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School of Architecture to host Design Leadership Foundation Professional Horizons Workshop

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From the Dean: September 2024

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From the Dean: September 2024

The start of the new academic year is a time of renewal and excitement. There are so many emotions and preparations happening at once. As we enter a new year, the 91��Ƭ�� welcomes a record 1,041 students! As a college, we continue to see consistent growth in interest in our programs, and I am very excited about the new curricular developments our programs have been working on, including the Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Design and the Built Environment, the Bachelor of Applied Science in Construction Technology, the Master of Fine Arts in Historic Preservation, and the revival of the Master of Science in Architecture.

The demand for our disciplines continues to be an excellent challenge, and in response, we are continuing to grow our faculty lines to accommodate this growth. The Department of Interior Design has added two new tenure-track faculty lines and has just hired the college’s first Assistant Professor of Practice, and the Department of Building Construction Science is kicking off their search for a new Professor of Practice line, as well as bringing onboard a new postdoctoral fellow this year. Additionally, across the college, we have also seen a very positive growth in graduate teaching assistants, who bring a great value of their experience and enthusiasm into our undergraduate courses.

Our primary mission is always focused on our students and their success, and I am incredibly proud of the work we are doing to provide them with new advanced technologies and undergraduate research opportunities that will prepare them to become future leaders in the world of design and the built environment. Through the actively engaged research our faculty are conducting, our students are getting a first-hand view of innovation and experimentation that will prepare them for the rapidly changing landscape of our shared disciplines. Our research activities help us support infrastructural growth in advanced technologies in design and construction, which in turn are helping us shape the future.

I also share with you that Dr. Shaw, our provost, asked that I step into an additional leadership role and serve as the interim dean of the Graduate School. I take on this challenge in part because our college is actively growing its graduate presence, and being able to learn and work closely with the Graduate School will help our academic units move forward in these goals more smoothly. As I work with the Graduate School to help them determine what is next for their leadership, I appreciate the leadership within 91��Ƭ�� and within the Graduate School who are working with me hand in hand to move us all forward.

Onward and Upward,

Angi Elsea Bourgeois, Ph.D.

Dean | College of Architecture, Art, and Design

Interim Dean | The Graduate School

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Summer Abroad
Architecture students use award funds for travel

Thanks to a $20,000 Aydelott Travel Award, Yuria J. Sloane, a senior architecture student, traveled this summer to Bolivia, Japan, New Zealand and Norway to research the use of architecture as a tool of oppression and liberation for indigenous communities. Her itinerary included studies of architect Freddy Mamani's El Cholets in El Alto, Bolivia; the Okinawa Prefectural Museum by Ishimoto Architectural and Engineering Firm in Naha, Okinawa; architecture firm Tennent Brown’s Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana in Te Urewera, New Zealand; and architects Christian Sunby’s and Stein Halvorsen’s Sameting in Karasjok, Norway.

Hear from Sloane about her travels and see her photos

Anna Rives Gully, also a senior architecture student, used funds from a $4,750 Trussell Travel Award sponsored by MSU School of Architecture alumnus Ted T. Porter to support her research on Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany.

Read the full story about the travel awards

Leaving their Mark
Art students highlight crops with ag mural

Senior Chloe V. Ruggiero of Covington, Louisiana, and spring 2024 graduate Abbey R. Temple of Ridgeland completed a mural project for the university’s Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection this summer.

Located on the first floor of the Hill Agriculture Science Building, the 32-foot-long mural depicts select Mississippi crops—such as corn and rice—and the diseases that plague them.

Step by Step
BCS students build modular fabrication shop

Twenty-four Mississippi 91��Ƭ�� building construction science students spent their summer designing and constructing a building that will serve as a modular fabrication shop for their department during upcoming renovations on campus.

The students were part of Assistant Professor Mohsen Garshasby’s first-year summer studio—a fast-paced, compact option available to incoming BCS majors—which met for the full summer session.

See photos of the build

People's Choice
Historic Preservation student finalist in competition

A graduate student in Mississippi 91��Ƭ��’s Master of Fine Arts in Historic Preservation program was one of fifteen finalists in the 2024 Image of Research competition. The finalists’ work was displayed in the Colvard Student Union Art Gallery where Charlyn D. King of Lauderdale was selected for the People Choice award.

Put on by the Graduate School, the competition “gives students the opportunity to engage creatively with their research, share behind-the-scenes views of their research processes or portray their academic study in visual form.”

King’s research focused on the preservation of the historic Lewis House in Gautier.

Read the story

S|ARC, September 2024

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S|ARC, September 2024 cem123 Friday, September 6, 2024 - 10:43 am

Class is back in session.

We welcome a record number of students at the School of Architecture this fall; 236 students enrolled in studios translates to every desk filled, discussion spaces across the bridge and an auditorium and Jury Room that, even together, do not hold everyone on our Starkville campus. Although we are a bit cozy, the Barn is full of energy. We have eight student organizations, with Latinx Architecture as the latest addition. We are preparing to send a contingent of students to Morocco as part of an exchange with the International University of Rabat. Establishing student and faculty exchanges with this program as well as the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University in Wales is currently underway. We are coordinating with SS&L and Poole & Co in studios, connecting them with upper-level students to help bridge the gap between academia and practice. Our Master of Science in Architecture is scheduled to be re-instituted soon.

While we are moving forward, we are also taking time to review our program and understand where we are and what we offer. Under the guidance of Jassen Callender and Aaron White, the faculty is engaged in deep discussions of architecture education and the qualities we want our graduates to have. The power that architects hold, and the opportunities that architecture provides is critical to convey, discuss and explore to serve Mississippi and beyond. This has been the standard for 50 years, and we will continue to uphold this benchmark.

All the best,

Karen Cordes Spence, Ph.D., AIA, LEED AP

Director and F.L. Crane Professor

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Career Expo

Thurs., Feb. 13, 2025

Mark your calendars to join us for the 2025 Architecture and Interior Design Career Expo!

We’ll host this event in Giles. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone, and our students are excited to talk about externships, internships, co-ops and employment after graduation!

Watch the MSU Career Center website for registration, opening soon.

Studio Trips

Site visits for studio projects have the school on the road!

Two studios in third year traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to visit with AIA Memphis, Shapiro and Company and Looney Ricks Kiss Architects. Stops included the Hospitality Hub of Memphis and Crosstown Concourse.

See photos from the trip to Memphis

The third studio traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit David Baker Architects.

See photos from the trip to Birmingham.

Two studios in fourth year traveled to the Gulf Coast, hosted by David Perkes at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. Community leaders talked with students about resiliency prior to a visit to the Marine Education Center.

See photos from the trip to the Gulf Coast.

Robert and Freda Harrison
Lecture Series

The Harrison Lecture Series kicked off on Sept. 9 with Duvall Decker! It was a special event as their book, Foundations, has just been released. Anne Marie and Roy visited with students at lunch then visited the first-year studio prior to their talk. We are so grateful that they are part of our school!

The Harrison Lecture Series continues with Keller Easterling, professor at Yale, on Sept. 25.

Bryan Norwood, an assistant professor at UT-Austin and graduate of Mississippi 91��Ƭ�� University, will lecture on October 21.

Join us in person or online for these lectures.

Fall 2024 Harrison Lecture Series

School Fun

At S|ARC, we take time to enjoy college days.

The first day of studio will always include an ice cream social that follows the all-school convocation, and this year all eight student organizations had a welcome fair.

A “Doris’s Dirt and Donuts” event (she propagated the plants) enabled over 70 new plants to be adopted and help green the studios.

See photos of all the fun that was had.

Alumni Spotlight
40th Class Reunion

On Sept. 7, the class of 1984 reconvened in Starkville to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

They toured Giles in the afternoon, followed by a dinner at Harvey’s that evening.

See photos from the event.

If your class would like to have a reunion at the school, please do not hesitate to reach out! We love having our alumni back in the Barn.

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Final Examinations

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Final Examinations

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Final Examinations

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Final Examinations

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Registration now open for 91��Ƭ�� summer camps

School of Architecture to host Design Leadership Foundation Professional Horizons Workshop

91��Ƭ��, MSU to offer more summer classes online at reduced rate

From the Dean: September 2024

From the Dean: September 2024

Summer Abroad Architecture students use award funds for travel

Leaving their Mark Art students highlight crops with ag mural

Step by Step BCS students build modular fabrication shop

People's Choice Historic Preservation student finalist in competition

S|ARC, September 2024

Class is back in session.

Architecture & Interior Design Career Expo

Thurs., Feb. 13, 2025

Studio Trips

Robert and Freda Harrison Lecture Series

School Fun

Alumni Spotlight 40th Class Reunion

91��Ƭ�� Dean to add additional leadership role

Final Examinations

Final Examinations

Final Examinations

Final Examinations

Summer Abroad
Architecture students use award funds for travel

Leaving their Mark
Art students highlight crops with ag mural

Step by Step
BCS students build modular fabrication shop

People's Choice
Historic Preservation student finalist in competition

Architecture & Interior Design
Career Expo

Robert and Freda Harrison
Lecture Series

Alumni Spotlight
40th Class Reunion