College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Kent State Architecture Students Awarded Three Top Honors in AIA Ohio Awards
This past September, three undergraduate students from Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design earned three of the five awards presented at the 2025 AIA Ohio Student Design Awards. These awards are characterized by innovative design that combines conceptual strength with technical and social awareness.
IN A FLASH: A Transformational Summer Camp
A summer camp at Kent State's College of Architecture and Design inspires high school students to explore the endless possibilities in the world of design.
Kent State’s Making Our Own Space Program Gives Teens a Taste of Architecture
Summer camps for kids interested in architecture don’t come along often – at least that’s what Elise Bolton’s mother discovered when she searched for one. But then, not a whole lot of 11-year-olds may dream of becoming architects.
First-Year Architecture Student Continues to Build Her Foundation
Muna Koirala is not shy about admitting that her first year in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design has been a challenge.
Architecture Student Finds Her First-Year Footing
One of the first projects that Muna Koirala had to tackle in her first semester in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design was the movement of a flying object.
IN MEMORY: TRIBUTE
Kent State University former Interior Design Professor and Program Director, and talented fiber artist, passed away on February 14, 2024. Kapenekas was the visionary behind the creation of the Interior Design program at Kent State in 1967, initially known as Home Interiors, when she discovered…
Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design Student Wins Prestigious 2024 AIA Ohio Student Design Award
Only a first-year in a competitive program, Nathan Heid's ambitions, conceptualizations, and hard work caught the eyes of the jury at the state level, ultimately leading to him winning an Honorable Mention Award by the 2024 AIA Ohio Student Design Competition. With a true mechanical element&nbs…Kent State CUDC’s Dawn Mayes Selected for Crain’s Cleveland Business 2024 Notable Black Leaders
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative's (CUDC) own Dawn Mayes has been named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business 2024 Notable Black Leaders. She will be featured online and in print on Sept. 30 with recognition for her work expanding the diversity of design practitioners in Northeast Ohio. M…
IN A FLASH: A Welcome at Wick
Graduate students in Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design received a personal welcome from the college's associate dean at the park outside Kent State's Wick Poetry Center.
IN A FLASH: Ice Cream with the Dean
Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design welcomed new and returning students back to campus with ice cream on the Lefton Esplanade and greetings from the college's dean, program heads and leaders of its student organizations.