Cuban Architect, Professor To Visit K-State

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.

April 16, 2012 | read more »

Matthew Knox Named Architecture Department Head After International Search

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.

April 09, 2012 | read more »

Belanger Receives Excellence In Design Studio Teaching Award

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.” 

March 30, 2012 | read more »

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

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.

March 29, 2012 | read more »

Architect Annie Chu To Present Work In ‘SLOW Motion'

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.

January 19, 2012 | read more »

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

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.

November 03, 2011 | read more »