The increasingly important role of female leaders in the field of architecture will be the topic of an upcoming lecture at Kansas State University. Architect Kate Schwennsen will present “Women and Leadership in Architecture: You Can’t Just Add Women and Stir” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, in the K-State Student Union’s Little Theater. The [...]
Five architecture students took honors for their design work at the recent 11th annual Bowman Design Forum at K-State. The forum, coordinated by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, brings internationally acclaimed architects to campus to work with third-year architecture students. One student from each of the college’s third-year studios was selected to present [...]
Two faculty members from Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design have taken gardening to new heights. R. Todd Gabbard, assistant professor of architecture, and Lee Skabelund, an assistant professor of landscape architecture, have installed an experimental green roof — or living roof — over a third-floor breezeway in Seaton Hall’s west wing. [...]
This furniturescaping project was built by Tim Sherman from McPherson, a May 2009 interior architecture and product design master’s graduate. The bench is built where the June 11, 2008, tornado downed a tree just south of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on campus.
Seven students majoring in interior architecture and product design at Kansas State University recently placed in a competition sponsored by Kansas City Architects, Designers, Dealers and Representatives. This year’s competition had 38 entries, all of which were made in furniture design and construction studio classes at K-State in the 2008-2009 school year. See the winning [...]
MANHATTAN — Final projects by five architecture students will receive the Heintzelman Prize from Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design. The five winning projects are on display through the summer in Seaton Hall’s Chang Gallery and in the hallway flanking 212 Seaton Hall. See the winning projects online. Read the full story.