Tag: CAP Faculty

Why Lohren Deeg Draws

August 30, 2021 by CAP

I draw to record the mysteries and complexities of the built environment, so that the lessons can be applied in the design process later. Sketching on location uses multiple senses, makes conversation with bystanders, and arguably stimulates a better quality of memory and recollection of a place better than a photograph. The global movement known […]

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Ana de Brea

August 30, 2021 by CAP

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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Riverside Historic District

August 26, 2021 by CAP

Historic Preservation graduate students have created a treasure trove of material for Muncie’s Riverside Normal-City neighborhoods. Two classes – both led by assistant professor of historic preservation J.P. Hall – worked in the area fall semester 2020. Students in ARCH 441/541 crafted design guidelines to aid in preservation of the neighborhoods where the oldest structure […]

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Janice Shimizu Explores Architecture Through Block Prints

August 18, 2021 by CAP

This is a series of images that I consider sketches or prompts for future work and that I explore through materiality and making. I have done drawings with sewing machines and diagrams with block prints. In 2020, I developed this idea into an elective ‘G A P S’ that explored the generative act of architecture […]

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Remote Learning Prompts Miguel San Miguel to Create His Quarantine Collages

August 17, 2021 by CAP

Covid-19 hits in spring 2020 and of course all the students and professors had to deal with the mass confusion and quickly shift to an online educational model. After Friday’s announcement from President Mearns stating all classes will be virtual until the end of Spring semester, the first-year professors met through the weekend to discuss the […]

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Exploring Glass in Architecture

August 17, 2021 by CAP

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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NSF Virtual Teaching Simulator

August 5, 2021 by CAP

The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) explores the intersection between the arts, sciences, humanities with technology. Scholarly, creative and pedagogical projects investigate virtual reality, human computer interface (HCI), augmented reality, and much more. IDIA Lab’s most recent project is collaborating on a $3 million dollar National Science Foundation grant with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]

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Furniture Design Excites Judges

March 8, 2021 by CAP

Interior design students took part in a furniture competition as part of Associate Professor Reza Ahmadi’s IDES 320 Furniture Design course in spring semester. Purposeful Design and the Indiana Chapter ASID sponsored the competition which was judged on production and construction details, aesthetics, marketability, and incorporation of critique comments. Margaret Carter of Purposeful Design and […]

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