Debuting Wednesday, March 30, at the CUB Gallery is a textile design exhibit by University of Nebraska, Lincoln faculty member and artist Vince Quevedo. His life-size sculptural garments depict the sins of greed, shown at left, anger, envy, gluttony, pride, sloth and lust.
Daylight can make people happier, healthier and more productive. The challenge of bringing it into the workplace will be the focus of a Daylighting Lab and Integrated Design Center being established at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane with a grant from BetterBricks. BetterBricks is a project of the Northwest Energy Efficiency […]
Design Intelligence magazine ranked the Washington State University interior design program the eighth overall best interior design school in the nation in their annual survey of design professionals.According to the magazine’s editors, the rankings “sum up the satisfaction levels of the leading professional firms and organizations that hire graduate architects and designers.” Conducted by Greenway […]
“Like David and Goliath” is how Washington State University associate professor Paul Hirzel, from the School of Architecture and Construction Management, described the feeling of receiving one of three awards from the American Institute of Architects in Seattle.Hirzel, along with Greg Kessler, a professor in the School of Architecture and Construction Management, and former student […]
• WSU Spokane interior design graduate student Kate Hauge received the grand prize of $3,500 in the 2004 International Interior Design Association Sustainable Design Student Competition. Each year the IIDA sponsors the contest, open to interior design students from around the world. Sustainable office design seeks to create a healthy and productive working environment while […]
A weeklong symposium at Washington State University Spokane hosted by the Interdisciplinary Design Institute will examine models for thinking about the relationship between health and the built environment. To be held Oct. 4-8, the week’s events offer workshops for healthcare and design professionals, faculty and students. Joanne M. Westphal, a licensed practicing physician and landscape […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State University has become the second university in the nation to offer a doctoral degree in professional design. The new degree program was approved late last month by the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board. Offered through the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane and available on both the Spokane and Pullman campuses, […]
Forster Ndubisi, with interests in the arts and biology, years ago “noticed a sharp contrast in the quality of the built and natural environment” between his native Nigeria and London, where he visited as an undergraduate. “I wanted to do something that would help to manage that natural and built environment, so I started asking […]
When design students at WSU Spokane say of a project, “It’s been real,” they mean it. Perhaps his has never been truer than with a fourth-year landscape architecture project that has become a $5.9 million federal funding request from the City of Spokane. Two years ago, Bruce Butterworth (’78, interior design) came to the Interdisciplinary […]
Hoping to impress svelte Elke Sommer with his suave policeman cool, Peter Sellers (as Inspector Clouseau) pulls out a string of official-looking keys — connected for “security reasons” to a hook on his pants — to unlock her file. The key sticks in the lock and the pants tear like tissue. A moment later, Elke […]