AUP+D

PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION CLOSES MAY 31.

Are you interested in one of the design fields, but don’t really know which one or what it entails? Here’s your chance to find out!

Kansas City Design Discovery is a one-week intensive studio-based program for students interested in the design professions of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Architecture/Product Design and Urban Planning/Design. If you are considering studies in the design professions, this is your opportunity to find out more about what design professionals do. You will learn the basics of design, start developing the skills needed for success and get the answers you are looking for about design education.

The studio is modeled like a college architectural design studio where students learn the basics of design through several introductory design projects, slideshows and discussions. A portion of the week will be spent visiting professional design offices and other important sites in the Kansas City area.

WHERE:
Kansas City Design Discovery will take place at the Katz Hall (5005 Rockhill Road), on the campus of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

WHEN:
The program runs from Monday, June 10th to Friday, June 14th. We will meet from 9am-3pm, with a break for lunch on-campus.

WHO:
This course is for high school students or college students considering studies in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture/product design and urban planning/design–or for those students who have an interest in the designed environment and would like an introduction to the concepts of this engaging field.

HOW:
Enrollment begins April 22nd, but you should run through a short application process prior to that. (The total course cost is about $400.) If you’d like to take the course or would just like more information about it, please email Prof. John Eck at eckj@umkc.edu. We’ll keep you updated.

Frederik Heuser: 2012 Bud Prize Winner

This year’s Bud Prize happened in a slightly revamped format: our fifteen second-year students presented to the Bud Prize jury on Thursday, December 6th, then met again (with family, friends and the community at large) on Friday, December 7th for a reception and awards ceremony. The project this year was an art center (classrooms, rentable studios and a gallery) located on an empty lot at 32nd and Troost. One of the primary themes of the project was community engagement–how could this help reactivate and reanimate the Troost commercial district? The students had seven weeks to design and document their art centers.

This year’s jury was composed of: Pat Jordan (local art dealer and Troost neighborhood activist), Laura Spencer (KCUR arts and new reporter), Jacob Palan (representing Helix Architects, the sponsors of the Bud Prize), Greg Sheldon (architect with BNIM and professor at UMKC & KSU) and our own department head, Joy Swallow.

After reviewing all the projects and deliberating their individual merits, the jury awarded the 2012 Bud Prize to Frederik Heuser. Honorable mentions went to Julia Guerra, Joel Savage and Brendan Tucker. A big thanks from the UMKC AUP+D to Helix Architects, our distinguished jury and all our tireless students!

Julia Guerra: Honorable Mention

Joel Savage: Honorable Mention

Brendan Tucker: Honorable Mention

After several years of frustrating rain delays at the U.S. Men’s Open, the New York Times invited select architecture programs around the nation to submit ideas for a roof design for the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. Kansas State University was one the schools asked to participate.

The results were printed on the back page of the New York Times, Sports Section, as well as online. The students had only the weekend to meet the NY Times deadline.

Here is the good part: four UMKC / Architectural Studies students who are currently 5^th year students at KSU were part of this article.    Zachary Bodine, Cierra Myers, Lauren Kelly, Chris Penland. A big hand for our now-published alum–congratulations!

See the online version at: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/10/sports/tennis/10roof-ss.html

We love having visitors and recently had the pleasure of catching up with members from the 2004 class during an impromptu visit. If you’re one of our alumni, we love to hear from you—especially with our 25th aniversary this year. Send us your whereabouts and recent happenings at aupd@umkc.edu (We hope to see you at the Open House!)

left to right: Joy D. Swallow, FAIA, Jakeb Novak, Chicago, IL, Danny Shervington, Kansas City, MO, Ted Seligson, FAIA, Angela Hicks, Coral Springs, FL, Nick Defries, Portland ME, Jacob Palan, Kansas City, MO

Cacena Campbell

Cacena Campbell (2010 Urban Planning + Design Alumnus)just has been accepted at the to the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Cacena was one of seven nationally selected minority students accepted to UDream at Carnegie Mellon in 2010. .

UMKC Department of Architecture, Urban Planning & Design hosted the first annual Kansas City Metro Planning Internship Fair on April 6, sponsored by the American Planning Association (APA) Kansas City Metro Section. The internship fair was intended to facilitate the internship search for planning students and the recruitment of planning interns for public, private, and non-profit organizations. Eleven organizations and more than 30 planning students from Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, and UMKC participated in the event.

The Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design is pleased to host a talk by R. Crosby Kemper, Jr.
 
Friday, April 20th, 2012 @ 4:00pm, Katz Hall, rm. 101

Good design does not happen without someone willing to employ a designer or engage in a design process. This presentation by R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. inaugurates the first in a series of presentations on how design happens in a city. A design patron is someone who challenges a professional designer to solve a pressing problem— be it furnishing a signature bank or leading a civic coalition to save a historic building. R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. exemplifies what it means to be a design patron in Kansas City for well over five decades. Good design contributes to human physical and mental well-being and it improves the public realm while facilitating civic engagement.

Free and open to the public, but please RSVP here.

2012 President’s Award for University Citizenship-Leadership winner Joy Swallow, and UM President Tim Wolfe

Each year, the president of the University of Missouri system awards the President’s Award for University Citizenship. There are three categories of awards: leadership, service and mentoring. The Leadership Award recognizes faculty who have provided exemplary leadership for the university. Examples of areas of leadership include, but are not limited to, faculty/shared governance, major curricular reform or program development, chairing a department or academic program, and fostering collaboration between or among departments, divisions or schools.

At a program held on April 12, it was announced that the 2012 recipient of the President’s Award for University Citizenship in Leadership was our own department head, Joy D. Swallow, FAIA. Joy received the award from UM President Tim Wolfe and UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton.

Although the award was a surprise for Joy, it was no surprise to any of those who have witnessed her years of dedication and perseverance in establishing this department. We have her to thank for the quality and consistency of vision that have made the AUP+D what it is. Congratulations, Joy—and thanks for all the hard work!

RSVP here!