Along A South Forty

During the fall 2022 semester, the Fay Jones School presented “A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South,” an exhibition organized and curated by Dean Peter MacKeith and Jonathan Boelkins, teaching assistant professor, working with Modus Studio of Fayetteville. It was originally installed to coincide with the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, where it was displayed for six months.

The exhibition was reconfigured last fall to fit the space in the main corridor of Vol Walker Hall, with the installation designed by Boelkins and constructed by Justin Tucker, the school’s woodshop director, along with a team of students. This display coincided with the symposium “The Place of Practice. The Practice of Place.” Find more information at https://www.asouthforty.org/.

The mapping of “A South Forty” geographically was organized along the armature of Interstate 40, running west from the North Carolina Atlantic seacoast through the southeastern states to an inflection point in Oklahoma. Approximately 40 participating practices in the exhibition were drawn from the larger southeastern region along this latitude, including five led by Fay Jones School faculty: Marlon Blackwell Architects, SILO AR+D, Somewhere Studio, the U of A Community Design Center and the U of A Urban Design Build Studio. The exhibition also features the design work of Alterstudio Architecture; Archimania; ARCHITECTUREFIRM; Dake Wells Architecture; de Leon + Primmer Architecture Workshop; DEMX Architecture; Duvall Decker; Ecological Design Group; El Dorado / KSU Design + Make Studio; EmeryMcClure Architecture; EskewDumezRipple; Evoke Studio Architecture; Frank Harmon Architect; Fultz & Singh Architects; Helix Architecture + Design; Hobgood Architects; Ray Huff

Architect; Hufft; In Situ Studio; Jennings + Santa-Rita Architects; Katherine Hogan Architects; Modus Studio; Office of Jonathan Tate; Patterhn Ives; Pendulum Studio; Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects; Rural Studio, Auburn University; Sanders Pace Architecture; Studio A Architecture; The Raleigh Architecture Company; Unabridged Architecture; Vines Architecture; and W.G. Clark Architect.

ReView: Spring/Summer 2023