Kansas State University achievements

2004 Architecture, Planning and Design

 

* Four programs offered by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design are ranked in the top 10 in the nation, according to a nationwide survey of professional firms in the United States. The 2005 survey, conducted by DesignIntelligence and the Design Futures Council, ranks K-State's bachelor of interior architecture/design program and the bachelor of landscape architecture program as No. 3 in the nation in their respective categories. The bachelor of architecture program ranks sixth in the survey, and the master of landscape architecture program ranks eighth. December 2004

Greenway's Almanac of Architecture and Design: 2005/6th edition ranked four of K-State's architectural programs in the top 10 for the United States of America. The department of architecture was ranked as the sixth best undergraduate program in the nation, ranked above all ofthe other universities in the Big 12. The department of interior architecture and product design is ranked No. 3 in the country and is ahead of all other Big 12 universities. The department of landscape architecture/regional and community planning has one of the three best undergraduate programs and it one of the eight best graduate programs in landscape architecture. November 2004

* Katie Eatinger Paquette, a May 2004 bachelor's graduate of K-State's landscape architecture program, received first place in the undergraduate individual design category of the annual American Society of Landscape Architects National Student Design Competition. It is the 48th award won by a K-State student in the competition, which is twice as many awards as any other school. August 2004

* Tamara Felts, a fifth-year senior in architectural engineering at K-State, was selected by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, also known as ASHRAE, as the recipient of a $3,000 general scholarship. Only two students in the nation were chosen for the scholarship. Felts, Shawano, Wis., was presented the scholarship at the society's winter meeting in Anaheim, Calif., at the end of January. Fourteen other members of the K-State chapter also attended. April 2004

* Derek Trumpp, a third-year student in interior architecture and product design at K-State, received the top honor in the Exhibit Designers and Producers Association International Student Design Competition. Judging took place in Atlanta, Ga., in February. As the first-place winner, Trumpp, Palco, received a $4,000 scholarship and a complete design software package from Autodesk. He also has been offered a summer internship at Freeman Exhibits in Dallas. Trumpp's project was one of several K-State entries from an assignment in the Product Design class taught by Allan Hastings, professor of interior architecture and product design. For the class and the competition, students were asked to bid and/or collaborate on an interactive exhibit environment, 50 feet by 50 feet, for Acoustic Alchemy, an international instrument manufacturer. March 2004

* Students in Professor Don Watts' Architectural Design Studio 4 are spending part of the spring semester working for an actual client: the steering committee for the Lumberyard Arts Center in Baldwin City. The committee is overseeing efforts to turn a local landmark, a former lumberyard building, into a community center for the visual, performing, literary and heritage arts. The K-State students will be contributing design ideas for the center. February 2004

* K-State's interior architecture/interior design and architecture programs rank third and eighth, respectively, according to a 2004 nationwide survey of leading firms across the United States. The annual survey, by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design, asks firms to indicate which accredited programs in interior architecture/interior design and in architecture have produced, in the last five years, graduates most prepared for practice. It's the fourth consecutive year K-State ranks as having one of the top three interior architecture/interior design programs in the nation. It's also the third time in survey history that K-State's architecture program has been ranked among the top 10. February 2004

* Jill Enz, a graduate student in landscape architecture, is the 2004 recipient of the Hideo Sasaki Foundation Scholarship. Enz is only the second recipient of the $7,500 scholarship. According to the Hideo Sasaki Foundation, the scholarship was created in 2003 to recognize annually "the outstanding planning and design student pursuing the integration of the professional design disciplines." January 2004

 

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