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Tim de Noble, who heads the architecture department at the Fay Jones School of Architecture, has accepted a new position as dean of the Kansas State College of Architecture, Planning and Design. De Noble came to the University of Arkansas in 1994 and has been head of the architecture department since 2005. Under his leadership, the architecture department sailed through reaccreditation in 2008 and was recently ranked 20th among the top 20 undergraduate architecture programs in the nation in a study conducted by the Design Futures Council and published in the November/December 2008 issue of Design Intelligence.

“We are very sorry to see Tim go, but excited by the opportunities that this new position affords him,” said Jeff Shannon, dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Shannon plans to begin a national search for de Noble’s successor in September.

Born and raised in Little Rock, Tim de Noble earned a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1986 and a Master of Architecture from Syracuse University in 1992. He subsequently taught at Syracuse University and designed projects in Ecuador, upstate New York and Arkansas. He taught for two years in Florence before returning to his native Arkansas to join the faculty at the University of Arkansas and open his firm, denoblearchitecture, P.A.

De Noble's design practice largely centers on residential projects that fuse modernist space with vernacular building precedents. He received a Citation Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for his design of the Garner/Herring House in 2002, and a number of his renovation projects have been published in regional magazines.

De Noble will begin work in his new position on July 1.