2014 College of Architecture, Planning & Design Achievements
• Design excellence: Programs offered by College of Architecture, Planning & Design continue to rank among the nation's best.
• Peter Magyar, professor of architecture department, is honorary member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts.• Torgeir Norheim, associate professor of architecture, is recognized by Stavanger, Norway.
• Fashioning a win: A team of interior architecture & product design students turn carpet into couture to earn honors at Kansas City design event.
• Now that's a plan: Kansas American Planning Association honors landscape architecture and regional & community planning students, faculty.
• Interior architecture & product design student's chair a prizewinning seat at prestigious woodworking fair.
• More than one-fourth of the finalists in the International Woodworking Fair's annual Design Emphasis Student Furniture Design Competition come from K-State's interior architecture & product design program.
• Danish Institute for Study Abroad honors work of landscape architecture student James Ross DeVault.
• Leadership first: Katherine Ankerson, head of the department of interior architecture & product design, is K-State's first president of the Interior Design Educators Council
• Landscape architecture council honors Jessica Canfield, assistant professor of landscape architecture, for her teaching.
• Landscape architecture students receive five awards at regional conference.
• Landscape architecture's Jessica Canfield is building a synthetic garden in France as a finalist in the prestigious Domaine De Chaumont-Sur-Loire International Festival of Gardens.
• Kendra Ordia, interior architecture & product design, and colleagues win the 2014 Interior Design Educators Council's Creative Scholarship Award for Best in Category: Design as Idea.
• Interior architecture & product design student Josef Lang takes best in show honors at Kansas City's "Monsters of Design" competition for his cantilevered chair "CR45," inspired by his study abroad experience to Denmark.
• Achitecture professor Vladimir Krstic is an Urban Hero, according to the Downtown Council of Kansas City.
• Work by students at the College of Architecture, Planning & Design's Kansas City Design Center earns Honor Award from the Kansas City chapter of the American Institutes of Architects chapter.