College of Architecture and Planning

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Category: Architecture

  • CAP Hosts National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
    March 24, 2022 by

    Guests from around the globe will visit CAP and Ball State April 1-2 for the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. The annual conference draws university professors and practitioners from design professions, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, interior design, graphic design, and others. The conference is hosted by different universities each year with this […]

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  • CERES Team Helps Achieve Living Building Certification
    March 3, 2022 by

    Ball State University played a key role in Cope Environmental Center earning a unique status that only 28 other buildings worldwide have received. The Centerville, Indiana, center has been awarded “Living Building Certification“ by the International Living Future Institute. Earning this special certification is the result, in large part, of multi-year collaborative efforts that included […]

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  • Competition to document historic Black landscapes nets an honorable mention for team of professors
    February 16, 2022 by

    By Christopher Baas, Professor of Landscape Architecture Professors from Ball State University and Hanover College teamed up recently to document the landscape and remains of Eleutherian College, the first college in Indiana to admit Black students, and a hub of activity in the abolitionist movement. The project won honorable mention in the 2021 HALS Challenge […]

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  • Jonathan Moody/Bridging the Gap
    January 3, 2022 by

    MONDAY  |  MAR 28, 2022  |  4:00 PM | Live in AB 100 or via Zoom For a link to watch the lecture, email caplectures@bsu.edu. We have AICP and AIA continuing education credit for this lecture. If you would like credit, let us know when you write for the link. Jonathan Moody’s work resides at […]

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  • Ana de Brea
    August 30, 2021 by

    Since early stages of my academic career, I have been interested in understanding the meanings and the processes of making ‘geometrical bodies’ in contemporary architecture. Over the years, studies of different interpretations and theories, and the development of a number of projects have helped me clarify my inquiry by bringing new, unexpected design-questions about ‘volumetric […]

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  • Experiencing CAP Asia
    August 24, 2021 by

    I first participated in CAP Asia in the Spring of 2005 when I joined Nihal Perera, a faculty member in urban planning, and a group of eighteen students around the middle of their trip. I was arriving to participate in a scheduled two-week building workshop, which was to take place in India, but the plan […]

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  • BSU Historic Preservation Students Win Second Place
    August 23, 2021 by

    The annual Charles E. Peterson Prize, a student competition of measured drawings intended to heighten awareness about historic buildings in the United States announced its 2021 winners. The student team at Ball State University, under the direction of Professor Jonathan Spodek, FAIA, was awarded $3,000 for Second Place for their drawings of the Canal Pump House […]

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  • Design Thinking Around Social Justice Issues
    August 20, 2021 by

    Graduate architecture students had a chance this spring to synthesize their design knowledge with one of the biggest stories of our time, the historical and ongoing racial violence crisis that has played out in American streets for more than two centuries. The resulting projects are rich in meaning, and devastating in their honesty. Assistant Professor […]

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