Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

Torrey Tracy is assistant professor of interior architecture and design in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. He came to the school in 2017 as a visiting professor, and, in 2019, he became a tenure-track professor. He primarily teaches first-year studio and the building systems course. After earning a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice, Tracy planned to study forensic pathology and work as a medical examiner. However, while applying to medical schools, he took an introduction to architecture course. Then, at 29, he began working toward a Master of Architecture degree. While interior design seems like a dramatic shift from his past in criminology, Tracy has found an intersection by examining what should be done with what he calls "sites of sensitivity." "Those are sites or structures that have a connection to less-than-positive elements of history," Tracy said. "These sites of sensitivity are sites that have trauma, spaces of psychological power or influence. Specifically, it's about how we address these sites in the form of memorials or establishing memory." Read more of his story here ?? https://lnkd.in/g23PjvzA Read the full Q & A here ?? https://lnkd.in/gv8KAc2C

We are hiring! Here is your chance to join a fantastic group of faculty at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design! The assistant professor position is a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Interior Architecture and Design. This individual will be interested in leading innovative and transdisciplinary approaches to teaching, scholarship, history and theory, emerging technologies, multimodal design strategies and/or social equity through design. The position's start date is August 2025. More details and application info ?? https://lnkd.in/gCwAWkVx

Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, will present "The Forest and the Trees: The Arkansas Timber Project" on Friday, Nov. 15, as part of the Mass Timber Maine Conference in Portland, Maine. More details ?? https://lnkd.in/dfAU7iGU

The Land of Opportunity Scholarship campaign will be a game changer for Arkansas students at the flagship, land-grant University of Arkansas. “The University of Arkansas’ highest priority is preparing every student for lifelong success — helping them develop the knowledge and skills needed to achieve their goals and make meaningful contributions to their communities long after graduation,” Chancellor Charles Robinson said. “The Land of Opportunity Scholarship will better ensure that deserving Arkansas students have the support necessary to achieve their academic goals and live the American Dream. We’re incredibly grateful to the Hunt family and to all those who have generously supported this effort. Their commitment will benefit generations of Arkansans.” Read more about it??? https://lnkd.in/g-CrRb5j

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the lecture scheduled for Monday, November 11, from Julie Bargmann, founder and principal of D.I.R.T. Studio, in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been canceled.

An innovative new course in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design offers students the opportunity to design and produce custom lighting fixtures using cutting-edge 3D printing technology. For the second time in three years, the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education awarded the Department of Interior Architecture and Design in the Fay Jones School a $30,000 grant to develop an advanced lighting course. Jake Tucci and Jinoh Park, both assistant professors of interior architecture and design, are the principal investigators. The funding allowed the investigators to develop and implement Premiumization, Sustainability and Making of Bespoke Lighting, a professional elective offered to upper-level students in the Fay Jones School. The grant also supports the exhibition of student work created in the course. The Department of Interior Architecture and Design is one of two programs awarded a $30,000 Nuckolls Fund Grant for 2024. The Nuckolls Fund supports college-level lighting programs that enable students to learn, appreciate and apply the fundamentals of lighting design, and to recognize the achievements of James L. Nuckolls, the late lighting designer and pioneer lighting educator. "For our faculty to receive this highly competitive grant twice within three years is testament to their innovative and relevant approach to lighting design education," said Carl Matthews, professor and head of the Department of Interior Architecture and Design. More details ?? https://lnkd.in/gym9Js4g

In this article for the American Planning Association, Patty Folan, visiting associate professor of landscape architecture in the Fay Jones School, encourages readers to consider the local market and see whether zoning reform, phased development, or pop-ups can make implementing transit-oriented development a reality. #PlanMag Read about her seven ways to rethink transit-oriented development (TOD) in slow-growth areas??? https://lnkd.in/gRXWk7RE

Sara Zewde will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as a part of the fall lecture series in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.?? ? Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde in New York, New York, a design firm practicing landscape architecture, urbanism and public art.? ? In her lecture, “The Aesthetics of Being,” she will discuss design through the context of clarified social and political tensions, a changing climate and rapid urban development. Zewde will explain how bell hooks’ notion of the “aesthetics of being” can offer creative departures for contemporary landscape architectural practice today. She will share her recent design work with Studio Zewde across a range of geographies through this lens. ? This lecture is a Verna C. Garvan Endowment Lecture. ? More details??? https://lnkd.in/grACQiYm ?

University of Arkansas alumnus Charles C. Hill has established two endowments to benefit the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. The $100,000 planned gift will create the Charles C. Hill Endowed Scholarship in Healthcare and Wellness Design and the Charles C. Hill Endowed Lecture in Healthcare and Wellness Design, each in the amount of $50,000. The endowed scholarship provides financial support to students in the Master of Design Studies program with a concentration in healthcare and wellness design. Creating an endowment for graduate students greatly improves access to financial resources for students who often have limited options for scholarships. University of Arkansas alumnus Charles C. Hill has established two endowments to benefit the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. The $100,000 planned gift will create the Charles C. Hill Endowed Scholarship in Healthcare and Wellness Design and the Charles C. Hill Endowed Lecture in Healthcare and Wellness Design, each in the amount of $50,000. The endowed lecture will underwrite one lecture each year in the Fay Jones School, intended to engage, inform and educate students, other design professionals and members of the community about the impacts and significance of healthcare and wellness design. Together, the endowments will help the Fay Jones School prepare students for the evolving future of healthcare design by promoting innovative teaching, exposing students to progressive design concepts that originate in the world’s most advanced healthcare systems, and reducing the financial burden for the school’s graduate students. “Charles Hill’s support for healthcare and wellness design will have a lasting impact, not just on the students who benefit from these endowments but also on the communities they go on to serve,” said Chancellor Charles Robinson. “We appreciate his generosity, ongoing commitment to our students and support of the university’s mission to improve the lives of all Arkansans." More details ?? https://lnkd.in/g3SGZMYW

Marlon Blackwell and Wesley Walls will present a lecture at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as a part of the fall lecture series in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Blackwell, FAIA, is co-founder and principal of Marlon Blackwell Architects in Fayetteville. Walls, AIA, is an architect and design principal with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects in Little Rock. In their lecture, “Designing for Health and Wellness,” they will discuss the design process for the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and their respective integration of whole health initiatives on the campus of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.?Peter MacKeith, dean and professor of architecture at the Fay Jones School, will moderate the lecture. The architects will provide an overview of the concepts of whole health and each building’s role in helping transform the current model of healthcare research and education into an integrated practice of whole-person wellness.?This means that an integrative approach considers not only the physical but also social, emotional, spiritual and environmental attributes of well-being. This is the 2024 Dean’s Lecture in Health and Wellness Design, in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. More details??? https://lnkd.in/gjwZW8Nr