DESIGNlife News

The College of Design has a new advisory body to help inform its progress.
The Leaders Council, made up of over 30 distinguished alumni from around the country, convened for the first time on campus Nov. 5 and 6 to discuss issues that impact how the college moves forward in the 21st century.
The council is a [...]

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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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Ron Kuhr of Raleigh, a retired NC State professor of entomology, has a 41 year-old son with autism, a diagnosis that has grown in prevalence from one in a thousand to nearly one in a hundred children over the past few decades.Everyone is anxious to know: How will autistic children learn to cope with daily [...]

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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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Landscape Architecture Registration Examination preparatory course offered May 7-9, 2010. Instructor Ray Freeman to teach Section E. For more information and to register visit: Landscape Architecture Registration Examination.
This course would benefit candidates for the LARE who are taking the exam for the first time, are having difficulty with Section E, or need a refresher on [...]

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GREG HATEM IS A SPARK, A CATALYST, A FORCE BEHIND THE RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. As founder and managing partner of Empire Properties, Greg has guided the company’s portfolio of projects, consisting of more than 40 rehabilitation projects with 550,000 square feet of retail and office space which have truly enhanced not only the [...]

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Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities
The 7th Annual Urban Design Conference, Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities, will explore the design strategies that cities imagine, develop, and implement as they grow stronger and more vibrant while facing economic, environmental, and social challenges. Presenters and conference attendees will delve into the elements of resiliency that designers, [...]

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Join the Design Guild and the College of Design community in honoring Greg Hatem’s work to both preserve historic architecture and revitalize downtown Raleigh. Mark your calendar! The thirteenth annual Design Guild Award Dinner will take place on Saturday, April 10, 2010, at Bay 7, American Tobacco Campus in Durham. Interested in reserving a [...]

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Interested in urban design? Don’t miss this wonderful line up of speakers for Friday and Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010, to present the 7th annual Urban Design Forum at the Raleigh Convention Center.
Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities on Saturday, March 6

Maurice Cox, Director of Design, National Endowments for the Arts
Associate Professor of Architecture, [...]

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The restricted life of children is having an increasingly negative impact on their healthy development. Many children are not allowed to venture out alone or even with their friends as previous generations did. How can we plan and design a public realm where children find the physical and social stimulation necessary for healthy human development [...]

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[Transcript]
Fall 2009 Commencement Address
December 19, 2009
ABOUT CAKES AND RAISINS
Dr. Paul Tesar
Professor of Architecture
Good afternoon – and a very good afternoon it is for all of us here!!! Such things as the weather cannot, must not, get in the way of events such as this. On the contrary: I think that a little adversity makes them [...]

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Guidelines for End of year Donations
As you are making your plans for the holidays and your final year-end donations for the 2009 tax year, we hope that you will include the College of Design in those plans. You may choose to support any of the academic programs, become a member of the Design Guild, [...]

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NC State University College of Design Alumni and Friends are cordially invited to attend a reception and lecture in New York City.

LECTURE
The Bauhaus: Answers to a Complex Challenge
The Bauhaus has been called the most influential design school of the Twentieth century. Ninety years after its founding by the German architect Walter Gropius, its achievements remain [...]

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