Home
E-mail this article
Print
Select Text Size

School of Architecture Update

KU architecture students win 'Home of the Year' for second time
Kansas architects recognize three KU student projects with awards

 

KU architecture students win 'Home of the Year' for second time
For the second time in three years, Architecture magazine has named a house designed and built by 20 KU architecture students as "Home of the Year."

The students are enrolled in Studio 804, taught by Dan Rockhill, professor of architecture. Their house, Modular 3, was completed in May. Perched on a hilltop at 534 Riverview Ave. in the historic Strawberry Hill neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan., the dwelling will be featured in the magazine's November 2006 issue. Studio 804's first modular house won the top award in 2004.

The latest honor continues the international recognition for Studio 804, a noteworthy class in KU's School of Architecture and Urban Design that creates and constructs a house within 20 weeks. In particular, its three modular designs have expanded the idea of what prefabricated housing can look like.

Rockhill oversees the students' work for the projects, which focus on energy efficiency, sustainable and/or recycled materials and affordable single-family houses. In most cases, the houses are the only new construction in old and sometimes overlooked urban neighborhoods and become part of neighborhood revitalization efforts.

The Home of the Year program recognizes outstanding and innovative residences. KU students competed with hundreds of entries, most of them submitted by architecture professionals worldwide, not students. Winners are chosen based on overall design excellence, creativity, programmatic and site sensitivity and formal expression.

The Studio 804 Modular 1 house was constructed on a Kansas City, Kan., bluff in the Rosedale neighborhood. The Modular 1 house and the Modular 2 house, located on Shawnee Road in an established Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood, won Project of the Year awards from Residential Architect magazine.

Read the full article

 

Kansas architects recognize three KU student projects with awards
Three design projects by 10 KU students in the School of Architecture and Urban Design won student awards at the American Institute of Architects Kansas chapter annual honors and awards banquet Oct. 26 in Wichita. Winning projects included designs for St. Louis Opera House; Pterodactyl, a freestanding shade structure; and the New Orleans Housing Prototype.

Also at the Wichita event, a team representing the KU chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students won second place for its golf course design/build project, which utlized a stainless steel putting surface. The "Who Can Build the Best Golf Hole" challenge benefited the Kansas AIA Foundation and was open to students and professionals and raised funds for scholarships for KU and Kansas State University architecture students.

The AIA Kansas juried students-only competition is open to students in architecture programs at KU and K-State and recognizes the best of student architectural design. AIA Kansas also presented its Excellence in Design professional awards at the banquet. John Gaunt, dean of KU's architecture school, served as master of ceremonies for the banquet.

Jurors reviewed 11 student entries with the option of citing projects with honor, merit or citation recognition. The jurors included architects Eugene Mackey and Clay Phillips of Mackey Mitchell Associates and Bill Bowersox, a'72, of Powers Bowersox Associates Inc., all of St. Louis; and Patrick Tighe of Tighe Architecture, Santa Monica, Calif.

Read the full article

 


Enter to win!