ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN TIMBER FRAMING RENDEZVOUS
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark - This week, University of Arkansas architecture students will help raise the timber frame for a 2,700-square-foot studio workshop for the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. The project offers the students hands-on experience in timber frame construction, and complements their work in a cabin design studio taught by Minneapolis architect Dale Mulfinger and visiting professor Matt Pearson.
Mulfinger is one of the leading designers of cabins in the U.S. and author of "The Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway." He is visiting Northwest Arkansas this fall as the first E. Fay Jones visiting professor at the University of Arkansas School of Architecture.
WHO: Master builders from the Timber Framers Guild of America, local volunteers, UA School of Architecture professors Dale Mulfinger and Matt Pearson and architecture students.
WHAT: Raising the timber frame for a 2,700 square-foot studio workshop, one of the largest timber frame structures to be erected in the U.S. in years.
WHEN: Monday, October 17 - Saturday, October 22. Mulfinger, Pearson, and students will be on site Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, located on Highway 265, 3/10 mile north of Zion, on left.
Contacts
Kendall Curlee, communications coordinator, School of Architecture, (479) 575-4704; kcurlee@uark.edu
Dale Mulfinger, E. Fay Jones visiting professor, School of Architecture, (479) 575-6498; mulfi001@umn.edu
Matt Pearson, visiting assistant professor, School of Architecture, (479) 575-7590; mailto:mpearson@uark.edu</U>
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