School of Architecture + Planning
January
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that the University of New Mexico, along with Arizona State University, has been selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy …
Tim C. Bicknell, AIA, a graduate of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, is one of 13 recipients of the American Institute of Architects 2012 AIA Young Architects Award. Young Architects are p…
For the second year, the UNM School of Architecture and Planning is managing the Jeff Harner Award, a $10,000 cash prize competition underwritten by the Thornburg Charitable Foundation for what is dee…
Remember 7th grade social studies and learning about Alvar Nuez Cabeza de Vaca? He was the Spanish explorer who landed in what is now Tampa Bay in the 1520s, made his way to Galveston, but most of his…
February
The Albuquerque City Council met recently as a "Committee of the Whole," at the request of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, which engaged the UNM community. The purpos…
University of New Mexico architecture graduate student Jeremy Jerge is one of 16 finalists in the 2011 Fentress Global Challenge competition. His submission,"2100 Air Terminal of the Future," was deve…
The 2012 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has elevated two New Mexico architects, Jon Anderson, FAIA and Van Gilbert, FAIA, to its prestigious College of Fellows, an hon…
The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and VT Industries recently announced winners of a student design competition.
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The Thornburg Foundation announces that George Pearl Hall, home of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning and the Fine Arts and Design Library, is receiving the 2012 Jeff Har…
Geraldine Forbes Isais, dean, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, announced that Matthew A. Barstow, a fourth year student in the Bachelor of Arts in architecture program, has been elected to ser…
March
The UNM School of Architecture and Planning offers its 2012 Southwest Summer Institute for Preservation and Regionalism in a series of courses running June 11-29. Each three-hour credit course meets f…
An exhibition on the deconstruction of the Werner Gilchrist house opens Friday, April 6 from 6-9 p.m. in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning's Rainosek Gallery, located at 2401 Central NE. The…
Architecture Professor Mark Childs decided that the research studio he was teaching this fall would have a strong emphasis on investigation that is applicable to design. He said, “I’ve don…
April
Baker Morrow, professor of practice in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, translated and interpreted the 500-year-old account,The South American Expeditions, will receive the Ministry of Cu…
University of New Mexico Professor of Architecture Mark Childs speaks about and signs copies of his new book Urban Composition: Designing Community Through Urban Design (Princeton Architectural Press,…
July
UNM graduate students and faculty will be working out of a building at 505 Central NW in downtown Albuquerque this fall. The ground floor of …
August
The City of Santa Fe sought assistance with an assessment of the Airport Road corridor. They found the right people for the job in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning's Community and Regional …
New volunteers recently elected to four-year terms on the UNM Foundation Board of trustees include: Larry Abraham, mayor, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque; Lau­…
September
Blake Chambliss graduated from the undergraduate architecture program in 1956. Chambliss honored as the Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Architecture and Planning, at an event on Friday, Sept. 2…
The UNM Alumni Association has announced the winners of its prestigious Zia and Mortar Board Lobo Awards for 2012. They include: Brian Colόn, John Cor…
SA•P – HSC proposal to develop curriculum in Design for Community Health garners grant from American Institute of Architects
With a focus on developing an interprofessional program in Desi…
CRP students help create vision for Santa Fe's commercial corridor in interactive "Re:Mike" event, Sep 21-23.
Assistant Professor Moises Gonzales will lead CRP students in building temporary…
Architecture Professor Mark Childs' new book, Urban Composition, gets rave review in Metropolis Magazine.
Staff writer Peter Chomko reviewed Urban Composition for the highly regarded periodical, …
October
Seattle artist Buster Simpson will be a visiting professor in the School of Architecture and Planning in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts from Monday, Oct. 22 through Friday, Oct. 26.
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Ted Jojola, Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, presents the 2012 Richard W. Etulain Lecture, & Indigenous Realities: Planning for the Next Millenniu…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PHASE I WINNING ENTRIES
Memorial for North Campus
DESIGN COMPETITION
University of New Mexico
Schoolof Medicine
The Design Competition Jury has sele…
December
The UNM School of Architecture and Planning recently inducted 23 into Tau Sigma Delta, the only honor society recognized in the fields of architecture and the allied arts and a member of the Associati…