Magdalena Garmaz, Environmental Design Program Chair and Ann and Batey Gresham Professor of Architecture, has been named a 2015–2016 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow. As an SEC ALDP Fellow, she is one of three Auburn faculty members who will represent Auburn University in the 2015-2016 Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program, a program which seeks to identify, prepare, and advance academic leaders for roles within Southeastern Conference institutions and beyond. 

Prof. Emeritus Sheri Schumacher received and outstanding teaching award at the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction’s Annual Awards Banquet on Thursday, October 22. Students honored as Outstanding undergraduate students were Trenton Tepool—Architecture, and Katherine Lynch—Interior Architecture.  Outstanding graduate-pr students honored were Joshua Cameron—Master of Community Planning, Whitney Johnson—Master of Integrated Design and Construction in Architecture, Elizabeth Matthews—Master of Landscape Architecture, and Walter Kelly—Master of Real Estate Development.

The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture would like to welcome new faculty Valerie Friedmann, Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate Landscape Architecture; Mary English, Lecturer, Architecture; Élise Cormier, PLA, CPSI, Adjunct Professor, Landscape Architecture.

For ten consecutive years, the Auburn architecture program in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture has been ranked in the top twenty architecture programs nationally. Ranked eighth nationally in 2016, hiring firms have ranked the architecture program second nationally in the skill areas of construction methods and materials; fourth in sustainable design practices and principles; fifth in cross-disciplinary team work, and seventh in communication skills. Architecture deans from across the country rank Auburn’s architecture program fourth “for its highly admired Rural Studio and leadership in community service and design.”

The Rural Studio participated in a special exhibit with SOFA November 3-6 in Chicago, Illinois at Navy Pier called, “Rural Studio: 22 Years of Designing and Building in West Alabama.”

The Rural Studio was recently recognized as one of six architecture schools with “stellar design-build programs” in an article published by Curbed magazine.  To read more, click here.

The newest issue of StudioAPLA is now available. To read about student, alumni and faculty work, research and achievements, click here.

Steve Jernigan, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, a 1981 Auburn graduate with degrees in Architecture and Environmental Design, was awarded the Gold Medal by AIA Florida. The highest honor that AIA Florida can award to one its members, the Gold Medal “recognizes a Florida architect whose distinguished career has had a profound impact on the profession for extended period of time.” Jernigan, managing partner and co-founder of Bay Design Associates Architects, PL, in Pensacola, Florida, has been a leader through political advocacy at the local, state, and national level to protect the practice of architecture.

Thomas Doyle, MLA ’01, (Principal of LA+SOUTH, INC.) and MLA Adjunct Instructor Judd Langham, MLA ’07, (Principal Prime Consultant, 2D STUDIO, LLC) recently received a Design Honor Award from the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their project,

Fairview Environmental Park (formerly Genetta Park) in Montgomery, Alabama.

APLA would like to congratulate alumni firm Houser Walker Architecture for winning the AIA Atlanta’s Silver Medal Firm of the Year award.  For more, read here.