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UK students transform parking spot into pop-up park

Students from the University of Kentucky College of Design and the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Department of Landscape Architecture recently turned an ordinary parking spot into an extraordinary gathering space during Park(ing) Day, an annual international event that reimagines how public spaces can be used.

Spring 2026 Architecture Electives

The School of Architecture’s Spring 2026 electives invite students to engage with a range of topics, from digital visualization, detailing, and fabrication to housing development, material reuse, and urban design. These courses are designed to encourage critical thinking and hands-on experimentation across scales, materials, and methods. Full course details are listed below. Register Now  

UK College of Design honors 2025 Lyman T. Johnson awardees

The  University of Kentucky College of Design honored its 2025 Lyman T. Johnson awardees during the 34th annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 17. 

Design Symposium Undercommoning The Urban Campus

The Undercommoning the Urban Campus Symposium brings together scholars from art, architecture, public history, and urbanism to examine the histories, reckonings, and futures of the modern urban university. Exploring themes such as campus as “UniverCity,” monumentality, and town–gown relations, the symposium creates a forum for dialogue across disciplines. Open to all, it will be of special interest to students and faculty in design, social sciences, and cultural studies.

Fugate appointed as KY Housing Corporation-Groves Endowed Professor

Jeff Fugate, associate professor of extension in the University of Kentucky School of Architecture, has been named the Kentucky Housing Corporation-John Russell Groves Endowed Professor of Housing. The professorship was established in 2002 to promote research into affordable housing design and delivery.

Design Lecture Series Florian Idenburg

Join us for a lecture on Friday, October 17 with Florian Idenburg, co-founder of the New York architectural design firm SO–IL. 

Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture Book Talk with Todd Gannon

Join us for a talk by Todd Gannon, author and professor of architecture at Ohio State University, as he discusses his recent book Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture. 

HMN 300 Info Session: Sustainable Futures Design Lab Course

Study design and sustainability while traveling from the mountains of Kentucky to the cultural centers of France. HMN 300: Sustainable Futures Design Lab is a project-based course from the Gaines Center for the Humanities. This immersive class explores design and sustainability in post-mining communities and takes that work far beyond the classroom. This course for creative, collaborative thinkers ready to engage in hands-on design projects. 

Innovation on wheels: Stratasys 3D-printing truck to visit campus

The University of Kentucky College of Design invites the community to visit the Stratasys 3D Printing Truck 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Gray Design Building. This mobile showroom will provide a hands-on opportunity to explore how 3D printing is shaping the future of design, manufacturing and problem-solving across a variety of fields. 

Managing Mass Timber Exhibition & Seminars

The College of Design, in partnership with the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Pigman College of Engineering, invites you to attend Managing Mass Timber: From Forest to Future. The multi-day event includes an interactive exhibit that will be on display in the Gray Design Building October 6-8, as well as a series of educational seminars October 6 and 7, led by Anthony Mirando, Ph.D., and Lameck Onsarigo, Ph.D., of Kent State University.