Architecture

Project Manager at DesBrisay & Smith Architects, New York 

Senior Associate, Design Analyst and NE Region Building Repositioning Leader at Gensler, New York City

Students in Marc Manack’s graduate summer studio have designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. The project is a spatial response to Archeworks’ Social Construction research on the complex social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of public housing, housing insecurity, and social injustice. Between July 30 […]

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Deb Ryan has been elected chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, effective July 1, 2017. Formed in 1954, the Planning Commission’s role is to advise the Mayor, Charlotte City Council, and the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on all matters related to urban design, long range planning, and […]

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture’s 2017 Seoul Studio draws to a conclusion with student research presentations on Friday, June 30. Student work will be exhibited at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism from September 1-November 5, 2017. Under the guidance of Jeffrey Nesbit, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture, the students have been examining […]

Maria Floren, a 2012 graduate of the Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte, has been awarded a grant for her proposal in the Knight Cities Challenge. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation tasked participants to develop ideas that will make their cities more successful. The Knight Foundation divided five million dollars in grants […]

The School of Architecture announced the 2016-17 awards at a celebratory ceremony on graduation weekend, May 12, 2017. AIA Henry Adams Medal Undergraduate: Anna Anklin Graduate: Matt Allen AIA Certificate of Merit Award Undergraduate: Lucas Flint Graduate: Nazanin Modaresahmadi Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal Undergraduate: Anna Anklin Graduate: Emily Clodfelter Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) […]

Founder Apostrophe Consulting, Raleigh, N.C.

UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture’s Tactical Urbanism Class has partnered with the Charlotte Department of Transportation (CDOT), and First Ward Elementary and the Charlotte Lab School on a project to promote urban vitality and safe pedestrian behavior along the walkways that connect the elementary schools and UNC Charlotte Center City. On Friday, May […]

Dr. Lee Gray, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Architecture, was featured in a segment on National Public Radio’s Here & Now, which aired April 18. The segment, “What’s the most efficient way to ride an escalator?” began with a discussion of a study done by the London Underground on the most […]