Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design
Graham Family Donates $300K to Anthony Timberlands Center
This gift provides support to the center by naming the 3,758-SF space the Tim and Beverly Graham Family Studio and Classroom. read more >
Fay Jones School Awarded $250K Grant for Housing Innovation Center
The new center will be an extension of the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, which is slated to open in 2023. read more >
AgHeritage Adds Elmore (Movers & Shakers)
Patty Elmore has joined AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in Little Rock as a lending services specialist. read more >
King Family Gives $1.95M to UA
Tom and Jill King of Fayetteville have given $1.95 million to the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. read more >
UA Center Gets $1 Million Gift
The University of Arkansas’ Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation received a $1 million gift from an alumnus. read more >
UA Architecture Dean Builds Momentum, Pioneers Mass Timber Use
As the mass timber construction industry takes hold in Arkansas, Peter MacKeith looks on like a proud papa. read more >
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UA Picks Grafton Architects for Anthony Timberlands Center
The University of Arkansas selects Grafton Architects of Ireland, in partnership with Modus Studio of Fayetteville, to design the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation. read more >
UA Waste Fighters Spin Sawdust Into Gold
The increasing popularity of cross-laminated timber as a building material has an Arkansas professor working on ways to transform a waste byproduct of CLT production into a construction material itself. read more >
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Marlon Blackwell to Receive 2020 AIA Gold Medal
Marlon Blackwell, an architect and University of Arkansas professor, has been awarded the the 2020 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. read more >
Marlon Blackwell Raises Bar on Framework of Arkansas Architecture
Marlon Blackwell , the Fayetteville architect, admits he sees little downside in being famous, as long as he remembers where he came from. read more >
AIA Arkansas, Fay Jones School Work to Make Architecture More Inclusive
The Arkansas chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design are working to expose more young people to the profession and to expose more young people to successful professionals who look like them and who come from similar backgrounds. read more >
Fay Jones School Adding Design Camps This Summer
The Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design is adding three design camps this summer, with the goal of exposing even more children to careers in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. read more >
Cami Jones Gives UA $1M for Three Endowments
University of Arkansas alumna Jean Cameron "Cami" Jones, youngest daughter of Fay and Gus Jones, is donating $1 million to the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design and University Libraries at UA. read more >
Marlon Blackwell Elected to National Academy of Design
Marlon Blackwell, founder of Marlon Blackwell Architects and a professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, has received another round of industry honors. read more >
New Frontier For Boomers: Aging in Place
As they have since they first started coming into it, baby boomers are having an outsized effect on the world, including the world of design, particularly residential architecture design. read more >
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UA Turns to Wood In Building Projects
Building with cross-laminated timber panels is changing the major elements of the construction industry – with southern Arkansas standing to gain if the process becomes more popular. read more >
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Blackwell Architects Wins 2016 National Design Award
Marlon Blackwell Architects of Fayetteville has received a 2016 National Design Award from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. read more >