Our newest FIU Interior Architecture Folio, Fall 2015 is out! Look through our review of student, alumni, and faculty achievements during the Fall 2015 semester!View it by clicking here. http://carta.fiu.edu/interiors/about/folio/ View full entry
On Thursday, April 14th, the FIU School of Architecture hosted the 2016 Studio Culture Furniture Design Competition.The competition asked for “designed improvements” for the current treatment of the dead-end corridors on the west side of the 2nd and 3rd floors of the FIU Paul L. Cejas... View full entry
Alumnus Hai Zhang ’01 (M.Arch) is one artist in the first group of 17 to be represented by nineteensixtyeight.Zhang was born in Kunming, China in 1976. In 2000, after his graduation of the college in Chongqing, he moved to the US. Since then, he has lived in Alabama, Miami, Washington, DC... View full entry
FIU 2014 Torch Award recipient Marlene Liriano ’89 (B.A.Sc., Interior Design) was elected to be the 2016-2017 President of the International Board of Directors of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA).“Marlene’s passion for design, her leadership at top global firms, and... View full entry
On Saturday, April 9th – after being nominated by faculty members in FIU Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design – students Veronika Schunk, Maria de Fatima Montoya, and Skyler Stanford presented their accomplishments to jurors of the 2016 ASLA Student Honor & Merit... View full entry
FIU College of Architecture + The Arts Associate Dean of Students and Department of Architecture Associate Professor David Rifkind was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians at the society’s annual meeting in Pasadena on April 6th.Professor Rifkind has a... View full entry
A new Architecture seminar, Space Fictions, places students within the framework of outer space, challenging them to design a habitat in space while considering practical issues like radiation and weightlessness. Their work is inspired by design fiction, a design method that uses narrative... View full entry
On Tuesday, April 5th, Lorraine Bragg (Interior Designer, Heery International) led a PROsession for FIU Interior Architecture students to discuss the NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design Certification) and its Interior Design Fundamentals Exam (IDFX). Bragg has worked as a study coach... View full entry
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On Wednesday, March 23rd, the Florida International University School of Architecture (SOA) hosted its annual Career Fair for students in the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design.The Career Fair was hosted at the FIU... View full entry
FIU Interior Architecture students in Adjunct Lecturer and FIU Cejas Scholar Harvey Bernstein's Graduate Design 4 Studio recently presented projects while blindfolded. Bernstein, who is a CCE Tenured Professor at Pratt Institute, assigned students this unique task not only to enhance their... View full entry
Our issue of FIU Architecture eFolio, Fall 2015 highlights some of the semester’s accomplishments made by students, faculty, and alumni of the FIU Department of Architecture. The Folio can be viewed by both The College of Architecture + The Arts family and those beyond the College and... View full entry
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From January 20th to 24th, the Spring 2016 Master Project Thesis class taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Henry Rueda visited Mexico City to see architectural landmarks and historic locations.Students arrived in Mexico City on the 20th. They first visited the studio of TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA... View full entry
Get ready! The 3rd Annual Eco Couture Recycling Fashion Show happens on March 31st at 7PM!RSVP/Get tickets here: http://bit.ly/1WE3pQm View full entry
Through support from the Cejas Family Foundation, preeminent urban designer, landscape architect, artist, educator, entrepreneur and writer Professor James Richards (Fellow of ASLA) visited FIU Landscape Architecture and Environmental and Urban Design for a two-day-long urban sketching and... View full entry
Harvey Bernstein, a CCE Tenured Professor at Pratt Institute in New York, is teaching Furniture Design and Graduate Design 4 studio in the FIU Department of Interior Architecture.Bernstein’s motto for this course is, “Don’t become tools of your beautiful tools!” Through Furniture Design... View full entry
Kemo Duddle received a Master of Interior Architecture in 2014 from Florida International University, graduating magna cum laude. Duddle is an Adjunct Faculty member at the FIU Department of Interior Architecture and has taught classes such as Art in Public Interiors, which focuses on how... View full entry
On Monday, January 25th, FIU Architecture student Veronica Jaile won the Thinking Local Award at the D.eco: 2015 Sustainability Competition.Jaile submitted her project “For the Love of Wynwood,” which aims to bring recycling awareness to and start a sustainability movement in local Wynwood... View full entry
On Tuesday, January 19th, students in Professional Office Practice (IND 5508), taught by Senior Instructor Katie Rothfield, sat in on the first PROsession of the Spring 2016 semester.The January 19th, PROsession #1, titled “Advocacy: The Legalities of Interior Design” featured guest... View full entry
The new FIU I-CAVE, which opened on Friday, January 29th, is displaying a full immersion experience of Shakespeare's London c. 1598.This event at the I-CAVE is part of FIU programming scheduled around the Folger Shakespeare Library's national traveling exhibition First Folio! The Book that Gave... View full entry
Associate Professor Thomas Spiegelhalter was sponsored and invited by the nationally-known Formedil & GARANZIA GIOVANI as part of the BUILD UP SKILLS I-TOWN Conference, which took place in Taranto, Italy from November 25th to 27th. The conference was co-funded by the Intelligent Energy... View full entry
This Summer and Fall 2015, students from the six sections of Comprehensive Design Studio visited an array of South Florida sites and locations that enhanced their understanding of their design curriculum.Comprehensive Design Studio involves a simulated, professional practice exercise, in which the... View full entry
Alumna Ana Cecilia Benatuil (FIU M.Arch ’13) was recently featured in an article by Singularity University’s SingularityHUB.The piece, written by Alison E. Berman and entitled “How Future Cities Will Reconnect Humans and Nature (Interview),” can be accessed here.The header image is a... View full entry
In an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional effort, CARTA Associate Dean and Architecture Professor, Shahin Vassigh and her team have been awarded $228,000 by the National Science foundation, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program (NSF-IUSE) to develop and examine an immersive... View full entry
Associate Professor Ebru Ozer, ASLA, has received a Faculty Award on Thursday, September 24th, for her success in the classroom and her cutting-edge research.Professor Ozer was chosen for an Excellence in Teaching Award by the FIU Faculty Senate Honorary Degree and Awards Committee. The award... View full entry
The department of architecture is very pleased to announce that Henry Rueda is joining us as a Design and Building Technology Visiting Assistant Professor for the academic year of Fall 2015-Spring 2016.Professor Rueda has taught at Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseno at Universidad Jose Maria... View full entry
The School of Architecture is composed of three closely aligned departments: Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. Jointly headed by the three department chairs, the School of Architecture provides a rich and diverse platform for interdisciplinary activities at the curricular and research levels.
