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Source: David Sachs, 785-532-1183, sachs@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
TENTH ANNUAL BOWMAN DESIGN FORUM DEC. 10 AT K-STATE
MANHATTAN -- The tenth annual Bowman Design Forum, sponsored by Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design, will start at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Pierce Commons at Seaton Hall.
The forum is a design competition open to K-State architecture students in their third year of study. It is sponsored by Brent Bowman, K-State graduate and principal of Bowman Bowman Novick, a Manhattan-based architecture firm with offices also in Kansas City, Mo.
As a part of the forum, Coleman Coker and Marlon Blackwell will present a lecture at 5 p.m. in Forum Hall. Coker and Blackwell also will lead the jury for the design forum. All events are free and open to the public.
Coker, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University, is currently the Favrot visiting chair at Tulane University's School of Architecture in New Orleans. He received a master's and an honorary doctor of fine arts from the Memphis College of Art. Coker founded buildingstudio in 1999, an architecture firm based in Memphis and New Orleans. He is former director of the Memphis Center of Architecture, a collaborative program of design sponsored by the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas. He also has held the E. Fay Jones chair in architecture at the University of Arkansas.
Blackwell is an architect and tenured professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and co-founder of the University of Arkansas Mexico Summer Urban Studio. He has a bachelor's degree from Auburn University and a master's degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. Blackwell's work has received national and international recognition by the American Institute of Architects and his residential projects have been featured in five design books. Blackwell has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University and Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
