Grafton Architects wins competition bid to design Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design's Center for Design and Materials Innovation

Founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects have been selected as the project architects for the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design's Center for Design and Materials Innovation. Teaming with Arkansas-based firm Modus Studio, together the group will work on the estimated $16 million design project. 

The new center's design will not only be a representation of the University's goals and mass timber initiatives, but it will also respond to the local climate and its environment Farrell explains. The firm was chosen from a shortlist of 6 proposals from a design competition funded by the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. According to the University, the project is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2020.