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A University of Arkansas researcher's quest to create stronger and lighter structures using kirigami-based design

2024-05-08T12:28:00-04:00

By making a series of cuts and folds in a sheet of paper, Baker found she could produce two planes connected by a complex set of thin strips. Without the need for any adhesive like glue or tape, this pattern created a surface that was thick but lightweight. Baker named her creation Spin-Valence. Structural tests later showed that an individual tile made this way, and rendered in steel, can bear more than a thousand times its own weight.

MIT Technology Review highlights the digital fabrication work of Emily Baker, an architect and assistant professor at the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Baker began her research into lightweight and sturdy Spin-Valence structures as an architecture graduate student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

A concept for a shade structure in rural Arkansas following this design principle by Baker and collaborators Vincent Edwards, Edmund Harriss, Isabel Moreira de Oliveira, Eduardo Sosa, and Reilly Dickens-Hoffman also recently won the 2024 Forge Prize for innovation in steel architecture.

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas, Spring ‘24

2024-02-05T14:34:00-05:00

Today, our Get Lectured series continues with a look at the events and lectures taking place in the Spring semester at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville.

The term begins with a lecture from University of Houston professor Andrew Kudless on February 5, followed by an appearance from Canadian 5468796 architecture co-founder Johanna Hurme on February 26. The school’s FAY AI workshop, featuring presentations from academics Joshua Vermillion, Clay Odom, and Kory Bieg, will also take place from February 5–9 in Vol Walker Hall.

March begins with a lecture from Simon David, the principal of New York’s Office of Strategy + Design (OSD), on March 4. He is followed by Susan Jones, the founder of atelierjones, on March 13. Finally, the month ends when British academic James Binning visits campus to discuss his Turner Prize-winning work through the 14-year-old London-based architectural collective called Assemble on March 25.

April will see l...

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas, Fall '23

2023-09-13T11:51:00-04:00

Class is back in session, and that means it’s time for a new slate of lectures and events taking place at architecture schools across the country. Today, our Get Lectured series continues with a look at what’s in store this Fall semester at the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

The term began on Monday, September 11, with a lecture from Brooks + Scarpa founders Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa. Events continue on September 25 with another from Henning Larsen’s Signe Kongebro. Mattaforma’s Lindsey Wikstrom will visit campus October 2 to discuss her new book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures, followed by Studio O+A co-founder Primo Orpilla’s presentation on October 9.

Events continue on October 18 with a special appearance from the 2020 Pritzker winner, Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, followed by author David Gissen’s presentation of his new book The Architecture of Disability on October 23. The month concludes on October 30 w...

Fay Jones School student David Sweere awarded 2019 Aydelott Prize for travel research

2020-05-13T18:58:00-04:00

University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients.

The Aydelott Travel Award and Prize have been awarded each year since 2016. The unconventional award program selects four Travel Award winners who are each given $20,000 to visit and analyze four buildings of their choosing, with one student selected from this cohort for the Prize portion of the program. Each student is asked to produce an essay documenting and analyzing their research and these essays are what is judged to determine who is ultimately awarded the Aydelott Prize.

Pet Plaza in St. Louis, designed by Alfred Lewis Aydelott. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Teemu08.

The award was created in part to highlight the talent emanating from schools in the southeastern United States and due to this fact, only students from University of Arkansas, Auburn Univer...

Pritzker-winning Grafton Architects selected for Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design's Center for Design and Materials Innovation

2020-03-20T15:04:00-04:00

The recent recipients of the 2020 Pritzker Prize, Grafton Architects, have been chosen by the University of Arkansas to partner with Modus Studio to design the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation.

Founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are recognized for their outstanding work in building production and projects responding to urban and social issues. The new center is the duo's first built project in the U.S. In a press statement from the University, Farrell and McNamara share, "We are very excited about building our first building in the United States in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This building helps us think about the future optimistically, where the use of timber with all its possibilities, becomes real, useful, and hopefully loved."

The estimated $16 million design project will be part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and used as a research center for the University's timber and wood design projects. According to Chris Baribeau, p...

University of Arkansas debuts the largest mass timber building in the U.S.

2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00

Boston-based architecture practice Leers Weinzapfel Associates recently completed the construction of the 202,027-square-foot University of Arkansas Adohi Hall, noted to be the "first large-scale mass timber residence hall and living learning setting" as well as the "largest cross laminated timber (CLT) building in the United States" by the practice. For the project, the firm collaborated with Modus Studio (Fayetteville, AR), Mackey Mitchell Architects (St. Louis), and OLIN (Philadelphia) to complete the project.

Image © Tim Hursley/courtesy Leers Weinzapfel Associates

According to the firm's website, "A series of interconnected buildings arranged in a sinuous, serpentine configuration set in a forested landscape provides a variety of communal outdoor spaces that offer a sustainable way of re-imagining campus housing in contrast to traditional housing on the campus quad. Other important sustainability initiatives include a sign...

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas, Spring '16

2016-02-11T13:50:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2016

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.

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

The next featured poster comes from the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

Listed below are upcoming events. Unless noted otherwise, lectures start at 5 p.m. at the Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Vol Walker Hall.

Feb 15
Dagur Eggertsson / Principal, Rintala Eggertsson Architects - Oslo

Feb 22
Kenneth Frampton / Ware Professor of Architecture - Columbia GSAPP - New York

Feb 29
Peter Raven / President Emeritus, Research Missouri Botanical Garden - St. Louis

Mar 7
Jeffrey Kipnis / Professor, Knowlton School, The Ohio Sta...

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas, Fall '15

2015-09-10T15:21:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. 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.

Our next featured poster comes from the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

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

Listed below are upcoming lectures only. Unless noted otherwise, lectures take place at 5 p.m. in the Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Vol Walker Hall.

Sept 14
Einar Jarmund / Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects - Oslo, Norway

Modus Studio: Warren Segraves Lecture

Sept 30
Juhani Pallasmaa / Architect, Educator, Author - Helsinki, Finland

1 p.m.: 2015 Dean's Lecture in Nordic Architecture

Oct 5
Judith Gura / New York School of Interior Design - New Yo...

Winifred E. Newman selected to head UA Fay Jones School's Department of Architecture

2015-04-27T12:22:00-04:00

Winifred E. Newman will be the next head of the Department of Architecture for the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, effective July 1. Newman is an associate professor, director of advanced studies and director of the I-CAVE Lab for Applied Visualization in the College of Architecture + the Arts at Florida International University.

Mark Boyer selected to head LSU School of Landscape Architecture

2015-03-30T17:29:00-04:00

Mark E. Boyer, professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture, plans to leave the University of Arkansas this summer after 17 years to become the director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. [...] Pending approval from the LSU System Board of Supervisors, Boyer will assume directorship of the school effective July 2015.

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas, Spring '15

2015-03-02T13:39:00-05:00

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.

Designed by SILO AR+D, the next featured poster comes from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture with their Spring '15 lecture series, "INFLUENCE."

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

Listed below are upcoming events only. Unless noted, events take place at 5 pm in the Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Vol Walker Hall. Free + open to the public.

Mar 2
Adam Greenspan / PWP Landscape Architecture

Mar 9
Suzan Tillotson / Tillotson Design Associates

Mar 16
Krista Ninivaggi / K&CO

Mar 30
Peter Gluck / Gluck+

Apr 6
Helle Sohølt / Gehl Architects

Apr 13
Tod Williams + Billie Tsi...

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas - Fay Jones School of Architecture, Fall '14

2014-09-08T13:37:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Starting off the week, today's poster features the "Foreign" lecture series from the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture.

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

Listed below are lectures only. Unless noted**, lectures take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 8
Chris Downey / Chris Downey Architect

Sept. 22
Andrew Freear / Rural Studio
Cromwell Architects Engineers: Charles Thompson Memorial Lecture

OCTOBER

Oct. 4**
11 am
Merideth Boswell / Production and Interior Designer
Keynote speaker, IDEC Southwe...

Peter MacKeith Named Dean of UA's Fay Jones School of Architecture

2014-04-08T13:48:00-04:00

An architecture professor at a Missouri university has been named the dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. Peter MacKeith, a professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, is set to become the UA school's dean, effective July 1.

Get Lectured: University of Arkansas Fall '13

2013-09-30T13:46:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's list is the 2013-14 "Quality" Lecture Series at the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture.

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

All lectures will take place at 5:30 pm, unless otherwise noted.**
All lectures will be at the Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Steven L. Anderson Design Center, Room 250, Vol Walker Hall.

SEPTEMBER

September 13
1:30 pm**
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien / Co-Founders - Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
A Building is a Verb
Cromwell Architects Engineers: Charles Thompson Memorial Lecture

September 16
Randol...