Road Trip: Minnesota
By Juan Martinez & Lauren Evans At 5:30 a.m. last Wednesday (Sept. 23), our studio traveled north in two vans. Seven hours (in the most comfortable seating/sleeping arrangements ever) later we arrived at our first stop. We saw a couple...
Park(ing) Day brings nature, awareness to Dickson Street
By Mattie Bailey Nature invaded a small area on Dickson Street last Friday. University of Arkansas students took a metered parking space and temporarily transformed it into a public park for community members to enjoy. They were celebrating...
Fayetteville Design Camp: Inside the studio
By Julia Trupp Anthony Sysoukrath sits at his workplace, charcoal pencil in one hand and his smart phone – with a Minecraft computer game-filled screen for inspiration – in the other. It is the last day of the Fay Jones School’s annual Design...
Summer 2015 design camp is largest in school’s history
By Julia Trupp Toys such as Erector construction sets, Legos and Lincoln Logs are essential parts of many childhoods. Spending hours making simple structures can inspire the future architect in a seven-year-old. Each year, the Fay Jones School...
Winning student work in seventh Hnedak Bobo International Design Competition
By Bailey Kestner Three students in the Fay Jones School of Architecture created winning designs in the seventh annual Hnedak Bobo International Design Competition, held in fall 2014. The competition recognizes work designed by students...
Architecture students research Wright at the Avery Library in New York
By Ayesha Erkin Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Bachman Wilson house in 1954 for a site in Millstone, New Jersey. After changing ownership several times, and, in part due to repeated flood damage, the house was sold, disassembled and moved to...
Vertical studio students study Mount Kessler with Randy Hester
By Bailey Kestner Randy Hester, former landscape architect and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is this year’s Garvan Chair and visiting professor in landscape architecture for the Fay Jones School of Architecture. In...
Summer Design Camp offers chance to explore design craft early
By Lauren Robinson Ted Mosby might tell you that even though it takes a lot of time and effort to become a practicing architect – four, maybe five, seasons – the profession is rewarding. It might not be rewarding in such a way that practicing...
Printmaking offers alternate perspective on design process
By Lauren Robinson Laura Terry is not unfamiliar with breaking the rules. That is, she is knowledgeable of the classic art and traditional methods of printmaking. But rather than strictly adhering to those methods, she is experimenting with...
A passion for the environment drives Dunn’s designs
By Bailey Deloney Katie Dunn, the first-ever finalist for the Truman Scholarship from the Fay Jones School of Architecture, is a fourth-year student in the professional landscape architecture program. Also an Honors College student, Dunn is one...