architecture

The recognition is for the campus’ 95,000 square foot home located near the heart of downtown Everett.

National design awards pile up for the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center and The Spark: Academic Innovation Hub.

By Mary Catherine Frantz, intern, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – A team of Washington State University students earned first place in the Design-Build Institute of America’s national student competition held Nov. 8-10 in Philadelphia.

PULLMAN, Wash. – When architects design, they most often start their projects with ideas about forms, structures and materials. Then they move on to lighting. Eventually they think about color.

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Architecture and Engineering PULLMAN, Wash. – A WSU architecture student team has designed a shelter that they hope might someday improve the lives of homeless people.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Student designs for sheltering the homeless in Washington will be on display Aug. 29-Sept. 22 in the Carpenter Hall gallery at Washington State University. An opening reception with refreshments will be at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Students with a two-year degree in architectural technology will be able to transfer to Washington State University’s undergraduate architecture program without applying as formal transfer students.

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – For much of the semester, Leah Engelhardt and Jingxian (Doris) Xie’s fellow architecture graduate students and professors had doubts about their project.

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – As Dina Radjabalipour fought a losing battle with cancer last year, the Washington State University architecture graduate student wanted to design a better treatment center.

COUPEVILLE, Wash. – When bees make hexagons in their hives, the six-sided shapes fit together perfectly. In fact, we’ve actually never seen bees make any other shape. That’s what I found out when I visited my friend Sue Cobey, a bee researcher at Washington State University.