Design+Make at Kansas State University

08/26/2026

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Timothy Schuler, an award-winning journalist, researcher and design critic, has been named director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Community Design and Research in K‑State's College of Architecture, Planning & Design.

08/18/2026

Main Street Futures: Alma, Kansas

ARCH 817 / ADS 7 Fall 2026

Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design

Every Main Street was once an experiment.

This historic photograph of Missouri Street captures Alma during a moment of extraordinary activity. Commerce, community, agriculture, and everyday life converged in a public realm that was both economic engine and civic stage. While the people, technologies, and industries have changed, a central question remains: How can a small town continue to reinvent itself without losing the qualities that make it unique?

Architecture can do more than provide buildings—it can help communities imagine their future.

This graduate design studio partners with the citizens of Alma, Kansas to explore how architecture can strengthen the identity, resilience, and vitality of a small Midwestern town. Working alongside entrepreneurs, civic leaders, educators, and historians, students will investigate Missouri Street as both a historic artifact and a platform for future realities.

Beginning with archival research at the Wabaunsee County Historical Museum and immersive fieldwork in Alma, students will study the town’s physical fabric alongside the stories, institutions, and relationships that continue to shape it. Through drawing, photography, mapping, interviews, and collaborative physical models, the studio will uncover opportunities for adaptive reuse, strategic infill, amended existing fabric, and new forms of civic life.

Rather than asking what buildings should be designed, the studio asks what future Alma should be capable of supporting. Students’ explorations become tools for testing ideas, convening conversations, and helping the community imagine multiple futures rather than simply suggesting a host of individual architectural proposals.

Can architecture help a small town remain unmistakably itself while continually becoming something new?

College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
K-State Architecture
Wabaunsee County Museum

07/27/2026

A bunch of our favorite people coming together right here:

https://www.madamearchitect.org/interviews/2026/7/21/amy-mielke-and-caitlin-taylor?fbclid=PAVERFWATUsT5wZG9mAmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp5P9OcxkXkyWk_DZEV18hGlwKaqwX_uh5cgFsL4MYLefZj1jy8xMQ6o7ZwsS_aem_-_pvSNIDIQq36eVupLVKAg

By Julia Gamolina Midcourse Design & Development is an interdisciplinary architecture studio focused on the buildings, infrastructure, and networks needed to rebuild resilient regional food systems. The studio works across typologies and scales — from food hubs, processing facilities,

07/27/2026

VERTICAL CONSEQUENCES
Building the Next Kansas City, Missouri

ARCH 805 / Comprehensive Design Preparation, Fall 2026
ARCH 818 / ADS 8, Spring 2027

Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design

With: Vanessa Kassabian, Henning Larsen, Design Director: Americas
2026–2027 Regnier Distinguished Visiting Professor

Every city grows around its infrastructure.

Before Kansas City’s skyline, there was Main Street. Before the towers, there was the streetcar.

This year-long graduate studio examines the architectural consequences of growth along Kansas City’s expanding streetcar corridor. Working across sixteen station districts, students will explore how density, mobility, climate, public life, and structure can shape the future of the American city.

The year begins not with design, but with research. During the fall semester, students develop an architectural position through fieldwork, precedent analysis, environmental modeling, systems thinking, and urban investigation. Working with Vanessa Kassabian, the studio builds the intellectual and technical foundation for ambitious architectural proposals. During Fall Break, the studio will travel to Toronto to study one of North America’s most dynamic urban transformations, including several recent projects by Henning Larsen that demonstrate new approaches to density, mixed-use development, and sustainable urban growth.

Only then does the spring design studio begin.

Each student translates a research agenda into a comprehensive proposal for a high-rise mixed-use building at one of the sixteen streetcar stations. Structure, program, environmental performance, and public life are treated as inseparable components of architecture. Design emerges not from stylistic preference, but from evidence, critical position, and synthesis.

Rather than asking what tall buildings should look like, the studio asks what responsibilities accompany building vertically—and what a new skyline along Main Street could become.

How can architecture help shape a more equitable, resilient, and ambitious metropolitan future?

College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
K-State Architecture
Henning Larsen

07/16/2026

Not to be missed!

The Land Institute

06/27/2026

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“The prairie has shown me cosmic order.”

☀️ As we experience the longest stretch of daylight, it’s hard to ignore our connection to the cosmos. The summer solstice invites us to contemplate our relationship with nature, a profound theme in this work by acclaimed landscape photographer Terry Evans.

Featured on the Nelson-Atkins’ podcast Art Bytes, Evans explains what draws her to photograph the Midwest prairie ecosystem. “If I could just look long enough and hard enough,” she says, “I might understand the structure of the universe.”

🔊 Hear more from Evans in season two, episode eight of Art Bytes, available wherever you get your podcasts.

🖼️ Terry Evans (American, born 1944), The Hay Meadow from the series Ancient Prairies, June 2022. Inkjet print, 30 1/8 × 32 11/16 inches. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the Beckett Art Purchases Fund in memory of Samuel and Ethel Beckett. 2022.19.

05/04/2026

Looking forward to sharing this semester’s final proposals for two upcycled projects, one for The Land Institute (original 1970’s greenhouse >> proper gathering place) and one for Kansas City Artists Coalition (early 20th C automobile showroom >> contemporary cultural center and artists studios). If you’re in beautiful Manhattan, KS, on Thursday, May 7, we’ll be in Regnier Hall 2141 from 9:00-5:30. Come say hello!

The Land Institute
Kansas City Artists Coalition
College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University
K-State Architecture

🙏🙏🙏 to our generous guests:
wasson e.bauer

05/01/2026

It’s about more than just protecting a pretty view…

https://www.kansas.com/opinion/article315561757.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaARhNYBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEei35BmC3-amxL4Kq0iM0RMDmnagvihI-pZzFE2UOSAn7_TR1B7Sf5O6OrTm0_aem_dzbA2v6aCqo7Y9noKq-LZA

The Buffalo Flats project’s 133 miles of steel towers and millions of pounds of concrete would cause permanent, irreparable damage to the Tallgrass Prairie. | Opinion

04/28/2026

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
The Nature Conservancy in Kansas
Kansas Reflector

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A trail hike can walk you back into your soul. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve hiking trails provide over 40 miles for you to do so.

04/24/2026

Today!!
High noon CST

Jennifer Devlin-Herbert
In Dialogue

From the Eames Institute, where Jennifer was recently named one of their Curious 100, a celebration of 100 courageous leaders and creative minds across the US who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity to address today’s most pressing problems and shape the cultural conversations that define our moment:

“Jennifer Devlin-Herbert, a nationally recognized architect, is CEO and principal of EHDD, the San Francisco–based firm honored as AIA National Firm of the Year. For over 20 years, she has led nearly 30 projects for institutions like museums, aquariums, including the Kansas City Zoo Aquarium, universities, and libraries, rooted in the public good and committed to ambitious sustainability goals.

As EHDD’s first female CEO, Jennifer found a natural home for her belief that design excellence and civic impact are inseparable. A graduate of UC Berkeley, where she has also taught, she frequently serves on national design juries and continues to champion architecture as a vehicle for connection and belonging.”







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