Architecture

Amir Naeem, a recent graduate from the School of Architecture, has received a 2018 Emerging City Champions Fellowship from the John S. and James. L. Knight Foundation. The Emerging City Champions program is open to people between the ages of 19-35 in the 26 communities where Knight invests. The Knight Foundation awarded fellowships to 20 […]

The School of Architecture (SoA) announces the 2018-19 Faculty Research Grants. The objective of the grant program is to advance creative inquiry and research in the SoA. Since 2012, this program has allocated more than $125,000 to 15 faculty in support of their creative work. The SoA will fund three awards this academic year. The […]

The 2018 recipients of the School of Architecture Scholarships in Practice will begin their summer internships later this month, ushering in the new academic year of internship and scholarship support provided by these partnerships with local architecture firms. The 2018 Scholarship in Practice winners are: C DESIGN Scholarship in Practice: David Harrill BB&M Scholarship in […]

Students in Professor Deb Ryan’s fifth-year architecture studio will address the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission working group on May 7, presenting their research from their #ShapeCLT project. The project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, integrates community input with research on the city’s history and development to propose plans […]

Creative Director/Principal, Point of Reference Studio, Madrid, Spain

School of Architecture alumna Tracy Dodson has been named assistant city manager for economic development by City Manager Marcus Jones. Dodson will leave her position as a vice president in the Charlotte-based real estate and development firm Lincoln Harris and begin the city post on May 7. Dodson has served as the Director of Economic […]

A group of graduate students from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, China, have come to Charlotte to work on a joint urban design workshop with students in the School of Architecture MUDD 6102 Advanced Urban Design Studio, led by Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee. The students are collaboratively developing plans for […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang’s proposal, “60 mph: Architectural Mediums and Speed Tectonics,” has been selected as a finalist for the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize to support extensive travel and research, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. The prize is awarded annually “to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional […]

Marc Manack, assistant professor of architecture, has contributed a chapter to The Interior Architecture Theory Reader. The book was edited by Gregory Maninic and recently published by Routledge. In 50 chapters, the book surveys interior architecture, examining history, theory, and production across the fields of interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Manack’s chapter is […]

The School of Architecture presents Technoecologies, a solo exhibition by Zenovia Toloudi/Studio Z, on view in Storrs Gallery February 2 through March 2, with an opening reception on February 2 at 5:30 pm. Technoecologies reconceives the relationship between humans and their environment in architecture through prototypes and models that explore emerging forms of bioarchitecture, living […]