The School of Architecture and Planning inducts 30 graduate and undergraduate students into Tau Sigma Delta, on Friday, Nov. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hotel Albuquerque. Tau Sigma Delta is the honor society for architecture and the allied arts, which includes landscape architecture and community and regional planning.

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AutoDesSys Excellence International Design Winners

This last weekend at the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture Conference in Chicago, students from the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning were recognized for excellence in digital design.  AutoDesSys held the 17^th Annual Awards Banquet of its Joint Study Program for Excellence in Design, an annual international program sponsored by Form Z digital modeling software.  

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Levi Romero Sows Culture Crops

The stories fall from Levi Romero’s lips before I get out of the car and take in the sweet air, niblet-sized corn plants and the long porch inviting visitors in to the house whispering welcome and echoing the sound of children’s running feet through the slamming screen door. A breeze rustles the leaves of a crabapple tree, creating a canopy inviting us to sit down, relax, crunch into some fresh pea pods and share some stories.

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School of Architecture and Planning Dean to Step Down in 2010

In a letter to his faculty, Dean and Professor Roger Schluntz, FAIA, announced his intention to resign as dean of UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning on June 30, 2010. During his past 10 years as dean, Schluntz said he has witnessed “a number of truly remarkable accomplishments as well as many critical incremental transformations” at the School.

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Anne Taylor Addresses the Future of Education and the Architecture which Houses It

Anne Taylor will deliver a lecture and book signing at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning Gallery on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. Her ongoing exhibition will be displayed in the Pearl Hall Gallery from Aug. 24 until Sept. 12. Ice cream will be served on the patio during the book signing.

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Landscape Architecture Student Wins Award for Pat Hurley Neighborhood Project

Landscape architecture Yekaterina “Katya” Yushmanova is the recipient of a 2009 JSR Student Award for her project, Changing Perspective: Farming Habitat, that she designed for the Pat Hurley neighborhood in Albuquerque’s West side. The award comes with a $2,000 scholarship. The concept was to design a project that could act as a catalyst for quality of life improvement for residents.

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Phil Gallegos and a group of students from the spring semester Design Planning Assistance Center studio course are headed to Grants on Thursday, June 4, to begin the build phase of their design/build project – a pavilion for the Fire and Ice Bike Rally, the town’s annual summer event set for July 17-19.

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The School of Architecture and Planning recently honored its first group of Golden Graduates, individuals who matriculated from UNM 50 years ago. Dean Roger Schluntz hosted a luncheon for Lou Weller, Patrick Gates and Donald “Rusty” Shaffer at George Pearl Hall. Other special guests included emeritus professors Ed Norris, Paul Lusk, Edie Cherry, Dick Nordhaus and emeritus dean Don Schlegel.

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Geoffrey Adams, associate professor, School of Architecture and Planning, brings winning ways to his studio classes. Graduate architecture student Mark Paz recently won the third annual design competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students and Kawneer Company, Inc. The competition challenged students to design a library while learning about building materials, specifically architectural aluminum building products and systems, and was the design project for Adams' graduate architectural history/theory studio this fall.

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