Architecture

Associate Professor of Architecture Jeff Balmer is leading an effort to save the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto, Canada, from destruction. The planetarium opened in 1968 and closed in 1995. Since 2009 the Mid-century Modernist building has belonged to the University of Toronto, which has announced plans to demolish it and build a Centre for Civilizations […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack is a guest speaker on two architecture lecture series this fall. On October 26, Manack spoke at the Drury University Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Missouri, as part of the lecture series, Impermanence. The lecture, GOOD|FAST|CHEAP focused on the work of SILO AR+D, the practice he directs with […]

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design and director of City.Building.Lab, has been invited to present lectures on publicly engaged design at the Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) and the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) in the Czech Republic during the week of October 31. She will also be leading a workshop on […]

Dr. Lee Gray, a professor of architectural history in the School of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts + Architecture, was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The article, “Dumbwaiters on the Rise in New Home and Renovations,” looks at the resurgence of 19th-century-style dumbwaiters in contemporary high-rise apartment buildings […]

SILO AR+D, founded by new Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack, has recently received recognition as one of North America’s most promising new architecture firms. In February 2016, SILO AR+D won an Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, one of eight practices honored. The online magazine Archipreneuer also named SILO AR+D […]

School of Architecture alumnus Sean Gallagher (B. Arch. 2000), Director of Sustainable Design at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), is the project architect for the winning entry in an international competition to design the South Sea Pearl Eco-Island, a man-made eco-tourism hub planned for China’s Haikou Bay. Gallagher joined Liz Diller and Charles Curran in […]

Faculty in the School of Architecture will present at several national and international conferences this fall: Associate Professor Thomas Forget will present “Housing Inquiry: Changes in Contemporary Urban Living” at the Culture in Urban Space Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (August 24-26); Associate Professor Jefferson Ellinger will present “Urban Vertical Farming” at the Association of Collegiate […]

School of Architecture alumni Eddie Winn and Samantha McPadden have won third place in a competition sponsored by the Nka Foundation. The competition called for the design of a small artist-in-residence center in a rural arts village in Ghana, Africa. Nka Foundation was established in 2008 as a network of arts villages and arts-based community […]

The UNC Charlotte chapter of Freedom By Design™ has won the 2016 Freedom By Design Program Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). The AIAS Honor Awards were developed to publicly recognize outstanding achievements by students, educators, and practitioners who have exhibited an exemplary commitment to the education and development of architecture […]

A design project by School of Architecture Director Chris Jarrett and Associate Professor of Architecture Peter Wong has received the Citation Award in the Activate North Carolina 2016 Urban Housing Competition. Activate North Carolina is a program of AIANC, the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects, that seeks to engage architects, designers, and […]