Michael Hughes Assistant Professor B.S., Architecture, University of Virginia M.Arch, Princeton University Visit Michael's web site mlhughes@uark.edu 479/575-7297

A ten-year project to design and build a home for a retired couple in Eastanollee, Ga. that successfully developed innovative ideas within a limited budget convinced Michael Hughes of the importance of grounding design education in hands-on experience. Hughes has refined his vision of design/build pedagogy while teaching at Cornell University, the University of New Mexico, the Catholic University of America, Louisiana State University and the University of Colorado at Denver. His Joy House Project, conducted with 12 graduate students from CU-Denver, won the Colorado AIA Young Architects Design Award in 2004 and the ACSA Collaborative Practice Award in 2006. Hughes joined the U of A faculty in 2006. He teaches second-year studio and has initiated a new design-build project, an outdoor classroom for a local elementary school.

Hughes’ residential designs have won state and regional design awards from the AIA. His design for a Louisiana home was one of four selected nationally to receive the 2006-07 Faculty Design Award from the ACSA. Hughes’ design work has been documented in Architectural Record, This Old House; his essays have appeared in Oz.  He worked with Richard Meier and Frank Gehry before starting his own design practice.