The Sustainable Communities Conference will be held on Nov. 30 at the Downtown Lexington Library.
11-16-09
Professor Michael McKay featured on Archinect's new SpaceInvading
11-16-09
JDS Releases New Book: Agenda includes an essay by Dean Michael Speaks.
11-13-09
Read the AIAS interview with Dean Speaks.
11-12-09
The AIAS UK/CoD chapter just returned from the 2009 Fall Midwest Quad Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska.
11-03-09
Lecture Series speaker Kevin Knudson is featured in Business Lexington.
11-03-09
View Dean Speaks' discussion, and others from the Future of Design Conference.
10-28-09
Each month, the CCA invites one scholar to select an object from its
vast collection and write about its significance. This month, CoD professor Wallis Miller
wrote about a photo album of Schinkel Drawings from the 1860s made
for the Schinkel Museum in Berlin.
10-26-09
NOUS presents its first US gallery exhibition, Boys and their Toys, a mixed media exhibition showing the work of emerging architects and designers from around the world. The exhibit opens Oct. 30, 7 p.m. at LOT.
10-22-09
Faculty members Drura Parrish and Rives Rash are featured in the Lexington Herald Leader
10-16-09
In it's first year to participate UK takes ninth place in the Solar Decathlon.
10-16-09
The University of Kentucky SKY BLUE House in USA Today.
10-15-09
Sun Shines Bright on UK's SKY BLUE House.
10-08-09
See live shots of the Solar Decathlon installation on the Washington Mall.
10-05-09
Daan Roosegaarde interviewed at the Idea Festival.
09-25-09
Dean Speaks is a speaker in the Future of Design Conference.
09-24-09
Dean Speaks will jury the Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition.
09-22-09
This past year the College of Design hired ten new world class faculty including an outstanding researcher who will hold the first ever College of Design / College of Engineering joint appointment. More information on all these new hires can be found here.
09-22-09
Daan Roosegaarde installation news.
09-21-09
The River Cities Project on NPR.
09-16-09
The River Cities Project in the Henderson Gleaner.
09-15-09
Solar Decathlon Celebration Reception and VIP tour
October 8, 2009
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
Washington, DC
RSVP with alumni@engr.uky.edu
09-14-09
The Books will perform live at the Miller House, more info here. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Foundation for Advanced Architecture
09-09-09
The River Cities Project makes its television debut on WTVW 7 in Evansville.
09-08-09
View the Solar Decathlon's Washington D.C. schedule.
08-17-09
The College of Design launches its River Cities Project in Henderson, KY.
08-17-09
The Urban Design Studio celebrates its Ten Year Anniversary and Relaunch.
08-17-09
Architecture faculty member Drura Parrish will be leading the international design workshop as part of the Annual Symposium for Architecture and Education at Lund University, Sweden.
08-17-09
Dean Michael Speaks' talk is featured in the Henderson Gleaner.
08-14-09
Dean Michael Speaks will give a lecture at the Henderson Chamber of Commerce in association with the Ohio River Valley Algae Symposium August 12-13 at the Henderson Community College in Henderson, KY. The event, which will explore biofuels, is sponsored by the UK Center for Applied Energy Research.
08-06-09
Restoration of the Miller House, designed by Jose Oubrerie while he was Dean of the UK College of Architecture, is nearing completion.
08-06-09
Chair of the Department of Historic Preservation, Clyde Carpenter discusses the restoration of historic downtown buildings.
07-27-09
Architecture students, Jon McAllister, Donovan Justice, Trevor Kidd, and Madelynn Ringo represented the School of Architecture at the 2009 AIAS Grassroots and Freedom by Design Convention.
07-27-09
School of Architecture Associate Professor, Liz Swanson exhibited a painting in the exhibition LAL @ Loudon.
07-27-09
School of Architecture alumni Rebekah Schaberg, was awarded First Place in the 2009 AWFS Fair student woodworking competition, Fresh Wood.
07-27-09
Associate professor Wallis Miller interviewed an art historian, Juliet Koss, for "Berlin Journal" on NPR Berlin. Her interview begins around forty minutes into the show.
07-08-09
Architecture faculty member Bob Kelly brought students together from the College of Design and the College of Health Sciences Physical Therapy Division to design a walking path.
07-07-09
Architecture faculty member Jeroen van den Hurk published a chapter, "There Once Stood a House in New Amsterdam: A New Look at the Architecture of New Netherland", in the Dutch publication "Amsterdam Nieuw Amsterdam, 1609-2009". The chapter explores the relationship between Amsterdam and New York.
07-07-09
The University of Kentucky will hold a forum on Sustainable Manufacturing on August 7.
07-07-09
Architecture faculty members Michael McKay and Liz Swanson's proposal "Plug + Play" has been selected as one of thirty five finalists for the Grand Concourse Ideas Competition.
07-06-09
Dean Michael Speaks will give a talk in the Design as Research symposium at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, in Dessau, Germany home of Bauhaus.
07-01-09
Architecture graduate student Matthew Bailey redesigns the Kentucky State Capitol's prayer room
06-29-09
The mayor of Guthrie, KY blogs about the history and future of Guthrie, and its involvement with the College of Design.
06-22-09
Faculty member Bob Kelly will be presenting his paper titled "Poetic Making in the Cause of Architecture," at the International Conference on Architecture and Phenomenolgy in Kyoto, Japan, June 26-29.
06-22-09
Free showing of FLOW: For the Love of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the twenty first century. Watch the trailer
Sunday - June 21
Seating at 6 p.m. / Showing at 7:30 p.m.
Natasha's Bar and Grill
06-19-09
Dean Michael Speaks gives a talk at the Louisville Rotary Club.
06-18-09
The Brown Forman Urban Design Studio is featured on Archinect.
06-09-09
JDS Architects feature the 21c exhibition on their blog.
05-29-09
The Brown Forman Chair in Urban Design studio is featured in Louisville's Courier Journal.
05-27-09
The College of Design's Brown Forman Chair in Urban Design studio will exhibit their work in Louisville's Shippingport area at the 21c Museum.
05-18-09
Solar Decathlon featured in Business Lexington and Kentucky Living Magazine
05-18-09
Interior Design graduate Amberlee Kempf was selected as a national finalist for a design competition with Mannington Commercial. Amberlee designed a carpet for the competition which will be on display at NeoCon.
05-13-09
The Design + Energy Intitiatives exhibition featured in Henderson, Kentucky's thegleaner.
05-04-09
See the images and winners of the 2009 Kentuckiana Masonry Institute's Student Design Competition.
05-01-09
Information about the 2009 College of Design Recognition Ceremony can be found here.
04-28-09
The CoD will host an exhibit at LOT on May 8 featuring it's Design + Energy Initiatives.
04-23-09
PSFK reviews the New Orleans art scene and the work of CoD professors Liz Swanson and Mike Mckay.
04-23-09
College of Design students participate in Lexington's Gallery Hop.
04-17-09
Watch a video of Dean Speaks discussing Design Thinking at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
04-14-09
Faculty members Drura Parrish and Rives Rash will host an exhibition of four large scale drawings from New York based studio, Bureau V, at their new gallery, LOT.
04-07-09
Dean Speaks will give a lecture in the University of Illinois at Chicago's Lecture Series on April 20.
04-02-09
The annual Beaux Arts Ball will take place April 4 at the Old Tarr Distillery. Doors open at 8:30 pm.
04-02-09
Dean Speaks will talk about "design thinking" at the Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium 2009 in Weimar, Germany
04-01-09
Julien De Smedt Awarded the Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2009
04-01-09
Architecture professor Karen Lewis heads to the ACSA National Meeting to receive the ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award.
03-26-09
The Kentuckiana Masonry Institue announces it 2009 Student Design Competition.
03-23-09
Lexington developer, Holly Wiedemann, gives old buildings new life.
03-23-09
Two speakers from the Historic Preservation Symposium, Tom Gilmore and Bill Weyland, are featured in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
03-4-09
Architect Paul Preissner will be exhibiting his designs from the CentrePointe Charette at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from March 7-29.
2-20-08
The Brown Forman studio, led by Julien de Smedt (of JDS Architects) and Jason Scroggin (CoD faculty), traveled to Brussels this week for a workshop at JDS Brussels. Read about their visit at the JDS Blog.
2-20-08
Second year Interior Design student Christa Muller has been awarded an academic scholarship from the NEWH.
2-18-08
Interior Design Senior, Jonathon Fox is presenting in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research this spring at the University of Wisconsin.
2-11-08
Assistant Professor in Architecture Karen Lewis, will present her paper, "Data Processing: The Design of Logistics," in the Business, Economics, Knowledge Management stream at the Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices held in Berlin, Germany from 15-17 February.
2-9-08
Associate Professor Wallis Miller, Ph.D., will give a talk called "Before MoMA" at the MoMA/Columbia
University Seminar on "The History of Architecture and Design
Exhibitions and Installations at MoMA".
2-9-08
Historic Preservation faculty Jeroen van den Hurk, Ph.D., will present his paper, "Plan versus Execution: The 'Ideal City' of New Amsterdam. Seventeenth-Century Netherlandic City Planning in North America," at the 62nd Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting.
2-2-08
College of Design architecture student, Madelynn Ringo, to play violin at an event to be attended by President Obama.
2-2-08
Watch the Fall 2008 Lecture Series here.
1-30-08
Please join the College of Design in a celebration of the work and
life of Stephen Deger. A Memorial Service will be held:
- Tuesday, April 14
- 6:00 p.m.
- Center Theater
- Reserved parking in the Student Center parking lot
The memorial service will be followed by a reception in Pence Hall.
1-23-08
The College of Design Student Council (CODsc) is hosting "Wednesday Night Flicks".
1-22-08
Assistant Professor Karen Lewis will be featured on "UK AT THE HALF". It will air at halftime of the Auburn at UK men's basketball game on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at approximately 10 p.m. Stations carrying the live
broadcast include 98.1 FM in Lexington, 630 AM/WLAP in Lexington, 840 AM/WHAS in Louisville.
1-21-08
Share memories of Professor Stephen Deger at the memorial web-page.
1-14-08
View the list of invited jurors for the Fall '08 architecture studio reviews.
12-04-08
Karen Lewis, Assistant Professor of Architecture, has been recognized with the 2008-09 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award.
Each year, the ACSA and AIAS honor faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of their architectural teaching career.
12-01-08
CoD and the College of Agriculture featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education blog.
11-20-08
Council vote could change downtown scene.
11-20-08
College of Design graduate David Frey (class of 1986) has been elected as an Associate Director with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's San Francisco office.
11-19-08
The seventh forum of the Sustainable City Series, ADAPTIVE REUSE, will be held on Thursday, December 4th beginning at 6:00 pm at Glassworks (815 W Market Street, Louisville, KY).
This event is free to the public, however space is limited, so please RSVP.
11-19-08
The School of Interior Design invites the public to view an open house and all school exhibition beginning at noon on Tuesday, November 18 the exhibit will be open until November 25.
Contact Ann Dickson for more information.
11-18-08
Drura Parrish and Rives Rash with College of Design Alumnus Josh Gilpin produced and installed the 5 axis CNC machined polystyrene/polyurethane installation "Kartak Pendik Masterplan, Istanbul" for Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend Gallery on display November 1 - December 13, 2008
11-05-08
College of Design to Create Plan for Todd County
Todd County, Ky. has asked the College of Design to provide a comprehensive plan for the future outlook of their rural community. Graduate student Matthew Bailey, a native of Guthrie, will be managing the project under the direction of Dean Michael Speaks and Clyde Carpenter, chair of the Department of Historic Preservation.
10-27-08
Michael Speaks is on the jury for a new publication, [bracket]
documents issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet.
10-27-08
View the School of Interior Design Peace Gallery Design/Build Project. The project was conducted by third year Interior Design students spring semester and summer of 2008.
10-24-08
CoD faculty member Michael Spencer's grant proposal, "Applying Infrared Thermography for the Purpose of Identifying Concealed Wood Framing Member Type and Subsurface Anomalies with Intended Application Towards Historic Structures" has been accepted by the
National Center for Preservation Technology & Training.
10-23-08
Michael Speaks appointed to Governor Steve Beshear's High Performance Buildings Advisory Committee.
10-22-08
Karen Lewis, Assistant Professor of Architecture, will present "Stock Exchange" at the conference Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World
10-17-08
CoD Lecture Series Poster featured in Archinect
10-13-08
CoD faculty member Karen Lewis' research, "Yellowtown: The Graphic Design of Urgency, the Aesthetics of Poverty" has recently been published in MULTI: the Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design.
10-13-08
The CoD Fall Film Series
10-09-08
Michael Speaks to give a Brown Bag Lecture at the Blue Grass Trust
9-30-08
The lecture will take place at noon, October 14 at the Hunt-Morgan House in Lexington.
The Berlin Studio Blog, Architex
9-25-08
Architex documents the work and experience of interior design and architecture students enrolled in the 2008 Berlin Studio.
Interior Design graduate Deborah Drury has been awarded first place in two ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) design competition categories: The Mary Louise Schum award for Commercial Retail Design and the The Steven Ely Award.
9-24-08
Clyde Carpenter, Clay Lancaster Endowed Professor in Historic Preservation and Chair of the Department of Historic Preservation, has been appointed by Kentucky governor Steven Beshear to serve as a member of the Historic Properties Advisory Commission.
9-22-08
Michael Speaks interviewed at Ball State University
9-22-08
Kevin Klinger, Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication at Ball State University interviews Michael Speaks. Click the events+media link, then go to podcasts.
Matters of Sensation
9-17-08
Faculty members Drura Parrish and Rives Rash have recently produced two pieces for "Matters of Sensation," a forthcoming exhibit at Artists Space in New York City curated by Los Angeles architects Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich. "Klex," a 5 axis machined wall prototype for New York based RuyKlein, and "Pitch Black," vacuum metalized stereolithography on alumninum legs for LA based Xefirotarch, will be on display from September 25 to November 22. For more information see the enclosed link.
Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House falls prey to Mother Nature
9-17-08
Historic Preservation faculty and students in the Cynthiana Democrat Newspaper
9-16-08
CoD takes first, second, and third place in the IWF Student Design Competition
9-02-08
Daniel Thornberry took first place, Joseph Bischoff won second, and Paul Masterson was honored with third place.
Bike Lanes to be added to University Drive
8-28-08
Idea Festival
8-20-08
The IdeaFestival is a world-class event that attracts leading and highly diverse thinkers from across the nation and around the globe to explore and celebrate innovation, imagination and cutting-edge ideas.
Bjarke Ingels to speak at the Idea Festival
8-20-08
Bjarke Ingels is principal of BIG/ Bjarke Ingels Group, a Copenhagen-based architecture firm considered by many to be among the most important emerging architecture offices in the world.
2008 AIA-CKC House Tour
8-19-08
This year's AIA-CKC House Tour to benefit Habitat for Humanity will take place Sunday, September 7, 2008 between the hours of 1:00 and 6:00 PM, in Louisville.
CoD in Metropolis Magazine
8-13-08
Greg Luhan's Design/Build Studio's LEED certified home is featured in Metropolis.
Solar Decathlon / Smart Blues
8-13-08
The university's SMART BLUES team will design, fabricate, construct, and operate a solar-powered home as part of a solar village on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2009.
Idea Kentucky
8-11-08
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in Louisville, an important and provocative discussion surrounding the nature and need for transformative ideas to dramatically enhance Kentucky's competitiveness, quality of life and creative capacity--fast.
Resonance House LEED Silver Certified
8-11-08
Resonance House is the first and only Kentucky home to be certified by the USGBC to date.
The Fayette Alliance7-27-08
The Fayette Alliance has helped organize and understand opposition to the CentrePoint Tower development.
CenterPoint Editorial by Tom Eblen
7-23-08
Visit Tom Eblen's Blog for more conversations about the Dame Block and CentrePoint Tower.
CoD Student Wins AIAS Prize
2-27-08
Michael Speaks Named UK College of Design Dean
1-30-08