news since May 17, 2011
Two ISU student projects win national Hospitality Design Awards
May 10, 2012
Two teams of recent Iowa State University graduates won the top awards in the student project category of the 2012 Hospitality Design Awards (HD Awards) for Creative Achievement sponsored by Hospitality Design magazine. The competition—in its eighth year—recognizes outstanding design projects in 17 categories that relate to the hospitality industry, including luxury/upscale and mid-range/economy hotels, resorts, night clubs, restaurants and public spaces. Iowa State student teams have been winners or finalists in each of the past five years. [More...]
Two Iowa State architecture students offer Waverly an outdoor amphitheater design
May 04, 2012
What started out as a favor turned into an award-winning design project and volumes of life experience for two Iowa State University architecture students. Ann Cashman, Waverly, and Darian Lu, Shanghai, are graduating this weekend with Bachelor of Architecture degrees. The two volunteered their time to design an outdoor amphitheater for the City of Waverly that even the neighbors like. And, not only did it win second place in a national community design competition, it's likely to be built. [Link...]
Coming full circle: Mahayni wraps up distinguished career of teaching and professional service
May 02, 2012
Thirty-three years ago, Riad G. Mahayni joined the fledgling Department of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University. At the time there were six faculty members and "a few handfuls of students." Though the planning program could trace its roots to courses taught in the early 1920s and had been a department since 1973, it was only with the move to the new College of Design in 1978 and Mahayni's appointment as chair that CRP really came into its own at Iowa State. Mahayni left for a few years to travel halfway around the globe for a career-defining planning project, but returned to Ames again to continue to make an impact on the university and the city. And now, he's ready for the next step—retirement. [More...]
Hightshoe turns attention from teaching to family, travel and publishing projects
May 01, 2012
Gary Hightshoe spent a good part of his childhood tromping around the woods: His father, a general contractor and home builder, has a degree in botany and his mother is an artist, so both parents found creative and professional inspiration in the plants, animals, bugs and fungi in Iowa's woodland areas. Looking back, it's not surprising that Hightshoe—who was always growing, making, building, collecting, drawing and designing something outdoors as a kid—would find himself attracted to landscape architecture when he entered college. Forty-seven years later, this professor of landscape architecture is retiring from Iowa State University, where he has made his mark with a nationally recognized book and innovative contributions to curriculum development that’s touched the lives of hundreds of students. [More...]
Looking forward: Anderson plans plentiful retirement pursuits
May 01, 2012
Genealogy. Photography. Music. Children and grandchildren. Any one of those is enough to keep someone busy, full time. But it's just part of the list that Professor Paul Anderson plans to devote himself to after retirement from the Iowa State University Departments of Landscape Architecture and Agronomy. That's not to say that Anderson hasn't kept busy over nearly four decades, enriching the departments with innovative leadership as well as distinguished teaching. It's just that he's focused on his next act. [More...]
Regents approve ISU College of Design reorganization plan
April 27, 2012
The Iowa State University College of Design will encompass seven departments under a reorganization plan approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, at its meeting April 25-26 in Cedar Falls. The new structure retains three existing departments—architecture, community and regional planning, and landscape architecture—and creates four new ones— graphic design, industrial design, interior design and integrated studio arts —from programs that were housed in the former Department of Art and Design. [More...]
Iowa State's design college and alumni association partner with Iowa Prison Industries
April 26, 2012
Integrated studio arts students in Associate Professor Chris Martin's advanced furniture design studio partnered with the ISU Alumni Association and Iowa Prison Industries this spring to create several alumni keepsakes from salvaged campus wood. Student designs for a picture frame, a child's rocker, an all-purpose storage box for jewelry or remote controls, and a Shaker-style end table will be produced by IPI and sold by the ISUAA. A portion of the sales proceeds will help support student scholarships. [Link...]
Iowa State design students create an oversize toy for Reiman Gardens
April 25, 2012
Associate Professor of Architecture Mitchell Squire's innovative teaching and his students' discoveries will be on view from April 27 through Nov. 16 at Reiman Gardens, in conjunction with the LEGO Nature Connects exhibit. Students in Squire's TOYS! Studio created a Conservatory building exhibit that embraces basic toy forms like a pinwheel and cannon to create a world of wonder and delight. [Link...]
Landscape architect and urbanist to present P.H. Elwood Lecture at ISU April 27
April 20, 2012
An accomplished San Francisco designer of public landscapes will present the 2012 P.H Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. Chris Guillard will speak on "P.S.T. Places-Systems-Things" at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in the Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. His presentation is free and open to the public. [Link...]
Two ISU architecture student teams share 2012 Hansen Prize
April 19, 2012
Two teams of architecture students at Iowa State University received top honors in the 2012 Richard F. Hansen Prize competition, hosted by the ISU architecture program. Out of more than 100 students in seven different studio course sections, four teams and one individual student were selected to present their work in the competition at the end of March. Team Veloscape, which included Coaxin Cun, Lanzhou, China; Han Kwon, Bellevue; and Laura Lynch, Hastings, Minn., won first place and $2,000. Second place and $1,000 went to the team of Yeonkyu Park, Seongnam, South Korea, and Lan Pham, Des Moines. [More...]
Community and regional planning senior Amanda Jacobson is ISU College of Design student marshal
April 18, 2012
Amanda Jacobson, St. Charles, will represent the Iowa State University College of Design as its student marshal at the university's public commencement exercises May 5 in Hilton Coliseum. Her faculty escort will be Douglas M. Johnston, professor and chair of the department of community and regional planning. Jacobson will graduate magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in community and regional planning from Iowa State. She is completing her undergraduate degree in just three years. [More...]
ISU interior design student team places second in international video competition
April 16, 2012
A team of two Iowa State University interior design students took second place out of a field of 30 in the 2011 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Interior Design Education Video Competition. Winners were announced during the IDEC 2012 Annual Conference in Baltimore in March. Seniors Emily Erbes and Anya Robson, both of Ames, were recognized for "Economic Impacts of a Qualified Interior Designer," a video they created to describe the worldwide economic contributions of interior design and its practitioners. [More...]
Seven senior students honored in ISU College of Design’s annual BFA exhibition
April 16, 2012
Seven Iowa State University students majoring in integrated studio arts took top honors in "Primed," the 2012 BFA Juried Senior Student Exhibition, on view through April 19 in Gallery 181, College of Design. The show features 90 artworks by 45 seniors who will receive Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in integrated studio arts (ISA) in May, August or December this year. Media represented include ceramics, drawing, digital media, fiber, metal, mixed media, painting, photography and printmaking. The exhibition also features a large mural painted directly on the gallery's east wall to honor the graduating class. [More...]
Emerging Terrain founder to speak about public-interest design April 18 at ISU
April 12, 2012
Anne Trumble, the founder and director of Omaha, Neb.-based nonprofit Emerging Terrain, will speak about the organization's public art and public space-related work Wednesday, April 18, at Iowa State University. Trumble's presentation, "Emerging Terrain: Burgeoning Public Interest Design," will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. It is free and open to the public. [More...]
Quest for beauty in ‘informal’ housing is topic of April 12 lecture at ISU College of Design
April 09, 2012
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano, a faculty member in architecture and urban design at three universities in Peru, will describe the informal process through which people build their own cities—one house at a time—to meet their needs, and how they strive to make their dwellings beautiful, in a presentation Thursday, April 12, at Iowa State University. Her talk, "Informality: Spontaneous Process in Dwelling – The Lima Case," will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. Sponsored by the College of Design and ISU Architecture Advisory Council, her lecture is free and open to the public. [More...]
Artist and Iowa State alumna Katy Stone to speak on evolution of her work April 12 at ISU
April 09, 2012
Studio artist Katy Stone, an Iowa native and Iowa State University alumna now based in Seattle, will speak about the evolution of her work and creative inspiration in a public presentation this week at the ISU College of Design. Stone's lecture, "Influential Landscapes: An Artist's Evolution," will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the college's Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 Design. It is free and open to the public. [More...]
Rome Prize Fellowship Winner to Present 2012 Hansen Lecture in Architecture March 28 at ISU
March 22, 2012
Ursula Emery McClure, a partner in emerymcclure architecture and an associate professor of architecture at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, will present the 2012 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture Wednesday, March 28, at Iowa State University. In "Against Specialization," Emery McClure will discuss her firm's work in the context of the potentialities of architectural education. Her talk will be at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. Part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, the event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Urban planning expert Enrique Silva to speak on globalization of planning March 22 at ISU College of Design
March 06, 2012
Urban planning expert Enrique Silva will address the political and institutional opportunities emerging from the globalization of planning practice in a presentation Thursday, March 22, at the Iowa State University College of Design. Silva's lecture, "Governance and Planning: Locating the will and power to plan in the Americas," will be from 3:40 to 5 p.m. in Room 130 Design. It is free and open to the public. [More...]
Chicago community leader will speak about urban homelessness and poverty at ISU
February 23, 2012
Jane Ramsey, an influential community leader and activist in Chicago, will speak at Iowa State University on Wednesday, Feb. 29. Her talk, "Myths and Realities of Homelessness and Poverty: A Plan for Transforming Cities," will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room. This event is cosponsored by the College of Design, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Graduate Community and Regional Planning Club and ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by the Government of the Student Body). It is free and open to the public. [Link...]
Architectural technology expert Kiel Moe to speak about energy formation in architecture Feb. 22 at ISU
February 17, 2012
Harvard University architectural technology professor Kiel Moe will address the formation of energy in contemporary architecture in a lecture Feb. 22 at Iowa State University. Moe's talk, part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, will be at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, Room 101 College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Octagon Show Will Feature Work by CoD Faculty, Students and Alumni
January 23, 2012
Eighteen College of Design faculty, students and alumni are among 58 artists from eight states whose work has been selected for the 44th National Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood Exhibition, Jan. 27 through April 7 at the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames. An opening reception will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Octagon. Juror remarks and presentation of awards will begin at 6 p.m. This is also the opening reception for "Wax On, Wax Off: Encaustic Paintings by Barbara Walton," a solo show by Barbara Walton, associate professor of integrated studio arts. [More...]
Ceramic artist Esther Shimazu to speak at ISU College of Design Jan. 26
January 19, 2012
Ceramic artist Esther Shimazu, best known for her stoneware sculptures of bald, nude, chunky Asian women, will share her inspiration and techniques in a lecture and workshop at Iowa State University this month. Shimazu's presentation, "Someone Had to Make Them—Why Not Me?" will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, in Room 411 College of Design. It is free and open to the public. Shimazu also will teach a three-day ceramic workshop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, in Room 038 Design. While the workshop registration is full, the public is invited to observe free of charge. [More...]
Urban planning expert Edward Goetz to address disappearance of public housing Jan. 23 at ISU College of Design
January 17, 2012
Over the past 20 years, nearly a quarter-million public-housing units have been demolished in cities across the United States. Some are rebuilt as part of mixed-income, mixed-finance developments, but most are permanently lost. Edward G. Goetz, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Minnesota, will describe the scope and nature of the demolition effort and implications for public-housing residents and inner-city neighborhoods in a presentation at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in Room 130 of the Iowa State University College of Design. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the college's Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum. Both events are free and open to the public. [More...]
Exhibition to highlight collaborative student designs for adaptable, energy-efficient buildings
January 12, 2012
Work by international teams of architecture and landscape architecture students who studied in Berlin last summer will be on display Jan. 18 – Feb. 3 at the Iowa State University College of Design. An opening reception for the "adaptive interface ­– building envelope" exhibition will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the college’s Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibition, also in the Lightfoot Forum, will feature design projects developed by participants in the ARS Berlin Summer Academy 2011, an intensive five-week program that focuses annually on issues of reorganization and sustainable development within urban environments. [More...]
Twelve towns selected for 2012 Community Visioning Program
January 12, 2012
Twelve Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2012. They include Calmar, Center Point, Chariton, Colo, Dyersville, Manning, Paullina, Perry, Rock Valley, Schaller, Tripoli and Villisca. The visioning program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation in partnership with Iowa State University Landscape Architecture Extension and Trees Forever, an Iowa-based nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. [More...]
Science meets art on the river in Iowa State University learning community
December 15, 2011
Freshman biology and design students collaborated this year to create artwork from trash collected by the Skunk River Navy, a service project of the biology learning community. Michael Stanley, a lecturer in integrated studio arts, also was commissioned to create a sculpture from collected trash to be dedicated to the Skunk River Navy volunteers. [Link...]
ISU College of Design names first Bachelor of Design program director
December 07, 2011
Following an internal search, the Iowa State University College of Design has appointed Kimberly Zarecor to serve as the first director of its Bachelor of Design program. Zarecor, an associate professor of architecture, will serve half time (50 percent appointment) through June 2014, and may be appointed to additional three-year terms. She will continue her teaching and scholarly work in the architecture department, now on a half-time basis. [More...]
Sepulveda named ISU College of Design’s student marshal for fall commencement
December 05, 2011
Paola Sepulveda of Ames, formerly of Santa Barbara, Calif., will represent the Iowa State University College of Design as its student marshal at the university's public commencement exercises Dec. 17 in Hilton Coliseum. Her faculty escort will be Carl Rogers, associate professor of landscape architecture. Sepulveda will graduate magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Iowa State. She is also near completion of her Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree. [More...]
Students honored in ISU College of Design’s 32nd Art and Design Annual exhibition
November 10, 2011
Nine students from Illinois, Iowa and Ohio took top honors in the 32nd Art and Design Annual Juried Student Exhibition now on view in Gallery 181 at the Iowa State University College of Design. The exhibition, which runs through Friday, Dec. 2, showcases 63 creative artworks by 50 Iowa State students majoring in architecture, art and design, biological and pre-medical illustration (BPMI), design open, graphic design, integrated studio arts and interior design. [More...]
ISU's architecture and landscape architecture programs rank in top 10 nationally
November 02, 2011
Iowa State University's undergraduate programs in architecture and landscape architecture are ranked in the top 10 in the nation, according to a new survey of practitioners by DesignIntelligence. The survey places Iowa State's undergraduate architecture program 9th and landscape architecture program 10th in the United States. [Link...]
Building Information Modeling expert Ute Poerschke to speak at ISU Nov. 14
October 31, 2011
Ute Poerschke, a national expert in Building Information Modeling and environmentally conscious design, will discuss different understandings of BIM in education and professional practice as part of the fall-semester Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series at Iowa State University. Poerschke will present "BIM: Integrated Architecture" at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Public space scholar Rachel Berney to speak at ISU College of Design Nov. 10
October 27, 2011
Rachel Berney, an assistant professor of landscape architecture, urban design and planning at the University of Southern California, will highlight the efforts of two South American cities to reinvent themselves through public space in a presentation Thursday, Nov. 10, at Iowa State University. Berney will speak on "Visible Competency: Shaping Capital through Public Space in Latin America" at 12:30 p.m. in room 130, College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Finalists announced in Des Moines Water Works Park design competition
October 26, 2011
Des Moines Water Works, in partnership with Iowa State University's Department of Landscape Architecture, today (Oct. 26) announced finalists in the "Parkitecture" international design competition for Water Works Park. Submissions included 25 student entries and 19 professional entries from firms throughout the U.S., England and Egypt. A panel of nine judges selected five professional finalists as well as nine student honorees from the 44 submitted design proposals. [More...]
Architect David Heymann to address building-landscape relationship Nov. 2 at ISU
October 24, 2011
Nationally renowned architect David Heymann, the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak about the complex relationship of buildings and landscape as part of the Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series at Iowa State University. Heymann, who is also an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor, will present "Landscape is Our Sex" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
ISU College of Design honors Studio 2030 co-founder with Design Achievement Award
October 24, 2011
Rachelle Schoessler Lynn, a co-founder and partner with Studio 2030, Inc., in the Twin Cities, and a national leader in sustainable design solutions, is a recipient of the 2011 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. Schoessler Lynn, Minneapolis, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in interior design from Iowa State in 1990. She was honored during Homecoming at the ISU Alumni Association's 80th Honors and Awards Ceremony, Oct. 21. [More...]
ISU College of Design honors Cooper Smith & Company president with Design Achievement Award
October 24, 2011
Sally Cooper Smith, president and creative director of Cooper Smith & Company in Des Moines, is a recipient of the 2011 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. Cooper Smith received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from Iowa State in 1983. She was honored during Homecoming at the ISU Alumni Association's 80th Honors and Awards Ceremony, Oct. 21. [More...]
ISU College of Design honors Donald R. Young with Design Achievement Award
October 24, 2011
Donald R. Young, president of D.R. Young Associates in San Rafael, Calif., is a recipient of the 2011 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. Young received a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture from Iowa State in 1976 and a Master of Landscape Architecture with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978. He was honored during Homecoming at the ISU Alumni Association's 80th Honors and Awards Ceremony, Oct. 21. [More...]
Student, faculty work in exhibition at International Wolf Center
October 24, 2011
Sixty artworks by ISU students and faculty who participated in the 2010 and 2011 BPMI 395 Field Illustration courses in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness are on display now through May 6, 2012, at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. College of Design lecturer Dean Biechler and Associate Professor C. Arthur Croyle, who teach in the integrated studio arts and BPMI programs, contributed 10 works to the show. The remaining 50 pieces are by 32 students ranging from freshmen through seniors in biological and pre-medical illustration (28), architecture (2) and integrated studio arts (2). The show may be viewed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at the wolf center. [More...]
ISU College of Design to host 'apocalyptic' postcard print exhibition in Gallery 181 Oct. 24-Nov. 4
October 21, 2011
The Iowa State University Print Society will host "Apocalypse," the 11th Annual International Postcard Print Exchange Exhibition and Silent Auction, Oct. 24 through Nov. 4 at the ISU College of Design. Exhibition hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays in Gallery 181, located on the first floor of the College of Design building on the west side of the Iowa State campus. Admission is free. The show will open with a joint reception for a three-day display of contemporary prints from the Drive-By Press collection, also in Gallery 181. The reception will follow a lecture on the "History of Western Printmaking 1400-Present" by Drive-By Press founders Gregory Nanney and Joseph Velasquez that begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in room 130 College of Design. [More...]
Drive-By Press Founders at ISU Oct. 25-27
October 20, 2011
Artists Gregory Nanney and Joseph Velasquez, founders of Drive-By Press, will visit Iowa State University Oct. 25-27. They will offer lithography demonstrations, participate in student critiques, use woodcuts and a portable printing press to print T-shirts and posters, and present several lectures as well as a discussion with upper-level undergraduate students interested in applying to graduate schools. They will also share a collection of contemporary prints from artists all over the United States. Most events will be in the ISU College of Design building, and all are open to the public. [More...]
Student artists will use construction steamroller to make woodcut prints Oct. 14 in Ames
October 11, 2011
Eighteen ISU College of Design students and students from Augustana College will create large-format woodcut prints with a construction steamroller from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at Rueter's, 5815 W. Lincoln Way, Ames. This is the 10th year for the steamroller printmaking event. The public is invited to watch the process. (Rain date is Oct. 21.) The large prints resulting from the steamroller printmaking session will be displayed Oct. 31 - Nov. 11 in the College of Design's atrium, the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum. [Link...]
AIA Gold Medal winner Peter Bohlin to present Herbert Lecture at ISU College of Design Oct. 19
October 06, 2011
Peter Q. Bohlin, FAIA, winner of the American Institute of Architects' highest individual honor, will present the 2011 Charles E. "Chick" Herbert Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Iowa State University. Bohlin's presentation, "Soft Modernism: The Nature of Circumstance," will be at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
ISU study finds Iowa's local housing trust funds respond well to affordable housing demand amid rising poverty
October 04, 2011
The Iowa Finance Authority commissioned the ISU College of Design's Department of Community and Regional Planning to analyze the state's Local Housing Trust Fund Program (LHTF). The goal of the study was to better understand how the diverse, decentralized LHTFs function and identify their impact on Iowa's housing-burdened population. The researchers found that the program is responding well to the demand for affordable housing in the state, amid an increase in the number of Iowans in poverty during the program's eight years in existence. [Link...]
ISU architecture lecturer Peter Goché wins craft award
October 03, 2011
Peter Goché, a lecturer in architecture at Iowa State University, received the 2011 AIA Iowa Excellence in Craft Merit Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects at its fall convention Sept. 29 in Des Moines. Goché was recognized for "Water Hutch," which was part of the Bemis Gardens exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Neb., earlier this year. The work also will be exhibited at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis from June through August 2012. [More...]
Turkish ceramic art exhibition, presentation and reception at ISU College of Design Sept. 29
September 21, 2011
David R. Evans, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, will talk about traditional and contemporary Turkish ceramic art and share a selection of works from his own collection in an event Thursday, Sept. 29, at Iowa State University. Evans, who is also vice president of the Turkish American Society of Iowa, will present "Turkish Ceramics from Istanbul to Iowa" at 5:30 p.m. in the ISU College of Design's Gallery 181. This will be followed by a reception featuring traditional Turkish foods. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Davenport art museum exhibits work by ISU architecture students
September 08, 2011
An exhibition of work by advanced undergraduate architecture students from Iowa State University is on display in Davenport through Oct. 23. "Innovative Objects of Design: Museum Proposals for Columbus, Indiana" opened Sept. 3 at the Figge Art Museum. A public reception will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, in the museum's Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery. The event is open to the public. [More...]
Volunteers needed to help visiting Inuit artist Peter Irniq
September 07, 2011
Hosted by the Ames Public Art Commission, internationally recognized artist and cultural teacher Peter Irniq will be in Ames Sept. 18 - Oct. 1 to create traditional landmarks called inuksuit ("likeness of a person")--stone monuments constructed by the Inuit people of northern Canada to aid in navigation. Faculty, staff and students are invited to assist Irniq in constructing his stone sculptures at Emma McCarthy Lee, Brookside and Ada Hayden parks Sept. 20-23 and Sept. 26-30. [More...]
Green design pioneer Bob Berkebile to speak at Iowa State Sept. 9
September 06, 2011
Bob Berkebile, FAIA, a national leader in green design, environmental stewardship and community building, will present the 2011 Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture in Architecture Friday, Sept. 9, at Iowa State University. Berkebile is a founding principal of Kansas City-based BNIM Architects, the 2011 American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award winner. The lecture will begin at about 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design, following the Architecture Premiere 2011 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony, which begins at 4:30. The evening's events will conclude with an opening reception for "Rome Program Exhibition 2011: The Sound of Architecture" in Gallery 181 and the Lightfoot Forum. [More...]
Italian architect Francesco Mancini to speak at ISU College of Design Sept. 7
August 31, 2011
Italian architect Francesco M. Mancini, a design consultant and research fellow with the University of Roma Tre Department of Design and Architecture in Rome, will speak about the impact of technological advances on building design and construction and attempts to achieve a new "Bilbao effect" in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 7, at Iowa State University. Mancini will present "Technotype: Typology and technology in contemporary architecture—a case study of buildings for spectacle" at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design. The event is free and open to the public. [More...]
Work by ISA Associate Professor Teresa Paschke part of Fiber Focus 2011 in St. Louis
August 31, 2011
"A.K." and "Hip-Hop Sampler," two textile artworks by Teresa Paschke, associate professor of integrated studio arts, will be part of the Fiber Focus 2011 exhibition Sept. 6 - Oct. 13 at Art Saint Louis. Juried by artist Lia Cook, professor of art, textiles and graduate studies at the California College of Arts, this biennial exhibition features work by 42 contemporary fiber artists representing eight Midwestern states. A free reception will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at Art Saint Louis, 555 Washington Ave., #150, St. Louis, Mo. [More...]
Interlock House finds new home after competing in Solar Decathlon
August 29, 2011
A unique home built by about 200 Iowa State University students now has a new home. It's called the Interlock House, and students continue to learn from the solar-powered structure they built for the 2009 Solar Decathlon. The house now serves as the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' office at Honey Creek Resort State Park, and ISU faculty and students are using it as a lab to monitor energy usage. View the WHO TV 13 news video. [Link...]
Thomas Leslie is first Pickard Chilton Professor at Iowa State College of Design
August 25, 2011
Thomas Leslie, an internationally recognized expert on the history of technology and architecture, has been named the first holder of the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture in the College of Design. Leslie is an award-winning teacher and author, and previously was an architect with one of the world's leading design firms. He will be recognized in a campus ceremony Friday, Sept. 9. [Link...]
Internationally renowned landscape architect Ken Smith to receive Christian Petersen Design Award at ISU
August 17, 2011
Iowa State University alumnus Ken Smith, the landscape architect behind both the Museum of Modern Art Roof Garden in New York and the redesign of Nollen Plaza in Des Moines, is the recipient of the 2011 Christian Petersen Design Award presented by the ISU College of Design. Smith, a Waukee native who lives in New York City, will be honored in a ceremony Monday, Aug. 22, in the College of Design's King Pavilion. A reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m., with the award presentation at 6:45 p.m. [Link...]
ISU study uses iPhone GPS tools to assist 12 Iowa towns with their Safe Routes to School programs
August 15, 2011
An Iowa State University-Iowa Department of Public Health study uses high-tech devices to encourage low-tech solutions to escalating childhood obesity rates in Iowa. This month the researchers are providing the 12 communities with the study results they'll need to achieve the goal: Create safe routes for children to walk and bike to school. Christopher Seeger, ISU associate professor of landscape architecture and extension specialist, spearheaded the project, called I-WALK (Iowans Walking Assessment Logistics Kit). [Link...]
Corning's ISU student-designed house demonstrates energy efficiency can be affordable
August 11, 2011
A new house on the market in Corning effectively joins affordability and energy efficiency, a combination not readily found in the housing of smaller communities around the state. Iowa State University design students designed the "Iowa House" in the spring 2010 Bridge Studio—taught by Nadia Anderson, assistant professor of architecture—as part of a collaboration between federal, state and local agencies and organizations. It was designed to meet the standards of the Iowa Department of Economic development's Green Streets Program, which promotes sustainable building and community design. [Link...]
ISU design student spends summer beautifying Sioux City's downtown
August 08, 2011
Art Vongphakdy, a junior in integrated studio arts from Sioux City, is helping to beautify his hometown by painting a community-themed window mural near the Promenade Theater on historic Fourth Street, just a few blocks from the ISU Design West studio. The project is part of the Student in Residence Program funded by Design West and Sioux City's Downtown Partners. View the KTIV News 4 video [Link...]
Family, fame and friendship lead to new book on graphic design pioneer
August 04, 2011
Through an unusual conjunction of circumstances, family legacy and good fortune, C. Arthur Croyle—an associate professor of integrated studio arts and former graphic design faculty member—recently completed his most extensive research and writing endeavor since he began his academic career: a new book about his grandfather, renowned German artist and designer Max Hertwig (1881-1975). The book was published by Culicidae Press, founded by Mikesch Muecke, associate professor of architecture. [More...]
ISU architecture lecturer Rob Whitehead honored by international educators’ association
July 26, 2011
Rob Whitehead, a lecturer in architecture at Iowa State University, will receive the Building Technology Teaching Award for Emerging Faculty from the Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) Aug. 6 at its annual conference in Toronto. The biennial award recognizes excellence in teaching performance, innovation and commitment by an emerging faculty member in building technology education. [More...]
South Korean students gain design and English skills during intensive ISU workshop
July 19, 2011
The ISU College of Design is hosting a group of 15 students from Yeungnam University in Daegu, South Korea, for a three-week intensive design and English workshop, June 30 through July 25. The students begin each weekday with a 90-minute English class followed by about four hours of studio instruction with faculty from the college's graphic design program. [Link...]
2012 Community Visioning Program applications available
July 14, 2011
The Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program is accepting applications for the 2012 program. Eligible communities are those with populations of fewer than 10,000, existing transportation-related issues and a committee of volunteers willing to dedicate their time and talent to the visioning process. Applications must be postmarked by Sept. 30. [More...]
ISU student project wins national Hospitality Design Award
July 13, 2011
Four recent Iowa State University graduates won the top award in the student project category of the 2011 Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement sponsored by Hospitality Design magazine. William Reihmann, Honolulu; Laura Scallon, Chicago; Jennie Sorensen, Muscatine, and Kevin Wagner, Des Moines, won with their design proposal for "Deck," a luxury resort hotel for South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla. They developed their winning project as seniors in a spring 2010 interdisciplinary design studio. This is the fourth year a student team from Iowa State has been a winner or finalist in the HD Awards competition. [More...]
Board of Regents approves new Bachelor of Design degree at ISU
July 11, 2011
A new design degree program offered by the Iowa State University College of Design provides additional options for students. The state Board of Regents approved the Bachelor of Design degree program at its June meeting. The four-year, studio-based degree consists of one year in the college's freshman Core Design Program followed by three years in the bachelor's program. Students can enroll in the program this fall; however, the college primarily will promote it for fall 2012 enrollment. [Link...]
Cyclodrome project garners local press coverage
July 08, 2011
Fifteen architecture graduate students spent seven weeks this summer building the Cyclodrome -- a mini-velodrome, or banked oval track used for bicycle races. They put the track to the test Thursday evening, July 7, with time trials and pursuit races open to the public. View local media coverage. [More...]
ISU College of Design alumni shine at Des Moines Arts Festival
July 01, 2011
While the sun struggled to make an appearance during much of the 2011 Des Moines Arts Festival, June 24-26 in downtown Des Moines, two Iowa State University College of Design alumni had no trouble shining. Christian Vandehaar, Altoona, won Best of Show in the Emerging Iowa Artists program for his chalk pastel drawings of Iowa farm life. In the professional division, painter Chris Vance, Bondurant, won the Juror Award presented by Reed McMillan, director of The Artist Project New York. [More...]
Rome Program hosts Italian Fulbright student orientation
June 29, 2011
The ISU College of Design Rome Program recently hosted an orientation meeting at the Cenci studio facility for 22 Italian graduate students who will travel to the U.S. as Fulbright grantees in 2011-12. The June 23 meeting included opening remarks and presentations by Pia Schneider, resident director of the Rome Program; members of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission and the U.S. Embassy in Rome; Fulbright alumni and the current Fulbright students. [More...]
ISU studio arts alumni are emerging artists at 2011 Des Moines Arts Festival
June 09, 2011
Nine recent Iowa State University integrated studio arts graduates are among 22 Emerging Iowa Artists selected to exhibit their work at the 2011 Des Moines Arts Festival, June 24-26 in Western Gateway Park. Emerging artists from Iowa State this year include 2011 graduate Jenna Weir, Sioux Falls, S.D.; 2010 graduates Jessica Dean, Newton; Patrick Doubet, Mt. Vernon; Sarah Hutchison, Urbandale; Elizabeth Mason, Ames, and Sarah Pargulski, Des Moines; and 2009 graduates Maureen Burke, Ames; Julie Solberg, Eagan, Minn., and Christian Vandehaar, Altoona, all of whom received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in integrated studio arts. [More...]
ISU architecture students are building nation's smallest velodrome for Des Moines
June 09, 2011
They're calling it Cyclodrome. And deep in the bowels of Iowa State University's College of Design, the 15 architecture graduate students are working at a frenetic pace to build it. Even though they had never before seen, ridden or even heard of a velodrome. Even though no plans or dimensions existed to guide them. But the nation's smallest velodrome should be ready to roll in Des Moines on July 8. That is, if all goes according to schedule. And if their math is right, their angles are straight, their transitions are smooth and their connections are strong. The students, non of whom were architecture majors as undergrads, are in Associate Professor Jason Alread's intenstive "Service Learning" summer course. [Link...]
Researchers will begin tracking performance of ISU Solar Decathlon House at Honey Creek State Park
June 09, 2011
When Iowa State University participated in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon competition, the plan was to eventually monitor the long-term performance of the solar-powered Interlock House, which was designed and constructed by students. The house has been reassembled at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' Honey Creek Resort State Park for use as the nature interpretive center and staff offices. And Iowa State researchers -- including Ulrike Passe, assistnt professor of architecture and director of the Center for Building Energy Research -- are gearing up to track the building's performance in Iowa's climate. [Link...]
ISU landscape architecture program partners with Des Moines Water Works on park design competition
June 06, 2011
Des Moines Water Works, working in partnership with Iowa State University's landscape architecture program, today (June 8) launched "Parkitecture," an international design competition for Water Works Park. The competition, aptly named for its emphasis on the fundamental role landscape architecture and design play in re-envisioning Water Works Park, will seek proposals from professional designers and will offer students the opportunity to submit design concepts in an honorarium category. [More...]
Iowa State landscape architecture professor Mimi Wagner earns regional honors
May 25, 2011
Associate Professor Mimi Wagner received a 2011 Award of Excellence in Research for "Residential Bioretention Reduces Runoff" and a 2011 Merit Award in Planning and Analysis for "Developing Water Trails in Iowa" at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Central States Conference, May 5 in Des Moines. The Award of Excellence is the highest award presented by the regional conference. [More...]
Two ISU College of Design student projects share 2011 Hansen Prize
May 18, 2011
An interdisciplinary team of architecture and landscape architecture students at Iowa State University took first place in the 2011 Richard F. Hansen Prize competition hosted by the ISU architecture program in April. Team Re:Quay (pronounced "key")—Jihee Chung, Ulsan, South Korea, and Scot Schuckert, Ames, landscape architecture; Chin "Dennis" Leung, Hong Kong, an international exchange student from the University of Western Australia at Perth, and Brandon Wlosinski, Cedar Rapids, architecture—received $2,500 for its winning project titled "Loose Space." Justin Wang, Cedar Rapids, architecture, received $500 for his second-place project, "Reconnect," which he developed with input from several classmates in both architecture and landscape architecture. [More...]



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