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  • Revitalizing Halteman Village
    October 20, 2020 by

    The City of Muncie and the north side Halteman Village Neighborhood Association are working to reestablish the vitality of the Halteman community by reimagining an abandoned swim club property as a new city park. In the summer of 2019, the neighborhood association partnered with Ball State’s Building Better Neighborhoods (BBN) grant-funded immersive learning projects and the […]

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  • Landscape Architecture Students Completed Education Plaza Project
    October 20, 2020 by

    Neither rain, nor snow, nor Covid-19 stopped the Department of Landscape Architecture from completing a design-build project. Over the course of one and a half semesters (the half due to the university’s shutdown during the pandemic) Assistant Teaching Professor Colby Gray and his students designed and constructed an Environmental Education Plaza at Wilderness Park in Hartford City, […]

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  • Ball State Places Top Three in Green Energy Challenge
    October 16, 2020 by

    A team of Ball State construction management students took third place in the Green Energy Challenge competition this fall. The team submitted a video presentation of their work and fielded judge’s questions through Zoom to land the third-place overall ranking – the first time Ball State has placed in the top three. The competition, sponsored by […]

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  • The Weight of History
    October 2, 2020 by

    By CHLOE DOTSON, BUPD 2012, MURP 2013   When I was a little girl, my father took me to the beach. We sat down in the sand, and I peered out into the ocean. My fathered pointed out into the ocean saying, “Look … look there, you see that ocean? That is where your ancestors […]

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  • CAP Lecture Series Fall Line-Up
    September 25, 2020 by

    The CAP lecture series will be virtual this year, and we’re hoping you’ll join us! Our lectures are free and open to the public to enjoy. Here’s the line-up for Fall.   Monday, NOV 9 | 4:00 pm Paul Lewis, a principal at LTL Architects, is a professor and associate dean at Princeton University School […]

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  • Honorable Mention in International Competition
    September 11, 2020 by

    Allison Loth, a fourth-year architecture student, won honorable mention in the international 2020 ACSA-AISC Steel Competition for her project “Transcend” in the urban food hub category. The category challenged students to explore issues related to the use of steel in design and construction for the creation of the food hub. Working off a farmer’s market […]

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  • First Recipient of the F.A. Wilhelm Scholarship
    August 25, 2020 by

    A few years ago, the Construction Management Program at Ball State University created the F.A. Wilhelm Scholarship, which was developed specifically to help underrepresented populations in the construction industry. It is now fully endowed and we are awarding the very first scholarship to incoming freshman and CM major Shane Gupton. I was very excited to […]

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  • Christopher Battaglia Makes His Research a Reality
    August 5, 2020 by

    Assistant Research Professor and Design Innovation Fellow Christopher A. Battaglia was selected as one of six 2018-19 University Design Research Fellows for 2019 Exhibit Columbus. The University Design Research Fellowship was created to highlight innovative research by leading professors of architecture and design. Battaglia researches techniques to spatialize concrete through additive manufacturing and digital fabrication techniques. […]

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  • Avenue of the Architects
    August 4, 2020 by

    Fifth Street, Columbus, Indiana – Student Exhibition Over the years, Columbus, Indiana has undergone a transformation from an ordinary Midwestern city to a world-renowned Midwestern Modernist Must-see. Although the entire City of Columbus is overflowing with architectural riches, one street in particular ­– 5th Street – is so saturated with great works that is was […]

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