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Studio Gang transforms former warehouse space into new home for the University of Kentucky's College of Design

2024-09-23T15:14:00-04:00

The new home for the College of Design at the University of Kentucky (CoD) has been inaugurated after a two-year project led by Studio Gang.

Their makeover of the Gray Design Building turned a former tobacco warehouse at the edge of campus into a new hub for learning and collaboration. It is the first to consolidate space for all four CoD departments and the department of landscape architecture under one roof since 1965.

Image: © Tom Harris

The adaptive reuse project provided a unique teaching opportunity for students, retaining the existing masonry walls, foundation, timber columns and beams, and steel trusses used in the former Reynolds Building's original 1917 construction.

Image: © Tom Harris

Studio Gang was able to work multiple interventions into the 132,000 square foot volume, remaking the ground-floor with a large, double-height lecture hall, small art gallery, and flexible classroom while placing studio spaces above in the second level, connected to each other a via central...

Studio Gang to design new home for University of Kentucky’s College of Design

2022-05-02T14:03:00-04:00

The picture is getting clearer for the Studio Gang-envisioned new, unified home for the University of Kentucky's College of Design after final renderings and a project timeline were just revealed.

The firm beat out five other top-flight firms for the renovation of the former Reynolds Building, which was announced three years ago and has since been bolstered by a $5.2 million gift from local developers Gray Construction.

The building is located in a former tobacco warehouse at the edge of campus. Image courtesy of the University of Kentucky College of Design.

Now simply named the Gray Building, the 145,000-square-foot structure, originally conceived as a tobacco storehouse, had been sitting largely unused for a period of several years (a rare occurrence on most college campuses) and is now set to become the combined home of the College’s five academic programs and landscape department. A special joint studio between the Biomedical Engineering and Product Design programs and a new coll...

José Oubrerie's Miller House finally finds a buyer

2019-06-05T18:13:00-04:00

After spending months idled on the real estate market, José Oubrerie's Miller House in Kentucky exchanged hands twice in late 2018.

As noted on real estate website Zillow, the home sold in September 2018 for $415,000, significantly lower than the $490,000 sale that had taken place just one month before, and well-below the $550,000 price it had been listed at previously.

Both sales are a far cry from a $1,950,000 listing made for the home in 2010. The home was sold for $1,000,000 in 2008, following the 2006 death of its namesake patron. The identity of the most recent buyer is unclear, as is the future of the iconic house.

Obrerie's Miller House has exchanged hands a few times recently and its future is unclear.

The legendary home was designed by Oubrerie in 1987 while he was dean at the University of Kentucky's School of Design, and represents a key conceptual work in the realm of residential design of the era. Created to house a real estate developer's four-person family, the cube...

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Fall '18

2018-10-10T15:36:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2018

With a new school year upon us, it's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University of Kentucky College of Design's Fall 2018 lecture series continues with a lecture today from Scott Francisco of Pilot Projects. Other speakers next month include Youn Choi & Doug Pierson, Dan Wood of WORKac, and Elena Manferdini.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

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Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '18

2018-02-15T15:44:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

See what events are coming up in the University of Kentucky College of Design's Spring 2018 Architecture/Interiors/Historic Preservation lecture series.

Feb 2-3
Karen Lewis / Ohio State University

Feb 7
Sarah Dunn / UrbanLab

Feb 28
Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang

Mar 26
Patrick Hobgood / Hobgood Architects

Mar 30
Alan Ricks / MASS Design Group

Apr 9
Diana Agrest / Agrest & Gandelsonas Architects

For more event info + the latest updates, click here or visit design.uky.edu.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

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Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Fall '17

2017-11-03T14:46:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, it's the start of a new school year. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Here's the Fall 2017 lecture series from the University of Kentucky College of Design School of Architecture.

Aug 30
José Oubrerie

Sept 25
Pete Wenger / Patkau Architects

Oct 6
Daan Roggeveen / MORE Architecture

Oct 30
Marie & Keith Zawistowski / onSITE Architecture

Nov 1
Adrian Parr / University of Cincinnati

Nov 6
Diana Agrest / Agrest & Gandelsonas Architects

Nov 10
Mark Rakatansky / Mark Rakatansky Studio

Nov 13
Sarah Dunn / UrbanLab

The College of Design at the University of Kentucky/Architecture/ Interiors/Historic P...

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '17

2017-03-14T19:20:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Here's a look at the Spring '17 lecture series at the University of Kentucky College of Design in Lexington.

Jan 21
Dwayne Oyler

Jan 28-Apr 23
Exhibition: Mike McKay / Art Museum at UK

Feb 2
Marlon Blackwell

Feb 13
Phillippe Chavance, Ou Ning & Eric Reece

Feb 17-18
Keely Colcleugh & Nathan Capaccio

Feb 24-25
Satoru Sugihara

Mar 6
Tobias Armbost

Mar 31
Historic Preservation Symposium: “Conflict, Violence & Preservation”

Apr 7
Winka Dubbeldam

For times and locations, click here. Visit design.uky.edu for other info.

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UK College of Design Welcomes New School Of Architecture Director

2016-05-16T15:46:00-04:00

The University of Kentucky College of Design announces the appointment of Jeffrey Johnson, AIA, the new Director of the School of Architecture. Johnson joins the faculty from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. “In addition to his balance of practice and academia, Professor Johnson is a promising leader in the School and College because of his experimentation at a range of scales from interiors to urban design,” said Dean Mitzi Vernon.

The University College of Design is proud to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Johnson as the new School of Architecture Director.

Get Lectured: University of Kentucky, Spring '15

2015-02-27T12:42:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the University of Kentucky College of Design.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are upcoming events only. Free and open to the public.

Feb 27
2:30 pm
Design Chat - School of Interiors
Mary Lee O'Bryan / The Design Studio - Louisville, KY
Jennifer Dumesnil / Swope Design Group - Louisville, KY
at Pence Hall, Room 209

Mar 6
9 am - 3 pm
HPGO Symposium: Rebranding Historic Preservation
Andrew Hurley / Author of "Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner-Cities" - St. Louis, MO
John-Mark Hack / Partner of Marksbury Farm - Midway, KY
Ro...

The PLAY LOUNGE - UK/CoD students transform Lexington's 2013 Beaux Arts Ball

2013-09-19T19:30:00-04:00

Jason Scroggin, of Lexington, KY-based Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S.), has shared with us the project The PLAY LOUNGE—the result of a fabrication course Scroggin taught last Spring at The University of Kentucky College of Design, School of Architecture.

The resulting objects were then part of Lexington's annual Beaux Arts Ball (previously).

The PLAY LOUNGE is the result of a graduate elective course entitled Tectonics, Typology, and Distribution taught by UK/CoD Assistant Professor Jason Scroggin (DOTS) in Spring 2013 that investigates participatory design and interactive manufactured objects. The class is treated as a laboratory for exploring these issues through research, discussion, and fabrication. An analysis of simple toys set up the discussion and acts as the motivating driver for a series of material constructs that consider new relationships between digital design and assembly processes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. ...

Michael Speaks has been appointed as the new Dean of Syracuse's School of Architecture

2013-03-19T14:08:00-04:00

It was announced to the faculty and students today that our new dean is going to be Michael Speaks. I'm pretty excited to see what he can bring to our program as far as a fresh perspective and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Archinect member and current Syracuse student, Nathan Geller, shared the news that was distributed to the Syracuse community earlier today. Michael Speaks will be leaving his position of Dean at the University of Kentucky College of Design to take on the position of Dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University.

Official release...

Michael A. Speaks Named Dean of School of Architecture

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina today announced the appointment of Michael A. Speaks to the position of dean of the School of Architecture. Speaks is the current dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky, where he is also a professor of architecture. The appointment concludes a national search to replace former Dean Mark Robbins, who stepped down last spring. Speaks will assume his position on July 1.

The former director of the graduate program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks has taught in...

The Amsterdam Summer Travel Studio

2011-08-17T15:15:00-04:00

University of Kentucky College of Design Assistant Professor Kyle Miller led an eight-week design program in Amsterdam for twelve undergraduate students. The students participated in two courses: a six-credit design studio and a three-credit seminar that comprised a series of intensive design workshops. The primary objective of the design studio was to prototype design and program solutions for large, recently abandoned buildings in Amsterdam.