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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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University of Nebraska Students Research New Ways to Use Eastern Redcedar with Cabin Construction

 

Exploring a more sustainable way to build, Associate Professor Jason Griffiths’ students are designing and constructing Mizer Ruin, a 200 sq. ft., micro-dwelling using Eastern Redcedar at the University of Nebraska’s Cedar Point Biological Station near Ogallala, Nebraska. For many Nebraska and midwestern farmers, these trees can be a nuisance and costly to remove as they encroach on pasture and farmland. Finding creative solutions to this problem is one of the project objectives as Griffiths and his students explore the use of Eastern Redcedar as a construction material. If this team can demonstrate that Eastern Redcedar is a cost-effective, viable building material, this could prove a more sustainable choice for construction as well as a possible solution for offsetting tree removal costs and a means for forest fire management.

The design and programming of the Mizer Ruin, micro-dwelling project was developed from a collective of design-build based studios under the PLAIN Design-Build organization which is led by Griffiths.

The project was originally conceived in a 2018 third-year studio, with further development in 2019 and 2021 master-level design research, design-build studios.

In the fall of 2021, students finalized the design, began site preparation and poured the footings. At the same time, Griffiths began negotiations with Adam Smith of the Nebraska Forest Service and Jon Garbisch, associate director of Cedar Point Bio Station, to coordinate the felling of trees in the canyons around the site. Spring 2022 saw the completion of the forest cutting with over 100 logs prepared for milling. This summer, research and independent study students will mill the logs with a mobile wood mizer in preparation for the fall 2022 construction with the fourth-year, Collaborate design studio.

Over this fall semester, Griffiths is hoping the students will be able to build the main structure in three trips with the aim of final completion in the spring of 2023.

Once finished, the micro-dwelling residence will be used by the Cedar Point Biological Station manager. With only 200 sq. ft., the students had to design for space efficiency, including a tiny kitchenette, a small shower, a living space and a bedroom.

This is the second design-build project Griffiths has collaborated on with the Cedar Point Biological Station. Their first project was the Baxa residence cabin for underprivileged students studying bioscience at the station.

“UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station has a long-term vision to broaden our use and understanding of field based or place-based research and education in the natural environment. Since 2009 we have partnered with various College of Architecture faculty and architecture courses with this idea in mind, said Jon Garbisch, Cedar Point Biological Station associate director. “The product has wildly exceeded our expectations, and this is visible in Baxa House, and Mizer’s Ruin but has also influenced a wide range of construction and maintenance projects here on the campus.”

Typically for design-build projects like this, the instructor collaborates with a non-profit partner to construct a community-based, socially responsible building. The college picks an educational partner based on their non-profit status who likely cannot afford the expertise of a professional firm but would mutually benefit from engaging in the educational endeavor, as would the local community it serves.

Being built as a sustainability research project, Griffiths will be collecting data for milling the project on-site as a method to reduce the embodied energy of the building materials.

“I won’t know the total environmental costs of this project until it’s all said and done in 2023, but I’m very curious to see the numbers and whether this will be a viable, cost-effective building method,” said Griffiths.

Using a mobile, wood mizer won’t be the only aspect that is unique to this project. The team plans to use the Japanese technique called shou sugi ban to treat the exterior of the log construction. The method includes charring the surface of the wood using a propane wood torch, and then rubbing it with natural oil.

This technique for weatherproofing wood creates a material that is resistant to rot, pests, water and fire.

Being fire resistant was one reason Griffiths chose this finish.

“Any dwelling being built in a forested area has to have considerations for fire hazards,” said Griffiths. “The shou sugi ban treatment offers protection from forest fires because the wood has already been burned and has a charcoal finish on the outer layer.”

Using this type of material also helps forest fire management by harvesting and removing a volatile fuel from the forest habitat that has the potential to burn rapidly and at high temperatures.

“Projects like this are such a win, win, for everyone; the community benefits from the projects we build, and students get first-hand experience of construction,” said Griffiths. “The physicality of a building helps students understand architecture in a way that cannot be captured on the computer or a virtual environment. With their direct knowledge and experience of how buildings work and the money, time and effort needed to build a building, we believe this experience helps accelerate the students’ understanding of the fundamentals of our discipline. Experiences from a design-build studio can help students apply their ideas to real-world scenarios.”

Griffiths says he owes a debt of gratitude to the Nebraska Environmental Trust for funding the development of this project and his partners at the biological station for all their assistance with the students, helping guide the project with their critique and input.

“The Mizer Ruin design-build students led by Griffiths are engaging in an exciting hands-on experiential learning opportunity to design, fabricate, install and quantify the environmental cost of the project,” said Architecture Program Director David Karle. “This multi-year project is helping future architects consider natural systems and environmental impacts when designing a building.”

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Virginia Tech

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FINISHING: The End of Architecture — FRASCARI SYMPOSIUM VI : 3/31- 4/1, 2023 @ Virginia Tech/Washington Alexandria Architecture Center.

 

The Tower of Babel, perhaps the original architectural fable, foretells the impossibility of architecture’s completion. The utopic final state dreamed by architects is such that its end never arrives, and may never be finished. This has precipitated lamentations of architecture’s seemingly permanent existential crisis, like a store continuously “going out of business.” Edward Said’s On Late Style identifies finishing as an awareness of coming to an end, yet without actually arriving there. Nonetheless finishing as a topic evokes the tendency to close down, to terminate, to desist, while remaining stubbornly under-theorized. Help us, then, expand the conceptualization of finishing and explain the practices of finishing in architecture along three currents: the surface, the project, and most broadly, architectural time itself.

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Finishing up, finishing off, crossing the finish line. Is finishing the endpoint, or itself a process, a concluding stage? Architectural constructing and construing, not limited to the proverbial drawing board, defines a project, defines a building, but also spans an architect’s entire career, her oeuvre. Poetic acts can initiate and sustain architectural conversations when edifices exist in the public sphere, despite Winckelmann’s proclamation of the births and deaths of styles. For something to be complete (full or final), therefore, it need not necessarily be finished (ended), and vice versa.

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Finishing also connotes perfecting – applying the finishing touches. Is the end, then, the completion of a design, checking off the punch-list at the end of construction, or does it continue through a building’s lifetime, perhaps even extending to its ruined state and beyond as spoils? Michelangelo’s work often embodies “the poetic of the non-finito,” demonstrating that an unfinished edifice may find “an elegant but incomplete” existence well past the point of being considered a work-in-progress. Unlike the unfinished, Marco Frascari (2015) posits that the non-finito exists outside of time.

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This symposium proposes an agenda for theorizing finishing by asking participants to explore the topic through one or more of these three currents:

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1  Surfaces: Finishing as Polishing

      The flow of this current leads to questions of ‘Detail’ via: Material, Tactility and Craft.

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2  Projects: Finishing as Completing

    The flow of this current leads to questions of ‘Building’ via: Concept, Completion and Reception.

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3  Times: Finishing as Ending

     The flow of this current leads to questions of ‘Architecture’ via: Performance, Teleology and Oeuvre.

We invite submissions of scholarly and creative papers and/or creative and scholarly works. Individuals may submit both writings and works. All submissions will remain anonymous and blind peer reviewed. Email all proposals to Frascarisymposiumvi@gmail.com.

 

Submissions for either category should consist of not more than 532 words and three images in a .docx format. Specify in the email heading Abstract-Writing or Abstract-Drawing and the current to which it is being submitted (Surfaces, Projects, or Times). Individuals are allowed up to two separate submissions. In the body of the email, please include your name(s), institutional affiliation(s), four descriptive keywords, and a brief (100 word) bio of each author. In the case of multiple author submissions, only the submitting author will receive direct correspondence from the organizers.

Drawing abstracts should identify media (including electronic), size (in inches), 2-D or 3-D, and any special installation and exhibition instructions. While we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate special installation instructions, unusual sizes or other complex requirements, we cannot guarantee they will be possible.

The symposium is planned to be held entirely in person at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center. If health requirements preclude gathering in person, we will make a timely announcement at least one month before the event so that everyone can revise their plans for on-line participation.

The final version of accepted papers and drawings are due by Friday, 3 February, 2023. Full papers should be submitted as recorded presentations with images not to exceed 20 minutes in length. During the conference, presenters will have 11 minutes to present a precis of their paper in person. The longer full paper will be available for all participants’ review prior to the conference. This format allows a more substantial discussion time for interaction among the conference participants.

The final version of accepted creative works will be hung in exhibition that will be open throughout the symposium. Makers may install their own work as arranged with the organizers on an individual basis.

Papers and creative works will be considered for a future publication following the symposium.

Important Dates
Abstract submissions due: Friday, 2 September 2022 at 11:59 EST at Frascarisymposiumvi@gmail.com
Abstract acceptance notification: Friday, 2 December, 2022.
Final paper and drawing submission due: Friday, February 3, 2023.
Symposium: March 31- April 1, 2023.

Symposium Website:  https://negarg.wixsite.com/frascarisymposiumvi

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Ball State University

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CERES Team Helps Achieve Living Building Certification

 

Ball State University played a key role in Cope Environmental Center earning a unique status that only 28 other buildings worldwide have received. The Centerville, Indiana, center has been awarded “Living Building Certification” by the International Living Future Institute.

Earning this special certification is the result, in large part, of multi-year collaborative efforts that included Ball State faculty and students; Cope Environmental Center staff; and design architect Kevin McCurdy, a Ball State graduate of the College of Architecture and Planning. Mr. McCurdy is a partner at LWC Incorporated.

Living Building Certification is issued in recognition of the achievement of the highest proficiency in the categories of Place, Water, Energy, Health and Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty.

Ball State contributors to this collaboration came from the University’s Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) faculty, staff, and students, including Robert Koester, Ball State professor of Architecture and CERES director; CERES operations manager (ret.) Jeff Culp; and CERES research assistants and CAP graduates Lauren McWhorter and Ben Grayson.

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University of Southern California

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Ginger Nolan Wins the 2022 SAH | Places Prize on Race and the Built Environment from the Society of Architectural Historians

 

The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce that Ginger Nolan has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 SAH | Places Prize on Race and the Built Environment. A collaboration between SAH and Places Journal, the award supports the production of a major work of public scholarship that considers the history of race and the built environment through a contemporary lens.

Nolan is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. Her research examines relationships between architecture, media, infrastructures, and race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published two books with the University of Minnesota Press: Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design (2021) and The Neocolonialism of the Global Village (2018). Her work has been recognized by the Graham Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Terra Foundation, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Nolan’s project, “Responding to Racialized Risk: African American Insurance, Churches, and Co-Ops,” will examine the strategies that African Americans developed to contend with their exclusion from access to financial capital, affordable housing, and other infrastructures of household risk management. Her proposed article will draw on archives of African American insurance companies, banks, church-sponsored housing projects, and rural co-operatives, as well as articles and ads in African American magazines. The article will also address continuing barriers faced by non-EuroAmericans in accessing infrastructures of risk management, highlighting how those infrastructures are still integral to the global-northern conquest of space and capital.

Nolan will receive a $7,500 honorarium to fund archival research and travel, which will begin this year. Her research will culminate in a public lecture presented by SAH and the publication of an article in Places.

Established in 2021, the SAH | Places Prize was envisioned by Charles L. Davis II, associate professor of architectural history and criticism at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and co-chair of the SAH Race + Architectural History Affiliate Group.

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University of Southern California

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Willow Bay Has Been Appointed to Serve as Interim Dean of the USC School of Architecture

 

A broadcast journalist, media pioneer and digital communication leader, Willow Bay is the dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The first female dean of USC Annenberg, Bay oversees more than 200 faculty and staff, and more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students across the fields of communication, journalism, public relations and public diplomacy.

As dean, Bay has led academic and research innovations while strengthening USC Annenberg’s connections with the communication fields. She launched a series of curricular improvements, including an expansion of the school’s experiential education and career development programs. Since her installation in 2017, Bay also has focused on advancing the school’s portfolio of innovative research that delivers insights, challenges assumptions and offers knowledge-based solutions to drive change. She has increased USC Annenberg’s partnerships with its industries of practice as well as bolstered the school’s academic and financial foundations through endowed support for faculty chairs, student success, diversity in journalism, and conversations amplifying mental health.

Bay has increased Annenberg’s public engagement around critical issues such as the role of communication technology in advancing equity and access, digital media literacy, gender equity in media and communication, and sports and social change. A skilled television interviewer, Bay has also led conversations with a number of global influencers, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She has also attracted highly visible speakers to campus, including Jorge Ramos, Oprah Winfrey and Maverick Carter.

Prior to her role as dean, Bay spent three years as director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism (2014–’17) and guided the 2014 launch of the state-of-the-art media center in Wallis Annenberg Hall, a newsroom, classroom and incubator of new ideas open to students across the university. During that time, she also introduced the school’s new Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program and welcomed the first cohort of the school’s nine-month Master of Science in Journalism program.

Bay’s academic and industry engagement is focused on the intersection of media, technology and business. Building on research from her first book, Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child’s Questions about the World We Live In (Warner Books, 2003), she is the co-author of a series of global research reports on the impact of mobile technologies on teens and parents titled “The New Normal.”

Bay came to USC Annenberg from her post as senior editor and senior strategic advisor of The Huffington Post, where she managed editorial content and growth initiatives for the pioneering online news site. Her prominent broadcast experience includes reporting and anchoring for ABC News’ Good Morning America/Sunday and serving as a correspondent for Good Morning America and World News Weekend. She was the first woman to co-anchor CNN’s flagship daily financial news program Moneyline. At NBC, she co-hosted NBA Inside Stuff, the NBA’s weekly magazine show, and served as a correspondent for the Today Show. In addition, she was a special correspondent for Bloomberg TV and host of Women to Watch, a primetime program that profiled the next generation of women leaders.

Originally from New York, Bay graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in literature and received her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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UNL Students and Omaha-Lincoln Collaborators to Launch Mobile Outdoor Venue for Post-Pandemic Revitalization

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture students along with a multidisciplinary collaborative of Omaha and Lincoln-based leaders in the fields of design, performance, education and placemaking has begun planning efforts for a mobile stage aimed at reviving neighborhoods, schools and public spaces post-pandemic.

Over the next three months, College of Architecture students will convert the former knife-sharpening truck into a state-of-the-art stage on wheels called the Omaha Mobile Stage. Upon completion, the stage will be mobilized to provide safe, healthy access to performing arts in neighborhoods and schools throughout the Omaha metro area.

“Omaha Mobile Stage was conceived as an antidote to the cultural and social stagnation that local neighborhoods and schools have felt throughout the pandemic,” said Jessica Scheuerman, executive director of Partners for Livable Omaha, the local nonprofit overseeing the Omaha Mobile Stage project. “As human beings, we need access to beauty. As neighbors, we need access to each other. Achieving those aims in a safe and healthy environment is critical to the civic revitalization we all need right now. As the Delta variant threatens another round of stultifying shutdowns, this project is more relevant than ever.”

Partners for Livable Omaha purchased the used,18-foot truck which was then gutted and received necessary repairs at Twins Auto in Omaha in preparation for its conversion into a stage. In August, the truck was transferred to the Nebraska Innovation Studio in Lincoln.

“Access to performing arts and cultural events in general is essential for a vibrant social and intellectual life,” said Architecture Professor Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA. “This becomes even more urgent for a community suffering from long-term pandemic shutdowns and the social isolation that stems from these conditions. The FACT designbuild, collaborate studio and the College of Architecture are excited to be part of this important project, and we are thrilled to kick off the work on the Omaha Mobile Stage!”

Throughout this fall semester, College of Architecture students will design and build the truck conversion. The work will occur within the framework of UNL’s FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team) studio, under the leadership of Professor Day.

“The choice to partner with Jeffrey Day and FACT ensures that the stage will be a local cultural amenity,” Scheuerman said.

A team of fourth year architecture and interior design students will create the stage in Lincoln on the Nebraska Innovation Campus inside the Nebraska Innovation Studio, one of the nation’s top makerspaces.

The designbuild phase is led by Scheuerman, Day, and Omaha-based theatrical designer and technical director Brendan Greene-Walsh.

Omaha Mobile Stage’s spring tour

In spring 2022, Omaha Mobile Stage will tour neighborhoods in a series of free, live performances that cater to the local heritage, culture and tastes of Omaha’s unique communities.

Performances will be produced in partnership with a diverse range of public space managers, educators, performers and arts nonprofits. Omaha Mobile Stage’s programming provides its partners with:

• The stage in an outdoor public space or school setting
• Stipends for artists, event managers and techs
• Sound and lighting equipment
• Promotion

“The Omaha Public Schools Foundation is elated to bring the Omaha Mobile Stage to students in our district, as well as the entire community,” said Toba Cohen-Dunning, executive director of the Omaha Public Schools Foundation. “This is a remarkable resource, especially in light of the pandemic. The arts are crucial to a child’s life. As the Omaha Public Schools works to educate, enrich and enhance the lives of students, this arts endeavor could not come at a better time.”

Restrictions on access to performing arts are expected to continue for Omaha Public School students. As such, the Omaha Mobile Stage, in collaboration with local arts groups and Omaha Public Schools Foundation, will deliver performing arts experiences to school grounds via its Artists Return to Schools program. “This is an aspect of a child’s life that is often missing due to economic constraints on families,” said Cohen-Dunning. “With a District free/reduced lunch membership of 77%, we know that the investment in having the arts come to the students (instead of the opposite) opens up their world view providing opportunities that are often only afforded to our suburban counterparts.”

COVID’s impact on the arts sector and schools

Performing arts are integral to the social, civic and economic wellbeing and vitality of Omaha. Restrictions on gatherings and severe unemployment have been devastating.

Today, artists remain among the most severely affected by the pandemic.

According to a recent report by Americans for the Arts, artists and creatives remain among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce. 95% lost creative income. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, 63% experienced unemployment. As of July 2021, 39% of U.S. nonprofit arts organizations with in-person programming remained closed to the public.

Arts organizations, schools and performers have adapted—changing the physical environment for safer in-person engagements and securing outdoor spaces. These costs contribute to the economic toll at a time when nonprofits and venues are losing revenue and experiencing declines in giving.

Lack of arts access disproportionately impacts underserved communities, where students rely on schools for arts enrichment.

Prior to the pandemic, Black and Hispanic students had less than half of the access to arts education than white peers. According to research from National Endowment for the Arts and Americans for the Arts, low socioeconomic status students who are engaged in arts learning have increases in: high school academic performance; college-going rates and grades; and holding jobs with a future.

Support

Omaha Mobile Stage is made possible by the generous support of Anonymous**, Kevin M. McCarthy, Omaha Public Schools Foundation, Paul Scheuerman, Bluestone Development, Infinity CPA Group, Baird Holm and Sharon and Jim Kresha.

Collaborators

Omaha Mobile Stage is a collaboration with:
• Partners for Livable Omaha, livable.org
• Actual Architecture Company, actual.ac
• Brendan Greene-Walsh, brendangreenewalsh.com
• College of Architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, architecture.unl.edu
• Culxr House, culxr.house
• Fabrication And Construction Team, factlab.org
• Gifford Park Neighborhood Association, giffordparkomaha.org
• Holy Family Community Center, holyfamilyomaha.org
• Joslyn Castle, joslyncastle.com
• Nebraska Innovation Studio, innovationstudio.unl.edu
• Nebraska Writers Collective, newriters.org
• Omaha Conservatory of Music, omahacm.org
• Omaha Public Schools Foundation, omahapublicschoolsfoundation.org
• Project Project, projectprojectomaha.com
• The RiverFront, riverfrontrevitalization.com
• tbd. dance collective, tbddancecollective.org

 

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Professors Day and Griffiths Earn Sand Creek Post & Beam Design and Fabrication Grant Awards

 

We are excited to announce that the Sand Creek Post & Beam Design and Fabrication grant awards from the College of Architecture were awarded to Professor Jeffrey L. Day and Associate Professor Jason Griffiths this semester.

Day’s proposal “Solar Mass Timber Bus Shelters & Bike Sheds for the UNL Campus” aims to develop new prototypes for bus shelters and bike sheds on campus as part of the FACT 2022 spring studio.

The goal is to develop a climate positive approach using mass timber’s potential as a carbon sink combined with the ability of an integrated, active solar array to generate more power than is required for the structures to operate.

Griffiths’s project “Curve Continuity” proposes to take the curved Cross Laminated Timber panels created from the Plain Design Studio, currently on display at Omaha by Design (XX-LAM,) and have them adapted and modified for a permanent structure. The aim of this structure is to demonstrate the possibilities of vac-formed, curved timber composites that feature Nebraskan timber sources.

These grants were funded by Nebraska-based Timberlyne, manufacturer of pre-built post and beam kits. Last year, Timerlyne pledged $50,000 to the College of Architecture to establish the Sand Creek Post & Beam Design and Fabrication Fund which provides competitive grants to support wood construction research and fabrication.

Timberlyne was cofounded by UNL alumni Jule Goeller and Len Dickinson in 2004 in Wayne, Nebraska.

“With this grant program, the College of Architecture is going to be part of shaping the future of what our company does,” said Jule Goeller cofounder. “We would like to be able to continue to create beautiful buildings and dreams for our customers. We think it’s important to make sure that the people who are now in college or will be going to college, are educated in timber construction and allowed to use their creativity in designing what direction that future might take for all of us.”

“We are very excited about the Timberlyne partnership and to see these great projects come to fruition,” said Architecture Program Director David Karle. “The grants bring together faculty, students, and industry partners to research and fabricate new and innovative solutions for mass timber. Through these experiential learning opportunities, our students can apply classroom knowledge to real-world scenarios.”

 

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Karle and Bacon Honored with ACSA Practice and Leadership Award

 

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has given Associate Professor and Program Director David Karle and BVH Design Principal and Lecturer Mark Bacon from the University of Nebraska’s College of Architecture an Honorable Mention for their 2022 AIA/ACSA Practice and Leadership Award.

Karle and Bacon’s project titled “Integrated Pedagogy” was one of only three projects to earn an award in the Practice and Leadership category. With the competition’s 16 percent acceptance rate, the pair join an elite cohort of educators honored this year by the ACSA.

Karle and Bacon’s proposal features the industry partnership they implemented with SGH Concepts, a division of SGH Redglaze Holdings Inc., and Dri-Design. The collaboration established a student scholarship competition in 2014 for the fourth-year, undergraduate, Arch 411 architectural design studio. The scholarship recognizes student projects exemplifying outstanding design investigation, resolution and significance and brings together aspiring architects and industry leaders to advance disciplinary knowledge of design, materiality and innovation.

“The program bridges both theory and practice creating a comprehensive approach to an academic, professional and industry-based learning environment to advance student knowledge on integrated building systems,” said Karle.

Since its inception, the program has awarded $70,000 in scholarship and jury expenditures and recognized a total of 50 finalists and awarded 32 scholarships.

“We are very proud of the work our faculty members do, continually looking for new ways to integrate our curriculum with the latest in technology and materiality used by the professions,” said Sharon Kuska, interim dean of the College of Architecture. “David and Mark have not just been champions of our students but program and curriculum change agents and innovators. I’m excited to see their efforts recognized by their peers at such a prestigious and national scale.”

The ACSA and AIA honors ‘best practice’ examples of highly effective teaching, scholarship and outreach in the areas of professional practice and leadership. Karle and Bacon were recognized with their award at the ACSA 110th Annual Meeting in March during the opening ceremony.

The ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects and designers. Their members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together, ACSA schools represent some 7,000 faculty members educating more than 40,000 students.

 

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Two Interior Design Students Named to the Metropolis Future 100

 

Two undergraduate students in the College of Architecture’s Interior Design Program were selected for the Metropolis Future 100, a list naming the top 50 interior design and top 50 architecture students graduating in North America this spring. Jiang Chen and Lauren Shaul, nominated by Interior Design Program Director Lindsey Bahe, were named to this exclusive list through a competitive process. Out of 300 applications and 47 schools from across the United States and Canada, Chen and Shaul were selected by a jury of Metropolis magazine design experts.

Chen and Shaul join an impressive group of rising leaders who have been recognized for their potential in defining and reimagining the practice of architecture and interior design.

“We were blown away by the quality of Jiang Chen’s work, and we feel that Jiang represents a bright future for our industry—one of beautiful, thoughtful, innovative, sustainable and inclusive design,” – Metropolis Magazine.

“I feel so honored to be selected to the Metropolis Future 100. This is wonderful affirmation of my academic and design skills that were developed in my four years as an interior design student,” said Chen.

After graduation Chen plans to enroll in UNL’s Master of Architecture Program where he will continue to focus on creating design solutions that are functional, sustainable and resilient that blur the boundary between the built environment and nature.

“Shaul’s sophisticated, urbane designs are infused with natural materials, biophilic principles and a keen sense of the natural world outside.” – Metropolis Magazine.

“I am so excited to be on the Metropolis 100 List,” said Shaul. “Being nominated was already such an honor, but being named to the Future 100 was thrilling because I know there are so many talented designers both at UNL and around the nation. As I get ready to graduate and enter the workforce, I feel this was a good confidence boost and a great way to end my college career.”

Shaul was first exposed to interior design as a child when her dad worked on beautiful new homes and was inspired by the whole process. Post-graduation, Shaul is still exploring which career path option she plans to pursue.

Interior Design Program Director Lindsey Bahe, was delighted when she found out not only one but two students were selected from the program. “To have the excellence of our students’ work recognized from such a prestigious international design publication and by a jury of design influencers, speaks volumes to the caliber of work that our students are achieving after engaging in our four-year program. It’s evidence to our students’ creativity and rigor, our dedicated faculty, and the quality of our distinctive curriculum that aims to educate future interior designers who are driven to seek authentic and informed interior design solutions that are deeply connected to our societal fabric and strive to positively impact our culture.”

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