Associate Professor Jörg Rügemer received the 2022 ACSA Design Build Award for the Kunga Accessory Dwelling Unit, which was completed in the Fall of 2020. This project was the inaugural project for the DesignUTAH@SLC program. The ACSA Design Build Award recognizes projects that demonstrate how faculty, students, and schools work to realize design-build projects. The […]
Read MoreWe invite you to register and attend the following three public lectures below: March 21 / 4: 00 PM MST JENNIFER NEWSOM AIA, LEED AP, NOMA, NCARB Dream the Combine / Cornell University Register Here! March 30 / 4: 00 PM MST GABRIELLE BULLOCK FAIA, NOMAC, IIDA, LEED AP Perkins & Will Register […]
Read MoreAssistant Professor Michael Abrahamson published a bibliographic article about the twentieth-century US architect Albert Kahn as part of the Oxford Bibliographies on Architecture Planning and Preservation. Following the unusual format of this distinctive publication, Abrahamson has categorized and summarized nearly 100 sources discussing the work of Kahn and his firm. In concert with dozens of […]
Read MoreOn January 9, University of Utah alum George (Jud) Daniels, FAIA and co-founder of Salt Lake City-based architectural design firm EDA, passed away at age 94. Daniels helped introduce architectural modernism to Utah. “Jud’s influence still resonates today,” said EDA Managing Principal Thomas Brennan. “As heirs to the firm that he and Ralph Edwards founded, […]
Read MoreErin Carraher, Associate Professor, has been appointed as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Architecture. Erin’s dedication to students, her exemplary teaching of undergraduate courses (design foundation workshops, pre-major design courses, and beginning architecture studios), as well service supporting our undergraduate programs have been significant contributions to our School. In her role […]
Read MoreThe award was given for Jörg Rügemer’s community outreach efforts to design the Field of Dreams EcoCommunity project in Kearns, Utah. The ACSA Collaborative Practice Award honors best practices in university-based and community-engaged programs. It recognizes programs that demonstrate how faculty, students, community groups, and/or civic clients, can work to realize common objectives. The award […]
Read MoreIn 2019, five faculty members of the School of Architecture won two grants offered by the College of Architecture + Planning to envision a Center for Global Citizenship in Architecture & Planning. Lisa Benham, Ole Fischer, Jose Galarza, Dwight Yee, and Shundana Yusaf won $15000 Scholarship Incentive Program (SIP) and $3000 Community Engaged Scholarship (CEP) […]
Read MoreThe School of Architecture is announcing the publication of Dialectic IX: Decolonizing Architectural Technologies journal. Dialectic is the refereed journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. Established in 2012, the journal brings together the most competing opposing voices on the most compelling questions in the discipline today. It interrogates the issues, […]
Read MoreSchool of Architecture Professor Anne Mooney, AIA, NCARB, LEEDAP, has been awarded the 2021 Silver Medal by the American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Region. This prestigious award recognizes Mooney’s significant contributions to the Institute, the profession, the region and its citizens, as well as to her students and community, and recognizes that Anne’s work […]
Read MoreAjla Akšamija, Professor and Chair of the School of Architecture, has been elected as the President of the Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI). FTI is a non-profit member organization for the architectural, engineering and construction industry. Its mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward common goals of resilience and sustainability, specifically focusing […]
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