Chris Jarrett, Director of the School, announced the results of SoA's inaugural Faculty Research Grant program.

Graduate student Keihly Moore is one of a handful of UNC Charlotte students selected to be a 2012-2013 Grad Life Fellow.

Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto is an architect and a professor of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Zhongjie Lin, Assistant Professor, has won the ARCC 2012 New Researcher Award.

Professor Zhongjie Lin is one of several international scholars who has been invited to present his research at the "Japanese Cities in a Global Context" Symposium, February 26-27, 2012, at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Deb Ryan, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, is leading the Civic Engagement component of the 12 county, 68 town/city Piedmont Triad Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Project.

Students and faculty from the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program have been involved with The Lawrence Group, Architects and Planners, and the Office of Civic Investment in the City of Beaufort, SC, in various stages of charrette-based urban design and p

Assistant Professor of Architecture Zhong-jie Lin’s article "Nakagin Capsule Tower: Revisiting the Future of the Recent Past" was recently published in the Journal of Architectural Education, 65/1.

In conjunction with her course, Agents of Change, Professor Jen Shields and a half a dozen students collaborated with multi-media Boston artist Candice Ivy on an interactive art installation entitled "Rhizome" at Central Avenue Church in Plaza Midwood. I

Assistant Professor Chris Beorkrem presented “Material Ecologies in Parametric Design Software” at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction held on the campus of the University of Kansas.

Associate Professor Gamez, through his collaborative efforts with the Design + Society Research Center, was recently awarded a $20,000 matching grant from the City of Charlotte's Neighborhood Services and Economic Development. The funding augments previo

Assistant Professor Emily Makas co-authored the book “Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas” with John Stubbs of Columbia University, published by Wiley Press.

Graduate Student Zachary Porter presented “Architectural Fractures: Computation and Form in the Work of LeCorbusier and John Hejduk” in the Paper Session “Hybridized Practices: Both the Analog and the Digital” at the 99th Annual ACSA Meeting in Montreal.

Assistant Professor Emily Makaš presented “Memories of Coexistence in the Museum of Sarajevo” at the International Praxis Conference on Cultural Memory and Coexistence, Fatih University in Istanbul.

Assistant Professor Jeff Balmer chaired the paper session “Begin Again: Selected Papers from 2010 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student” at the 99th Annual ACSA Meeting in Montreal. He also recently presented his research in beginning desig

Assistant Professor Thomas Forget chaired the paper session “Defending Abstraction: Experimental Cinema and the Architectural Project” at the 99th Annual ACSA Meeting in Montreal. He also recently participated as a panelist in “Video-Ville,” a Cinema-Urb

Visiting Lecturer Jen Shields presented her poster “Placemaking: Collage as a Tool for Phenomenological Analysis” at the 99th Annual ACSA Meeting in Montreal. She also presented her research “Mechanistic Traces in Stockholm” as part of the School’s Collo

Precision and Experimentation: Study Abroad in Switzerland: May 16-June 9, 2011

Associate Professor Jose Gamez of the Design+Society Research Center [D+SRC] and Janni Sorensen of the Charlotte Action Research Project [CARP] led a group of 140 volunteers from UNC Charlotte on a community service project in Windy Ridge, a neighborhood

Assistant Professor Thomas Gentry led the second of three advanced, multi-disciplinary, integrated design studios on co-senior housing with Dr. Brett Tempest of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The studios focus on sustainable, pre-

Associate Professor Lee Gray was featured on PBS in an episode of NOVA titled, “Trapped in an Elevator.” He served as a consultant for this program.

The School of Architecture [SoA] at the University of North Carolina Charlotte invites applications for three faculty positions. Evidence of published research and/or scholarship, substantial practice and/or teaching experience, and architectural licensur

Associate Professor Deb Ryan presented “Building the Digital City One Voice at a Time” at the 2010 North Carolina AIA Design Conference in Asheville on September 17th.

Assistant Professor Thomas Forget lecture presented “The Museum of Art: Contemporary Challenges to Historical Models of Museum Architecture,” an invited lecture at the Mint Museum of Art, October 1, 2010.

Lecturers Jen Shields and Bryan Shields curated the inaugural exhibition of the Roofless Gallery for Contemporary Art in Charlotte, October 8, 2010.

Professor David Walters, the Program Coordinator for the School of Architecture’s Master of Urban Design Program, authored a chapter of a newly published book, Charlotte NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City, co-edited by Heather Smith and William

Professor David Walters and Associate Professor Jose Gamez each have a chapter published in the book, "The Global Evolution of a New South City" (ed. W. Graves and H.A. Smith), published by the University of Georgia Press, 2010:

New Tenure-Track Faculty: Professor Nicholas Senske holds an M.S. in Architecture (Design and Computation Group) from MIT and a B.Arch. from Iowa State University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

Associate Professor Jose Gamez, with Professor Janni Sorensen in the Department of Geography, was awarded a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for their research project Connecting Campus Resources to Foreclosure Hit Neighborhoods.

Associate Professor Peter Wong, with members of the Master of Architecture Student Society (MASS), organized CriticalMASS 2010, a graduate student symposium with presentations of thesis work from ten Schools of Architecture in the Southeast.

Visiting Lecturer Bryan Shields organized a screening of Citizen Architect at the Knight Theater in downtown Charlotte, a documentary on the Rural Studio and its founder Sam Mockbee.

The Architecture Summer Program at UNC Charlotte will introduce high school students to architecture.

Professor Dale Brentrup and the Daylighting + Energy Performance Laboratory completed a study on parametric daylight envelope attributes for a high performance school prototype.