May 2, 2013
Architecture professor Ryan Bacha has been awarded the Vulcan Materials Company Teaching Excellence Award. This annual award recognizes an outstanding faculty member at a Georgia Independent College Association member institution who has made outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, student learning and campus life.
Feb 8, 2013
Matthew Hart (B.F.A., architecture, 2005; M.Arch., 2012) is the 2012 recipient of the AIA Georgia Emerging Professional Award and the AIA Georgia Presidential Citation.
Learn more about his achievements. Hart is an intern architect and project manager at IPG Architects and Planners in Valdosta, Georgia.
Feb 8, 2013
Architecture professor Andrew Phillip Payne has been elected to serve a two-year term on the council of the Design Research Society. Payne will develop new projects and serve as an expert in his area of research for DRS.
Feb 7, 2013
Hoa Thai Vu (B.F.A., architecture, 2012) earned a Merit Citation for Community Express for her entry in Challenge 1 of the Leading Edge Design Competition for 2011-2012. For more information about her project, visit
Leading Edge Competition.
Feb 7, 2013
Professor Arpad Ronaszegi's photography of Yale University's new medical research building, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, is featured in the university's "Perspecta," the country's oldest student-edited architectural journal.
Feb 7, 2013
Stephen Martyak (M.Arch., 2011) is the founder of
studioTYAK, a Boston-based design studio. His company's first major project,
The Sinclair, a restaurant and rock club hybrid, opened in Boston in 2012.
Feb 7, 2013
Photographs taken by
Mark Pariani (B.F.A., architecture, 2011) were part of an
exhibit at the Marywood Retreat and Conference Center in St. Johns, Florida.
Feb 7, 2013
Erin Rahn (B.F.A., architecture, 2009; M.Arch., 2010) facilitated a relationship between Springfield, Georgia, and SCAD architecture students after the town's Industrial Development Authority CEO was impressed by work from her graduate classes.
Read more about Rahn's project, and the work SCAD students are doing in Springfield, in the Savannah Morning News.
Feb 5, 2013
B.F.A. architecture student Evan Kuester won grand prize in the Benjamin Moore Student Design Challenge, where students were asked to design two or three rooms that evoked an emotional, physical or spiritual connection to the environment.
Dec 14, 2012
Mark Curry (M.Arch., 1989) was named the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Architect of the Year for 2012.
Dec 3, 2012
The Brunswick Beacon has published Christopher Kinlaw's (B.F.A., architecture, 2010) comprehensive park and greenway master plan.
Nov 19, 2012
Congratulations to SCAD's architecture department on the 2012 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) award for a proposal - "Disentanglement and Gates: An Interactive Game of Architecture Practice" - submitted by professors Carole Pacheco, Matthew Dudzik and Greg Hall. SCAD was one of only three universities to receive the award.
Nov 1, 2012
Camille Douglas (M.Arch, 2004, Savannah) is a project architect at Martin Lyn Associates in Kingston, Jamaica. She is taking the Architectural Review Exam and working on fulfilling the requirements for architect registration in Jamaica.
Oct 31, 2012
Charles Mashburn, Jr. (B.F.A., architecture, 2009; M.Arch, 2010, Savannah) was responsible for the conceptual design of the North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library in Plano, Texas, in 2011. His thesis article was published in the Dec. 2010 issue of London, England's 'The Square' magazine. Mashburn is in the process of taking the Architectural Review Exam to earn his architectural license.
Oct 29, 2012
John Stennis (B.F.A, architecture, 2005; M.Arch, 2006, Savannah) is a project manager at Gilday Architects in Jackson, Wyoming, where he has worked for the past six years on both residential and commercial projects. Currently he is working on the renovation and addition to the Teton County Library. In 2010 Stennis was appointed to a three-year term as a Town of Jackson Planning and Zoning/Board of Adjustment commissioner.
Oct 9, 2012
April Horvath (M.Arch., 2001) has been named "Young Architect of the Year" by the Jersey Shore section of the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects for her contribution to the redevelopment of Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Learn more.
Oct 9, 2012
Graduate student
James McDonald accepted an internship with Professor
Gerry Cowart's firm,
Cowart Group, LLC.
Oct 9, 2012
Heather Caputo (M.Arch., 2004) accepted a position at architecture firm Perkins Eastman.
Oct 9, 2012
Laura Cavichioli (M.Arch., 2007) accepted a position at architecture firm Perkins Eastman.
Oct 8, 2012
Atlanta HKS Design Fellowship Winners (SCAD M.Arch. students):
Elise Lapaglia, Ana Hercules, Joseph Martin, Maria Vazquez.
Learn more.
Oct 4, 2012
Kristi Buchler (M.Arch., 2012) accepted a position as designer at NBBJ in New York City.
Oct 1, 2012
Stephanie Jordan (B.F.A., architecture, 2008; M.F.A. historic preservation, 2010) accepted a position with the Historic Preservation Division of Georgia Department of Natural Resources in Atlanta, Georgia, as the transportation projects coordinator.
Aug 31, 2012
James Shannon (B.F.A., architecture, 2009; M.Arch, 2010) accepted a position as junior architect at Kleinmann Architects in New York City.
Aug 14, 2012
M.Arch. student Elise LaPaglia (B.F.A., architecture, 2012) is an intern at HKS Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia.
Aug 7, 2012
Leah Pluger (M.Arch., architecture, 2010; B.F.A., architecture, 2009) accepted a full-time position at GMP Architects-LA in Los Angeles, California.
Aug 7, 2012
Damien Busillo (M.Arch., architecture, 2003) lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and is the owner of DLB Architecture and Design, where he designs high-end custom homes in the greater Charleston area.
Jul 13, 2012
Maxim Nasab (B.F.A., architecture, 2010; M.Arch., 2011) was published in Montréal, Quebec's
Métro.
Jun 13, 2012
M.Arch. student Edell Parker III (B.F.A., architecture, 2011) accepted an internship with SCAD Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.