Architecture

Three students in Professor Jefferson Ellinger’s Graduate Topic Design Studio have taken the top prizes in the 2017 Living Building Challenge-Los Angeles (LBC-LA) Collaborative Student Competition. The international competition invited students to design Pavilion Zero, which is envisioned as the main pavilion for the Los Angeles World’s Fair, if the city hosts the fair in […]

Dr. Kyounghee Kim, associate professor of architecture, was awarded a 2017 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grant ($30,000) for Biophilic Architecture: Sustainable Materialization of Microalgae Facades – in support of her research on high-performance building envelope design. This is her second AIA Upjohn Award; she was awarded a 2013 AIA Upjohn Research Grant ($27,000) for Sustainable […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack and students from his summer studio will travel to Chicago this month to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Over the summer, the studio designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. Their challenge was to translate the research into […]

Two UNC Charlotte architecture alumni, Miyuki Tsujimura, AIA (Bachelor of Architecture, 2013) and Chuck Travis, FAIA (B.A. in Architecture, 1982) were honored this fall at state conventions of the Americans Institute of Architects (AIA). Tsujimara received the Associate Member Individual Honor Award at the 2017 AIA Florida Convention in Naples. Tsujimara has been at Hoy+Stark […]

Dr. Zhongjie Lin, associate professor of architecture and urbanism, has written an essay for the forthcoming book, SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, which will be published in October. Lin’s essay, “Conflicts and Re-adaptation: Introduction to East Asia,” is also the introductory essay for a large survey exhibition of Brutalist architecture, on view November 9, 2017 […]

Members of the School of Architecture faculty will present papers nationally and internationally this fall. Marc Manack’s paper, “Good|Fast |Cheap Inventive Project Delivery Methods that Expand Audiences for Design-Build,” will be presented at the 2017 International Association of Architectural Educators Conference at Oxford Brooks, England, September 6-9. Chris Beorkrem and Eric Sauda, with Jack (Michael-Paul) […]

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Faculty members from the School of Architecture have presented papers and projects at national and international conferences this summer. Nadia Anderson presented “Gentrification: The New Urban Renewal, Cherry, Charlotte, NC” at the 48th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI, June 1-4. […]