Architecture News

Faculty & Students

• The 2021 AIA MN Conference on Architecture features a number of College of Design faculty, adjuncts, and researchers including Professor Abimbola Asojo, Affiliate Practitioner Paul Bauknight, Professor Tom Fisher, Director Richard Graves, Adjunct Assistant Professor Todd Grover, Research Fellow Daniel Handeen, Professor Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Senior Research Fellow Virajita Singh, Associate Professor Malini Srivastava, Adjunct Instructor Chris Wingate, and Head Jennifer Yoos.
• Ebtehal Bahnasy (MSRP) presented on community engagement tools at the October 26 Center for Transportation Studies' webinar on Community-Engaged Transit Planning.
• Professor Gail Dubrow (Architecture) article, “Practicing Architecture under the Bamboo Ceiling: The Life and Work of Iwahiko Tsumanuma (Thomas S. Rockrise), 1878–1936” was published in the September issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. This piece was written in collaboration with Christina Rockrise, as well as Alyssa Gregory and Sarah Pawlicki (both Heritage Studies and Public History) and examines how racism shaped the life and career of one of the earliest architects of Japanese ancestry to practice in America.
• Head Jennifer Yoos (Architecture) participated on a panel “Faculty Publication Discussion: Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850” for Washington University on Friday, October 22.
• On Tuesday, November 9 Professor Mary Guzowski (Architecture) and Professors Abimbola Asojo (Interior Design) discussed current considerations for lighting education with a focus on emerging trends in lighting education and the collaborative new lighting design undergraduate/graduate minor they developed through the support of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education at the Illuminating Engineering Society.