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U.S. Pavilion co-commissioners make the American porch a focus at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

2024-08-14T14:07:00-04:00

A delegation from Arkansas will be traveling to Italy to represent the United States in its official pavilion at next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.

The announcement was made Wednesday by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The group includes presenters from The University of Arkansas's Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, and the independent consultancy DesignConnects, which is based in New York City.

Guided by co-commissioners Peter MacKeith, Susan Chin, and Rod Bigelow, the U.S. Pavilion will showcase their presentation, PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, which focuses on porches' role as a social and environmental space in the American context.

A "dynamic showcase" of projects and practices from around the country, the exhibition proposes a "positive, productive" presentation of American architecture that emphasizes both empathy and education.

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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...

Tulane School of Architecture, Fay Jones School, and Carnegie Mellon University are the first academic institutions to sign on US Architects Declare

2020-10-07T18:57:00-04:00

In the summer of 2020, U.S.-based practices took action and signed on to join the international pledge for climate action. With the U.S. Architects Declare movement growing since May and over 284 signatures added to the list, three architecture institutions have signed on to the movement.

Recently published on Archinect, Architects take Climate Action! Archinect talks climate emergency activism with built environment groups taking a stand

Tulane School of Architecture, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, and Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture are the first architecture programs to sign on to U.S. Architects Declare pledge. A movement initially starting in May 2019 in the U.K., firms, and studios worldwide have pledged their efforts to fight climate change and biodiversity issues.

U.S. Architects Declare is led by a group of volunteer architects and designers throughout the country. Their site states, "All built-environment/construction-industry professionals ...

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...

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.

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...