Image Improving Design Outcomes: Altaf Engineer, Assistant Professor of Architecture July 31, 2020 Assistant Professor of Architecture Altaf Engineer, who joined CAPLA in 2017, has always felt a deep responsibility to apply his knowledge and skills to address critical health, social and environmental issues affecting humans worldwide. Read more
Image Staying Present in Design and Construction: Liz Madsen '20 M.Arch July 29, 2020 Liz Madsen, who is from Tucson, entered the Master of Architecture program after receiving undergraduate degrees in architectural studies and urban planning. She chose CAPLA in part because of the world-class Materials Lab. Read more
Image Tucson Verde Para Todos: CAPLA Faculty and Landscape Architecture Students Engage South Tucson Community through Green Infrastructure July 25, 2020 Tucson Verde para Todos aims to address injustices around green infrastructure by promoting a strategy to address inequities in green infrastructure funding, siting and implementation through collaborative, participatory community engagement, as at Star Academic High School. Read more
Image Center for Innovation and Collaboration: Logan Matos '21 B.Arch July 23, 2020 Logan Matos's Center for Innovation and Collaboration serves as a hub for cross-disciplinary integration among the surrounding University of Arizona colleges by creating an environment that addresses collaborative needs for a variety of people. Read more
Image South Stadium Rowhouse 1 July 16, 2020 Designed by Class of 2019 B.Arch and M.Arch students, constructed by Class of 2020 B.Arch and M.Arch students under the guidance of Professor of Architecture Mary Hardin and completed this summer, the South Stadium Rowhouse 1 is the first of five CAPLA Design/Build rowhouses. Read more
Image Norton Avenue Residential Remodel and Addition: Bill Mackey, Lecturer in Architecture July 4, 2020 Bill Mackey’s Norton Avenue remodel and addition project is a 875-square-foot addition to an 800-square-foot bungalow built in 1927. In the addition, a series of spaces are made as small and functional as possible to allow for the creation of outdoor spaces. Read more
Image A Flash of Green: Kennedy Greyson Finn '20 B.Arch July 3, 2020 Located in New Orleans's central city, Kennedy Greyson Finn's A Flash of Green proposes a communal space for locals and tourists to come and enjoy what the city uniquely has to offer by incorporating the vernacular of New Orleans in a modern way. Read more
Image Library: Hui-Yen Yang '22 M.Arch July 3, 2020 Hui-Yen Yang's Library is an interpretation of a contemporary library branch located in Tucson, Arizona, using an architectural language of intersecting and overlapping curvilinear walls. Read more
Image Garcia Residence: Teresa Rosano, Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture July 2, 2020 The challenge for the design team of Teresa Rosano and Luis Ibarra on the Garcia residence was to design a structure that would appear to grow out of the rocky desert hillside without dominating the landscape. Read more
Image The Floating City: Kate Stuteville '18 B.Arch July 2, 2020 Narrated through speculative design, The Floating City by Kate Stuteveill tells the story of a future world dealing with rapidly rising sea levels and population growth, by proposing a new type of community that can inhabit a world we have yet to build upon: the water’s surface. Read more