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North Dakota State University combines departments to ‘disrupt current design education’

2020-11-30T19:22:00-05:00

On November 24th, North Dakota State University announced its newest school, The School of Design, Architecture, and Art (SODAA). NDSU combined its architecture, landscape architecture, and visual arts departments into one school, hoping to diversify the learning outcomes students and faculty would gain as each field of study interacts with one another under one roof.

According to their school paper "The Spectrum," Anne Kesler reports, "NDSU is the only school in the state that offers architecture and landscape programs, and with the opening of the new school, the university will further its field of study for design and art education."

Previously covered on Archinect: The top-ranked schools with architecture departments, according to Times Higher Education World. Image courtesy of Image © Tamer Shabani

While students and professionals continue to navigate a trying time within the industry, the need for multidisciplinary approaches to architecture and design has grown. As professiona...

Snøhetta wins the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library competition

2020-09-21T12:45:00-04:00

After revealing three finalist designs for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library last month, the international competition for the planned $100 million research and interpretive center has unanimously selected Snøhetta as the design architect. Their winning proposal for the forthcoming 15th American Presidential Library in the Badlands of North Dakota prevailed over the other two finalist entries by Studio Gang and Henning Larsen.

Image courtesy of Snøhetta.

"The design of the Library is more than a building," explains Snøhetta's project description, adding, "it is a journey through a preserved landscape of diverse habitats, punctuated with small pavilions providing spaces for reflection and activity. The Library’s gently sloping roof looks to the northeast, gazing over the National Park, historical settings in the Little Missouri River valley, and the Elkhorn Ranch far in the distance, further connecting the Library of tomorrow with its origins in th...

How record low oil prices shape the fate of America's boomtown, Williston, North Dakota

2016-01-27T17:55:00-05:00

Now, after more than five flush years, oil prices are in a prolonged slump, the flow of workers has reversed [...] But Williston believes it can build something more enduring. [...] The city used its newfound wealth to build a $70-million high school, a $68-million recreation center, and new water and sewer systems. It renovated Main Street and created a city position for someone to write parking tickets. Highways have been widened, and an airport is under development.

North Dakota, the skyscraper state

2015-03-03T14:19:00-05:00

Many of the tallest structures in the world are not designed by starchitects, and you’ve likely never seen them [...] dozens of nearly anonymous towers around the United States, most in small rural communities, dwarf all but the tallest man-made structures in the world. Take the KVLY-TV Tower in Blanchard, North Dakota, a township of 26 people north of Fargo. At 2,063 feet (628.8 meters), it’s the tallest structure in the western hemisphere and the fourth-tallest structure in the world.

Is the North Dakota Capitol Building Ugly?

2012-04-20T13:36:00-04:00

North Dakota’s governor has bitten back at a Minnesota lawmaker who compared his state’s Depression-era Capitol building to an insurance office, calling the critic ignorant of classic architecture. The Capitol in Bismarck was built during the 1930s with a plain concrete and stone exterior, ostensibly to keep costs down.

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North Dakota is desperate to find workers

2011-10-19T13:59:48-04:00

Williston used to build about five new homes a year. This year, Williston built 2,000 new homes. Next year, they're aiming for 4,000. SHAWN WENKO: This is similar to the California gold rush. Shawn Wenko is the Workforce Development Coordinator for the city of Williston. He shows me a dozens of ceremonial "ground breaking" shovels stacked in the corner of the office. He says they used to make special shovels for every groundbreaking, but they've had to go generic because of all the projects.

Happen to be an architect and out of work? – Cry no more, North Dakota is your promised land.