College of Architecture and Planning

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Month: August 2021

  • Students to teach city planning skills to high schoolers this fall
    August 18, 2021 by

    Local high school students will soon be learning about urban planning, thanks to a grant provided by Ball State University Discovery Group. Saturday workshops are scheduled this fall semester for Muncie area high school students at the Urban Planning storefront studio at the Muncie Mall.   The workshop, called UrbanPlan, is a scenario-based engaged workshop developed […]

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  • IPAL – The Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure
    August 17, 2021 by

    Opportunity Merriam Webster defines opportunity as “the favorable juncture of circumstances” and “a good chance for advancement or progress”. Earlier this year, Ball State’s Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (ECAP) Master of Architecture program was afforded the opportunity to participate in the cutting-edge Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. Introduced by the National […]

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  • CM Students Place in Competition
    August 17, 2021 by

    Coach Sherif Attallah and his student team placed 5th nationally in the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA)  2020-2021 Student Competition! This year’s competition project required student chapters to act as the prime contractor on the renovation project to the historic University of Pennsylvania Museum. The competition was based on an actual project of one […]

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  • Craig Farnsworth Shares His Love of Watercolor
    August 17, 2021 by

    I’ve been painting in watercolor for over 30 years. I dabbled with it as a landscape architecture student here at Ball State and then became more serious with it while in graduate school. Ever since, I’ve used it to illustrate designs, document ideas, and record impressions. Along the way, I’ve done freelance watercolor illustration and […]

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  • Consider a Certificate in Sustainability
    August 17, 2021 by

    The Graduate Certificate in Sustainability is administered through the Academy for Sustainability in the R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. The certificate recognizes the need for participants to work across topical disciplines. And whether citizens are educated as designers or function as participants in the design activity, they collectively must arrive at strategic […]

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  • Exploring Glass in Architecture
    August 17, 2021 by

    During my 2016 sabbatical at the Glick Center for Glass, I met Jennifer Halvorson, an associate professor of art at Ball State. While working with glass we discovered many shared interests and overlaps between both architecture and fine art disciplines. We had discussed the opportunity of collaborating on a blended course and drafted an outline […]

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  • Glick Center for Glass receives Silver LEED certification
    August 11, 2021 by

    Janet Fick and students, with support from co-instructor Jim Jones, certified a second campus building — the Glick Center for Glass — through the USGBC’s LEED Lab initiative and received a Silver certification! This is only the 12th building in the world certified through this initiative and Ball State has two buildings here on campus. […]

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