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Architecture fans’ weekend trip includes Wrights’ Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob
January 24, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Responding to demand to repeat last year’s Frank Lloyd Wright / Fallingwater Architecture Tour, Triangle Modernist Houses and director George Smart are offering another weekend excursion for architecture enthusiasts: a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-famous Pennsylvania houses on April [...]

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Professor Thomas Barrie’s article Symbols of a Sacred Landscape: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea was recently published in Faith & Form (No. 3, 2010).
Professor Thomas Barrie, AIA, presented a lecture at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, The University of Idaho, as part of their fall lecture series. The event included a book [...]

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Landscape Architecture Lecture on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. A public presentation by Alan Berger, associate professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from MIT, entitled “Exterial Landscapes.”
Alan Berger will explore the concept of Landscape Externalities: specifically, the large-scale unintended environmental consequences that are produced from distant politico-economic activities. Several [...]

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Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff was invited to lecture on School Design at Drexel University in Philadelphia on October 29.
Sanoff’s book, “Democratic Design: Participation Case Studies in Urban and Small Town Environments” was published by VDM.
Architecture Teaching Fellow Katrina Stoll’s book and project from the Venice Biennale was noted in the November 2010 issue [...]

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Bachelor of Architecture alumnus Curt Fentress’s firm Fentress Architects was named number one in The Zweig Letter “Hot Firm” List. The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List recognizes both small and large firms for their successes. To read more visit: http://bit.ly/8ZsjMI

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Professor Thomas Barrie’s article “Symbols of a Sacred Landscape: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea” was recently published in Faith & Form (No. 3, 2010).
Barrie also recently lectured at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, The University of Idaho, as part of that school’s fall lecture series. The event included a book sale and signing [...]

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Each year, the Design Guild - a body of alumni and friends in the design community - hosts a reception honoring College of Design scholarship recipients and their sponsors. This year’s gathering held Nov. 5 in the Belk Rotunda in Brooks Hall involved a record turnout and featured a visit by NC State University Chancellor [...]

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“Construction is the medium through which architecture is made,” states part of the description of Prof. of Architecture Patrick Rand’s course on Architectural Construction Systems at the School of Architecture at the NC State University College of Design.
Getting to know the building blocks of structures was literally the goal of that course’s annual masonry design [...]

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The student run Fish Market will have it’s first open call show of the semester on Friday, October 1, 2010 with doors opening at 6 p.m. As always, this months show will feature fantastic work from all College of Design disciplines. Music will be provided by DJ Chocolate Rice. You won’t want to miss it.
Fish Market [...]

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College of Design Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios FAIA was named the 2010 Green Designer of the Year by the US Green Building Council, North Carolina Triangle Chapter. The award was made to Bizios for serving as an exemplary role model in pioneering, sharing and practicing sustainable principles that are saving the planet for the [...]

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(from the Wilmington Star-Telegram)
By Ben Steelman
Ben.Steelman@StarNewsOnline.com
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An Oct. 16 memorial service is planned for award-winning Wilmington architect Ligon B. Flynn, hailed by friends and associates as an idealist who promoted the humane use of space and connections to nature.

Flynn, 79, died Sunday in Wilmington. He had been in retirement [...]

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August 2010 Home of the Month Article in The News & Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/28/649117/bridge-house-over-troubled-waters.html
College of Design Alums Rob and Beth Mangum featured in the September 2010 issue of Our State Magazine. http://www.ourstate.com/articles/weaverville
Young Inventors Cause A Stir. Six pre-teens worked with industrial design professors and graduate students to conceive, prototype and develop presentations about their new [...]

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Master of Architecture alumna Sarah Corbitt (’09) will be giving a presentation at the GreenNC trade show on the topic of “The International Code Council’s forthcoming International Green Construction Code: Public Version 1″ on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in the McKimmon’s Center.
The IGCC is a code overlay which can be voluntarily [...]

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The fall homes tour season is getting underway and residents across the Triangle, North Carolina and the East Coast are in for a remarkable experience with the first annual American Institute of Architects Triangle Homes Tour on October 2, 2010.
The AIA Triangle Homes Tour features nine architects and ten homes that represent the value that [...]

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