Category: Alumni


  • Designing Amidst a Global Pandemic

    Designing amidst a global pandemic requires an extra dose of something we are all familiar with: creativity. As a recent graduate, I could have never predicted the circumstances in which I would be entering the workforce. Now, a year into my career as an interior designer, I have learned to greatly appreciate the value of […]

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  • IPAL – The Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure

    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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  • Consider a Certificate in Sustainability

    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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  • CAP “Alumni” World Tour 2023!

    CAP Alumni, are you interested in participating in a World Tour? Now’s your chance, Rod Underwood is organizing a tour for Spring of 2023. The “tour” is open to all CAP alumni and their significant others including children. (Note: these trips are not through Ball State they are independent of the university) You may take […]

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  • CERES Supports LEED Certification for Multi-Cultural Center

    The Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) has continued to facilitate and support the team effort of students, faculty, and professionals in preparing the technical credit submission for LEED Certification of the new Multi-Cultural Center, designed by RG Collaborative. This effort is the first of its kind under the LEED Lab Program administered by the US […]

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  • CapAsia Traffic Inspires U.S. Transportation Planner

    The CapAsia field studies program will resume in spring 2022. In preparation, we’ve asked students from past CapAsia trips — there have been ten in all! — to reflect on their experiences. By ANTON SCHAUERTE, CapAsia X One reason I wanted to go on CapAsia was because I’d previously watched a YouTube video called “How […]

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  • Introducing our 2021 Alumni Award Winners!

    The Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning Executive Advisory Board annually recognizes alumni who demonstrate outstanding professional success or achievement in their field of endeavor. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners. Watch the video presentation of our winners here.   DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS Ron Fisher, Architecture, ‘79 Throughout his 42-year tenure with […]

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  • 5 Landon Bone Baker Architects offer presentation March 8

    Join us for a lively presentation by one of CAP’s most successful alumni-owned firms at 4 p.m. Monday, March 8. The presentation by Landon Bone Baker Architects of Chicago will feature five CAP grads from the Department of Architecture. It’s more than architecture driving this award-winning firm: Community building, affordable housing, and neighborhood planning are […]

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  • Alumnus Lourenzo Giple shares advice for students

    Why is it important to expand the American narrative to include the accomplishments and stories of Black Americans? This question implies that they are different. We tend to forget that Black history is American history, and it is a particularly important part of American history. But besides that; representation, perspective, and the ability to see […]

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