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The Evan Bolton Memorial Scholarship was established by friends, family and local builders. This scholarship fund honors Bolton, who died unexpectedly in March 2017 at the age of 13. Bolton grew up in Gainesville, Florida and attended Alachua County Schools. His father, Adam Bolton, is a 1997 M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management graduate […]

Architecture Professor Martha Kohen has spearheaded the effort known as the Puerto Rico Re_Start Project. In March, she went to Puerto Rico along with colleagues and students to help after the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The Puerto Rico Re_Start International Project and Research Workshop was held at the University of Puerto Rico –

During the Spring 2018 semester, the college’s schools and departments each held award ceremonies to honor and recognize faculty, students, alumni and friends. Below is the listing of the top awards recipients. Architecture: Lifetime Achievement Award Gary Siebein, MAARC ‘80 Distinguished Service Award Cynthia Peterson Young Architects Design Award Everald Colas, B.Des ’05, M.ARCH ’07,

2018 Distinguished Alumni Architecture Nichole Wiedemann, AIA B.Des 1989 Nichole Wiedemann is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. In her teaching, research and practice, she continues to focus on the elements of architecture – program, site, material and representation – as places for continual investigation rather than simply

Faculty Profile  – Martha Kohen, Professor, Architecture Martha Kohen has been with the University of Florida’s School of Architecture since 2003. She is a firm believer in the power of higher education to change the world for the better. And she is seeing that firsthand through her efforts with the Puerto Rico Re_Start program, which

The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Raymond Issa as Director of the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management. His two-year appointment will run from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020. Dr. Issa currently serves as the school’s Interim Director. He is

DesignIntelligence is conducting its annual survey of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools. The survey is now open and will close on Friday, June 8, 2018. If you are a person in your firm who hires architects, interior designers or landscape architects, you are invited to share your experiences and perspectives in the professions surveys.

Perkins+Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm, sponsored a prize for the University of Florida Spring 2018 Architecture Design 6 studio. The total prize money given out was $20,000. This contest was open to all approximately 90 students in the Design 6 studio. The top students chosen had their projects reviewed by a jury

Dr. Christopher Silver, FAICP, professor in the University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning, has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to the University of Indonesia’s Department of Architecture within their Faculty of Engineering. The grant runs from January through May 2019. “My involvement with the University of Indonesia goes back to

Faculty Profile – Stanley Latimer, Urban and Regional Planning Stanley Latimer, Urban and Regional Planning Lecturer, enjoys using GIS to not only look at today’s conditions, but also to use it to possibly predict future scenarios. 1. How did you discover urban planning? “I was a geography major at the University of Georgia and I’ve always