College of Arts + Architecture

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture has a new name, and its program will receive unprecedented support, thanks to a generous gift from alumnus David R. Ravin ’94.

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed to the city of Charlotte’s Equitable Development Commission.

The Bleachery Heritage Project is coming to fruition through a design and fabrication process led by Rachel Dickey with a team of architecture students and collaborators.

A new book by Associate Professor of Architecture Mona Azarbayjani, “High-Performance Double Skin Façade Buildings: Climatic-Based Exploration,” provides the first systematic a

UNC Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library is institutional host to a new international journal; it resulted from the work of Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance.

For nearly a decade, Catty Dan Zhang, an assistant professor of architecture, has been studying air as an important and active system in the design process.

An exhibition in Rhinebeck, New York, features tools and products of her investigations. “Pamphlet Architecture: Visions and Experiments in Architecture” at ‘T’ Space gallery presents works by the five finalists from the Pamphlet Architecture 37 open call, an international competition held last winter. 

UNC Charlotte is the first American host for a stunning exhibition developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art in London.

A major grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the next stage of Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim’s development of a high-performing window system that reduces building energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant is Kim’s third NSF grant in support of her decade-long research into incorporating screens of microalgae into biochromic windows.

David Fillmore, a lighting designer for both theatre and dance, specializes in “large, environmental storytelling.” For example, he made fire-breathing dragons burn down a house for the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte’s production of “Dragons Love Tacos.”

While he loves “bringing imagination to life,” Fillmore knows how to make people look good — on a stage or a screen. “It’s something I do for a living,” he said.

The shimmer of “49er Light,” an 8-x18-foot work of art, glistens in the lobby of the UNC Charlotte Marriott & Hotel Conference Center, catching the eye of visitors as they enter the main lobby from Robert D. Snyder Boulevard.