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              As the mass timber construction industry takes hold in Arkansas, Peter MacKeith looks on like a proud papa. MacKeith, the dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville since 2014, was an early advocate for establishing and growing a mass timber industry in the state. In the early going, he may well have been the only advocate, but thanks to his relentlessness, mass timber looks like an industry with a future in Arkansas. The mass timber industry’s evolution from vague European concept to prominence […]

  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marlon Blackwell is the 2020 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year. Blackwell is the first faculty member from the University of Arkansas to receive the SEC’s highest honor for faculty, announced by the conference Monday, April 20. The SEC Professor of the Year Award is given annually to one SEC faculty member whose record of teaching and research places him or her among the elite in higher education. Winners are selected by the SEC Provosts from among the 14 SEC Faculty Achievement Award recipients. The SEC is also providing Blackwell with a $20,000 honorarium. Blackwell is […]

JDM Planning & Design [http://www.jdmp-d.com/] is accepting applications for registered Architects, experienced Architectural Project Managers, and Intern Architects in the process of completing their registration.  JDM is a national design/build firm with its corporate office located in Little Rock, AR.  Our project types include both private sector and government agency clients – with Healthcare as one of our specialties.  Our team is looking for goal oriented design professionals in pursuit of a “destination opportunity” for their career path, and we offer tremendous upward mobility opportunities.  Our culture is one that embraces a philosophy of ‘People, Process, and Product;’ and we […]

Free AIAU courses for AIA members We’re in the midst of a pandemic and the business environment is rapidly changing. Many of our members are already feeling the impact. To help you navigate these uncertain times, we’re making some of AIAU’s best business and tech courses available to AIA members for free. Learn valuable skills about virtual practice, successful business strategies, risk management, and more from some of the most innovative architects, firms, and design professionals. BROWSE COURSES

5 Lessons in Historic Restoration from the Cincinnati Music Hall Learn how the acclaimed $143 million historic rehabilitation project saved a musical gem. For a masterclass on how to renovate an aging landmark with painstaking historical precision, study the recently completed Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. So assert the editors of The New York Times. At completion of the project, The Times lauded a $143 million renovation of the 140-year-old, 280,000 square foot fine arts institution that left virtually no aspect of it untouched. Today the Cincinnati Music Hall stands as a tribute to the art of renovation, looking every bit as […]