-07: Architecture alumnus Marty Summers of Morphosis helped teach a course at the University of Southern California past fall, which was selected as a prize winner for the 2007 NCARB awards. The school combined a group of 1 hour (credit) seminars into a course combining focused research with specific areas taught by outside professionals. One class about space living featured Buzz Aldrin as a teacher. An acoustics class was taught by the acoustician for the USC concert hall. Summers, along with Marty Doscher ("morph IT guy and all around genius") taught a rapid prototyping class, which introduced students to the process used at the Morphosis offices. Summers expressed his appreciation for all the teachers at UK who influenced him.
03-09-07: Architecture alumnus Scott Clowney is serving as a Visiting Critic at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning in Washington, DC.
12-20-06: GBBN Architects hired recent architecture grad, Yufan Cheung, to work in their Cincinnati/Beijing offices.