College of Architecture, Planning & Design

Cuban Architect, Professor To Visit K-State

CAPD — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:40:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Professors Katrina Lewis (Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design) and Jeffrey Smith (Department of Geography) are collaborating to establish research connections in Cuba.

Matthew Knox Named Architecture Department Head After International Search

CAPD — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:00:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Sometimes the grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence.

After conducting an international search for their department head opening, current Interim Department Head Matthew Knox, AIA, was selected to lead the Architecture Department into the future.

Belanger Receives Excellence In Design Studio Teaching Award

CAPD — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:11:00 -0500

MANHATTAN — Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Blake Belanger received the 2012 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching at the Junior Level award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture at the annual meeting at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on March 29. The award recognizes a faculty member’s “ability to direct design studio projects that demonstrate outstanding quality and/or emphasize the critical thinking, creative process.”

Jani Snags 2012 Idec Book Award For 'Diversity In Design'

CAPD — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:08:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - “Diversity in Design: Perspectives from the Non-Western World,” a book penned by Associate Professor of Interior Architecture & Product Design Vibhavari Jani received top honors at the Interior Design Educators Council annual conference.

Architect Annie Chu To Present Work In ‘SLOW Motion'

CAPD — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:12:00 -0600

MANHATTAN - Annie Chu, founding principal of the award-winning firm Chu+Gooding Architects in Los Angeles, California, will be delivering APDesign’s annual diversity lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 2012, in the Little Theatre in the K-State Student Union. Chu’s lecture is titled “Slow Motion” and is free and open to the public.

Designed For Excellence: K-State College Of Architecture, Planning & Design Boasts Three Top 10 Programs

CAPD — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:14:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - To get a design education at the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University is to get one of the best in the country.

DesignIntelligence magazine ranked all three of the college’s eligible programs among the top 10 graduate programs in the nation, according to the newly released “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools 2012” issue. The landscape architecture program is No. 3 in the country; the architecture program is No. 5; interior architecture & product design ranks as the seventh best program in the U.S.

APDesign Welcomes 10-Year Alumni Honorees Back To Campus

CAPD — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:08:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - The College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University has named its four 10-year alumni honorees for 2011.

The honorees include: Addie Johnson Abushousheh (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Amie Keener (Dallas, Texas); Lynn Oliver (Stevenson, Washington); and William “Jess” McNeely (Wichita, Kansas).

Finnish Architect Esa Laaksonen To Deliver ‘Architectural Ataraxis’

CAPD — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:08:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Esa Laaksonen, director of the Alvar Aalto Academy, will be delivering the lecture “Architectural Ataraxis - Finnish Examples” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Pierce Commons. The lecture is free, and the public is welcome to attend.

K-State APDesign Students to host Second Annual Pumpkin Carving Fest in support of Sunset Zoo

CAPD — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0500

Manhattan, KS, October 24, 2011 - The artistic talent of twenty five K-State APDesign students will be on display at Sunset Zoo’s annual trick or treat event, SPOOKtacular, on Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October, 30 from noon to 5:00pm.

'The Mannahatta Project': Wildlife Ecologist To Discuss Work

CAPD — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:56:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Dr. Eric Sanderson is coming to Manhattan to discuss what “the other Manhattan” was like before it was the Big Apple.

Sanderson, senior conservation ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and director of the Mannahatta Project, will be lecturing at Kansas State University at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union. The lecture is free, and the public is welcome.

Student Planning Association To Recreate Award-Winning 'BOXHATTAN' Project

CAPD — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:23:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Sometimes to get creative, you have to think inside the box.

The Student Planning Association in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University has received the New Horizon Award from the American Planning Association — Kansas for their “Boxhattan” project presented at K-State’s Open House in spring 2011. The award is given for pushing the boundaries of planning in creative and innovative ways.

Peter Bohlin Brings A 'SOFT Modernism' To APDesign

CAPD — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:21:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Peter Bohlin, FAIA, founding principal of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, will give a lecture titled, “Soft Modernism - The Nature of Circumstance” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Little Theater at the K-State Student Union. The lecture is free and open to the public.

APDesign's Ekdahl Lecturer to Tell Us What We ‘Really Want'

CAPD — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:08:00 -0500

MANHATTAN — Dr. Arthur “Chris” Nelson, FAICP, pre-eminent planning scholar and former Kansas State faculty member, will present the fall 2011 APDesign Ekdahl Lecture.

Phoenix Architect Wendell Burnette to Lecture at APDesign

CAPD — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:17:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Wendell Burnette, AIA, Principal of Wendell Burnette Architects in Phoenix, Arizona, is giving a lecture titled “Crafting Space” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, at the Leadership Studies Building Town Hall on the Kansas State University campus. The lecture is free, and the public is welcome.

Thomas Lyon Mills Brings the Catacombs to K-State

CAPD — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:08:00 -0500

MANHATTAN - Artist Thomas Lyon Mills has been tapped to present the College of Archtiecture, Planning & Design’s Bryant Lecture. Mills will give the lecture, titled “The Catacombs,” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, in 114 Willard Hall. The lecture, funded in part by the K-State SGA Fine Arts Fee, is free and the public is welcome to attend.