Indigenous urban design earns award for architecture student
An architecture student received an award from the APA Hawaiʻi Chapter for her project that incorporates new urban typology in service to Indigenous design.
1st place in international competition for UH architecture students
UH Mānoa students won first place and an honorable mention in the 2021 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Steel Competition.
Landscape architecture student helps redesign Hawaiian studies grounds
Using landscape design framework rooted in Hawaiian principles and perspectives, a student redesigned the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies grounds.
UH project plans for sea-level rise from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor
The project serves as a future planning tool for the south shore of urban Honolulu, which stretches from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor.
Architecture faculty receives high honors in national fellowship
Cathi Ho Schar was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, one of the highest honors bestowed on an individual member.
Coordinated architecture, urban planning courses receive national award
A set of courses in architecture, landscape architecture and urban and regional planning received the 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society.
Design Tank event generates ideas to improve public spaces
The UH Community Design Center and Institute for Sustainability and Resilience hosted a week-long Mayors' Institute Design Tank.
Ala Wai Harbor gets planning help from UH students
Students in two graduate classes conducted research, sought inputs from stakeholders, studied precedents and explored design strategies to tackle the issue.
Architecture faculty hosts award-winning show
Martin Despang’s show Human(e) Architecture won ThinkTech Hawaii’s Show of the Year award.
Micro-architecture ‘Lawn Loungers’ win award, engage community
A micro-architecture called “Lawn Loungers” received a Honolulu Design Award, in the institutional category from the American Institute of Architects.
