Grafton Architects' conceptual design proposal for the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation at the University of Arkansas.
Modus Studio in Fayetteville donated $250,000 to University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.
The architectural company is one of the firms working on the university’s new Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation. The university plans to name the Modus Studio Seminar and Conference Room in the center in recognition.
“Modus believes in the purpose of the Fay Jones School to expand the design, research and fabrication capacity of current and future students who will ultimately become our allies in the effort of improving the built environment,” said Chris Baribeau, principal and co-founder of Modus Studio and graduate of the Fay Jones School.
The center is in the design phase and will house the timber and wood design programs of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Timber magnate John Ed Anthony and his wife, Isabel, jump-started the center with a $7.5 million gift.
“Modus Studio epitomizes the excellence in architectural education and in the profession of architecture characteristic of ‘the next generation’ of Fay Jones School and Arkansas graduates,” said Peter MacKeith, dean of the school. “Their commitment to the school’s future, expressed through this gift to the Anthony Timberlands Center project, is a commitment to the coming ‘next generation’ of Fay Jones School students, as well as an emphatic reinforcement of a central tenet of a Fay Jones School education: the linking of creative thought to tangible, material construction.”
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