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Coordinated architecture, urban planning courses receive national award

February 11, 2021
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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

January 22, 2021
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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

December 22, 2020
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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

December 11, 2020
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Martin Despang’s show Human(e) Architecture won ThinkTech Hawaii’s Show of the Year award.

Micro-architecture ‘Lawn Loungers’ win award, engage community

December 2, 2020
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A micro-architecture called “Lawn Loungers” received a Honolulu Design Award, in the institutional category from the American Institute of Architects.

Student-designed UH Cancer Center clinical trials suite wins award

November 24, 2020
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The mock-up designed by architecture students with the UH Community Design Center received the Distinctive Detail Award by the American Institute of Architects.

Japanese architecture, individuality explored in new book

November 10, 2020
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Kevin Nute’s book, This Here Now: Japanese Building and the Architecture of the Individual, shows how buildings can help people to transcend their individuality.