SoA – College of Architecture and Planning

Facade World Congress 2024: A Successful Gathering of Global Experts at the College of Architecture + Planning

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From October 8-10, 2024, the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah hosted the renowned Facade World Congress, organized by the Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) and the School of Architecture. This international congress is a forum to discuss and showcase cutting-edge advancements that are redefining the design and performance of building enclosures. […]

November 1, 2024

Architecture students finished their latest project in the Navajo Nation

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Graduate students from the University of Utah completed the building phase of -Keshíí- their latest home of the DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff program. Inspired by native and local connections to the natural environment, eight architecture students designed and built an expandable house of 800 sq. ft. (approx.) for a local family with the help of volunteers and sponsors. […]

January 24, 2023

CMP Associate Professor Alessandro Rigolon lead author on COVID-19 study

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A new study published on June 14, 2023, in the journal PLoS ONE, is the first to show that the neighborhood-built environment might pose an independent risk in determining the individuals hospitalized due to COVID-19 illness. The authors found that in a cohort of more than 18,000 individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infections, living in multi-family buildings, […]

January 17, 2023

Dr. Timothy Adekunle appointed Interim Chair of School of Architecture

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Dean Arnab Chakraborty is pleased to announce that Dr. Timothy Adekunle has accepted the appointment as Interim Chair of the School of Architecture, pending approval by the President and the Board of Trustees. This appointment comes after a thorough consideration of inputs shared by faculty members in the School of Architecture. Dr. Adekunle’s term as […]

January 9, 2023

DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff program featured in Architectural Digest magazine

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The University of Utah School of Architecture DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff program was featured in Architectural Digest magazine in the article “How Indigenous Architects, Artists, and Activists Are Using Design to Restore Tribal Sovereignty.” Graduate students and faculty co-directors Hiroko and Atsushi Yamamoto have been working this semester on building a home for a new client in the […]

December 1, 2022

Associate Professor Shundana Yusaf received prestigious Clark Institute Fellowship

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The University of Utah School of Architecture Associate Professor Shundana Yusaf has been selected for a Clark Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Yusaf will be the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in the Spring and Summer of 2023. The Clark Institute Fellowship is a distinction that, since 1997, has […]

September 12, 2022

School of Architecture faculty won $500,000 Mellon Grant for Humanities in Place

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Associate Professor Shundana Yusaf, Adjunct faculty in Architecture & Peripheral Office Tonia Sing Chi, Affiliate College of Architecture and Planning CarmiRae Holguin; and Adrienne Caesar, Bluff Campus Coordinator + Online Curriculum Coordinator for Yestermorrow are the founding members of Nááts’ílid, an indigenous-led coalition recipient of the 2022-2025 Mellon Foundation’s award for Humanities in Place for […]

July 10, 2022

Resilience in the wake of disaster

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An interdisciplinary team of students from the University of Utah is being recognized by the United States Department of Energy and its Building Technologies Office. During the annual JUMP into STEM final competition hosted virtually by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in January, four winning teams were announced from the largest competition to date, with 84 ideas submitted […]

May 10, 2022