A new book out by the Yale School of Architecture, BIM in Academia, features an essay by the College of Design's School of Architecture Head, Professor Renee Cheng. The collection includes essays by educators and practitioners weighing in on the debate over how Building Information Modeling (BIM)... View full entry »
The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, a highly competitive, three-year fellowship partnering emerging architectural leaders with community developers, was awarded to Master of Architecture graduate Samuel Carlsen. Carlsen will work with the Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation to provide... View full entry »
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors has awarded the 2012 AIA Architecture Firm Award to VJAA (Vincent James Associates Architects), and the 2012 AIA Gold Medal to Steven Holl, FAIA. The Firm Award is the highest honor bestowed on an architecture firm in the country, and... View full entry »
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Architecture, Mary Guzowski, has been selected by the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) for one of 13 awards as part of its Mini Grant program. Mini Grants from IonE help encourage collaboration among faculty... View full entry »
Dewey Thorbeck, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Design at the University of Minnesota, and leading expert in the field, is the author of Rural Design: A New Design Discipline - set to hit bookshelves worldwide in January. Rural areas around the... View full entry »
On Tuesday evening at the Landmark Center in Saint Paul, BDA students from the School of Architecture presented their proposals to save one of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota's 10 most endangered historic places. Three awards were handed out last night. Slides from the winning... View full entry »
This semester's Fibiger Prize for Research has been awarded to third-year architecture student Ashley Grzywa. The $1000 award is given every semester to the University of Minnesota College of Design student whose Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project is ranked #1 among all... View full entry »
On Tuesday, November 29, beginning at 6:00 pm, BDA students from the School of Architecture will be presenting their proposals to save one of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota's 10 most endangered historic places. Public presentations will take place in the Weyerhauser Auditorium, Landmark... View full entry »
Late last month, the College of Design's zero energy home (ZEH) with Habitat for Humanity was dedicated in Princeton, Minnesota. Over the last year, two School of Architecture classes - a semester-long architecture seminar and a six-week M Arch studio module - researched, designed... View full entry »
Last week, the team led by School of Architecture Adjunct Professors Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James of VJAA, working with architecture Associate Professor Marc Swackhamer of HouMinn Practice and others, was announced the winner of the Weisman Art Museum's Plaza Design Competition. A thoroughfare... View full entry »
University of Minnesota, College of Design Dean Tom Fisher and Architecture Head, Professor Renee Cheng, have been recognized as two of the top 25 most admired design educators for 2012 by DesignIntelligence (DI) magazine. DI selects educators from the disciplines of architecture, interior... View full entry »
Last week, over forty students from eight different colleges shared their sustainability research at the Student Sustainability Symposium sponsored by Institute on the Environment (IonE). Alice Yonke, a junior architecture major and sustainability studies minor at the University of Minnesota's... View full entry »
