Architecture

Architecture professor Jeff Balmer has initiated an effort in Toronto to preserve Ontario Place, a waterfront park designed in the early 1970s by Bauhaus-trained architect Eberhard Zeidler. Balmer grew up in Toronto and in a recent article in Canada’s Global News, remembers visiting the park. “I remember full well the incredible impact that Ontario Place […]

Last fall the Plaza Midwood Merchants Association approached Associate Professor of Urban Design Nadia Anderson and asked whether the School of Architecture’s City.Building.Lab, a research arm of the SoA, would propose solutions for the Gordon Street alley, a dingy strip that lies between the Sherwin-Williams paint store and Snug Harbor music venue in the Plaza […]

The multidisciplinary design firm LandDesign is sponsoring a class this semester in the Master of Urban Design program to study digital placemaking. Led by Professor Deb Ryan, students in “Dilemmas in Modern City Planning: Digital Technology and Urban Activation” will work with LandDesign team members to explore the impact of technology on the design of […]

A new “tiny park” near the corner of 10th Street and Jackson Avenue is the result of a community collaboration that brought students of the UNC Charlotte Master of Urban Design (MUD) program together with seventh graders from Piedmont Open IB Middle School. Two years ago, MUD students, led by professor José Gamez and architecture […]

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Ryan has been named the new director of the Master of Urban Design program. Ryan assumed program leadership on January 15. Ryan is a registered landscape architect and a professor of architecture and urban design at UNC Charlotte, where she has taught […]

Two graduate student teams based in SoA professor Nadia Anderson’s Studio Peru and one based in the City.Building.Lab research center were finalists in the Habitat for Inhabitants-Lima’s Human Right to Housing competition sponsored by Discover Needs Architecture (DNADD). DNADD is a non-profit based in Italy that seeks to educate the public about housing insecurity, advocate […]

In Spring 2018 a studio of fifth-year architecture students, led by Professor Deb Ryan, developed a “Millennial Plan” for Charlotte. Their plan is a vision for the future of Charlotte that is based on research into Charlotte’s history, research of best practices in other municipalities, and input from Charlotte residents, with particular focus on the […]

In partnership with the Levine Museum of the New South, Assistant Professor of Urban Design Ming-Chun Lee and UNC Charlotte students will help Charlotte residents discover the stories behind the rise and fall of Eastland Mall and its surrounding neighborhood at an event on Saturday, December 8. The event, “Being a Historian for a Day,” […]

On October 27, a group of UNC Charlotte architecture students led by Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack installed “Mending Fences,” a design/build project for the city of Salisbury. The project was funded by the city’s BlockWork grant program, which is managed by Alyssa Nelson, urban design planner for the city of Salisbury and an […]

On view through November 16, an exhibition in Storrs Gallery brings together data, technology, imagination, and artistic expression to challenge viewers to reconsider the notion of “the visible.” “SEE-ING: The Environmental Consciousness Project” presents work by a dozen artists and architects from across the globe that explore themes such as how technology is transforming our […]