Chris Jarrett, Director of the School, announced the results of SoA's inaugural Faculty Research Grant program.

Graduate student Keihly Moore is one of a handful of UNC Charlotte students selected to be a 2012-2013 Grad Life Fellow.

Prof. Zhongjie Lin has been awarded an International Fellowship from The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto is an architect and a professor of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design at the University of Toronto.

The Architecture Summer Program at UNC Charlotte, held June 10-15, 2012, will introduce high school students to architecture.

Scholarship award winners for 2011-2012

Assistant Professor Emily Makas was selected to participate in the 2012 Hess Seminar for Faculty at the Center for Advanced Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, January 4-10, 2012 in Washington, DC.

2012 CENTRAL EUROPE [May 19-June 23, 2012] Led by Profs. Emily Makas, Jeff Balmer and Jeff Murphy

Assistant Professor of Architecture Zhong-jie Lin’s article "Nakagin Capsule Tower: Revisiting the Future of the Recent Past" was recently published in the Journal of Architectural Education, 65/1.

Graduate student Ron Sessoms was awarded the 2011 North Carolina American Planning Association (NCAPA) Diversity Scholarship. The award will be given at the Awards Ceremony at the October NCAPA Conference. Ron Sessoms is a student in SoA's Master of Urb

Assistant Professor Chris Beorkrem presented “Material Ecologies in Parametric Design Software” at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction held on the campus of the University of Kansas.

Associate Professor Gamez, through his collaborative efforts with the Design + Society Research Center, was recently awarded a $20,000 matching grant from the City of Charlotte's Neighborhood Services and Economic Development. The funding augments previo

Assistant Professor Emily Makas co-authored the book “Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas” with John Stubbs of Columbia University, published by Wiley Press.

Assistant Professor Mona Azarbayjani was awarded a Faculty Research Grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Federal Relations for “Developing of an Airflow Modeling Tool for Architectural Applications: Climate-based Design Guidelines

Associate Professor Jose Gámez presented his collaborative on-going research into the impacts of the foreclosure crisis on Charlotte's local neighborhoods at the 41st Annual Urban Affairs Conference, New Orleans, LA (March 16-19, 2011). His co-authored p

Assistant Professor Chris Beorkrem chaired two Paper Sessions on “Subverting Methods of Digital Design” at the 99th Annual ACSA Meeting in Montreal.

Associate Professor Deb Ryan extended the focus of her civic engagement work by assisting the Historic House Trust (HHT) in New York city in increasing interest in and visitation to the Wyckoff House, New York's oldest home. She and her students worked w

Precision and Experimentation: Study Abroad in Switzerland: May 16-June 9, 2011

Associate Professor Jose Gamez of the Design+Society Research Center [D+SRC] and Janni Sorensen of the Charlotte Action Research Project [CARP] led a group of 140 volunteers from UNC Charlotte on a community service project in Windy Ridge, a neighborhood

Assistant Professor Thomas Gentry led the second of three advanced, multi-disciplinary, integrated design studios on co-senior housing with Dr. Brett Tempest of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The studios focus on sustainable, pre-

Associate Professor Lee Gray was featured on PBS in an episode of NOVA titled, “Trapped in an Elevator.” He served as a consultant for this program.

Associate Professor Michael Swisher presented a paper on “Foundation Teaching” in the session “Bauhaus to BIM: Craft, Technology, and Foundation Education”

Associate Professor Deb Ryan presented “Building the Digital City One Voice at a Time” at the 2010 North Carolina AIA Design Conference in Asheville on September 17th.

Assistant Professor Thomas Forget lecture presented “The Museum of Art: Contemporary Challenges to Historical Models of Museum Architecture,” an invited lecture at the Mint Museum of Art, October 1, 2010.

Lecturers Jen Shields and Bryan Shields curated the inaugural exhibition of the Roofless Gallery for Contemporary Art in Charlotte, October 8, 2010.

Professor David Walters, the Program Coordinator for the School of Architecture’s Master of Urban Design Program, was the lead urban designer with the Lawrence Group, Architects and Town Planners, who won an Award of Merit in the South Carolina APA 2010 P

Dean Ken Lambla of the College of Arts + Architecture, with Visiting Assistant Professor Nora Wendl and Associate Professor Jose Gamez organized a three-part program with artist-in-residence Theaster Gates, Jr. in October.

The urban design and planning work of MUD program coordinator, Prof. David Walters, has received further national recognition. Walters' work with The Lawrence Group, architects and town planners, on the Mountain Landscapes Initiative "Toolbox" project cov

Professor David Walters and Associate Professor Jose Gamez each have a chapter published in the book, "The Global Evolution of a New South City" (ed. W. Graves and H.A. Smith), published by the University of Georgia Press, 2010:

New Tenure-Track Faculty: Professor Nicholas Senske holds an M.S. in Architecture (Design and Computation Group) from MIT and a B.Arch. from Iowa State University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

Associate Professor Jose Gamez, with Professor Janni Sorensen in the Department of Geography, was awarded a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for their research project Connecting Campus Resources to Foreclosure Hit Neighborhoods.

Associate Professor Peter Wong, with members of the Master of Architecture Student Society (MASS), organized CriticalMASS 2010, a graduate student symposium with presentations of thesis work from ten Schools of Architecture in the Southeast.

Visiting Lecturer Bryan Shields organized a screening of Citizen Architect at the Knight Theater in downtown Charlotte, a documentary on the Rural Studio and its founder Sam Mockbee.

The Architecture Summer Program at UNC Charlotte will introduce high school students to architecture.

Digital Design Center (DDC) and others collaborated with Professor James Vesce of the Theater Department on the production of “Tales of the Lost Formicans” by Constance Congdon.

Professor and Dean Ken Lambla secured a three-year exchange agreement with Tongji University following a five-week summer study abroad program in China.