by Kendall Curlee | Jun 11, 2018 | Architectural Studies, Art History, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Passport/Pilgrimage
Architecture major Anna Ibru, from Lagos, Nigeria, visited Europe for the first time while participating in Honors Passport: Pilgrimage. Thanks to her training in Fay Jones School of Architecture, she proved to be among the most adept in reading subtle differences in...
by Kendall Curlee | Feb 20, 2018 | Events, Fay Jones School of Architecture, On Campus
Last Sunday 10 honors students got a crash course in using design to make waves in a “Design as Protest” workshop led by architect/activist Bryan Lee. They tackled a tough problem – homelessness – with a bleak outlook: Northwest Arkansas’ homeless...
by Nathan Smith | May 11, 2017 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Courses
Imagine a situation. Think of a quirk or need that might exist. Design a product to address that need using the materials at hand – in this case, twigs gathered from Old Main lawn. This is the basic framework for design thinking taught by Michael Hendrix, a partner at...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 8, 2016 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Courses, Landscape Architecture
Cookie cutter spec houses, car-choked highways, big box stores, The Mall: Suburban sprawl is gobbling up the once-vast American landscape, and now, we’re running out of room. This is especially true here in Northwest Arkansas, where the population has more than...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 23, 2016 | Architectural Studies, Fay Jones School of Architecture, History, Honors Courses, Landscape Architecture
“What makes a class honors?” We get that question a lot. And the answer is … it depends. In an engineering course, “honors” may be your entrée to working with the molecular beam epitaxy machine, which allows you to grow nanostructures one atom at a time. In an honors...
by | Jan 22, 2016 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Study Abroad, Turkey, Uncategorized
Last summer Adel Vaughn and 12 other landscape architecture students from the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design explored two very different 21st century cities: Istanbul, Turkey and Copenhagen, Denmark. For Adel, a sketchbook assignment became much more than...
