College of Architecture and Planning Dean Arnab Chakraborty announced the appointment of Dr. Timothy Adekunle as Interim Chair of the School of Architecture, pending approval by the President and 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 interim […]
Read MoreGraduate 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. […]
Read MoreA team of University of Utah students led by Assistant Professor Milad Mozari from the division Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD) at the College of Architecture and Planning is working in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore new virtual reality technology and bringing it home to help the refugee community in their resettlement […]
Read MoreChristopher Putt Transportation Planner – Summit County B.S. Urban Ecology ’20 Current student M. Arch How did your experience at CA+P prepare you for your career? My experience at CA+P has helped me in my current career and graduate studies immensely. Obviously, learning certain software and programs has been beneficial but beyond that my […]
Read MoreGraduate students from the City & Metropolitan Planning Department presented their community-based engagement projects for the fall 2022 semester in partnership with 14 organizations in Utah. Students from the seminar ‘Community Engagement in Planning’ worked to engage local communities and connect with neighbors in the valley, creating an opportunity to reflect, collectively build knowledge and […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah is an active member of the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), a core program of the nonprofit organization Second Nature that connects 23 of the world’s leading research universities and university systems committed to accelerating climate action on campus, in communities, and globally since 2019. Beginning last year, a cohort of four graduate […]
Read MoreThe City and Metropolitan Planning Department earned the High Achievement Award from the American Planning Association Utah chapter for their work on the Thriving in Place SLC project. The initiative, a collaborative effort in Salt Lake City and Baird + Driskell Community Planning, developed a plan of action to address the factors that are forcing neighbors to […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreWhen Glen Berry, FAIA-NCARB was 17 years old, he decided that he was going to be an architect. He didn’t know what that meant or how it would have been, but Berry knew that was his future. Today, 48 years later and with more than three decades of experience in the field, he reflects on […]
Read MoreValarie was a student at the Westside Leadership Institute in the Spring of 2020. She took the ‘Zoning for Equity’ course in the City and Metropolitan Planning department as the only non-U student (but a resident of the west side), and after that experience, she fell in love with the field and applied for the […]
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