This year, Cal Poly’s architecture undergraduate program was ranked number one in the west by DesignIntelligence (DI). The program holds the number two position in the nation overall, behind Cornell University. In 2014, Cal Poly received the number one position. For the past five years, they have maintained their spot in the top three. DI […]
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15-Minute update: Architecture ranks first, ASI Buck the Stigma, and therapy dogs are back
Mustang News anchors Brian Truong and Megan Albee have today’s top stories.
Cal Poly’s largest laboratory is being renewed
“Architecture Graveyard” no more: Cal Poly’s Experimental Construction Laboratory is being revitalized.
Architecture students build 'ParaSITE' projects
Freshman architecture and architectural engineering students will participate in ParaSITE, a project in which they must design a full-scale structure that will temporarily attach to an assigned space.
McDonald has big plans for architecture department
Cal Poly professor Margot McDonald was named the interim head of the architecture department within the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) in August.
19 students; 250,000 zip ties
David Liebig arts@mustangdaily.net A woven, cocoon-like structure the size of a phone booth hangs from the ceiling. Pop-up PA speakers pour out down-tempo indie jams. Throughout the room, students hunch over white tangles, working silently like sweatshop laborers. Some of them have bandaged fingers from days spent looping, tightening and cutting plastic strands. The projection […]
Senior architecture students ‘unfold’ thesis work
After a final year of classes, studio time, teamwork building and project designing, architecture seniors will join together one last time to exhibit their senior design projects at the ninth annual Chumash Architecture Show, which showcases fifth year architecture students’ theses, starting Friday. This year’s show, “Unfold,” is a way for all 160 fifth-year architecture […]

