College of Arts + Architecture

Theatre students Logan Pavia and Sam Pomerantz ’22 were featured performers at the 2022 Holiday Pops concert presented by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim and Assistant Professor Weimin Wang in the Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management have received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to launch the “Green Buildings Innovation Program.”

Sean Gallagher ’00 and Jeff Kenoff ’92, alumni of the Ravin School of Architecture, recently earned Awards of Excellence from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at the 2022 CTBUH International Conference. 

Gallagher was project director for the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago, which won Best Tall Building Worldwide, the top honor, along with Best Tall Building Americas and Best Tall Building Under 100 Meters.

Architecture alumna Claire Shue ’19 is member of the team awarded the Grand Prize in the 2022 American Institute of Architects Film Challenge. The team’s film, “a dream starts here,” was created to build support for a community center in Calhoun Falls, South Carolina.

Shue is one of the project leads for the Dream Center, the subject of the film, which will repurpose a dilapidated building and revitalize the center of the small, declining town.

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture has a new name, and its program will receive unprecedented support, thanks to a generous gift from alumnus David R. Ravin ’94.

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed to the city of Charlotte’s Equitable Development Commission.

The Bleachery Heritage Project is coming to fruition through a design and fabrication process led by Rachel Dickey with a team of architecture students and collaborators.

A new book by Associate Professor of Architecture Mona Azarbayjani, “High-Performance Double Skin Façade Buildings: Climatic-Based Exploration,” provides the first systematic a

UNC Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library is institutional host to a new international journal; it resulted from the work of Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance.

For nearly a decade, Catty Dan Zhang, an assistant professor of architecture, has been studying air as an important and active system in the design process.

An exhibition in Rhinebeck, New York, features tools and products of her investigations. “Pamphlet Architecture: Visions and Experiments in Architecture” at ‘T’ Space gallery presents works by the five finalists from the Pamphlet Architecture 37 open call, an international competition held last winter.