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Architecture student Christopher Pietsch recently presented his work in the Ninth Annual NC State University Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at the McKimmon Center. Pietsch won a $1500 undergraduate research grant to study craft in prefabricated architecture. As part of his research, he traveled to San Francisco to visit the offices of Anderson Anderson Architects where [...]

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Assistant Professor of Architecture David Hill spent several weeks in London this past summer participating in the Architectural Association’s (AA) Visiting Teachers’ Programme. The program invites a dozen professors from around the world to discuss the future of architectural education through a series of seminars, lectures, and reviews of students’ design projects at the AA.

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Architecture Teaching Fellow Katrina Stoll launched a book “Infrastructure as Architecture” in Venice, Italy on August 28, 2010.
Infrastructure has played a key role in dramatically reformatting the built fabric and spatial reserves within the past one hundred years, and will continue to do so in the future. The involvement of architects is necessary to shape [...]

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Architecture students Evan Lane, Kelly Mocock, and Afshin Roshdi produced digital models and a video for for an exhibition that will run at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design. The video is being displayed as part of the Southern Roots of Mid-century Modern, a show that will run until December 18, 2010.
Lane, Mocock, and [...]

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A luncheon event with a keynote address by Bill Reed, AIA, LEED will take place at the McKimmon Center on Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will be in conjunction with the 6th Annual Tradeshow for the North Carolina Building Industry.
Reed will focus on integrated and regenerative design. For more [...]

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Co-sponsored by AIA Triangle.
September 13 - Plenary | National + Local Contexts
(Michael Crosbie, Roger Clark, Wes McClure, Ellen Weinstein)
September 20 - Sacred Place
(Thomas Kundig)
October 11 - The Endurance and/or Transience of Sacred Places: Devotion, Commodification, and Accommodation in Southern Mexico
(Lindsay Jones)
November 1 - Somewhere in Between
(Michael Rotondl)
November 8 - Defining Local
(Trey Trahan)
November 22 - Shadow [...]

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The School of Architecture and the College of Design at North Carolina State University present Drawings: The Art of Brian Shawcroft.
Mr. Shawcroft is an architect and former associate professor of architecture at NCSU. His contributions to the modern movement of architecture made him a recipient of the Kamphoefner Prize in 1991. Mr. Shawcroft is also [...]

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Welcome Back BBQ will be held on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. behind Brooks Hall. All College of Design students, faculty and staff are invited. This event is sponsored by the Design Guild.

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SAVE THE DATES!
Friday, February 11, 2011
4th Annual Growing in Place Symposium
Marbles Kids Museum
Saturday, February 12, 2011
8th Annual Urban Design Conference
Raleigh Marriott City Center
Stay tuned for details!
Register for Natural Learning Initiative Workshops at www.naturalearning.org
Research to Practice: Maximizing Child Outcomes in the Outdoors Symposium for Early HS and HS Programs.
Sept. 28-29, 2010
College of Design, NC State [...]

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Join Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2010 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.
The Henley Park Hotel
926 Massachuessetts Avenue NW
(one block from the Washington Convention Center)
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:00–7:30 PM
please rsvp by September 3 to:
919.515.8320 or design.ncsu.edu/rsvp
We will honor new alumni fellow:
WHITNEY A. [...]

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Architecture Alumnus Curt Fentress (’72) is this year’s recipient of the Jefferson Award and was featured in Architectural Record magazine. Fentress will be the world’s first airport design architect honored with the Thomas Jefferson Public Architecture award.

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AIA Triangle Homes Tour announces the winning architects and award homes that will be featured October 2, 2010. Congratulations to: Angerio Design, Bizios Architect, Cherry Huffman, Ellen Cassilly Architect, Frank Harmon Architect, John Reese, Studio B Architecture, Tina Govan Architect and Vernacular Studio.
Each of the featured architects selected by the visiting Austin AIA Jury demonstrates positive [...]

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Alumni Distinguished Professor of Architecture J. Patrick Rand’s book “Architectural Detailing” has gone international. “Architectural Detailing” has been translated and published in the French language by a publisher in Montreal. It will be produced in French for the Quebec readers and for sale in France and other French speaking locations.
“Lac conception du detail en architecture” [...]

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Visiting Teaching professor Ginger Krieg Dosier was featured in Metropolis Magazine for winning the Better Brick: 2010 Next Generation competition. Krieg Dosier, a young American architect, was able to bioengineer a brick that is modest in physical scale but has the potential for global impact.
Read more at Metropolis Magazine.com
Krieg Dosier was also featured in the [...]

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School of Architecture associate professor Kristen Schaffer will appear on PBS. Professor Schaffer was interviewed for “Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City,” a documentary that explores how the ides of architect and planner Daniel Burnham shaped the city of Chicago and influenced decades of urban planning. It will air on UNC [...]

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