UK/CoD is now accepting applications for the 2013 Summer Career Discovery Program. SCDP is an intensive, two week course that focuses on the foundations of architecture and interior design. The program is open to rising high school sophomores and juniors. Click here for more information about the program and the application.
UK/CoD is hosting a reception for alumni and friends during the 2013 AIA National Convention in Denver.
The reception will be held in the Corner Office of the Oval Office Room at 1401 Curtis Street.
DIRRT and The UK/CoD School of Interior Design are hosting a reception for friends and alumni at Green Learning Center in Chicago. All are invited to stop by and meet with faculty, fellow alumni, and the new Director of the School of Interior Design, Dr. Patrick Lee Lucas.
Join the College in wishing graduates and Dean Speaks well in their new ventures.
The reception will take place at the LOT Gallery on Sunday, May 5, 1-3pm, and features the same work from that will be on display during the End of Year Show. Drinks and hos d'oeuvres will be served.
On Sunday, May 5, 2013 the University of Kentucky will hold its May Commencement Ceremonies to honor graduating students and their academic accomplishments.
The College of Design is proud to hold its fourth annual End of Year Student Show, a presentation of student work. This year’s show will display the innovative research, design and partnerships taking place at the CoD through the work of the most noteworthy studios.
UK/CoD will be conducting a workshop on Saturday, April 27th, from 2pm to 4pm with Magnus Lindqvist of Glint Studios. Magnus will be presenting techniques and best practices for students to understand the process of documenting their models and what a professional looks at when setting up, lighting, shooting, and editing the images.
The second-year students in the University of Kentucky School of Interior Design Retail Studio will host an exhibition of their proposed designs next Friday, April 19 from 5-8pm at their site location, 126 Broadway in Lexington, KY.
A Geography of Small Spaces
The geography of small spaces -ordinary and vital -constitutes the fabric of our cities, but remains beyond our analytic grasp. We need a new language of urban materiality to speak of these spaces, a language that heeds the ephemeral, contingent, and performative characteristics of these spaces, the same characteristics that also elude “mapping.” Dr. Chattopadhyay will focus on those spaces that are easily overlooked in urban analysis, from the residence to the street, utilizing the historical transformation of Indian cities as an entrée into the question of materiality and mapping spaces.
Swati Chattopadhyay is department chair of the History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. She is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory.
On Friday, April 12, UK/CoD is hosting two events to benefit both Architecture and Interior Design students.
At 10 am in the Peace Gallery in Funkhouser, Marie Aiello of MADS will lecture. Read more about Marie and her design firm here.
At 11 am in Pence 207, Paul Boardman will lead a discussion entitled "Architecture and Entrepreneurialism". Read more about Paul here.
Both events are open to all students.
The culmination of designed environments is a collaboration between varying professional disciplines and related industries. Industry Connections will feature a dialogue between three design industry manufacturing partners who will share and discuss how they work with designers to bring a project to reality and career opportunities available to design graduates in the manufacturing industry. Panelist include:
Former University of Kentucky College of Architecture Dean Jose Oubrerie will lecture at the Downtown Arts Center on April 5, 2013.
The Historic Preservation Graduate Organization is hosting its 7th annual Historic Preservation Symposium, titled "Preservation = Jobs". This symposium will draw attention to the ways in which historic preservation leads to job creation, focusing on economic revitalization, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship, and the building trades.
The symposium will be held at the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning, 251 West 2nd Street, Lexington. Parking is available on the street.
The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Kentucky College of Design, and University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, are hosting the Possible Mediums conference in Columbus, Ohio February 7th - 10th.
The University of Kentucky College of Design is hosting a design symposium in conjunction with Lexington's Downtown Development Authority's Town Branch Commons Design Competition.
Jack Weber is a registered interior designer and partner at Gresham Smith and Partners specializing in design, research and consulting for the corporate workplace. He spends most of the time as a design principal and workplace strategist, bringing over 27 years of experience at creating value for businesses through the design of innovative, inspirational work environments that reflect the clients organizational culture and vision.
The University of Kentucky College of Design is hosting an Open House for graduate students interested in the field of Historic Preservation.
On Friday, December 14, 2012, the University of Kentucky will hold its December commencement ceremonies. August 2012 and December 2012 College of Design graduates are invited to attend the ceremony for their degree level.
All New England-area UK/CoD alumni are invited to a reception in New York City. The reception will take place from 5-7pm in the Living Room Lounge in the W Hotel in Union Square.
No RSVP necessary.
The third-year students in the University of Kentucky School of Interior Design will host an exhibition of their proposed designs for an arts center and performance venue in Harlan County on December 13 from 5-8pm at Awesome, Inc. in Lexington, KY.
In the last two years, students in the Historic Preservation Studio at the University of Kentucky have worked in the historic cities of Northern Kentucky and in Georgetown. They have developed proposals for regional heritage trails, documented neglected neighborhoods, and explored the relationship between preservation, the arts and economic development. They are currently working to populate an iPhone app that will allow the public to experience the state's historic Main Street communities in a new way.
Yuval Yasky is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and co-curator of the exhibition "Kibbutz: Architecture Without Precedents" at the Israeli Pavilion in the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2011.
On Friday, November 16 at 12:00 p.m. in 205 Pence Hall, Education Abroad will be hosting an information session on the UK Sponsored "Exploring World Heritage in Guatemala" program.
Established in 2002, Matthew Carter Interiors has become one of the region's most respected names in interior design. Known for his clean and livable approach to traditional interiors, Matt strives to integrate his passion for timeless, comfortable houses for each client.
Every project reflects a diverse range of styles, serving the needs of each client with special attention paid to the architecture and surroundings. Recent and current projects are from east to west coast and include residences in Kentucky, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, South Carolina, Colorado, Napa Valley and San Francisco, California and Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
Named one of America's Top Young Designers by House Beautiful Magazine, Matt's work appeared again in the magazine in 2005. Other publications include Kentucky Homes and Gardens and Keeneland Magazine.
The University of Kentucky College of Design will hold two Open Houses for individuals interested in learning more about the School of Interior Design:
Friday, November 9, 2012
Please RSVP for the Open House here
Starting Point for all Events is in the Peace Gallery, Funkhouser Building.
Itinerary
9:00 - 9:15 / Registration
9:15 - 10:00 / Welcome / Admissions and Financial Aid Information
10:00 - 11:30 / Campus Tour
11:30 - 12:15 / Lunch with ID faculty & students, Funkhouser 103
12:15 - 1:00 / School of Interior Design Presentation
1:00 - 1:45 / Studio tours
2:00 - 4:00 - Design Chat, Pence Hall 209
Find information about parking on campus here.
The University of Kentucky College of Design will hold an Open House for individuals interested in learning more about the undergraduate and graduate architecture programs on Friday, October 12, 2012.
RSVP for the Undergraduate Open House
RSVP for the Graduate Open House
Undergraduate Itinerary
The program begins in King Alumni House
8:30 - 9:00 / Registration
9:00 - 9:30 / Welcome and Program Overview
9:45 - 11:00 / Admissions and Financial Aid
11:00 - 12:00 / Lunch / Alumni House
12:00 - 12:30 / Tours of Pence Hall Fabrication and Computer Labs
12:40 - 1:15 / Wrap-up (Question and Answer Session)
Graduate Itinerary
The program begins in Pence Hall - First Floor
1:30 - 2:00 / Registration / Pence Hall
2:00 – 2:15 / Welcome and Program Overview - 209 Pence Hall
2:15 - 3:00 / Graduate Program and Admissions
3:00 - 3:20 / Tour of Pence Hall and Digital Fabrication Facilities (optional)
3:15 - 3:50 / Social Hour and Pizza
4:00 - 5:00 / Discussion with Neil Denari, Jeanne Gang, and Roberto De Leon
at the Downtown Lexington Public Library, 140 East Main Street
For information about parking on campus click here.
Design Adds Value from UK/CoD on Vimeo.
On Friday, October 12, the University of Kentucky College of Design will host a public discussion entitled “Design Adds Value,” featuring Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, Neil Denari of NDMA, and Roberto de Leon of de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop as special guests.
During the discussion, which will be moderated by the Dean of the College of Design, Michael Speaks, the three architects will discuss the economic, social and physical value design adds to a community. Citing specific examples, the dialogue will include current issues facing the City of Lexington and the downtown community.
This panel is part of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a two-day event hosted by the College of Design in conjunction with the National Endowment of the Arts. The conference serves to bring together mayors from all over the eastern United States to discuss and plan projects for their cities with input from prominent designers, architects, and city planners.
The discussion will take place on Friday, October 12 at 4pm in the theater of the downtown Lexington Public Library. This event is free and open to the public.
Daan Roggeveen from UK/CoD on Vimeo.
Daan Roggeveen of the Go West Project will give a lecture on Friday, October 5 at 5pm in Pence 209.
Go West Project is a multidisciplinary research and design studio that studies emerging megacities and uses that knowledge for urban design. We have a deep interest in urban cultures and want to understand and contribute to them through research, architecture and media.
Go West works in an international network of writers, designers, architects, researchers and journalists and has offices in Shanghai and Amsterdam. Clients of Go West include governments such as the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, organisations such as the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Biennale, venues like the Gopher Hole Gallery in London and the Amsterdam City Theatre, and knowledge institutes such as the Hong Kong University in Shanghai and the Delft University of Technology.
Presented in conjuction with the Confucius Institute.
Ed Cave, President of Veenendaalcave, Inc, an Atlanta-based interior design firm that provides interior planning and design services to corporate and healthcare clients, will be participating in a Design Chat on October 5 in Pence Hall.
Mr. Cave focused his studies in interior design, architecture, and graphic design at the University of Kentucky. As an interior designer in Atlanta since 1980, he has experienced a vast array of project sizes and types throughout the southeast. Mr. Cave has served on various board including Midtown Alliance, the Georgia chapter of NAIOP, and the Atlanta Commerical Board of Realtors. He sits on the Interior Design Council at the University of Kentucky as well as SCAD Atlanta. His collection of European sports cars and passion for travel serve as his primary diversions from the corporate world. He and his wife Jeannie, Vice President of Real Estate for Aaron's Inc, reside in Atlanta.
http://www.vcave.com/vchc/vc.html
On September 22, the College of Design will host a day-long symposium entitled "Design Research: Four Examples from Scandinavia". Guests from design firms and universities in Sweden, Norway, and Finland will discuss with CoD faculty the implications of pursuing design as research in both public and private contexts.
This event, open only to CoD faculty and invited guests, explores the transition from designs based on the creative process to those catalyzed by research methods.
The UK College of Design will be hosting an alumni reception at NEOCON this year as part of the 40th Anniversary Celebration for the School of Interior Design. The reception will take place in the Haworth Showroom at 312 Merchandise Mart at 5:30 pm and going until 7:30 pm. Drinks and light appetizers will be served.
The College of Design will be hosting an alumni reception at the AIA National Convention on May 17 from 6 to 8 pm in the Old Dominion Brewhouse. Drinks and light appetizers will be served for all guests. The Brewhouse is located in the same building as the convention center.
The School of Interior Design gladly welcomes you to join us in the opening of The Interior Design Student Exhibition. An official reception will occur on May 6 from 3:00- 4:00pm in Peace Gallery. This semester, Interior Design students responded to the President's a plan to dramatically transform the UK campus, with particular attention to actions that will enhance undergraduate education and improve facilities on the nearly 150-year-old campus. The results of this effort will be displayed in a student show throughout the summer. For more details, please contact Rebekah.Ison@uky.edu
On Sunday, May 6, 2012 the University of Kentucky will hold its May Commencement Ceremonies to honor graduating students and their academic accomplishments.
The Graduate and Professional Commencement Ceremony will be held in Rupp Arena at 9:00 a.m. The Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony for College of Design graduating students will be held in Rupp Arena at 6:00 p.m. Participating students are asked to arrive one hour before their scheduled ceremony time in order to check-in, line-up and receive instructions.
Those confirming attendance on the University of Kentucky Commencement Registration page by the deadline date will have their name announced and displayed on the screen during the ceremony. The deadline to apply is April 18.
There are no tickets required for admission to the ceremonies, but graduating students must complete the appropriate online registration form on the University Commencement website.
The University of Kentucky College of Design will host a special reception for this year’s CoD graduates. It will take place on May 6 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery located at 527 E. Third St., Lexington, Ky. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
We look forward to celebrating this day, and offer our congratulations to the graduates of 2012. If you have any questions or concerns, please visit the University of Kentucky Commencement FAQs page or contact the Dean’s office.
The College of Design is proud to hold its third annual End of Year Student Show, a presentation of student work. This year’s show will display the innovative research, design and partnerships taking place at the CoD through the work of the most noteworthy studios and the return of the taco truck.
Studios presented in the show are revolutionizing design solutions for problems experienced on a global level and within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Some studios to be featured in the exhibition include:
The End of Year Student Show will be taking place in the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery, located in the east end of downtown Lexington at 527 E 3rd Street. The LOT space was created to serve as a home to the creation and display of experimental works in the areas of design, art and music in Kentucky.
Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, will give a series of six public lectures titled, “Where We Are Now,” that will explore current issues in contemporary architecture.
Betsky describes the series: “The diversity of what we call architecture today is astonishing. From barely viable blobs to piles of sticks in the woods, and from instant cities to pop up stores, architecture encompasses an amazing range of scales, techniques, degrees of reality, and styles. These lectures will look at the immediate past as well as the present to survey and make sense of Postmodernism and its aftermath.“
All lectures will take place in Pence 209 starting at 7pm. One AIA LU credit is available for each lecture.
Aaron Betsky is an architect, critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From 2001 to 2006 Betsky served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Although Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana, USA, he grew up in The Netherlands. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History, the Arts and Letters (1979) and a M.Arch. (1983). He then taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1983 to 1985 and worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before moving back to The Netherlands.
Betsky has written numerous monographs on the work of late 20th century architects, including I.M. Pei, UN Studio, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc., Zaha Hadid and MVRDV, as well as treatises on aesthetics, psychology and human sexuality as they pertain to aspects of architecture, and is one of the main contributors to a spatial interpretation of Queer theory.
Betsky was named the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008.
Clark Thenhaus is founder and principal of Endemic, and an Associate Lecturer at RMIT with the Landscape Department. Since founding Endemic, Clark has lectured and exhibited his design work across the globe. Clark has previously published work in 306090, KERB Journal, Especial’Z-Ecole D’Architecture, and AWM Magazine. He has previously taught at the University of Colorado-Denver, Otis College of Art and Design, and has led workshops at the University of Southern California (USC) and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Currently Clark is collaborating with OUTR on large-scale design projects in China. Clark graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Master of Architecture as the 3-year Fideli Fellow.
The University of Kentucky College of Design and the Confucius Center are hosting a lecture and discussion on April 4 at 5:00 pm, in 209 Pence Hall. The lecture given by Jianfei Zhu, titled “Scale and Statehood: a Different Modernity,” will explore the scale of urbanization in China and how it might develop into a different kind of modernity. After the lecture the Dean of the College of Design, Michael Speaks, will lead a discussion about Wang Shu, the first Chinese architect to be awarded the Priztker Architecture Prize. The lecture and discussion will be followed by a reception in Pence Hall.
Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the Priztker Architecture Prize, discusses Wang Shu’s selection and China’s urbanization: “The fact that an architect from China has been selected by the jury, represents a significant step in acknowledging the role that China will play in the development of architectural ideals. In addition, over the coming decades China’s success at urbanization will be important to China and to the world. This urbanization, like urbanization around the world, needs to be in harmony with local needs and culture. China’s unprecedented opportunities for urban planning and design will want to be in harmony with both its long and unique traditions of the past and with its future needs for sustainable development.”
Jianfei Zhu studied architecture in China at Tianjin University, and in England at the University College London. He is currently teaching in Australia at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Zhu’s research centers on architecture and politics, the ‘political space’ of dynastic Beijing, episodes of modern Chinese architecture, spatial analysis, and various topics in China-West comparisons.
Dr. Zhu is the author of Chinese Spatial Strategies (Routledge, 2004) and Architecture of Modern China (Routledge, 2009). He is the editor of Sixty Years of Chinese Architecture 1949-2009 (Beijing: CABP, 2009) and two special issues of Time + Architecture (Tongji University, 2006, 2010). He has published more than sixty papers in English and Chinese, including ‘Criticality in between China and the West’ and ‘Robin Evans in 1978’ (Journal of Architecture, 2005, 2011).
Dr. Zhu’s current research concerns the change from traditional to contemporary construction technologies and urban forms in China, the difference between Renaissance and Chinese traditions, and the impact of the West upon China.
About the University of Kentucky’s Confucius Center: We are a Center for Chinese language and arts offering community classes, teacher preparation courses, and events and services for the public. With the support of our partner institution, Shanghai University, and Hanban, the Chinese Language Council of China's Ministry of Education, we seek to serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky in seeking greater understanding of China.
The University of Kentucky College of Design will celebrate the School of Interior Design’s fortieth anniversary through a symposium, “40+ Rethinking Design.” The free public symposium will be presented March 29 and 30, at the Center Theater, located in the University of Kentucky’s Student Center.
“Throughout its history the School of Interior Design at the University of Kentucky has been at the forefront in delivering a professional degree and producing graduates who are responsive to the changing needs of the design industries. Our graduates are excelling in diverse fields of practice ranging from healthcare to product design,” says Ann Dickson, Director of the School of Interior Design. “The School of Interior Design’s increasingly global perspective touches all realms of study. This symposium is essential to understanding the needs of future populations and how design practices will address these challenges.”
Dickson adds, “This symposium not only marks and celebrates our past, but is also the foundation upon which the School of Interior Design moves into the future.”
The symposium speakers will focus on the future of designed environments, giving special attention to the human experience in respect to natural resources, other people, and the processes that impact the interactions we have with our surroundings. The speakers, in order of scheduled appearance, are Prataap Patrose, Director of Boston’s Urban Design Department; Robin Guenther, Principal at Perkins+Will; Cindy Coleman, Strategic Planner at Gensler; Chris Collins, CEO and Founder of Tipodean Technologies. Eileen Jones, Principal at Perkins+Will will moderate the panel discussion.
0.2 ASID and IIDA Contiuning Education HSW Units are available for each session for a total of 0.8 HSW units. Please register for the HSW units here.
All events will take place in the Student Center's "Center Theater." Parking is available on South Limestone in Parking Structure #5.
March 29
8:30 AM - Prataap Patrose
City of Boston
SRED: Socially Responsible Enlightened Design
9:15 AM - Respondents
Jim Gray, Mayor, Lexington, KY
Stan Harvey, Urban Collage, Inc., Lexington, KY
Steve Austin, Blue Grass Community Foundation, Lexington, KY
10:30 AM - Robin Guenther
Perkins+Will, New York
Future Think: Hospital Design as a Catalyst for Global Wellness
11:15 AM - Respondents
Dr. Graham Rowles, Director & Chair Graduate Center for Gerontology, University Kentucky
Dr. Michael Karpf, VP Executive Health Affairs/UKHC
Karleen Stephens, Manager, Health & Safety and Disability Management, Steelcase, Inc.
March 30
8:30 AM - Cindy Coleman
Gensler, Chicago
Workplace and the Global Economy
9:15 AM - Respondents
Walter J. Ferrier, Ph.D., Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky
Greg Shafer, Humana, Workplace Innovation, Louisville
Jay Brand Ph.D., Cognitive Psychologist, Haworth Inc., Holland, MI
10:30 AM - Chris Collins
Tipodean Technologies, San Francisco
Interactive, realtime design
11:15 AM - Respondents
Melody Carswell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
George Aye, Greater Good Studio, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Ruigang Yang, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky College of Design will host its sixth annual historic preservation symposium, "New Voices, Current Needs," an exploration of how preservation can address the needs of underserved communities and help correct modern and historical injustices. The free public symposium will be presented March 1 and 2, at the Lexington History Museum, located at 215 W. Main St. in downtown Lexington.
"One way of exploring the relationship between historic preservation and social justice is to recognize that preservation plays a major role in determining what pieces of the past will be available for study or use in the future," says Douglas Appler, the Helen Edwards Abell Endowed Chair in Historic Preservation at the College of Design. "If the history of a particular group is wiped from the landscape, its past can't be explored or recognized to the same degree as that of another group whose history is left in place and remains standing. Historic Preservation once focused very narrowly on the stories of wealthy individuals, on grand architecture, and on presenting an uncritical view of history. Fortunately, preservationists today are doing a better job of using the built environment to present a more complete account of the past."
Appler adds, "Historic preservation professionals can also help ensure access to quality housing for some of society's most vulnerable members. For example, the Historic Preservation Tax Credit is commonly paired with Low Income Housing Tax Credits to generate projects that provide clean, safe, affordable housing for low-income individuals and families.
"New Voices, Current Needs" will feature four speakers who will explore current needs in historic preservation. The symposium speakers, in order of scheduled appearance, are:
March 1
10:00 AM / Ned Kaufman - the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation Lecture
Founder of Place Matters and of Pratt Institute's graduate program in Historic Preservation. His most recent book, Place, Race and Story provides critical reflection on future directions for the historic preservation movement, focusing on the future role of meaning in historic preservation efforts.
2:00 PM / Alicestyne Turley- the Clyde R. Carpenter Lecture
Assistant Professor in the Pan African Studies Department at the University of Louisville, and is the Director of the Underground Railroad Research Institute. Dr. Turley is also a member of the City of Louisville Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission.
March 2
10:00 AM / Thomas F. King - the CRA/Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. Lecture
Thomas King is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on archaeological policy and cultural resource management law. He has authored many books, including Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, and Places that Count: Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management.
2:00 PM / Stanley Lowe - the Morgan Worldwide Lecture
Stanley Lowe is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pittsburgh Neighborhood Preservation Services. He is also the former Executive Director of the City of Pittsburgh Housing Authority, was the Vice President of the Neighborhood Revitalization Department of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and has worked for years to channel energy, attention and resources toward economic development in low income urban neighborhoods.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Each lecture will be followed by a local response panel and audience Q&A.
AIA Health Safety and Welfare (HSW) Continuing Education Credit are available.
The Annual Historic Preservation Symposium is the premier public discussion venue for historic preservation issues in the region. To help make the event a resounding success we need support from people like you. To make an online donation please see the link below.
Organized by the College of Design and the Historic Preservation Graduate Organization of the University of Kentucky.
Brennan Buck is a principal at FreelandBuck in New York and a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. From 2004-2008 he was assistant professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna teaching in Studio Greg Lynn. He has practiced both landscape architecture and architecture, having worked for Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
The collaborative efforts of architects, interior designers and hospital administrators who designed the new pavilion at Albert B. Chandler Hospital will be the subject of a panel discussion on interior design in healing facilities from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the William T. Young Library Auditorium. The panel, which is free and open to the public, will be hosted by University of Kentucky School of Interior Design.
The upcoming panel discussion on Chandler Hospital's interior design will give students and members of the community a chance hear from the masterminds behind the new hospital design. Speakers will give a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into designing the interior of a hospital. The new pavilion at Chandler Hospital has been an exciting project for UK HealthCare, and the new state-of-the-art facility brings UK closer to their goal of having a world-class academic medical center.
The panel discussion will not only include interior design professionals, but also key hospital administrators and architects who were involved with the project. Emphasis in the discussion will be placed on the contemporary techniques that went into the design of the hospital. Another topic that will be discussed is the importance placed on this specific type of client.
Members of the panel will include:
The new pavilion at Chandler Hospital has been opening in different phases since 2007 when the first phase, the parking garage opened. The hospital features several new design techniques that they hope will improve patient care. Their approach ties together art, science and healing in order to create a warm, comfortable environment for patients.
New additions to the hospital include a new surgery waiting area, a new emergency services department, a health education center, eight state-of-the art operating rooms, and much more.
The panel discussion will be led by Joe Rey-Barreau, associate professor of interior design, at UK College of Design. Rey-Barreau is also the consulting director of education at the American Lighting Association.
Adam Fure is a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Ann Arbor, a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and the founding principal of SIFT Studio. Adam received his M.Arch from the University of California Los Angeles where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi medal, the Carlin Glucksman Endowed Fellowship in Architecture, and the Jeffrey "Skip" Hintz Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. He has worked in the offices of Gnuform and Office dA and as a project designer at Greg Lynn FORM.
Lecture #2 - Postmodernism: A Closer look; from Complexity & Contradiction to Classicism Lecture #3 - Continued - Postmodernism: A Closer look; from Complexity & Contradiction to Classicism Lecture #4 - The Netherlands: Project-Based Working
Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, will give a series of six public lectures titled, “Where We Are Now,” that will explore current issues in contemporary architecture.
Betsky describes the series: “The diversity of what we call architecture today is astonishing. From barely viable blobs to piles of sticks in the woods, and from instant cities to pop up stores, architecture encompasses an amazing range of scales, techniques, degrees of reality, and styles. These lectures will look at the immediate past as well as the present to survey and make sense of Postmodernism and its aftermath.“
All lectures will take place in Pence 209 starting at 7pm. One AIA LU credit is available for each lecture.
Aaron Betsky is an architect, critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From 2001 to 2006 Betsky served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Although Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana, USA, he grew up in The Netherlands. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History, the Arts and Letters (1979) and a M.Arch. (1983). He then taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1983 to 1985 and worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before moving back to The Netherlands.
Betsky has written numerous monographs on the work of late 20th century architects, including I.M. Pei, UN Studio, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc., Zaha Hadid and MVRDV, as well as treatises on aesthetics, psychology and human sexuality as they pertain to aspects of architecture, and is one of the main contributors to a spatial interpretation of Queer theory.
Betsky was named the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008.
On Friday, December 16, 2011 the University of Kentucky will hold its December commencement ceremonies to honor our graduating student’s academic achievements.
Degrees for Master’s candidates will be conferred at 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Coliseum. Master’s candidates are requested to be present at 12:30 p.m. for line-up.
Graduate Student Reception: The Graduate School will host a reception for Master’s and Professional graduates from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at the Singletary Center for the Arts lobby.
Bachelor’s degrees will be conferred at 6:00 p.m. in Memorial Coliseum. Bachelor’s candidates are requested to arrive by 5:00 p.m. for line-up.
Those confirming attendance on the University Commencement website by the deadline date will have their name announced and displayed on the screen during the ceremony. August and December 2011 graduates who submitted degree applications will also be listed in the printed commencement booklet. Please submit your information by December 1, 2011.
There are no tickets required for admission to the ceremonies, but graduating students must complete the appropriate online registration form on the University Commencement website. Please indicate on the form, your total number of guests.
Undergraduate Reception: The alumni association will host a reception in the Grand Ball Room at the Student Center from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm on December 16. Each college will have a table set up w/identifying banners. Refreshments will be in the middle of the ballroom and the small ballroom will be set up for seating.
We look forward to celebrating the day with you. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Dean’s office at the number above.
Friday, 2 December
6 pm Cocktails | 7 pm Dinner
Hilary J. Boone Center
510 Rose St. Lexington, KY
Pay online by clicking the button below or contact the Director of Development, Taylor Wood, 859-323-2747, or email taylor.wood@uky.edu
Make a gift to the endowment here
Please join friends, colleagues, faculty and students to celebrate Terry Rothgeb's career, life and retirement. Terry was one of the first faculty hired when Interior Design became its own program in the College of Home Economics in 1973 (Interior Design joined the College of Design in 2002.
All proceeds from this event will go to the Terry Rothgeb Scholarship Endowment. It is our hope to make the Terry Rothgeb Scholarship Endowment the largest of its kind in the College of Design.Business casual dress is requested.
Christian Unverzagt is the design director at M1/DTW LLC, a nationally recognized, multidiscipinary studio operating at the intersection of design and cultural production. M1/DTW's built work includes a recording studio for grammy-winning musician Eminem, boutique spaces for 6 Salon, studios for DAVO Photographic, and workspaces for Richard Florida's Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto. M1/DTW's print and identity clients include Sensitile Systems, Creative Class Group, 6 salon, Cranbrook Art Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the University of Kentucky College of Design (UK/COD). M1/DTW has received numerous award's, including I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review and a '50 Books' award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2007, 6 salon was named 'Best Salon Design' in North America. M1/DTW's work has been published in Architectural Record, I.D., & Print Magazine, and exhibited in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Detroit, Austin, New York, and Boston.
Unverzagt is also an Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture at Taubman College, where his teaching focuses on visual communication and interdisciplinary design methodologies. He is also the founding designer of the Michigan Architecture Papers, a publication series which has received numerous awards including a Series Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Gregory Romine is a founding member and Managing Director of Axis Facades International, LLC, a US-based global façade consulting firm. With over thirty years of experience and a passion for product design, Romine possesses technical and design sensibilities as well as a comprehensive understanding of materials and adaptive technologies used in façade applications.
Working with inventive architects worldwide, Romine facilitates the architects’ vision and desire to create a sense of place. Romine has been a leading pioneer in the formation of façade consulting in emerging markets including India, China, Korea, Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Mark O'Bryan is the Associate Dean for Administration at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He studied art and architecture at Cornell University and at the American Academy in Rome. He has won several awards, including the AIA Henry James Medal, the S.O.M. Traveling Fellowship and Bearings 10 Best Faculty in America Prize. His residence, which he designed with his wife Mary Lee O'Bryan was recently published in Kentucky Home and Gardens Magazine.
Keely Colcleugh principal of Kilograph Visualization, is a designer with over thirteen years experience in the fields of architecture, graphic design, film and animation. Colcleugh has worked as an animator and visual effects designer on feature films, commercials and music videos. She served as lead designer for Atelier Jean Nouvel’s architectural visualization division in Paris France and, prior to founding Kilograph in 2009, she served as the Director of Architectural Visualization for Pixel Liberation Front, a leading visual effects and animation studio in Los Angeles.
To date Kilograph has provided visualizations for some of the leading architectural practices around the world, including Morphosis Architects, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Gehry Technologies, SWA and The Jerde Partnership.
Dan Colvin is Principal-in-Charge of the Interior Design Studio and a partner in the firm RossTarrant Architects in Lexington. Colvin’s focus on creating outstanding educational interior environments has inspired recognition by numerous respected groups including AIA, and the National School Board Association, the American Association of School Administrators. In addition, his designs have been featured in publications including American School and University magazine and Learning By Design.
A graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Design, Colvin is focused on designing educational environments that foster learning and inspire academic excellence. He has led the design of new projects ranging from elementary schools to cutting-edge university science facilities and was central to the design of the Johnson Center on UK’s campus. Colvin’s studio has designed the complete transformation of hundreds of existing facilities into state-of-the-art learning environments for students and teachers.
Silke Becker will also take part in the Design Chat, she is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Design and partner in the firm RossTarrant Architects in Lexington. Focused on designing postsecondary facilities, Becker has been involved in the design of numerous signature buildings including new construction such as Ransdell Hall, Music Rehearsal Hall and the Alumni Meeting Center at Western Kentucky University, the Center for Health, Education & Research at Morehead State University and the first building to be constructed on the BCTC Newtown Campus.
Becker’s work reflects a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of Interior Design, integrating programming and design with thorough construction documentation and careful project management resulting in the highest quality projects for her clients.
Alex Deutschman is manager of Morphosis’ fabrication shop where he oversees a small team and an arsenal of machines including a CNC mill, laser cutter, 2 zcorp printers, wood shop, and a welding outfit.
Deutschman has developed a versatile approach to model making and fabrication in both analog and digital conditions. He has employed many techniques, technologies, and materials to produce a wide range of products such as museum quality architectural models, art pieces, full scale mock-ups and custom furniture. With a master’s degree in architecture from Georgia Tech, Deutschman also has experience in the facilitation of full-scale construction projects.
Ronald Jones, Ph.D., is an artist, critic and educator who gained prominence in New York City during the mid-1980s. In the magazine Contemporary, Brandon Labelle wrote: “Working as an artist, writer, curator, professor, lecturer and critic over the last 20 years, Jones is a self-styled Conceptualist, spanning the worlds of academia and art, opera and garden design, and acting as paternal spearhead of contemporary critical practice. Explorative and provocative, Jones creates work that demands attention that is both perceptual and political.” Labelle positions Jones along the leading edge of a “contemporary critical practice” that is perhaps best described as interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
Presently Jones is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden where he leads The Experience Design Group, with a mission "to persuade, stimulate, inform, envision, entertain, and forecast events, influencing meaning and modifying human behavior.” At Konstfack, Jones also co-directs WIRE, the MA program in curatorial practice and critical writing. Jones is a Center Director at Konstfack for the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES), an interdisciplinary initiative by Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Stockholm School of Economics, the Stockholm University and Konstfack.
Jones is a Guest Professor of Experience Design at NID, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. He has also served on the faculty of The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, The School of Visual Arts, New York, and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule Frankfurt, Germany and as a visiting professor at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel's national school of art. With his appointment at Konstfack as Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, he has been able, along with the faculty of The Experience Design Group, to create a graduate program especially designed to prepare students to become interdisciplinarians, or even transdisciplinarians. “Interdisciplinarity,” says Jones “is by now a stand-alone discipline, as much as the conventional disciplines of art, design or craft.”
James Crump, Ph.D., is the chief curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Dr. Crump is an accomplished curator and writer, and is known for his work with contemporary artists and photographers. As chief curator, Dr. Crump is responsible for managing and building the Cincinnati Art Museum’s photography collection, developing new and interdisciplinary approaches to presenting and interpreting the collection, and he collaborates with other museums and institutions to develop special exhibitions.
Throughout his career Dr. Crump has collaborated with several museums and galleries, including the International Center of Photography and The Drawing Center in New York. He has also worked with a variety of artists, including Ross Bleckner, Lynn Davis, Adam Fuss, and the estates of Willem De Kooning, Garry Winogrand, and Walker Evans. Crump’s work has been widely published, most recently in Archives of American Art Journal for the Smithsonian Museum, Art Review, Art in America, Print, and History of Photography. Dr. Crump has published, edited, and contributed to nearly 100 titles, including Albert Watson (2007), F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal (1995), Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing (1998), and Garry Winogrand: 1964 (2002).
Most recently, Dr. Crump released the documentary film, Black White + Gray, featuring the influential and legendary 1970s and 1980s photography collector Sam Wagstaff. The film premiered at the 2007 New York-based Tribeca Film Festival and Europe’s Art Basel; it began airing on the Sundance Channel in March 2008. In September 2009, Skira Rizzoli released Dr. Crump's Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin, which Photo District News deemed one of the notable photography books of the year. In 2010, Hatje Cantz will release Dr. Crump's latest effort, Walker Evans: Decade by Decade.
Freek Persyn graduated from the Sint Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels, Belgium. Soon after graduating he established 51N4E (the name refers to the coordinates of Brussels), with Peter Swinnen and Johan Anrys. In 2004, 51N4E was awarded the prestigious Rotterdam Maaskant Award for Young Architects.
Some of 51N4E's notable work includes the adaptive reuse of the ‘C-mine’ industrial buildings at a former coal mine in Winterslag, Belgium; the large-scale Skanderberg Square, the most important public space in Tirana, Albania, larger than Red Square in Moscow and twice the size of St Peter's Square in Rome; and 50,000 residences in Bordeaux, France.
Parallel to his professional activities at 51N4E, Persyn is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Gent, a visiting critic and studio master at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and is currently a visiting professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
Ann Swope, Principal Designer and CEO of Swope Design Group, has more than twenty four years of professional design and project management experience. For the past sixteen years, she has served as principal designer of her own firm—Swope Design Group. Ann’s reputation is built on her ability to push the creative boundaries of her medium, lead diverse project teams, and manage complex projects.
Ann is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Ann is certified by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) and is a Kentucky Certified Interior Designer (KYCID). She has served on the Regional Board of Directors of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and of the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SEGD).
In 2007 Dr. Gregor Zimmerman, with his partner Thomas Teichmann, began G.tecz an interdisciplinary company composed of material specialists, structural engineers and laboratory experts working to optimize and develop structural and cement-bonded materials. Their latest research includes nano based particle packing algorithms, calculation of water film thicknesses, finite element methods and the use of SQL databases.
Zimmerman studied civil engineering in Karlsruhe, Germany, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Kassel on the topic of membrane concrete grid shells. Zimmerman is currently teaching at the University of Kassel.
