School of Architecture + Planning
January
"The historic city of Santa Fe and the artist -- and ski bum -- haven of Taos get all the love when New Mexico is mentioned. But Albuquerque? Until the hit TV show "Breaking Bad" came along, I'm guess…
February
The SA•P Design + Health initiative is one of three projects nation wide to receive a Decade of Design research grant from the AIA. The cross-disciplinary project brings together students and fa…
Patricia Roybal Caballero isn’t the average graduate student looking to defend her thesis this spring. She’s also looking out for the …
The UNM School of Medicine has announced that Christine M. Williams, in association with the Albuquerque design firm Garrett Smith Ltd., has won the limited design competition for an envisioned memori…
Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of New Mexico to help bring Native American students to assist the tribe with designing and planning projects on…
MCRP student, Ben Wilde has been working with professor Moises Gonzales to develop a low cost, effective, and sustainable greenhouse to extend the growing season for farmers in the Rio Grande Valley. …
March
Tony Atkin, FAIA, is an award-winning architect and preservationist; principal, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Philadelphia and Santa Fe. He is the co-editor of the book, Structure and Meaning in Hum…
Geraldine Forbes Isais came to UNM in 2005 to serve as director of the architecture program in the School of Architecture and Planning. In July of 2010, she was selected to serve as the school's first…
The Lone Mountain Ranch House near Golden, NM was awarded the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture. The ranch house is a solitary family retreat designed by Rick Joy Architects of Tuscon, A…
April
Following a national search, the Community and Regional Planning Program is pleased to announce that Dr. Laura Harjo has been appointed Assistant Professor of Planning.
Laura has a Ph. D. degree in ge…
May
The School of Architecture and Planning is hosting the annual meeting for Deans and Directors of accredited architecture programs between the Mississippi River and the Rockies. Participants include le…
Dean Geraldine Forbes Isais invites you and your guests to attend the 10th Annual Alumni + Friends Reception during this year's AIA Convention in Denver, Colorado. Join us for appetizers, libations, a…
Monday May, 6 at 7:30 pm, students of an undergraduate, 400 level design studio at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning have spent the last 16 weeks researching, studying, designing, and constr…
June
A residence designed by Efthimios Maniatis for Roger and Mary Downey in Corrales, New Mexico was featured in the spring issue of Su Casa Northern New Mexico. "Everywhere I do a project, I take forms f…
The National Endowment for the Arts Design Program is hosting a free webinar series on Social Impact Design. The series builds on ideas discussed during the 2012 Social Impact Design Summit and the on…
July
Ric Richardson, director, Community & Regional Planning in the University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning, is profiled in Volume 14, Issue 2 of PTP, or Planning Theory and Practice, on…
The National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant will provide $150,000 to support the design of new permanent community gathering and garden spaces along Route 66 in Albuquerque's International Dist…
An article in the latest Dwell Magazine features the Corrales house designed by architect Efthimios Maniatis of Studio eM Design and lecturer at SA•P. Dwell recognizes the rammed earth design, p…
A design proposal submitted by Navida Johnson (BAEPD) and Michael Canales (MArch) was selected by Albuquerque's Downtown Action Team. The fence design will be installed at the Alvarado Urban Farm usi…
“Blue Flower,” the art piece that faces Central Ave. on George Pearl Hall, is up for award consideration by the Collaboration of Desig…
August
The Art, Research, Technology & Science Laboratory (
ARTS Lab) at the University of New Mexico has recently been selected as the 2013 recipient of the International Digital Media Association Innovative…
September
Baker H. Morrow, CEO of Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller, Ltd. Landscape Architects, was included in this year's list of Top CEOs by Albuquerque Business First. “A great CEO must recognize and fo…
October
The University of New Mexico invites applications for the position of Director of Architecture in the School of Architecture & Planning. Applications received on or before December 15, 2013 will have …
November
"Wrapping up his work in New York, the world famous architect who designed the Ground Zero Master Plan is now on his way to Albuquerque to speak at the University of New Mexico.
Daniel Libeskind will …
The Top 25 Graduate Architecture Programs list, published by graduateprograms.com, is based on rankings by current and recent graduate students. The graduate program rankings were compiled between Sep…