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  • Alley House

    The Alley House Receives More Awards
    March 14, 2024 by

    Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning architecture students and faculty co-leads, Pam Harwood and Tom Collins, were awarded the 2024 AIA Indianapolis Design Excellence Award for their work on the Alley House, a net-positive, sustainable, high-performance two-family home located in the near eastside of Indianapolis. The Alley House previously claimed the top spot […]

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  • 2023 MKM Steel Competition
    May 10, 2023 by

    The end of the school year brings a lot of excitement including the annual MKM architecture + design Steel Competition for 3rd year architecture students. The competition is based off of the ACSA National Steel Competition where students are also encouraged to submit their projects. This year’s challenge is to design “A Place for the […]

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  • New Steel Structure for Campus “The LOOP”
    September 12, 2022 by

    Last fall architecture students looked to the past for inspiration when creating a vibrant new installation to be placed near the intersection of Neely and McKinley streets. More than 45 years ago, the iconic CAP Sign and the bright yellow Balance sculpture were installed on the lawn outside the College of Architecture and Planning building. […]

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  • CAP “Alumni” World Tour 2023!
    August 9, 2021 by

    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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  • 2021 MKM Design Competition
    April 29, 2021 by

    Each year, all sixty-nine third-year architecture students participate in the MKM Design Competition. For the past 8 weeks, the students apply their design knowledge and skills to the same project, exploring designs for a mixed-use development for a site in downtown Muncie, Indiana. Students had the option to work individually or in teams of two; […]

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  • Book documents construction of CAP: Indy sign
    April 22, 2021 by

    Patrick Ward was off campus working at an internship and searching for an elective when a class called CAP:Indy Sign caught his attention. Mainly because he had no idea what the title meant. Had he been in the building, he couldn’t have missed the 17-foot sign being built in the CAP atrium. As it was, […]

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